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Favorite Books for Toddlers

We’ve got another birthday in our family this week and, as is my custom, I need to survey my favorite books for toddlers. I’ll give you six choices and you can either vote, or suggest another title for...

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Good Books for Young Boys

Shh. It’s his birthday and I’ve been hunting good boys for young boys. It wasn’t very hard this year because he’s fixated on all things Star Wars. His collection is so vast, however, I saw nothing to...

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My Favorite WWI Research Books

I’ve spent the last nearly two years with research books learning about The Great War, World War I, WWI. With the 100th anniversary last month marking the start of the war, I thought I’d share some of...

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Who was Oswald Chambers?

Who was Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)and why should anyone be interested in him? For most people now alive, he’s known as the author of the famous devotional My Utmost for His Highest, first published...

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Books and the All-Inclusive Resort

So my friend Jay and I went to an all-inclusive resort recently for a week in Cancun, Mexico. All-inclusive vacations are steps back in time–someone makes your bed in the morning and turns down the...

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What is a Christian Devotional Book?

My three choices for many years What is a Christian devotional book and why do people read them? Obviously, the original Christian devotional book is the Bible–particularly the Psalms which are full of...

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Who Wrote My Utmost for His Highest and How? Part I

Oswald and Biddy; photo courtesy Wheaton College Special Collections library You probably think Oswald Chambers wrote the well-loved devotional My Utmost for His Highest. You’re only half right. The...

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Who Wrote My Utmost for His Highest and How? Part II

Biddy Chambers; photo courtesy Wheaton College Library Special Collections The well-loved devotional My Utmost for His Highest was first published in 1927–and has never been out of print since. Part 1...

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My Utmost for His Highest and Prayer

This is the 1982 paperback Barbour edition I’ve used for many years. I’ve read My Utmost for His Highest as a daily devotional for more than 15 years. Why would I reread the same devotional year after...

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What’s a Novella and Why do Readers Like Them?

My most recent novella series As an author with five published novellas to her credit, I’ve been pondering the lure of a novella. Why do people like to read them? Novellas are shorter works of fiction,...

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Introducing The 12 Brides of Summer

Available the first of each summer month in batches of three novellas for $2.99 each The same dozen authors who provided The 12 Brides of Christmas e-book collection last fall for Barbour Publishing,...

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Amy Lillard: Summer Brides

Available for purchase at http://amzn.to/1Fj2twW With summer heating up, Amy Lillard’s written The Wildflower Bride for the first of four ebook 12 Brides of Summer Collection. As a sequel to last...

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Susan Page Davis: Summer Brides

Available for purchase at http://amzn.to/1Fj2twW Susan Page Davis will lead off The 12 Brides of Summer with her Blue Moon Bride, joining two other novellas in the first collection releasing on June 1....

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Sequel Writing: The Sunbonnet Bride

Old woman in sunbonnet by Doris Ulmann (Wikipedia)  I did not plan to write a sequel for my Christmas novella, The Yuletide Bride, but when the opportunity arose, I figured out how to write one. Before...

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Grasshoppers and Tornadoes

Rocky Mountain Locust While writing my recently released novella, The Sunbonnet Bride, I needed a devastating natural event to occur and so I researched grasshopper plagues, tornadoes and other acts of...

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Thank you, Elisabeth Elliot

One of my spiritual mentors died on June 15: Elisabeth Elliot. I first “met” her through books years ago when I was a young wife and before children were added to the chaotic mix of my life. Another...

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Maureen Lang: Summer Brides

Maureen Lang’s The Summer Harvest Bride takes readers to a unique part of rural 1851 Illinois where a grist mill is being built. As included in the second The 12 Brides of Summer ebook novella...

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Four Ways I use Goodreads

Are you on Goodreads? How do you use it? Does it feel like just one. more. social media thing to keep track of in your free time? Or is it a helpful tool? I’m of mixed mind, but I do use it in four...

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Amanda Cabot: Summer Brides

Amanda Cabot’s The Fourth of July Bride will appear in the second The 12 Brides of Summer Novella Collection, releasing, appropriately on July 1. A sequel to her The Christmas Star Bride,  the new...

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Exercise and the Writer’s Mind

This is NOT my class! (Photo: Wikipedia) The woman who teaches my exercise class had her eye on me yesterday. “You need to keep your mind engaged on what you’re doing here, not on what’s happening...

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