Happy Sunday! My schedule is a little off this week (which is why I’m sharing news about a new book at the start of the week instead of midweek this time) but I wanted to be sure to tell everyone about Terri Blackstock’s newest release. Here’s a note about it: Terri Blackstock‘s new book Intervention […]

I heard my husband mention this term not long ago, and I had no idea what it meant. Maybe some of you know, but I had to ask. Evidently it’s a masonry term for a wall that’s built to one height (with a flat base), but one end has an extra course to get to […]

Recently Michael Jordan was inducted into the Hall of Fame. The newspapers reported a striking theme in his acceptance speech that I thought writers everywhere might want to hear about. Notably, Michael thanked people who weren’t necessarily friends or family. Instead, he recalled the coach who cut him from the Varsity Basketball team when he […]

This blog began as a way to track my progress as I wrote Look to the East. My early posts (starting around August of 2008, a year ago already!) will take you through the sale, the rough drafts, questions about the ending, and even pictures of my research trip to Northern France where this book […]

It’s the dream—or the bane—of every author: marketing our books. We’ve poured our heart and soul into our novels, traveled the long and arduous journey to get it published, survived editing, rejoiced over book covers and names in print. And now our “baby” is out there. Authors everywhere are eager to tell people about their […]

This past weekend my husband was painting the walls leading down to our basement, and while he was doing that he had on the radio. At one point the commentator read off the school lunch menu—in French. How much more appetizing such things as pizza, salad and fruit cups sounded! It made me wonder if […]