Susan May Warren invited me to join her newly launched Book Therapy. I’m honored to do so! Can you make your characters come to life? How do you fix a saggy plot? What are your writing strengths, and how can you play to them? What makes a scene sing with life? How do you keep a reader hooked? Want to …
Personal Stock
We have personal stock. Like a company. Like the Stock Market. The Dow-Jones, the SNP. Stock is our value as we see ourselves and as others see us. In a sense, privately verse publicly held stock. How we view ourselves is paramount to how we will survive this world. Our personal stock must be strong, solid and built on a …
Off the Record by Elizabeth White
Off the Record by Elizabeth White Ambition on a collision course with a secret from the past… Judge Laurel Kincade, a rising political star, is announcing her candidacy for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Her aristocratic Old South family, led by her judge grandfather, beam as she takes the podium. Then her eyes light on a reporter in …
A lovely memory
My sister posted some recent summer memories about our dad. Here are the pictures of her two oldest at the beach with Dad.
Update on Me Life
Okay, boring, but here’s an update on my life since the last time I posted. Riveting reading, trust me. Friday after Fire Dweller, we met a few people at Friday’s for David White (my gee-tar player, worship leader in his own right) birthday. It was late. People we’re well into their drinking at the bar. Around 11:30, some dude thought …
Deeper In God
“You don’t grow in the deep things of God on the run. It’s over time. Waiting and basking.” – Mike Bickle
God Is Love
We get confused today. We think God is angry, mean, mad, sad, tyrannical, evil, cruel, distant and cold. If we didn’t, we’d beg Him to be a part of our lives, our society. Yet, John, one of his closest friends and disciples, wrote: “The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.“ People believe the …
Thirty Years Ago
The spring and summer of ’77, I was sixteen. Two
Diva NashVegas give away and a great new music home page
CCM Magazine has come up with a great new cyber hang out: ChristianMusicPlanet.com. They are giving away copies of Diva NashVegas. Stop over there to win! And check out music news from your favorite Christian artists. Novelreviews, a top review site, says, “Diva NashVegas is a well-written dual first person point of view novel that made me laugh, tear up, …
What I’ve Been Reading
Here’s my personal summer reading update: Christine Lynxwiler’s Promise Me Always. Wonderful, fun read. Leaves you with a feel good feeling. Chris has some great laugh out loud lines. She’s a fun, solid author and story teller. Not to mention, ACFW Book of The Year finalist! Siri Mitchell’s Moon Over Tokyo. Siri writes honest characters in a great settings. Her …