My heartfelt congratulations to the following Carol Award Nominees for 2013! I see many old friends and favorites as well as new! The winners will be announced at the American …
CREATING A WRITER’S ONE SHEET
Creating a One Sheet for the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Conference, held this year in Indianapolis, IN, is always a fun and creative way to present your novel to an …
BLOWING ON DANDELIONS by MIRALEE FERRELL!
A wonderful story of love and family, forgiveness and redemption.
THERE’S ASH IN MY COFFEE!
Snowed in and without power in the Pacific NW, I went to bed hoping I would wake to a warm house, hot water and communication with the outside world. I …
Anita Higman’s A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
If you have someone on your Christmas shopping list that loves romantic fiction, have I got a recommendation for you! Out just in time for Christmas giving is Anita Higman’s …
GRIEVING GOD’S WAY by Margaret Brownley
Last week I reviewed my dad’s first novel, THE STAGECOACH MURDERS, and told you of the books that inspired his writing. That is, anything by Louis L’Amour or Zane Grey. …
A LOUIS L’AMOUR STYLE WESTERN ROMANCE by HOWARD WORLEY
While a Louis L’Amour style western romance is a departure from the inspirational historical fiction I usually review, the inspiration is there. I’ve known the author all of my life. …
DAD AND LOUIS L’AMOUR
I think my dad and Louis L’Amour are a lot alike. But in June of 2010 my dad, at age eighty-seven, lay on a hospital bed prepped for an angiogram. …
WHERE LILACS STILL BLOOM by JANE KIRKPATRICK
I’ve known about Hulda Klager for a number of years. I think the year I read my first Jane Kirkpatrick novel, A Gathering of Finches – my all-time favorite – was …
Oh, for an English Apple!
In 1999, my mother and I flew from Oregon to Long Island, a journey that would become a cherished memory for me. My younger brother had been researching our genealogy …