Arms of DeliveranceChapter 1 Katrine squared her shoulders and instinctively pressed a hand to her stomach as she stepped through the open doors of the café, past the yellow sign that read NO JEWS ALLOWED. She paused as the strong aroma of coffee and cigarette smoke hit her face. Men and women clustered around tables…. [Continue Reading]
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First Lines
This week, Angie Hunt will be blogging author’s first lines from their works in progress. It’s a great lesson in how many ways there are to tell a story. I always enjoy seeing what’s in the works out there. http://alifeinpages.blogspot.com/ Here’s the first line to my soon-to-be-released novel, Arms of Deliverance. Katrine squared her shoulders… [Continue Reading]
Real Life Birthday!
Cory and Nathan with centurion at Holy Land Theme Park, Feb. 2006 Real Life for me today includes meeting my goal of writing 2,000 words AND celebrating my son’s 17th birthday! (You can read about Cory’s birth and the second “gift” God gave me that day at my Gen X Parents blog.) Real Life has… [Continue Reading]
Real Life Kids
Real Life around here, means real kids. Kids I love with everything in me. Kids who pull me away from my writing projects, time and time again . . . but I don’t really mind. This photo is my son, Cory, and his friends at a recent Young Life Camp. He’s the tall, dark, and… [Continue Reading]
Greetings from Boston!
Greetings from Boston! Okay, I thought I could create a “buzz” on my blog by showing a photo of me drinking and gambling. The truth is . . . we were being wined and dined by Microsoft on a two-hour Executative Cruise around Boston Harbor. Of course, my drink of choice was Diet Coke. And… [Continue Reading]
Many people tend to think of me only as a novelist . .
Many people tend to think of me only as a novelist, but that is far from the truth. I still write articles when editors contact me. (I have a hard time saying “no”!) And I write for publications that I write monthly columns for. I write parenting material, mostly because I’m dealing with that on… [Continue Reading]
The Undoing . . .
One of the best things, and the hardest too, about being a writer is the “undoing.” To do my best, I must give my all. All authors do. I have many writer friends, and I don’t know one person who writes the first sentence of their new novel and knows the whole story, knows it… [Continue Reading]
Greetings from Boston!
Greetings from Boston! Hi friends. John came to Boston for a Microsoft convention. With a free hotel room and a flight voucher to burn, I came along to write. I’ve course for the last two days I haven’t written a word, but John and I have been greatly enjoying the sights. Our hotel, The Parker… [Continue Reading]
Spain in My Heart
Today I’m heading out of town to write for a week. This doesn’t happen often, and I’m very excited. A whole week to spend “in” this story. I’ll officially be on the East Coast, but my mind, my emotions, will be in Spain. One of the questions I get the most is HOW I make… [Continue Reading]
Say What?
I should have know I’d be a writer. When I was ten I used to record stories on my red tape recorder. (You know, the rectangle kind with the big black buttons and the microphone you could plug in.) Right now I’m in the midst of creating a new story, yet I long for the… [Continue Reading]
Professional in PJs.
Today I was interviewed by Scott and Lori on Family Net Radio. You can listen at: (please do!)http://www.familynetradio.com/mornings/today.asp Now, here’s the story behind the interview . . . This morning I woke up early–before the alarm went off. (It doesn’t happen too often.) I started my Bible Study, and I actually decided to keep reading/praying… [Continue Reading]