Please welcome my friend and author, Maureen Lang! Girl, you’re up. Greetings! I’m eager to share the news about my newest book release. Have you ever wondered how many love stories have one war or another for a backdrop?Rather than counting, I decided to plunge ahead and add a few more titles. Look to the East is the first in …
I mean, really, what IS sin?
Okay, let’s just point to the elephant in the room. Sin. No one knows what to do with it anymore.
Is the Lord’s touch unfamiliar to us?
Yesterday a good friend and I were talking about those uncomfortable places in God. Those times when a comment from a friend or pastor, a story you’ve read, a song lyric that challenges our comfort zones and belief system. He said, “The Lords touch is so unfamiliar to many. Including His people.” Have you been in that place where you …
Crit Groups: Should I be in one?
From my post over on My Book Therapy. The other night during the Voices forum chat, Susie and I were asked about crit groups — if we believed they were valuable, and what advice would we give. Here’s the summation of our collective advice. Should I be in a crit group? If you are new to writing fiction, or struggling …
Looking for an agent
Over on My Book Therapy, I blogged about my journey with agents and offer some advice to writers looking or wondering.
The Hope of Refuge by Cindy Woodsmall
Please welcome my dear friend and proud-to-say, New York Times Best Selling author, Cindy Woodsmall. The Hope of Refuge Raised in foster care and now the widowed mother of a little girl, Cara Moore struggles against poverty, fear, and a relentless stalker. When a trail of memories leads Cara and Lori out of New York City toward an Amish community, …
Spiritual Warfare: In a word or two
A friend lent me the Ted Dekker book, Adam. While talking with another friend, I absently flipped through the back of Ted’s book to the printed conversation he had with author and speaker, John Eldredge, about spiritual warfare. This sentences arrested my heart and pinged with deep level truth. I know what Eldredge is saying, I’ve lived it, but his …
It’s been awhile
Bump! Did you hear that? It’s the echo of me falling of the blogging band wagon last week. Ouch. I landed hard. But I chased ‘er down and climbed aboard. Whoo-woo, whoo-woo. I’m working on the second book with Sara Evans, incorporating ideas from our editor. Good stuff, but I’ll be heads down for the next two weeks. I’m also …
Personal Expression verses God Encounter
I’ve noticed something lately. Church has changed. And I don’t mean in the Emergent kind of way where intellectuals gaze at their navels asking, “Is Jesus really the Christ? Is He the only way?” Yes, in case you’re wondering. Unequivocally yes. My observation of the Evangelical Bible-believing church is we’ve become about personal expression rather than God encounter. Let me …
Winning Awards
In my illustrious writing career, I’ve won one award, The Maggie from the Georgia Romance Writers. Due to a deadline, I was unable to attend the conference and ceremony where the award was given, and to be honest, I kind of forgot about it. When the call came late on a Saturday night, I suddenly remembered. I ran screaming around …