3 Steps to Finding the Grace to Chase a Dream | Guest Post by Cara Putman Once there was a fourteen-year-old who quickly realized her favorite authors simply could not write books fast enough. Because she was young, she decided she could write books, too. Her mother smiled and allowed her to write as part… [Continue Reading]
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The Books Authors Read | Shelley Shepard Gray
What was your favorite book as a child? My favorite book was Alice In Wonderland. It’s still one of my all-time favorites. Right there with Little Women. What book did you read that first made you want to be an author? Boy, I can’t remember a particular book. I have always been a voracious reader… [Continue Reading]
Spring Cleaning for the Soul | Guest Post by Liz Curtis Higgs
Spring Cleaning for the Soul Here’s what I love about stories: They let us step inside someone else’s shoes and, in the process, take an unexpected journey of our own. In my new novella, Mercy Like Sunlight, Mary Margaret Delaney is coming out of a long season of depression and discouragement, only to find… [Continue Reading]
The Books Authors Read | Susan May Warren (Plus a Giveaway)
What was your favorite book as a child? The Ghosts (a time travel story)! What book did you read that first made you want to be an author? The Little House on the Prairie books! What was the last book you read, just for fun? Burning Sky by Lori Benton What upcoming release are you most… [Continue Reading]
Family Is Spelled L-O-V-E | Guest Post by Rachel Hauck (Plus a Giveaway)
Family Is Spelled L-O-V-E If you’ve read any of my blogs or guests blogs around cyber space, you know my husband and I don’t have children. Of our own. But after twenty years in youth ministry, we have a few of OPK—Other People’s Kids. We’re even Oma and Opa to five little cuties! It’s not… [Continue Reading]
The Books Authors Read | Suzanne Woods Fisher (Plus a Giveaway)
What was your favorite book as a child? The first book I remember my mother reading to me was Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field. Hitty was a doll who belonged to a little Quaker girl during the whaling days. The irony is not lost on me that my next series will be… [Continue Reading]
A Review of ‘The Monuments Men’ Movie (Plus a Giveaway) | Guest Post by Cara Putman
If you haven’t yet heard, The Monuments Men movie released this past weekend—just in time to coincide with my Monuments Men-era book The Swiss Courier going on sale for $1.99! My good friend and fellow author of her own Monuments Men story, Cara Putman, recently had a chance to see and review the movie; here’s what… [Continue Reading]
The Books Authors Read | Robin Lee Hatcher (Plus a Giveaway)
What was your favorite book as a child? Anything to do with horses. Everything to do with horses. Two books that I still own today (although the paperback is seriously ready to crumble into a thousand pieces) are: Golden Cloud and Old Bones. What book did you read that first made you want to be… [Continue Reading]
The Books Authors Read | Sarah Ladd (Plus a Giveaway)
What was your favorite book as a child? Any book in the Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard. In fact, I STILL love the Mandie books! I remember how excited I used to get to go to the bookstore and see the covers for the new books as they came out. What book did you… [Continue Reading]
The Books Authors Read | Julie Klassen (Plus a Giveaway)
What was your favorite book as a child? The Secret Garden and The Trixie Belden Mysteries What book did you read that first made you want to be an author? Jane Eyre What was the last book you read, just for fun? Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson What upcoming release are you most looking forward to? The… [Continue Reading]
Go Behind-the-Scenes of ‘A Christmas Gift for Rose’ Brunch
This past holiday season, fifty of my friends and readers across the country held a brunch and book-club meeting for A Christmas Gift for Rose! I’ve loved getting emails with responses both from hosts and participants either who were introduced to the first book they’ve read by me or who loved the twentieth book they’ve read… [Continue Reading]