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 …
The Challenge of an Underwhelmed Soul
Imagine with me a woman who has a job or two. She has four or so kids. She serves at her church, homeschools, and knows she’s competent. This makes it hard for her to say no. But in the rush of keeping up with the kids and their activities. Tracking where her husband is with his busy job. Juggling all …
Fiction Friday: Every Bride Needs a Groom
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
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
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 …
Fiction Friday: A Love Like Ours
A Love Like Ours is the perfect romance. A wounded hero. A heroine who just wants to help him. Horse racing. The heat of love. Horses. A great cast of secondary characters. Did I mention horses? 🙂 Looking for perfect #Romance? @Cara_putman suggests @BeckyWadeWriter A Love Like Yours. #amreading Click To Tweet This is a book that I adored. Lyndie just …
4 Ideas for Transmitting Faith
One of my goals as a homeschooling momma is to transmit my faith to my kids. I want them to have a personal relationship with Christ from a young age. But I also understand they can’t ride on my coattails, or my husband’s or their grandparents, or aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. You get the picture. Transmitting #faith to your kids …
Confessions of a Book Addict
I have a confession to make. I am a book addict. There is absolutely nothing recovering about it. I adore the feel of books, the smell of books, bookshelves overloaded with books. I LOVE BOOKS. In many ways, it’s why I became an author. My favorite authors as a teen (no offense, Janette Oke, Michael Phillips, Bodie Thoene, and Frank …
Fiction Friday: No Place to Hide
Yesterday I was over at Inspired by Life & Fiction confessing that I am a book addict. (I started by typing was a book addict,” and then corrected it — I will always adore books!). So it is perfectly fitting that today I’m talking about Lynette Eason’s new book: No Place to Hide. Love #RomanticSuspense? The try @lynetteeason new book No …
Discovering Joy in the Moments
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 …





