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Please Consider Reviewing my Books To the *963 Goodreads members who entered my recent 10-book giveaway of Every Hill and Mountain thanks for participating! The giveaway ended today and here are the winners’ copies all ready to be mailed out to them. Inside each book is a personal note, asking the reader to please write [...]

The Covering by Dana Pratola

Getting It Real   The Covering is unabashedly a Christian novel with a clear salvation message, but without excessive jargon and preachiness. Ms Pratola found fresh and natural ways to present the message all wrapped up in an exciting romance. Gunnar is the perfect mysterious and dangerous hero, and Tessa’s love (and God’s) breaks through [...]

Every Hill and Mountain Blog Tour

  Visiting another century…not the summer vacation Abby had planned.  Those who have read Time and Again and Unclaimed Legacy, the first two books in the young adult time-travel trilogy, know that Abby Thomas, is a college student on a summer service project with 11-year-old Merri. And you know that the summer is not going [...]

Author Deborah Heal Releases novel set in Gallatin County Illinois

Waterloo, Illinois. March 27, 2013—Author Deborah Heal Releases novel set in Gallatin County Illinois Those who have read the author’s first two books Time and Again and Unclaimed Legacy know that Abby Thomas’ college service project is not going according to plan. For one thing, she discovers a weird computer program that lets her fast-forward and re-wind the lives [...]

Every Hill and Mountain Book Launch Party!

  Those who have read Time andAgain and Unclaimed Legacy, the first two books in my young adult time-travel trilogy, know that Abby Thomas is a college student on a summer service project with 11-year-old Merri. And you know that the summer is not going the way Abby had expected—but in a good way. For one thing, she [...]

Please Don’t Buy my Book

That is, until April 1st! No fooling. The third book in my trilogy Every Hill and Mountain is now out! Like the others, it’s a combination of history, faith, and fiction. Once again Abby and her friends are using the weird computer program called Beautiful House to “time-surf” in old houses—this time in the infamous [...]

The Education of One White Woman

Racism in Every Hill and Mountain Every Hill and Mountain is an assignment I turned in for the continuing education program I’m involved with. You know, that life-long business of becoming more sanctified. As slow as I’m learning things, I figure God may decide to keep me in school another hundred years or so before [...]

Guest Post–CrossReads March Madness

Today, I’m hosting March Madness. Just look at all the great books you can get for free or cheap. And there’s a contest too.       Welcome to March Madness! Where You Can Get Discounts, Free Books and More! March 27th-28th only For two days only, several best-selling authors have joined together to offer [...]

Every Hill and Mountain–My Personal Connection to the Story’s Setting

 A Tribute to my Roots   My characters Abby and her friends in Every Hill and Mountain are from the northern part of the state, and when their search for clues takes them to southernmost part of Illinois, they feel like they’ve arrived in a foreign country to be explored with interest.  (Or in Ryan’s case, [...]

Time Travel Trilogy Gets a New Look

Or, Why I Changed the Covers for my Books   When the first copy of Time and Again: Charlotte of Miles Station arrived in my mailbox back in 2011, all colorful and shiny, with my very own name on it, I loved it. After all, it was my first-born child, and as you well know, [...]