In the manuscript that is. This sweet gentleman showed up and swept my heroine off her feet – in the most unromantic but incredible sweet sense. He bowled her over with kindness and grace. It’s a connection she desperately needed. She’s an orphan whose only remaining family has betrayed her Read more
Yep. The Mary Poppins post was now “yesterday.” I have gotten some more done. Not much. Think I have the impetus for her decision now figured out. As much as I enjoyed subbing for the music teacher today, I think I need a day off Wednesday to finish this other Read more
I’ve been posting around midnight rather than trying to remember during the day and forgetting. Except I forgot at midnight last nigh… er, this morning ;). I did get a call about 615 this morning to sub at my kiddos’ school. I was the music teacher. Because I know soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Read more
Cleaning, laundry, cranky kids, and in-laws conspired to significantly curtail my writing time. But the music playing in my house pretty much all day? Rich Mullins, The World As Best As I Remember It, vol. 1 and 2. The Father of hearts And the Maker of noses The Giver of Read more
It’s not the first day Rich Mullins inspired me*. It won’t be the last either. But today, while IMing with the incomparable Laurie Tomlinson about our mutual love of all things Rich, I told her how some of his lyrics** had been speaking to me on a “fictional” level – Read more
National Novel Writing Month started almost 7 and a half hours ago. I’ve not written a word. This is weird. I always start at midnight… Taking the kids to the dentist and taking my AlphaSmart with me. Debating between starting NaNo and trying to finish the last couple scenes in Read more
Seeing how successful her older sister’s “mail order marriage” has been and longing to strike out on her own, Greta Olsen answers an ad for a mail order bride in Central City, Colorado. But when she meets Jess Gifford, owner of a thriving mercantile, she begins to harbor doubts. He Read more
It all started with an ad in a mail-order bride catalogue . . . This charming bouquet of novellas introduces you to four Hitching Post Mail-Order Bride Catalogueprospects in the year 1870, all eager for second chances . . . and hungry for happiness. Year in, year out, they’ll learn that love Read more
This is the first in MAIL-ORDER BRIDE WEEK!!!! Everyone loves a good mail-order bride story and I’ve got quite the line up for reviews set for the next seven days! [Uh… with Sunday off because it’s God’s day – and because I don’t have another one in my “already read Read more
Charlotte Graham is at the center of the most famous kidnapping in Chicago history. The task force of FBI and local cops found her two abductors, killed them, rescued her, but it took four very long years. The fact she was found less than three miles from her home, had Read more