@stickyJesus: how to live out your faith online, by Tami Heim and Toni Birdsong, is a book about how to infuse God’s heartbeat into social networks. This post is part of the @stickyJesus Blog Tour of Light. You can follow @stickyJesus on Twitter, Facebook, or learn more about the book at www.stickyJesus.com Can you imagine what it’s like to live …
The two facets of gazing
Last night my husband and I attended a surprise party for a friend in our quaint, downtown area. On our way home, we cruised the main thoroughfare looking at the street decorations, the lights and festivities behind the store windows. Very beautiful. As a kid, my grandparents would take us to downtown Columbus to peer into the Lazarus windows. The …
Win a NOOK eReader in the Dining With Joy Giveaway!
We’ve cooked up something fabulous! To celebrate Book 3 in The Lowcountry Romance series, Dining With Joy, I’ve partnered with Litfuse Publicity Group in the Dining With Joy NOOK Giveaway! You could win a JOYOUS prize package worth over $185.00! (And see below to find out how you can enter to win a $30 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble!) …
Ten ways to manage your holiday weight
Yeah, ‘tis the season to be jolly. With cookies, cakes, candy, cheese spreads, chocolate covered… everything. So, what’s a girl to do? My hubby always goes into December saying, “Let’s just get through this month and in January, we can eat just lettuce. ‘K?” Um, no. And why wait until January? Why not plan and start to manage our eating …
And the winner is….
Crystal Laine Miller! Her name was drawn at random by Thomas Nelson to win the KitchenAid mixer and a signed copy of Dining with Joy. Congratulations to the runners-up, who are being contacted privately. Thank you all so much for participating and spreading the word about the contest and the book. What a blessing! Here’s Crystal’s post about her cooking …
“Don’t Get Ahead of Me!”
Have any of you done the P90X program? Or watched portions of it? Tony Horton, the developer and instructor of the P90X work out regime, has an off the cuff, unusual but very fun style of instructing. On some routines, he lets us work out at our own pace. On other routines, like the ab ripper X routine, he insists …
Dining With Joy Release Day November 16th
The big day is finally here. The third in the Lowcountry Romance novels, Dining with Joy. This is a fun book with serious undertones about a cooking show host who can’t cook. In the video below, I talk how I came up with this concept and the process of writing the book. Thomas Nelson is partnering with me to host …
All for the Love of Jesus
There’s a great post over on @stickyjesus today about living out the love of Christ online. Isn’t this a great battle for us “off line” too? As a writer, I struggle to keep a balance between my real life, my online life, and the “life” of me that comes out on the pages of my novels. I have to speak …
What’s in a dream?
I believe in the power and purpose of dreams. They communicate issues of our own hearts, or perhaps the weird multi colored Cubism image of the pepperoni pizza we ate the night before. Or the meds we’re taking. Meds can really mess with your dreams. Be careful. Largely, I think dreams come from God. Sometimes they are “Slough off” dreams. …
Research can power up a story
Since I’m ankle deep in a new book and participating in National November Writers Month, NaNoWriMo, which I affectionately call, NaNaMoMo, I’ll blog about writing. It’s dang hard. Can I just say that? It’s true. First drafts are like pulling teeth without Novocain for an entire month. A tooth a day. You have to work up the courage to do …