Tamera Alexander is one of my favorite historical authors. Her novels set in Reconstruction Nashville are sweeping and consuming. To Win Her Favor, her latest novel, is a perfect addition. (You can preorder the Kindle version for $4.99 until the 12th, so snap To Win Her Favor up while you can at that price!) In To Win Her Favor, Maggie Linden finds herself …
Book Friday: Heart Sisters
Today I’m thrilled to introduce you to my friend Natalie Chamber Snapp’s brand new book Heart Sisters. Be sure to read to the end because I’m giving one copy away. You’ll want a chance to read this! Let’s have an honest moment. Yeah, I know. Those are soooo rare around here. 🙂 But seriously, if you’ve been a woman for long …
5 Tips to Tailor Social Media
Social Media. I know…I’m cringing with you. There is so much pressure on writers to have an ever-growing social media presence. If you want to have a writing career, whether as a traditionally published author or one who publishes your own books, you have to become comfortable telling the world about them. After all, a book isn’t really a book …
5 Verses to Encourage
Today I am so grateful for all that God has seen me through — as yet another journey ends. Graduation is the 15th, but the work of the MBA is behind me! WOOT! Some days we all need a little #encouragement for the journey. @cara_putman shares 5 verses. Click To Tweet So to celebrate, here are five verses that I …
5 Tips to Develop Your Public Speaking Skills
This last mod of the Weekend MBA program at Purdue, I’m taking communications. It’s a class that comes fairly easy for me because I’ve spent the last 20 years intentionally working to become a better public speaker. When I graduated from undergrad many moons ago, I knew I wanted to develop as a speaker. I’d had a speech class in …
Fiction Friday: The Sparrow of Terezin
Today in Fiction Friday, I want to introduce you to the latest book from my friend Kristy Cambron. In the Sparrow of Terezin, Kristy Cambron has crafted a beautiful story of parallel journeys: a completely free-standing story set during World War II, and the other a continuation of the contemporary story in The Butterfly & the Violin. The pages move seamlessly from …
Spring: Sometimes We All Need a New Start
In Indiana, spring has been late in arriving. Finally, in the last week, it has exploded on the scene. I’m still waiting for my irises to bloom, but the trees are fully decked out…vivid colors…delicate blooms, green leaves stretching out to touch the sky… It’s a time of fresh beginnings. That may be why spring is one of my favorite seasons. Sometimes …
5 Ways to Breath Life into Your Child’s Dreams
A year ago my oldest daughter and I spent about twenty hours helping out at a gymnastics meet. Yes, you’re reading that right. Twenty hours. The competing girls were all levels 3 & 4s. For many of them it was their first state competition. And their dreams were coming true. This weekend our 11 year old competed in his first gymnastics …
Fiction Friday: The Inn at Ocean’s Edge
The Inn at Ocean’s Ridge is Colleen Coble at her best. The story is richly layered around the theme of what makes us a family. Is it blood relationships? Is it love? Is it something else? Claire Dellamare arrives at Hotel Tourmaline ready to help her father close a merger with another company. But the moment she arrives, she has …
8 Truths When The Tension Between Callings Overwhelms
This last month I’ve missed events in my kids’ lives because a calling meant I couldn’t be in two places at the same time. Just the other night my husband and I were talking about the importance of not devaluing calling yet achieving balance in all areas. The next day I saw a post on Facebook from singer Meredith Andrews. In …