It's Friday night and I'm lying on my bed, feet crossed, waiting for the new season of Monk to start. I'm chatting online with a good friend while reading a blog I enjoy. I commented to my friend that some of my writer friends write their blog posts for the week on...
Today feels like Christmas in July!I woke up with a new way to rewrite the current scene I'm writing. The mailman brought many treasures, including the new iPod I ordered! Finally, the most exciting gift was my hubby's agreement that I could go to the ACFW writer's...
There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under Heaven: a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot.Ecclesiastes 3:1The crunch of leaves beneath my feet. The scent of apples in the air. The chilly kiss of the wind on...
This time last year, I was flying the friendly skies to Dallas, Texas, where the American Christian Fiction Writers annual conference was about to begin. ACFW is the premiere writing organization for Christian fiction. I've made many good friends who love Jesus and...
This morning I was wondering what my blog topic for today should be when one of the young toddlers in my care tried to talk a couple of independent steps and promptly lost her balance. She fell and gazed at me, bottom lip protruding, from her spot on the floor. I...
The RestitutionbyM. L. TyndallShunned by her parents and by society, Lady Isabel Ashton lives a secluded life at Port Royal with her seven month old baby, Frederick--the son of the fierce pirate, Kent Carlton. When her baby is suddenly kidnapped, Captain Carlton...
My friend, Dineen Miller, interviewed DiAnn Mills on her blog about DiAnn's new release, When the Nile Runs Red. When I saw the cover for DiAnn's new book, I LOVED it. It told me so much about the characters and what I could expect in the story. In fact, that cover...
Growing up, I remember hearing family and older friends talking about where they were when JFK was shot. In the sixties, that tragedy impacted our nation. Since I was born at the very end of that decade, I wasn't alive when it happened, but people still talk about it...
I'm the sort of person who gets very cranky if I don't have an appropriate amount of sleep. I go to bed at a decent hour with great intention of getting my forty winks, but something prevents me from turning off the light--the "To Be Read" tower of books next to my...
Hazardous Duty by Christy BarrittKregel Publications ISBN: 978-0825420160On her way to completing a degree in forensic science, Gabby St. Claire drops out of school and starts her own crime scene cleaning business. "Yeah, that's me," she says, "a crime scene cleaner....
