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I’ve been absent from my blog a lot lately. At least when it comes towritingsomethingpersonal. Mostly I’ve shared about other authors and their books. Which I really enjoy doing. Still, Ilike to share thoughts with you, my readers. So I’m poking my head up to say hello.

I’m trying to wrestle another book to the ground, and my deadline is fast approaching. Fast!!Since the heroine of this book is also a writer, she’s got a deadline barreling toward her as well. To say I sympathiz...

The Books Authors Read | Amber Stockton

Amber Stockton is an award‑winning author, a national speaker, and a direct‑sales brand partner with Nerium International. She lives with her husband and fellow author, Stuart Vaughn Stockton, in Colorado. They have a daughter and a son, and an Aussie/retriever mix named Roxie.

Three of her novels have won annual reader’s choice awards. Find out why readers love her by visiting her website AmberStockton.com.

What was your favorite book as a child?

You mean I have to pick just one? That’s not pos...

The Books Authors Read | Deborah Raney

Deborah Raney accomplished something very few authors are able to do with their first book. Her debut novel, A Vow to Cherish (originally published in 1996), inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched her writing career after 20 happy years as a stay-at-home mom. Since then, her books have won numerous awards including the RITA, National Readers Choice Award, HOLT Medallion and the Carol Award, and have twice been Christy Award finalists.

Raney’s newest novel,Home to...

Book Review: Beautiful Nate by Dennis Mansfield

Title: Beautiful Nate
Author: Dennis Mansfield
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: Mar 5 2013
Pages: 256

A father tells the story of his efforts to be a good parent according to the rules of conservative Christian experts, and how his son went astray anyway and died at the age of twenty seven of drug-related causes.

I read Beautiful Nate because I attend the same church as the author and I have met him.

Most readers of mine know...

Christian Fiction Wednesday 08-13-14

I know many authors of Christian fiction, and while I don’t have time to keep up with reading all of their books, I love to tell readers about them. Look for my posts about new and recent releases on most Wednesdays. You might find a new-to-you author or see a new release by an already favorite author. Happy reading!

~robin

HERB OF GRACE
by Adina Senft

Amish widow Sarah Yoder has been struggling to raise her two teenaged sons and provide a home where family and members of her Old Order Amish chur...

Christian Fiction Wednesday 08-06-14

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I know many authors of Christian fiction, and while I don’t have time to keep up with reading all of their books, I love to tell readers about them. Look for my posts about new and recent releases on most Wednesdays. You might find a new-to-you author or see a new release by an already favorite author. Happy reading!

~robin

SONG OF THE PRAIRIE
by Vickie McDonough

Janie Dunn’s dream of being an opera singer suddenly fades when, at her dying cousin’s request, she flees Boston with her cousin’s new...

The Books Authors Read | Sarah Sundin

Sarah Sundin is the author of The Wings of the Nightingale series and Wings of Glory series. In 2011, A Memory Between Us was a finalist in the Inspirational Reader’s Choice Awards, and Sundin received the Writer of the Year Award at the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. On Distant Shores was a finalist for the Golden Scroll Award from both the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA) and the Christian Authors Network (CAN). She belongs to American Christian Fiction Writers,...

July Wrap Up

I’m a day late with my monthly wrap up post, but I admit that I am on overload this summer. Having a hard time getting everything done that needs done. So let’s just jump right into the recap of my July.

Books:

I finished reading three novels in July, one general market mystery and two Christian market contemporary romances.

The mystery was the third book in the Chet and Bernie Mystery series. I really enjoy these books, told in the point of view of the detective’s dog, with the caveat that ther...

It’s Rarely Ever Easy

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People have a numberof misconceptions about what it means to be a writer.

One is that novelistsmake a lot of money. Like Stephen King or Nora Roberts. But I just heard that only 1% are able to support themselves from their published works. Most are supported by someone else or hold down some other kind of job.

Another is that writersjust wait for the muse to strike and then the words flow like a river over a waterfall. Ha ha ha.

There are others, but I’ll stop at two....

The Books Authors Read | Kristy Cambron

Kristy Cambron has been fascinated with the WWII Era since hearing her grandfather’s stories of his experiences as a B-17 co-pilot in the war. She writes WWII and Regency Era Christian fiction titles, which placed first in the 2013 NTRWA Great Expectations & 2012 FCRW Beacon contests, and finaled in the 2013 Lauries. THE BUTTERFLY AND THE VIOLIN, Book One in the Hidden Masterpiece series on the prisoner camp art of the Holocaust, released from Thomas Nelson Publishers July 15, 2014. A SPARROW...