When Liz Johnson offered to send me a copy of her latest book, Navy Seal Noel, to review, I was excited. Liz writes with crisp clarity that makes her action-packed books a clean, exciting read. I suspected I'd love the book. I had no idea how much. Navy Seal Noel takes place in Continue Reading
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An Amish Buggy Ride Giveaway!
Note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you. Additionally, I requested a review copy of this book and chose to share my opinions on it. I just finished An Amish Buggy Ride by Sarah Price, and I am excited to share it with you. Sarah has Continue Reading
Night Before NaNo: A parody
It's that time! Time for this year's NaNoWriMo poem! T'was the Night before NaNo T'was the eve before NaNo And all through the house We were frantically cleaning-- Even my spouse. The blue bowl was filled With candy to spare In hopes that costumed darlings Soon would be there. The Continue Reading
The Super-Secret Confessions of a Vulneraphobe
I have thick skin. I'd like to say it's my natural personality, but I don't really think it is. I suspect if I'd been born in any other family I might have ended up a very different person, and probably a sensitive one at that. My parents did a great job of teaching me how to let negativity and Continue Reading
12 Reasons a Novel Is ALWAYS a Novel Christmas Gift
Here's the thing. I know you don't want to hear it, but Christmas is only TEN weeks away--and that's assuming you're reading this the day it was (re)published! If you are reading it tomorrow or the next day, well... you know. But with Christmas inevitably comes the whole topic of Continue Reading
Learning the Ropes
While I was in Michigan at Waterfall Press/Brilliance Publishing, one of the fascinating things we got to do and see was Sarah Price's An Amish Buggy Ride being recorded. About twelve of us packed into the tiny little engineer's studio to listen to Amy McFaddon in the other room as she recorded a Continue Reading
5 Reasons You Should NOT Read My Books
“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.” ~Louis L'Amour The soap opera claims we have but "one Continue Reading
3 Ways I Torture Characters
I get emails almost weekly--often multiple times a week--and the question invariably goes something like this. "How could you do that to him/her?" In other words, "How could you torture that character like that?" So, I thought I'd give you a bit of insight into why I do the torturous things I do. Continue Reading
When Did I First Know I Had to Be a Writer?
What do salt breezes, palm trees, sand outside the door, and the Santa Ana winds have to do with turn-of-the-20th-century Brooklyn? Not much—only my introduction to Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a defining moment in my life. (This is a revised post from 2014 and contains affiliate Continue Reading
Through a Kid’s Eye–Sorta
A popular Christmas movie, A Christmas Story, has a humorous repeating theme. “You’ll shoot your eye out.” I always thought I didn’t like the movie for its stupid leg lamp or the way it makes parents look like idiots, but a memory from my childhood revealed to me that my animosity goes deeper than Continue Reading
I Just Have to Share!
Nicole's book, A Cliché Christmas, is selling out at Walmart stores all over the country. I didn't know what I'd think when I got this book, but I love Christmas (you'd never know that, right?) and was dying to read it. When I discussed it with Nicole later, she asked, "So, was the first person Continue Reading
Lessons Learned: De-cluttering Junkie
Background for De-cluttering Junkie: I started writing Confessions of a De-cluttering Junkie on my personal blog a few years ago. I'd been reading blogs and message board posts that seemed to take a good thing (removing the excess from our lives) and almost turned it into an obsession. I admit Continue Reading
