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The Books Authors Read | Andrea Boeshaar (with a giveaway)

Andrea Boeshaar is the cofounder of American Christian Fiction Writers and runs “The Writer’s ER,” a coaching service for writers. She is the author of thirty published works, including Threads of Faith, a finalist in the Inspirational Readers Choice Awards. Andrea is also the author of a popular devotional and regularly blogs on a number of sites.

What was your favorite book as a child?

It’s a tie, I think, between “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott and “Little House in the Big Woods” by L...

Authors Who Inspire | Allie Pleiter (with a giveaway)

An avid knitter, coffee junkie, and devoted chocoholic, Allie Pleiter writes both fiction and non-fiction. The enthusiastic but slightly untidy mother of two, Allie spends her days writing books, buying yarn, and finding new ways to avoid housework. Allie hails from Connecticut, moved to the midwest to attend Northwestern University, and currently lives outside Chicago, Illinois. The “dare from a friend” to begin writing has produced two parenting books, fourteen novels, and various national...

November Wrap-up

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas season to one and all. I love this time of year. But before I bust out the holly, let’s do my November Wrap-up.

Bible Reading:

On my “through the Bible” schedule for November were the books of (in full or in part) John, Acts, Romans, 1st Corinthians, and 2nd Corinthians. Our church spent November in Exodus.

As for the BSF study of Revelation, it continues to beamazing.

Books Read:

I completed reading three books in November, two fiction and one non-ficti...

The Books Authors Read | William Kritlow (with a giveaway)

WilliamKritlow:“I’m a sinner saved by grace. I wear that label not with pride, but with incredible humility. God pulled me out of the alcoholic home I lived in for nineteen years until I went into the army—I spent 1965 in Vietnam. But before that, at age nine, at a Baptist Camp my grandmother paid my way into, I had what I can remember as a salvation experience. But my folks weren’t Christians, so I didn’t grow in the Lord until after I was divorced and had terribly disrupted the lives of two...

Happy Thanksgiving to All of My Readers

There are many reasons we can be troubled in this chaotic, fallen world we live in,but there are so many more reasons to be thankful.

You, dear readers, are one of those reasons for me.

Thank you for giving me and my books some of your precious time. Thank you for joining me here on my blog (and on Facebook and other social media) where we can share laughter and the love of books with one another—not to mention pet pictures! Thank you for the faith you have exhibited to me, in ways both pr...

The Books Authors Read | Melanie Dickerson (with a giveaway)

Historical romance author Melanie Dickerson earned her bachelor’s degree in special education from the University of Alabama and has taught students with special needs in Georgia and Tennessee. She has also taught English in Germany and Ukraine. Dickerson has won numerous awards, including the 2012 Carol Award in young adult fiction and the 2010 National Readers’ Choice Award for best first book. Her novels The Healer’s Apprentice and The Merchant’s Daughter were both Christy Award finalists....

The Books Authors Read | James L Rubart (with a giveaway)

James L. Rubart has a B.A. in broadcast journalism, and for more than 20 years he has also owned and operated his own marketing company. Ever since he was a little boy, Rubart dreamed of writing novels but didn’t begin his journey as an author until 2002. Since then, he has become a bestselling and Christy award-winning authorof seven novels, including Rooms, Soul’s Gate and his most recent, The Five Times I Met Myself. Rubart is also a professional speaker.

Rubart says he feels like a 28-yea...

The (Christmas) Books Authors Read | Cynthia Ruchti

Drawing from 33 years of on-air radio ministry, Cynthia Ruchti tells stories of “hope-that-glows-in-the-dark” through her novels and novellas, nonfiction books and devotionals, and speaking for women’s and writers’ events. Her books have been recognized by Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards, Selah Awards, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, Christian Retailing’s BEST Awards, and Carol Award nominations, among other honors, including a Family Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. She and her p...

October Wrap-Up

November already? The end of Daylight Savings Time for another year? Areyou ready for winter? It is on its way!!

Prawny / Dollar Photo Club Bible Reading:

For October, my morning Bible reading included, in whole or in part, the books of Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. I always love my times in the Gospels. Someone recently mentioned that she took one of the Gospels and wrote outonly the words of Jesus. No narrative. No words by others. She did this s...

For the Fun of It

BillionPhotos.com / Dollar Photo Club

Registration for Spring 2016 college classes is fast approaching, so I spent last Friday morning, combing through the catalog, trying to decide what to take next term. Possibly take, I should say, since I’ve learned that a listing in the catalog doesn’t always mean a courseis offered in a particular term.

I will still be enrolled in the College Math Prep class. What should I mix with it?Should I take Ethics (a class that willfulfill two requirements in o...