Please welcome my local RWA STAR chapter author and friend, Leigh Duncan! She is a great writer and such an encourager. I feel so encouraged after being with her. Her newest release, Rodeo Daughter, was a Romantic Times Top Pick! Well, I’ll let her tell you about it. Rodeo Daughter Summary:Amanda Markette’s years on the professional rodeo circuit led to dreams of …
Home from the Game
I’m glad to be home from the game. The Gator Bowl. Not because my team lost. But because it’s always good to be home. It was cold in Jacksonville. Brrr… But sunny and beautiful. Husband and I had a good time! The faithful Buckeye fans out numbered the Gator fans — and your team played in your home state! Tsk-tsk.But …
Home from the 10th ACFW Conference!
(left, Susan Downs, me, Susan May Warren. Ten years and counting!) It’s never easy, Being in a pool of peers. Swimming with the current. Against the current. Exhausted. Laughing. Weary yet energized. Pulled in a thousand different directions. Yet somehow having a single purpose. Novels. Fiction. Hanging with other writers. I love to teach. Never realized how much until I …
Journaling, blogging and other drugs
I guess I could say most of my life journaling, or writing a diary, was my “drug.” My self therapy, my way of coping. My first diary was a little red book with a lock and key. I was six. Goodness knows I didn’t want my mom snooping among the pages to find out I didn’t know how to spell …
Writing A New Blog From Blogsy
I saw this really cool app today and decided tom try it for writing blogs from my iPad. Believe it or not, this kind of tool would’ve saved me a few times! It was easy to drag and drop the picture from Flickr. Now to get more pictures into Flickr! Oy.
The Story Jar by Robin Lee Hatcher and Deborah Bedford
What a great honor to have these two prestigious authors on my blog today to tell us about a great Mother’s Day gift! THE STORY JAR A lovely novel of three women, their stories threaded together through the concept of The Story Jar… The jar itself is most unusual — not utilized in the ordinary way for canning or storing …
Writing: Denise Hunter talks about life as a writer
My good friends Lena Dooley and Denise Hunter are talking writing over on Lena’s blog today. Denise has some new releases coming (yay!) but on the featured book on this post is a re-release of Surrender Bay. I love both of these women, their heart for the Lord, for worship, for others and for writing great books Be sure to …
Becoming a Writer Part 1
Lately, I’ve had a some folks ask me about becoming a writer. They, or someone they know has written or wants to write a novel. I get asked a lot about how to get published and the steps involved. So, I thought I’d discuss it here. Create a reference. Make a few people laugh. Make a few people cry. One. …
Research can power up a story
Since I’m ankle deep in a new book and participating in National November Writers Month, NaNoWriMo, which I affectionately call, NaNaMoMo, I’ll blog about writing. It’s dang hard. Can I just say that? It’s true. First drafts are like pulling teeth without Novocain for an entire month. A tooth a day. You have to work up the courage to do …
I’m going to a Buckeye Football game
Lots going on this weekend. Not necessarily in my life, but around the world and in your neighborhood. I’m finishing up Love Lifted Me with Sara Evans. I’ll be glued to my desk chair for the next few days but I’m excited to “have written!” Today at 11CST I’ll be on Kitchen Chat with Maragret McSweeney. Check my Twitter box …