New Interview with me up

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My friend Crystal Miller has a fun interview up with me. She interviews lots of authors with fun questions about their childhoods. To read the interview and enter a drawing for the book, go here.

Interview with Denise Hunter

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My friend and fellow Indianan Denise Hunter has a new book that released a couple weeks ago. Surrender Bay is her first book with Thomas Nelson, and you should hear the buzz. I just bought the book yesterday and can’t wait to get started reading it. Here’s some of the feedback: “I’ve always thought Denise Hunter was an amazing writer …

Want to learn more about me?

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Who doesn’t, right 🙂 My sister has a great new blog called Cornhusker Academy. Today she’s interviewing me. And we’re giving away another copy of my book, so be sure to hop over and leave a comment. And check out her other posts. She’s got some great reviews posted.

Update on the Fall Reading Challenge

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So I’ve been working on my list. Here’s the update 🙂 Mosaic by Amy Grant: Finished. Great book! Bygones by Kim Sawyer Vogel. Fantastic book! Once I picked it up I couldn’t put it down. Also read the sequel Beginnings— both in about 48 hours total. I honestly didn’t think I’d enjoy books that deal with the contrast between Mennonite …

Winners of Mosaic

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The winners of Mosaic are: SusieJennifer AlLeeAndrea Please leave a comment with a way to reach you to this post. I’ll redraw on Monday if necessary. Congratulations to the winners.

Tag: 10, 20, 30 years ago

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My friend Crystal Miller tagged me with this question: Quick: What were you doing ten, twenty and thirty years ago? Ten Years ago: It was 1997. I was 23 and had just started my first semester of law school at George Mason Law School. I’d been married almost two years and lived in an apartment in Alexandria, Virginia with my …

Learning Styles

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I know they’re important, especially now that I’m teaching my kids at home. It’s right up there with love language. I need to learn how to speak to and teach my kids in a way that is easy for them to grasp. So how do you figure out a child’s learning style? Take me for instance. Okay, so I’m not …

Football: life would be boring without it

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Last week was an exciting one in Husker football. On Monday the athletic director was fired (with a nice multi-million dollar severance package to fall back on). On Tuesday, the university announced that Tom Osborne had agreed to come back as interim athletic director — woohoo! He won back to back national football championships in his last two years as …

Interview with Brandilyn Collins

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Brandilyn Collins is one of my all time favorite suspense writers. She’s also become a friend through ACFW. As Crimson Eve was hitting bookstores, she graciously agreed to an interview. I hope you enjoy it, and don’t forget to run out and buy the book! It’s fantastic. 1. Crimson Eve is book three in the Kanner Lake series, and it …

Crimson Eve Review

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WARNING! Do not pick up this book unless you have time to read it straight through. Brandilyn’s books have never disappointed me, but this one was simply impossible to put down. Even when I figured out one of the plot points with 100 pages left I…COULD…NOT…PUT…THIS…BOOK…DOWN. Crimson Eve is a classic woman in jeopardy story with plenty of twists ala …