This week, I’m delighted to be joined by Angela Hunt. Her full bio is at the end of this interview, but I’ll summarize by saying she has written over one hundred books and sold millions of copies. Angela’s books have won awards like the Christy and one has been made into a Hallmark Movie. She teaches at many writers conferences …
Christmas Idea I received today
I got this in an email … read to the bottom for my twist. “We don’t want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. So let’s mount a book-buying splurge. Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. Buy the rest of your Christmas presents, but that’s just for starters. Clear …
Engaging Father Christmas
Today I want to mention a book that I read this week that is a delightful novella. Usually, I stay away from novellas because it’s hard to imagine a story that short that has depth and meaning. However, last year I read Finding Father Christmas by Robin Jones Gunn and thoroughly enjoyed it. This week I picked up Engaging Father …
James Scott Bell Comes to Visit
I’m delighted to have James Scott Bell join me today. Currently, he writes legal suspense for Zondervan and Center Street. He’s also a great guy who loves to share what he’s learned about writing through his craft books and teaching at writing conferences. He also doesn’t mind giving career advice to a novice like moi. So when I thought about …
Dark Pursuit Review
If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know that I am a fan of Brandilyn Collin’s books. I discovered her with the Hidden Faces series, wrote a character on the first year of the character blog for Kanner Lake, and just read Dark Pursuits last week. I LOVED it. The premise: what if suspense writer Darell …
Advent Countdown
If you love books and Christmas, then be sure to hop over to Tyora Moody’s website where she’s running Christmas scenes from various authors. I kicked off the countdown yesterday with one of my favorite scenes from Canteen Dreams.
Leave it to Chance First Chapter and Review
Today is your chance to read the first chapter to a book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I didn’t know what to expect when I received Leave it to Chance. Sierra Montgomery is a single mom of three kids. She’s struggling to find a job, get child support, and help her children navigate a difficult time. Then she’s left a …
Reasons I’m Thankful: Day Four
God has blessed my dream beyond anything I could imagine. And as you read this I’m preparing ot send the sequel to Deadly Exposure to NYC; I’m opening the content edits for the first book in the Ohio World War Two series: A Promise Kept; and I’ve turned in all the edits to The Complete Idiots Guide to Business Law. …
My photographer
For inquiring minds, my photographer is the amazing Janet Stephens with THG Photography. Be sure to check out her website if you live in Indiana. And if you’re a writer, I hope we’ll be able to consider using her for the 2010 ACFW conference when it’s in Indy.
Reasons I’m Thankful: Day Three
Enough said 🙂 God has been so good to me!