I was tagged by my friend DJ: Here are the rules: Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. You need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment …
Presidential Debates, Anyone?
Ready or not, it’s started. The Presidential campaign is heating up. What? The election’s not for 18 months? No matter. With ten candidates in the Republican field so far, the campaigning and posturing is well under way. The first debate was held yesterday at the Reagan Presidential Library. Frankly, I think that’s a thing of beautiful symbolism. Who’s going to …
Review: Lightning & Lace
Clouds of secrets loom over a Texas town…too many people are hiding things in this town. Afraid of something or someone.Lightning and Lace is the third installment in DiAnn Mills’ Texas Legacy series. This is the only one in the series I have read so far, and she did a great job of making it stand on its own. Bonnie …
Researching Days — Day One
When I was in Nebraska a couple weeks ago I got to spend a couple days doing on site research for Sandhill Dreams and Captive Dreams. I’m going to share some of the experiences from that with you over the next couple weeks. For any book I write, there’s a lot of research. If it’s a current suspense, I need …
Quick Post
I just finished a sneak peek at Colleen Coble’s book Abomination, that will release in August. Oh my gosh, people, it is FANTASTIC! I’ll post more about it later, but let me just say she has risen to the challenge of writing a suspense worthy of hardcover. And Thomas Nelson is getting behind it with advertising. Should be amazing! I …
Split Ends by Kristin Billerbeck
I just finished Split Ends. And I’m kind of sad. Two days ago Split Ends, the latest book from the fabulous Kristin Billerbeck, arrived in my mailbox. I have learned that any book by Kristin is going to be a treat, so even though I had tons to do, I inhaled that book. This in between 360 miles in the …
Random Musings?
I made several stops on the Carnival of Christian Writers last night. There were some great blog posts, but I found this one over at Cause of Our Joy fascinating. The author shares some of what she learned in a meeting with Walden Media. Interesting note on the role of blogs in spreading the word, too. Tonight I’ll be in …
Carnival of Christian Writers
We made it back to good ole Indiana after a LONG day in the car. Makes me very grateful we don’t have to do it the old fashioned way — covered wagon would be too rough. Since I’m way too tired to post anything creative, I direct you to the Writer Interrupted Carnival of Christian Writers. Each month Gina Conroy …
So you wanna be a lawyer….
I’m a new contributor over at the Keep Me in Suspense blog. I’ll be writing a column once or twice a month about the legal system. The first post went up today…my pet peeves with legal vocabulary used incorrectly. Be sure to check it out. I made another research trip today. It’s amazing what you can find when you get …
What a Difference a Judge Makes
Today the US Supreme Court issued an opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart upholding the federal ban on partial birth abortion. For some reason, blogger won’t allow me to insert a link, but here’s one place you can go to read the opinion: http://supreme.usatoday.findlaw.com/supreme_court/2006/november/05-38-gonzales-v-carhart.html. In the federal law, Congress had made a determination that a health exception wasn’t necessary to preserve …