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Wishing ACFW-ers the best!
Right now is the annual ACFW Conference and hundreds of writers, agents and editors converge for networking, learning and more! Two of my critique partners are attending, one of whom is pitching her manuscript! I'm wishing her, and everyone looking to sell their...
Book Review: Mockingjay
I can count on one finger the times I've waited in line for the midnight release of a novel. And that was Mockingjay. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (Book 1 & 2 reviews) is a masterpiece of pure heart-gripping storytelling. From the very first page of...
Story Behind the Story: Margaret Brownley
The idea for my September 2010 release, A Suitor for Jenny, the 2nd book in my Rocky Creek series, lurked in a dusty Kansas museum. While rifling through old newspaper clippings I came across a meeting notice for “The Society for the Protection and Preservation...
Story Behind the Story: Amanda Cabot
Inspiration. In my experience it can strike anywhere, anytime. I got the idea for one story from a song that was being piped into a restaurant. Another one came from the tourist information room in a highway rest area, still another from a nightmare. As I said,...
Review: A Memory Between Us
Book Description Major Jack Novak has never failed to meet a challenge--until he meets army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty. When Jack lands in the army hospital after a plane crash, he makes winning Ruth's heart a top priority mission. But he has his work cut out for...
Review: Jungle Warfare
Book Description Jungle Warfare provides a field manual for the Christian in sales: a guide for certain victory in uncertain times. Could a WWII Basic Field Manual on Jungle Warfare have any words of wisdom for sales and business professionals today? Yes – and it may...
Story Behind the Story: K.Dawn Byrd
Thanks for hosting me on your blog! You asked about the history behind my novel. My first novel, Killing Time, is actually my second release. Somehow, my second novel, Queen of Hearts came out first. Actually, it occurred because my publisher had a spot for a...
Story Behind the Story: Jessica Johnson
I am currently writing a fantasy trilogy, called The Cascadian Chronicles. In it, an American college graduate travels through a portal to the mythological world of Auberon. Miriam Aguilar was brought to her foster family as an infant by her mysterious...
Review: Touching the Clouds
Kate Evans is an adventurous and independent young woman with a pioneering spirit. She pilots a mail-delivery plane in the forbidding Alaskan wilderness, the lone woman in a male profession. But even that seems easy compared to finding true love. She likes a fellow...
Mockingjay
Last August, I read a book that gripped me like none other. I nearly went crazy in between the time it took me to finish the book and the drive to Barnes and Noble to get the second book. The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins is a story for all ages, but let me...