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I Disagree With You So I Must Hate You

(Wherein, I use the word penis and vagina. Sorry if this makes you uncomfortable.)

Please hear me. I’m not writing this post to force myopinion or get into a debate abouttransgender issues.

That’s not what this is about.

The whole transgender/bathroom thing is simply—if I may be cliché—the proverbial straw that broke this camel’s back.

The strawcame in the form of an article.

I must confess, I haven’t actually read the article.

So I guess it’s not the article itself that had my camel-back bre...

Me Before You: One Reader’s Opinion

SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!

It’s 5:30 in the morning right now. On a Saturday. And thanks to the little dude in the next room who woke me up to inform me that he’d gotten sick all over his bed, I’m awake.

I’m awake and I can’t fall back to sleep.

I can’t fall back to sleep because I keep thinking about this book I finished listening to last night.

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes.

I didn’t like it.

I know. I know. I’m in the total minority. People LOVE this book. I mean, as I sit...

2016: QUIET

2015 was a LOUD year, y’all.

Not only did I have four novels and two novellas release, we went through the ginormous transition of bringing our daughter into our family, and that’s not counting the months beforehand that were filled with horrendous waiting and nail-biting anticipation. Then suddenly, when we didn’t think it possible, she was here, with us.

For anyone who has adopted a traumatized child, you understand well that this transition isn’t just “adding another family member” to the...

The Year in Review

Atthe beginning of 2015, I marked off these words in my Bible and held them close to my heart. Then the year commenced, and a wild ride it has been.

Fair warning: excessive use of exclamation points ahead. Proceed with caution.

The Art of Losing Yourself becamea RTTop Pick!

After a long, hard, rubble-strewn road, we welcomedour daughter home.

Myfourth novel released!

We had to say a very sad goodbye to our Bubba Bear.

We celebrated my daughter’s third birthday on the earth, first birth...

Read More, Love More, Win More

Share. Support. Win.

Raise your hand if you love to read.

Keep that hand up if you love to read WHILE supporting awesome organizations.

Keep that hand up if you love to read WHILE supporting awesome organizations WHILE entering to win a $25 gift card to Amazon or iBooks (winner’s choice).

Well, then. If your hand is up in the air, I hope you will help me spread the word!

Here’s the deal.

On Thursday, December 10th and Friday, December 11th, all proceeds from sales pertaining to The Gifting T...

Read More & Love More (A Giveaway)

Share. Support. Win.

Raise your hand if you love to read.

Keep that hand up if you love to read WHILE supporting awesome organizations.

Keep that hand up if you love to read WHILE supporting awesome organizations WHILE entering to win a $25 gift card to Amazon or iBooks (winner’s choice).

Well, then. If your hand is up in the air, I hope you will help me spread the word!

Here’s the deal.

On Thursday, December 10th and Friday, December 11th, all proceeds from sales pertaining to The Gifting T...

A Merry Christmas Giveaway

It’s my favorite time of year: advent season. A time of reflection. A time of expectancy. A time to celebrate the birth of hope. And also …

A time to give gifts!

Here’s the first of TWOgifts I’ll be giving awayto my amazing readers this month. (Stay tuned for gift number two, which will accompanysomething I’m REALLY passionate about.)

As for now, let’s focus on gift number one, shall we? Which is …

All four of my full-length Katie Ganshert novels. And I’m notjust giving away one set. Butthre...

A Christmas Gift Special

I’ve had some readers asking about a box set to give as Christmas gifts this year! While these won’t come in a box, they WILL come autographed and tied with a pretty bow.

A $40 value for only $25 – the perfect gift for the avid readers in your life!Teens are loving the series, and so are the adults. Ladies, and the dudes. It’s all inclusive over here.

I’ll take orders until Monday, November 15th. I want to give myself enough cushion to get the books ordered, signed, and off in the mail durin...

Release Day Giveaway

You guys. Two firsts happened for me today!

One. I have an Amish novella out in the world. An Amish novella, y’all.

I’ve written all my life. Actually, not really.It feels like I’ve written all my life. As soon as I figured out how to string words together on a page, I wrote, wrote, wrote. Stories I rarely finished, but would read out loud to my parents and my Aunt Peggy. Bless their hearts for listening.

Never in all my life, though, did I consider makingone of those stories an Amish story.

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Guest Post and Give Away

It’s an honor to have debut author, J.C. Morrows on the blog today, sharing a bit of wisdom. Check out her new book at the bottom and make sure to enter the giveaway – a signed copy of AReluctant Assassin,as well as a signed copy of my YA debut, The Gifting.

Words of wisdom … from a novice who has learned some things the hard way.

Don’t judge yourself by anyone else. Don’t even judge yourself by who you used to be.

Far too many people look at this person or that person; the NY Times best-sel...