Fiction Friday: Christy Award Finalists

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The Christy Award winners will be announced at the end of the month. Traditionally, the Christy goes to the best book in several different categories of Christian fiction. This year’s list of finalists can be found here. I’m delighted to see so many friends’ books on the list and thought I’d focus this week’s Fiction Friday on a recap of …

Fiction Friday: Every Bride Needs a Groom

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Today I’m delighted to introduce you to Janice Thompson’s Latest book. Be sure to read to the end because I have a copy to give away to one lucky reader! Love books with humor and romance? Love a heroine who is small town adorable discovering the big city? How about a hunky hero that is out of place yet perfect? …

3 (& a Bonus) websites for creating images

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One challenge writers have is constantly creating content for social media. We have to develop a platform, and that means we need content. But the content has to be fresh, professional and most important of all easy to create. We’re writers after all! Create #images for #socialMedia? @Cara_Putman shares 4 tools that ease process. Click To Tweet Over time, I’ve …

Never Say No: Breathing Life into Our Kids

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Parenting is a tough job. Each child is different. Each has a different calling. Different temperament. Different personality. That means there isn’t one cookie cutter that will work for parenting each child. Because of that, I am always looking for tools that will equip me to better parent the children God has entrusted to me. One of my heart’s cries has …

Discovering Joy in the Moments

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      Joy is such a powerful and misunderstood word. (I may not be as creative as some of my friends here on The GROVE, but I wanted to share my heart 🙂 ) So often we think JOY means I’ll be HAPPY. Such different words. Websters says that JOY is “the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune …