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February 17, 2015
A Note to Blog Post Subscribers
On the advice of my new web host, I am (reluctantly) making a change in the method blog subscribers receive my posts via email. The plugin that I have been using apparently chews up too many resources.
I’m sure there are going to be a few unexpected steps I must take or changes I must make to the way I have done things. For now, I plan to opt for the emails to go out daily, but I may change that to weekly. And, of course, there is always the potential for a glitch or two along the way. With an...
February 16, 2015
The Books Authors Read | Kellie Coates Gilbert
Kellie Coates Gilbert spent nearly twenty-five years working in courtrooms and behind the scenes of some of the largest and most well-known cases in America. Kellie was one of the lead paralegals in the Jack-in-the-Box litigation, where uncooked hamburger resulted in the deaths of several toddlers and made many more critically ill, which is now the subplot of her soon-to-be-released WHERE RIVERS PART from Baker Publishing/Revell. Her books not only explore the heart issues that matter most to...
February 13, 2015
Ever had one of those weeks?
Today is Friday the 13th. Maybe that explainsit. Hmm.
© Stuart Miles / Dollar Photo Club
I have had a rather chaotic week. After two weeks of website hassles (my own and the blog I handle for a group of writers, Inspired by Life and Fiction), I made the decision to do migrations for both of the sites. In some ways it went smoothly. In others, not so much.
On Monday, my Varidesk arrived. It’s a set up that allows me to change from sitting to standing and back again while at the computer. And as m...
February 10, 2015
Spotlight: The Trouble with Patience by Maggie Brendan
THE TROUBLE WITH PATIENCE
byMaggie Brendan
Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope in romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with the restoration of a dilapidated boardinghouse in order to support herself.
Despite Patience’s desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local marshal with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life. It seems like such a simple arrangement: She needs someone with a strong back to he...
February 9, 2015
The Books Authors Read | Terri Blackstock
Terri Blackstock is a New York Times best-seller, with over six million copies sold worldwide. She is the winner of three Carol Awards, a Christian Retailers Choice Award, and a Romantic Times Book Reviews Career Achievement Award, among others. She has had over twenty-five years of success as a novelist. Terri spent the first twelve years of her life traveling in an Air Force family. She lived in nine states and attended the first four years of school in The Netherlands. Because she was a pe...
February 6, 2015
Authors Who Inspire | Liz Tolsma
New York Times best-selling author Liz Tolsma is the author of Daisies are Forever, Snow on the Tulips, and the contributing author of A Log Cabin Christmas. When not busy putting words to paper, Liz enjoys reading, walking, working in her large perennial garden, kayaking, and camping. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and children, all adopted internationally.
To keep up with Liz Tolsma, visit liztolsma.com, become a fan on Facebook (facebook.com/liztolsma) or follow her on Twitter (@li...
February 3, 2015
Spotlight: Love On the Mend by Karen Witemeyer
LOVE ON THE MEND
by Karen Witemeyer
After serving as a doctor during the War Between the States, Jacob Sadler wants nothing more than to establish a quiet country practice in rural Texas. But he knows he’ll never find peace until he buries the pain of his past. To that end, he accepts a job in Cold Spring, Texas–the town he’s avoided for seventeen years–and discovers his past is definitely still alive and kicking.
When a new doctor arrives in town and saves her brother’s leg, Mollie Tate quickly...
Alphabet Thanks: L through Z
© Marek / Dollar Photo Club
Continuing through my alphabet of thanksgiving:
TheLove of my husband.
Music.
Notebooks for scribbling down my thoughts.
Oh! Such a simple word that can mean so many things.
Prayer.
Quick thinking (and that I can still do it).
Reading.
Spaghetti.
MyTreadmill and the ability to walk on it daily.
TheUnchangeableness of God’s purpose.
Victory in Christ.
Wishes and dreams.
X-rays.
MyYesterdays, because God has used them to make me who I am.
Zigzags, because sometimes it is fun not to...
February 2, 2015
Authors Who Inspire | Jane Kirkpatrick
Jane Kirkpatrick is the award-winning author of 27 titles, 22 novels and five non-fiction titles. She’s a former mental health clinic director and worked for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs for 17 years working with families. Her novels have won awards including the 2013 Carol Award for Best Christian Historical Novel and she’s earned national and regional honors from the Western Heritage Center, USABestBooks, Library Journal, Women Writing the West, and the Oregon book Award. She’s b...
February 1, 2015
Spotlight: Meek and Mild by Olivia Newport
MEEK AND MILD
by Olivia Newport
The leadership in an Old Order Amish community requires shunning friends and family whose only offense is to embrace the new Protestant practice of Sunday school among the Mennonites, but teaching Bible stories to children is one of Clara Kuhns’ great joys. Clara’s on the verge of saying yes to Andrew Raber’s marriage proposal, but now he is flagrantly refusing to submit to the bishop’s authority by owning a car. When the lot falls to Moses Beachy to become the n...
