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July 20, 2015
Don’t Annoy the Novelist
Want to know why? Or, if you’re a fiction writer, do you find ways to release real-life frustration in your stories? Pop by James Callan’s The Author’s Blog to read my guest post and leave a comment. One commenter will win a copy ofSecrets and Lies.
Link: Don’t Annoy the Novelist.
July 17, 2015
New Title for Redemption’s Edge 3
Thank you to everyone whogave input on the title choices and summary blurb for Redemption’s Edge #3. I’ve closed the poll, and the final results in the title vote are as follows:
Thank you to Polldaddy, my poll host.
And the title I’ve chosen is (insert drumroll here)
Without ProofConfession time: I did not see this coming. I actually prepared this post to announceDangerous Questionsas the one I thought best fit the novel. Until I did a little chart that I can’t show you, listing five plot t...
July 15, 2015
Waiting as Worship
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14, NIV*
Waiting. It’s a challenge. We who hope in God wait for Him to act, to speak, to comfort.
There’s an element of strain in that. “When, Lord? How long?”
When we give in to that strain, we miss part of the waiting. We miss simply waiting for (or with) God. Being with Him, even when we can’t sense His presence. He’s with us – He promised, and we can depend on that, whatever we feel.
His timing won’t speed up if...
July 13, 2015
Review: Desperate Measures, by Sandra Orchard
Desperate Measures, by Sandra Orchard (Revell, 2015)
If you haven’t read the first two novels in the Port Aster Secrets series, don’t read this review or you’ll find spoilers for those stories. Desperate Measures concludes the over-arching plot threads about the drug company that has been after Kate because of her father. It also completes the romance between Kate Adams and Detective Tom Parker.
Desperate Measures picks up where Blind Trust left off. Kate is angry with Tom about the choices h...
July 10, 2015
Help Me Choose a Title?
My working title for Redemption’s Edge #3wasNo Safe Place, but early feedback said it sounded like a chase novel or a witness protection story. Since it’s neither, I’ve done a Marvin the Martian and gone “back to the old drawing board.”
I’ve considered over 50 titles so far, some downright horrible, lots in the middle, and some I really liked that were already over-used.
Below are my top 5 for your input, but first, here’s my latest draft of the back cover blurb to give some context. I’ve str...
July 8, 2015
When We Get into Trouble
“Didn’t I see you out there in the olive grove with Jesus?”
Again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.
John 18:26b-27, NLT*
Peter loved Jesus. I’m sure he wholeheartedly meant his earlier vow that he’d never deny his Lord. (Matthew 26:31-35)
Yet here he was, doing that very thing. Matthew’s account says Peter’s denial was so intense it involved cursing. And that when the rooster crowed and he realized what he’d done, he fled, “weeping bitterly.” (Matthew 26:69-75)
Why did he d...
July 6, 2015
Review: Recipe for Murder, by Lisa Harris
Recipe For Murder (Cozy Crumb Mystery Series Book 1), by Lisa Harris (Lisa Harris, 2013)
When retired cooking instructor Pricilla Crumb steps in as chef at her son’s hunting lodge, she’s hoping to spend time with him and perhaps work herself into a job. Truth told, she also has matchmaking on her mind, having invited her friend Max and his single, charming daughter.
What she’s not expecting is murder.
When one of the guests dies, Pricilla involves herself in the investigation. Max appoints hi...
July 3, 2015
Our Part in the Whole
Some of us like teamwork, and others prefer to work alone. As an introvert – and a writer – I’m used to solitary efforts. Even there, it’s good to know I’m connected to friends and co-labourers. We need one another, for support, encouragement, and perspective.
I took this photo when my husband and I were in Saint John, NB, in May. These volunteers worked together to repaint the city’s Marigolds Mural and turn it backinto a feast of colours for locals and tourists to enjoy.
Nobody’d want to d...
July 1, 2015
Take Heart
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.
John 16:33, NLT*
If we look around, there is plenty to discourage us. Although MacLean’sshares the encouragement that “humans have never been better off” (Scott Gilmore: Believe it or not, this is the best time to be alive), people still suffer. And many of us live in cultures that are increasingly open about their godlessness. It...
June 29, 2015
Review: Burning Justice, by Helena Smrcek
Burning Justice, by Helena Smrcek (EverWind Press, 2015)
Nora Martin’s dream is to establish the Beacon of Hope residence as an alternative to prison or forced military service for young men who’ve been arrested. She has the government approval and the funding, but suddenly she may not have the farmhouse she leased from a church in rural Indiana.
The church assumed care of the property when its owner died. How could they have forgotten to notify the man’s heir? What else have the locals “forg...
