So a couple of years ago, I read a book with the world’s greatest babysitter. Seriously, Phoebe can babysit my bestekids any day. She’s awesome. You can read about her in Cathe Swanson’s Baggage Claim. When you’ve found the best, who needs any more, right? Well, as any wise mother knows (and Continue Reading
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Loved, Hated, Laughed, and Cried, but Why?
I have a secret that I should probably confess. All my life, I’ve had this crazy, inexplicable love of mysteries. Shocker, right? Well, yeah. What can I say? It’s a thing. I blame my mother, and no… not because she used a Nancy Drew book to teach me to read—or so I’ve heard. Though I can Continue Reading
Why Hope Is an Excellent Theme for this Series
Series often have a theme, and the trilogy of books I’ve ready by E. C. Jackson’s is obvious—hope. She chose her theme well, and the books reflect it in obvious ways. Still, it’s not trite. Jackson kept the layers of hope in her stories subtle when they needed to be and overt when they didn’t. Continue Reading
What’s Going on In the Christian Fiction World Right Now?
In January of 2018, I wrote a blog post about where I thought Christian fiction would be going in the next few years. One of my “predictions” is already becoming obvious—and not in the way I thought. I said: But what is weird is a new (but age-old) attitude of “I’m okay, you’re okay” in it…I Continue Reading
When A Lifelong Dream Gets Fulfilled in a Great Book
Not sure when I first decided I wanted to own my own bookstore. I do recall that teaching won out over bookstore ownership as a girl because I thought that “three months off” would give me time to write a book every year, and you didn’t get three months off as a bookstore owner. I set that Continue Reading
Why this Book Will Be Worth Your Time and Money
Brown paper bags with a big blue prize ribbon on them. It said “Stater Bros” in the middle of that blue ribbon. Our preferred grocery store. Well, and the only one actually in Yucca Valley, California in 1984. We lived in Landers about twenty miles away—at the end of Dusty Mile Road. No, Continue Reading
Just Who Is The True Apple of This Governess’s Eye?
Sarah E. Ladd. I’d never heard of her. I know, I know. Shoot me now. Do you know how many awesome Christian fiction authors there are out there? I can’t know them all. Kind of wish I could, though. Wouldn’t that be cool? Still, I promised myself I’d try out new authors this year—books that Continue Reading
5 Easy (& FREE) Ways You Can Help Your Favorite Author
At least once a week an email arrives. While the words are always a little bit different, they all say the same basic thing, “I love your books. What’s the best way to tell everyone else how great they are?” Translation: “How can I help promote your books?” Look, I need to say something Continue Reading
3 Ways This YA Novel Will Challenge Your Perceptions
He held out a necklace with a pendant on it. It read, 90% angel. "They didn’t have one that said 100% angel,” he said. Usually, when one of the nicest, cutest guys in school gives you a gift, it’s a compliment. This wasn’t. And, thanks to my father totally not getting that, when I told him Continue Reading
The Things That Change In 75 Years Will Capture Your Heart
“Whatcha readin’?” (said with a perfect imitation of Isabella from Phineas and Ferb). I passed the book across the table with great reluctance. "12 Days at Bleakly Manor." He gave it a cursory glance. “What’s it about?” “The author gave Charles Dickens a bit of writer’s block and had him Continue Reading
Novelly Upon A Time is the Best Book I Read Last Month
“The Stacks.” I remember some book or movie talking about some part of a college library as “the stacks.” I’ve taken to calling my room that. “The Stacks.” Seriously. I can count no less than eight stacks of books in my bedroom. That’s not including the ceiling height bookshelf that runs all Continue Reading
How to Bless Your Husband for Valentine’s Day
Yep, all week I have reviews and giveaways planned to celebrate Valentine’s Day. So, for those of you who get my blog posts emailed, I’m sorry. This’ll be a heavy email week, but I won't send emails every day for the rest of your life. I promise! As my apology, and to make it a little less Continue Reading
