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When I am Publishing a Book {Cover + Title Reveal, Plus a Giveaway!}

I have been hard at work -- writing!  As I blogged about not very long ago, I wrote a novel (whoa).  And now I'm both getting that book ready for publication, and writing another novel. 

I know.  It's insane.  And it's so. much. fun.

And --

now it's time to share some juicy details about my soon-to-be-available book!

The Light Between Us is a luscious romance in the new adult genre, slated to release in mid-June 2014.  

The back-of-book blurb :

For twenty-something Boston school...

Owning My Awesome: 4 Key Tools for Writing a Novel in a Month

I blame my father-in-law.

He's the one who put the idea in my head, you see.  A screenplay and fiction writer (check out his stories here), one night as we gathered at his and my mother-in-law's house for dinner, he mentioned romance novels.

He knew a lady, he said, that was a good writer trying to self-publish her work, but no one was buying.  Then she'd heard how lucrative the romance fiction market was so, after doing a bit of research, she churned out a few romance novels of her own. ...

Unbelieving Easter: When Good Friday Comes Alive

Easter is two days away.  It is my favorite holiday.

At least, that's what I would have said with ease six months, a year ago.  

Now, I'm not so sure.  I've distanced myself from the things of religion that, when I hear them or read them or taste them, shut me down faster than you can say "He is risen indeed."

The many problematic and conflicting Bible passages . . . being encouraged to believe in an abusive and terrifyingly mercurial version of god that is not very unlike the an...

When We are Awakening

Big news -- I am so thrilled to be a part of the Sprout Online Magazine team!  I'll be contributing new pieces every month to the pages of this incredibly luscious publication.  And even bigger news, friend and Sprout creator Amanda interviewed me for this month's Thrive interview.  Yay!
   
This month, Sprout is all about awakening.  As I feel that the past months of my life have been all about awakening, rebirthing, opening my eyes to the sun at last, this issue...

When World Vision Stands Up -- and Love is Knocked Down

photo by Jennuine Captures
I know, I know. The last thing the internet needs is another post on the World Vision debacle, right? But I have to speak up, because so many won't, saying it doesn't affect them, and because so many others are spewing words of poison and bigotry.

Here's what happened, if you haven't heard. In a nutshell: World Vision (Christian organization for the sponsorship of children living in poverty) announced that would be employing gay people, and gay marrieds. The evangeli...

Everyday Acts of Courage

I used to rely on circumstance, on arranging it all just so.  The creative process relied on so many things: that table in that one particular cafe that is yours, the one that you must have . . . that certain drink . . . the just-right assemblage of shirt and shoes and bottoms and tops . . . and, most important of all, the perfect state of mind.  Perhaps you know the one?  You transform into being of purest inspiration, of dancing between worlds, where your mind soars but your...

A Creative Kindred Conversation at {e} everyday art

If you know Erica of {e} everyday art, you know what a delight she is.  And if you haven't met her yet, I hope you will trek over to her internet home posthaste and get acquainted, because she is luminous.  A woman who is crazy creative in her own right, Erica is also one of the most gifted encouragers that I have ever met.  I'm serious, people.  She is on a mission to ignite the creativity that dwells within all of us, no matter how long it may have lain dormant. 

Sh...

Redemption Stories

Soul at Sea (prints available here)I didn't know that stillbirth still happened in the western world until it happened to me.  Thirty-one weeks of pregnancy and all the evidence I had for my daughter's life were a few precious items and the yawning ache in my soul that still throbs, two and more years later now. 


After we returned home from the hospital, empty armed, I was brokenhearted but determined.  Determined to grieve well, to to feel it all, to let God use it.  And I...

Life Lately {3/14/2014 Edition}

Somehow it is already half way through March.  When did that happen?  Apparently, while all this was going on . . .

art journaling


I added some lovely new prints to the shop, like this one.  check them out here.
I've been writing a novel!!  what.  watch for it soon!

sunny adventures.  light is my love language.






I've been reading this. it's really good*:




What is your life lately like?  I'd love to hear about your everyday holy.   *affiliate link

The Girl I Once Was

The difference is as miraculous, as mundane as the ever-cycling day and nighttime.

She used to be so sad, so small.  And maybe she is still, but less.  Life was one big contraction, growing inward while never releasing, birthing, breathing out.  Each year was a new level of rot growing down into her being, her heart an abscess.  And she did not know.

No one that mattered had ever taught her in this fragile, formative years of her starshine, of the intrinsic value of every on...