This blog post has run through my mind for days, so I’m going to stop and write it. Deep breath. This is another one of those gut-level honest posts. I’ve experienced a little grief in my life when one set of grandparents died and when a uncle died. We also lost our dog (and first child in many senses) very …
Finished Another Book!
Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, I finished the first draft of Sandhill Dreams! Woohoo! Let me tell you, it is a great feeling to type in the last word and then the final period. I have lived with this story for about five weeks. About six of every seven nights I would sit down to write. The characters felt like …
Soundtracks for My Books
My editor JoAnne Simmons in a recent post on the Barbour Editors blog, Edit Cafe, talked about music and asked about the songs that would form a soundtrack to our books. (BTW, if you haven’t checked out their blog, you should!) For Sandhill Dreams, I bought a CD called Songs that Got Us Through WWII on Amazon. It’s filled with …
Puppy Dog Tales
The other night my husband started teaching our puppy to use the treadmill. She’s not sold on the idea, but more curious than I would have thought. She walked on it while he held her there for about a minute. Then she circled it a couple times slipping onto the front edge of it. Tonight she started pawing at the …
CFBA: Fearless
Fearless: Book Two of the Dominion Trilogy, by Robin Parrish, editor of Infuze Magazine The world changed after that terrible day when the sky burned, and now every heart is gripped by fear… Earthquakes, fire, disease, and floods pummel the earth, and its citizens watch in horror. But in the darkness there is hope — an anonymous but powerful hero …
Two CFBA tours this week
Here’s the first one.Wedding Bell Blues is the first in a new series, The Piper Cove Chronicles, that follows four women who grew up as best friends in a small community on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They have returned home from their successes and failures at college and life, determined to pursue their dreams in the town they’d once …
We’re Headed to the Sun
My kids are precocious. I’m not the only one who says that. Most people who spend anytime with them will use that word or a similar one to describe them. They are best friends. I love that. I know a time will come when they aren’t so willing to play with each other, but at 6 and 3 they really …
Fantasy Four Author Book Signing
Sharon Hinck is an author who has earned my respect. I have enjoyed her Becky Miller books, but I just finished The Restorer. WOW. That’s all I can say at the moment. WOW! Think soccer mom gets pulled through a portal to another world and finds out the hard way that she’s been sent to save a people. Yikes! Sharon …
Over Her Head
Over Her Head is a book that haunted me as I read it. Something about the conflict and the characters grabbed a hold of me and wouldn’t let me stop thinking about them in between reading it. Laurie Hale as the perfect life – and the perfect family. Her husband has a great job, she’s active in leadership at her …
I got the Funniest Thing the Other Day
First, Happy Fourth of July. I hope you take a bit of time today to thank God for this country and the fact that you live here. I am constantly humbled to think of everything we have and the freedoms we often take for granted. ———— I love mail. To the point that I usually have one eye peeled toward …