Are you on twitter? Do you love fiction? Then check out the Twitter Fiction Festival! It starts today and runs through the weekend. You can follow it with the hashtag #TwitterFiction and see #chrific if you want to narrow …
Grit, Determination, and Faithfulness
This year, one of the things I'm thankful for is that I finished the month of November with just over 50,000 words written on a new project. But on Thursday, three days before the deadline, with a deficit of almost 5000 words …
On ACFW Blog
I'm up on the ACFW blog today, talking about ways to keep moving forward with your writing even when the holidays prevent actual words-on-the-page time. Come over and join the conversation! …
On Living Joyfully Free Radio
I had the privilege of being interviewed by my friend Lisa Buffaloe of Living Joyfully Free. If you want to hear our conversation about the areas of my life God has worked in--and continues to work in!--click for the audio …
Gardner’s Candies giveaway
Tomorrow night I'm doing a talk at the historical society where I did much of the research for A Home for My Heart, so I thought what better time for a giveaway! One of the "real" landmarks I inserted into A Home for My …
NaNoWriMo
I've been writing for as long as I can remember. Poems. Short stories. Even my first novel attempt at about age 14. The problem was, except for school assignments, I could never finish anything! I'd get started, maybe even …
Why I Write
Lots of Christian writers I know have mission statements for their writing. In other words, they've articulated for themselves why they write. I confess I have never done this. Never felt the need, though it might just have …
A Family Legacy of Fiction
A few months ago I received an email from my father’s cousin. I’d never met her. In fact, my father hadn’t seen in her many, many years. But she’d found one of my articles online, one I’d written about my great-grandfather …
Scavenger Hunt Stop #3
Hello! I'm so excited you have stopped by here today. I am stop #3 on the Fall Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt, where by finding all the clues (they are easy to find!) you can be entered to win the grand prize of a …
A Title for 2014!
Ok, so remember how in a last minute change, Bethany House went with my working title, A Home for My Heart, for this latest release? Remember how shocked I was--and how excited, because it was the first of my books that had a …