If you are in the North Texas area and you write or want to write, check this out:  June 14-15, 2013 Four writing “lecture” sessions, followed by break out small groups of participants with similar skill levels and interests led by seasoned writing mentors. You’ll not only learn what to do but get to practice how to do it. I think this is a great...

I’m plugging away at revisions, getting ready to hand this book (slated to release fall 2014) to my editor for the first time. This means right now I’m submerged in 1917-1918 Oklahoma and enjoying the drama of both boys and girls high school basket ball. I promise I’ll look up soon and reconnect with living, breathing people.    

The next three weeks will require lots of stamina and lots of faith! I have my galleys–the printed pages with line edit notes–for A Home for My Heart, which releases in September. They have to be read, revised and in the mail by April 18. I’ve handed my new manuscript off to my critique partners. I have to revise that book after I see their comments...

Once upon a time there was a little girl loved books. She read all the time, eventually longing to write books herself. She continued to read and scribble away all the years she was in school. She married, had children, escaped into books–reading, not writing. Life, being life, eventually forced her to confront some festering issues of her heart. Jesus became...

Over the past 13 months, the Lord has had me on a journey. Well, back up to May 2010, when I signed my first publishing contract. Of course I’ve been on a journey with Him almost my whole life, but when I penned my name on that line, my journey took a new turn, a steeper climb. At first I didn’t notice much difference. I wrote a second book while waiting...

Until my computer died in early December, I’d been using a nifty little browser add on to help limit my roaming the internet when I was supposed to be working. When I got the new computer set up, it was the holidays, things were a little looser. So as I slowly built back up all my programs and bookmarks and such on my computer, I let that one go. It...