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Book Anniversary for Jayne’s Endeavour

One thing I love about starting a blog, is that I can post whenever and whatever I like! And today, I just want to drop a quick line telling you about another friend’s book anniversary and some fun things she’s doing over on her blog!

I met Lauren not quite a year ago at King’s Daughters Writing Camp, which is another (LONG) and really good story . . . Lauren had just published her debut novel at the time, an Australian historical fiction adventure which I had the chance to review last Au...

Light is Dawning

Five years ago, I think I would have said the light was dawning.

It had been a hard five years previous—perhaps the hardest I’d ever known. For almost the entirety of it, I had been sicker than I’d ever been before in my life, and for a good three-and-a-half years, I’d been without a church also.

There had been good things—things I still feel had a major impact on my future life—but it was hard to see them at the time.

Now, with a new house, a new city, new access to dozens of churc...

Surrender’s Strength Cover Reveal!

I’m very excited to be part of the cover reveal for Erika Mathews’ new book, Surrender’s Strength (Truth from Taerna Book Three)!!

As a beta-reader for this project, I’m currently enjoying the opportunity to read the book early and I’m eager to see where the story is going to take me! Both of the previous books in the series have changed my life and outlook in so many ways, and I’m looking forward to learning new lessons and beautiful truths this time around! This book might just be the b...

Hold Onto the View

When I was a kid, one of the earliest CD’s I remember owning was a “Best of Buddy Davis” album that was hugely popular with me and my siblings. I can’t count how many times we listened to it over the years—but after a while it kind of got laid aside and it wasn’t until the past year that I remembered that old CD and got the chance to listen to it with adult ears.

At that time I downloaded it to my laptop and listened to a few of my favourites for a while, and then I kind of forgot about i...

Anne of Green Gables Challenge

My sisters and I are readers. More importantly, we’re students of fiction. We love to spend hours discussing why our favourite stories work and what makes them stand out from all the other stories we’ve read. I actually consider these conversations one of the greatest assets to my own writing.

Last night, two of us were talking about the beloved Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables, and what makes it better than so many other stories with a basically similar storyline. The answer—it has...