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The Get Ready with Characters Tag

When I heard Katja H. Labonté was creating a blog tag to celebrate the one year anniversary of our book Springtime in Surrey, I had to get in on the fun. So let’s find out more about my story in the collection: The Cottage on the Hill.

Be sure to hop over to Katja’s blog to check out more about her Springtime in Surrey story: The Tussie-Mussie. Katja, thank you for inviting me to play along with such a fun blog tag!

Before we get to the tag, let’s check out the answers to last week’s T...

The Quote Game featuring The Cottage on the Hill

Recently, I saw a blog post that seemed like a lot of fun. Of course, it would have been even more fun had I read the book the post was about. I’ll have to try that next time!

The author of that book and blog, Alena Mentink, has graciously permitted me to play her Quote Game with my own story. Thank you, Alena! Friends, I hope you’ll visit Alena Mentink’s blog sometime. Here’s the featuring her book A Choice of Love.

Let me know if you like this game. I love hearing ...

Celebrating Moms

Happy Mother’s Day, folks! I hope you have plans to spoil your mom over the coming weekend. I’m planning on taking the day off work to do that very thing with mine.

Today, let’s take a look at the mom characters in my published or soon-to-be-published stories.

#1 Sarah Mae in Any Thing

Sarah Mae is a harried widow with five rambunctious children and a disapproving mother-in-law. She misses her husband and loves her children and wants nothing more than to raise them to have the upstan...

Editing Through the Storm

Friends, the other day, there was rain all day long. Not only that but thunderstorms came and went a couple of times. Since my laptop no longer holds a charge, I was nervous about whether or not the electricity would go out (it sometimes does in thunderstorms), because I had to edit 60 pages that day.

So I prayed and made sure my battery pack was fully charged and near at hand, in case I had to make a quick switch with my laptop’s power cord.

Thankfully, God gave me peace while I was worki...

Springtime in Surrey Bad Description Game

Let’s play a game!

Fellow Springtime in Surrey author Rachel Leitch has created bad descriptions of each novella in the collection. They are listed below in random order. There is also a title bank below so you’ll have all eight titles with which to work. The titles are given in the order in which the stories appear in the book, but this is no hint about the order of the bad descriptions. There is one description per title.

To play, leave a comment with your guesses of which bad descrip...

News & Notes April 2024

Check out all the things going on right now:

Interview, Guest Articles, and a Blog Tour & GiveawayI was a guest on Abigail Swinborne’s blog last week. I spoke about how vulnerability deepens one’s faith.I was a guest on Faith D. Cox’s blog this week. I spoke about the beautiful challenge of writing The Cottage on the Hill.I was interviewed by Abigail Swinborne on her blog this week. She asked some interesting questions, and I had a blast answering them.Celebrate Lit is hostin...

Celebrate Lit Blog Tour and Giveaway

Friends, this will be brief. I meant to add a note about this into my Monday article, but of course, I completely forgot.

Celebrate Lit is hosting a blog tour and giveaway of Springtime in Surrey April 5-18. I hope you’ll check it out.

The giveaway is of a paperback copy of Springtime in Surrey AND a $100 Amazon gift card.

All the blog stops and the giveaway are found on this page.

Reflections on Resurrection Day

I hope everyone had a happy and blessed Resurrection Day yesterday.

This time of year always has me reflecting on my Savior, Jesus Christ. Not only did He die to save us all from our sins and bridge the gap between Earth and Heaven, but He also lived the most exemplary life prior to that moment.

The thing that stood out to me the most during my reflections this weekend was that Jesus was selfless. He served others instead of Himself. He put others first in thought, word, and deed.

This ...

Writing Update March 2024

During the new 500 Words of March challenge, I have worked on a few different projects.

Melting-Pot Thanksgiving has been returned to me by beta readers, and I have done revisions. This story is being submitted to Wild Blue Wonder Press for consideration for their upcoming Novelists in November anthology. One of my favorite things about this story is the diversity of Sarah’s family. It was fun to explore a couple of cultures that were different than my own.

The outline for Merits of Grief ...

What’s Your WIP? {a bookish tag + WIF Camp Registration}

Write In Faith Camp Registration is now open. Please stay tuned after the “What’s Your WIP?” blog tag for more information.

Y’all, I don’t typically participate in blog tags, but I was tagged in this bookish one, and it seemed too fun to pass up — especially since I have FIVE works-in-progress (WIPs) right now.

I’m using my WIP Merits of Grief for this tag.

Here are the rules of the blog tag:

Thank the person who tagged you & link to their blog. (Thank you for tagging me, Ca...