Blog

YAY!!!! This is a good week for books!! Missy Tippens and Ruth Logan Herne [Ruthy, both of Seekerville fame] have new books out.  They were supposed to be in stores last week. Went to FOUR Wal-marts and none had them but guess what I found today?!?!?! I am so excited =D. Not sure how they jumped in the cart… The three-year-old was excited too. See the smile? And the chocolate? Oh, that’s because I sent Read more

This is a combo review of the first two books in the series “The Wives of King David” – Michal and Abigail. It feels a bit disjointed to me, but ah well. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them ;). That’s what you really need to know =D. I loved the love story between David and Michal in the beginning. Her steadfast devotion to David for the first couple of years at least after that he Read more

Had two Seeker sightings this week. Well, one Seeker sighting and one ‘reminds me of a Seeker’ sighting that I thought was too fun not to share ;). The Seekers, of course, are the wonderful ladies of Seekerville. Janet Dean’s new release Wanted: A Family at Walmart today!!! Dunno how it jumped into my cart… =D           Julie Lessman’s first trilogy was the Daughter’s of Boston series. When I met her Read more

Over on Seekerville today, Missy Tippens talks about a Light Bulb Moment. She challenged us to: Describe your character walking into a church for the first time. (Can be first time ever or first time in this particular church.) Remember, NO MORE THAN 100 WORDS! So I did. And since I haven’t posted here in like a week [or more?], I thought I’d toss it up here, too. More on the whys of that later. Read more

Remiss. Again. Like anyone’s shocked. I’m working on it. Promise. I’m also working on the sequel to Unbreak Her Heart. It’s this close to being done. The rough draft anyway. Hopefully, [dear God please make it so!] this weekend. Or early next week. Today, I’m going to Panera to hopefully get tons and tons written. I have one middle/partial chapter [which is suspended in another window while I type this – Nate, Ben, the dads, Read more

I know this. I can only plead to snow blindness. Or something like that. Snow crazy? We got about 13″ of snow in the first ever for our area blizzard warning on Tuesday. Kids – and colleges – have been out of school since then. Our community college has even canceled for tomorrow. Then it snowed for at least 12 hours today – probably another 2-3″ total, but the roads are already a nasty mess. Read more

This weekend rocked. It was a good weekend – and given that we may have a zillion inches of ice and/or snow, that’s a good thing. Saturday, Penny and I drove up to St. Louis. I dropped her with her fam about an hour away then went to the local ACFW meeting. Special guest? And really the whole reason I went all the way into STL… JULIE LESSMAN! Now, we all know that I adore Read more

Yeah. I’ve been AFK. [That’s away from keyboard for my non-acronym knowing friends.] You know it. I know it. Move on… 😉 Part of what I’ve been doing is meeting JULIE LESSMAN!!!!! You know – the gal I wanna be when I grow up! More on that tomorrow =D. I’ve also been working on the new Pentalk Community Blog. Yours truly is the editor-in-chief! Doesn’t that make me sound all important? I’m working my way Read more

Just me again today :). Mostly because I needed motivation to get moving on the sequel to Unbreak Her Heart. Ugh. I’ve been stumped [though I have written almost 8K on book 4 in the series… what can I say? Inspiration struck… 3500 or so is backstory type stuff that won’t ever see the light of day, but that’s all right. It’s necessary…] So I wrote the first sentence of the segment I needed to Read more