Colleen Coble’s first hardback is hitting stores now — Woohoo! It’s even on display at Barnes and Noble. So look for it — it’s a fantastic book! A serial killer is loose in Upper Peninsula, Michigan, punishing people for their sins. One of his victims escaped with her life and small daughter. Now the race is on to identify the …
Books?
My friend Crystal Miller tagged me over at her blog. Sometimes I avoid tags, but this one is all about books and writing, so right up my alley. Here goes: 1. What’s the one book or writing project you haven’t yet written but still hope to? I have to think about this one. So far, I’ve gotten to write everything …
Blog Awards
The other day, I recieved the Rockin’ Girl Blogger from a friend… Frankly, I tried to back my way into who it was, but I should have written this post then. Sigh. It’s always fun to know someone — in this case a really elusive someone — thinks my blog is nice. So I’m passing the award on to some …
Review: The Oak Leaves
The Oak Leaves is a gripping story of two women, separated by 150 years but joined by a family tree. Maureen Lang artfully weaves between the two stories in a way that kept me flipping pages because I couldn’t wait to get to the next chapter in each woman’s life. Talie Ingram has it all: a successful husband, a 12 …
Healing
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 …
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 …
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 …