As most of y’all know, I’m in the middle of a pregnancy that’s not my first. As a result, I’ve flipped through more than my share of “what to expect while pregnant” websites and books and even tip-toed into the “what you’re baby should do” sections. This isn’t my first child, so you’d think I’d be more than prepared for …
BLAST OUT Blog Tour for Trish Berg’s Latest Release…The Interview
BLAST OUT Blog Tour for Trish Berg’s Latest Release… Rattled Surviving Your Baby’s First Year without Losing Your Cool! Can you change a diaper faster than a rodeo cowboy ropes a calf? Need more sleep,more laughter, and ten minutes in the bathroom – alone? You must be a mom….Don’t let the clutter, chaos, exhaustion and Cheerio-dust get you Rattled. With …
The Ups and Downs of Life
What a weekend! I got to spend the weekend in Naples, Florida with Eric. He’s on a whirlwind fundraising/event tour for his job, and for once it worked out well for me to join him. We had a wonderful time talking with donors and walking the beaches near Naples. But Friday morning before I headed to Indy, I got two …
Bayou Corruption: run out and buy it today
Robin Caroll’s second book Bayou Corruption is in stores now. I read this one on the plane to Florida. Good thing, too, since I ended up loaning it to a friend who had forgotten to pack any books. Can you imagine!?!?! From the first page I was pulled into this story. Investigative reporter Jackson Devereaux has driven to Lagniape, Louisiana, …
Love for a Lifetime
Love Matters. Eric and I just celebrated twelve years of marriage this weekend. Wow! It seems hard to believe, and at the same time many of those years were hard fought for. But now that we’re 12 years in, each one of those times we fought to make it work is well worth it. Especially now that we have children. …
And the Winners are….
I had to chuckle as I drew names. For each book the first winner was the author. I have a strange feeling that Jill and Julie have plenty of copies of their books. 🙂 So I drew again… The winner of Reluctant Smuggler is Lacy Williams. Carolynn W is the winner of a Passion Most Pure. Please email me with …
Book of the Year and Genesis Contests Open for Entries
BOOK OF THE YEAR and GENESIS OPEN FOR ENTRIES ACFW announces entry dates American Christian Fiction Writers [ACFW] is pleased to announce the opening of its two annual contests, Book of the Year and Genesis. Book of the Year is open to published members of ACFW. Categories include Contemporary Novella, Debut Author, General Fiction, Historical Novella, Lits (chick-lit, mom-lit, lady-lit, …
Living in a Fog
We had six or seven inches of snow on Friday — and this morning it’s all gone. Yesterday the temperature was well into the 40s, and the area was blanketed in a think fog. All day. We live far from San Francisco…yet, yesterday it felt like we’d somehow slipped across the Rockies and over to that part of California. This …
First Chapter: Sisters, Ink
It is February FIRST, time for the FIRST Day Blog Tour! (Join our alliance! Click the button!) The FIRST day of every month we will feature an author and his/her latest book’s FIRST chapter! This month’s feature is: Rebeca Seitz and her book: SISTERS, INK B&H Books (February 1, 2008) I’ve just started reading this book and am really enjoying …
February New Fiction Releases
What an amazing month of new releases! We’ve got 23 new Christian novels to choose from – plenty of choices to fit every taste in genre. 1. A Passion Most Pure, Book 1 of the Daughter of Boston Series by Julie Lessman from Baker Publishing Group, Revell. Rival sisters with strong faith–one in God, the other in herself–turn the head …