It’s an exciting week on the porch! Lisa Wingate’s book Blue Moon Bay was named one of BOOKLIST’S Top Ten of 2012. And look whose cover they used on the page! If you heard Snoopy dancing from down Texas way, now you know who it was!
Seaside by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
It was spring of ’08. I was weeks away from going on tour with Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just WeighsHeavy and scanning my itinerary from Penguin when I noticed a longer than usual driving distance and off time between two of my Florida events. Now, I don’t know about my fellow authors, but once I do all the …
I Live In A Great Vacation Spot!
I was flying out of my local airport to the American Christian Fiction Writers conference when I looked down, out my window. I saw the green-blue of the Atlantic. The sandy, foam washed shore. The curve of the horizon as Florida’s edge stretched north beneath floating white clouds. I thought, “People pay lots of money to vacation here. But this …
A Favorite Vacation Spot
This week’s table talker question is based on my books. Which means my answer is probably a given– Sunset Beach, NC where my books are set! When the experts say “write what you know” I’m a prime example. I didn’t have to look very far to find a perfect setting for my novels, The Mailbox and The Guest Book (and …
Remote Island Vacation by Beth Webb Hart
I was a little stumped by this week’s discussion question, “Do you have a vacation spot?” It wasn’t because I don’t have one. In fact, I have two: Edisto Island, SC and Saluda, NC. However, I feel as though I’ve blogged about those ad nauseam over the last couple of years so I had to think harder. Then, it came …
Dinnertime Conversation Starters, Week 8 – How About a Vacation?
Happy Monday everyone! This week, we’re continuing with our series of Table Talk conversation cards. If you missed the previous cards and want to go back and print them out so you can use them at your family table, or with your book club, or at your next meeting or holiday party, you can get them here: — Conversation Card …
World Card Making Day
Happy Card Making Day!! Hey there, Teresa here. I’m the resident graphics girl for all of the fun little graphics items on the “porch” here at Southern Belle View. When I’m not sitting on the porch listening to the Belles, I’m over at Digital Scrapbook Place making up way cool digital scrapbook products for scrappers to CAPTURE all …
If only in my dreams…by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
I’ve been so tempted to parrot the other belles with this dream job question. I so identified with Lisa’s powerful post. I was phased out of my all-time favorite job of mothering, too, although I’m further removed from that shocker time-wise. I didn’t realize how time had dulled the memory of those very raw emotions until Lisa brought them back …
Living the Dream. Yessiree!
My biggest concern growing up was regret. I didn’t want to live with it, turn 40 and look back at my life regretting all the woulda, shoulda, couldas. Leading worship at ACFW But how can one avoid regret? How does one orchestrate a life that knows every right turn to take?Which job to take? Which career to “go” for if …
My Dream Job
Is it cheesy to say I’m living my dream? That I still marvel at the reality of these people who call me mom? That I get to see books (plural!?!) with my name on the cover? That I have the pleasure of interacting with readers and other writers on a semi-regular basis and call that work? That sometimes I get …