Rel Mollet, of Relz Reviews, has a huge giveaway of all the novels nominated for a Christy Award this year, in all the categories, running through the month of June, starting tomorrow, the 4th. If you enjoy reading Christian fiction, you won't want to miss out on...

Is That What You’re Wearing? To Tamsen, the heroine of The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, clothing is an unabashed joy—usually. But at the start of her story, she feels a prisoner in the beautiful gown she’s forced to don to win a wealthy husband—and a life she doesn’t...

Hiking the Rogue River, Oregon (yep, that's me) The Untamed God: Embracing The Adventure of Faith “Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” —...

I shared on Facebook* earlier this week that Burning Sky won the Grace Award** in the Action-Adventure/Western/Historic Epic category. And I can't say enough how much I love it that Burning Sky was included in that awesome category. Action Adventure, History, Epic...

Inspired by author Rebecca DeMarino's Facebook photo of her very messy (but no doubt productive) desk, I present to you what happens when even a neat freak author is smack in the middle of writing her current work in progress. Under the book and notebook are layer...

Authors of historical fiction can be prone to over-sharing in their novels, when it comes to research. I totally resemble understand this. Would we be writing historical fiction if we didn't, to some degree, find history in all its sweeping events and day-to-day...

Looking Ahead to What's Next   (That view of the Adirondacks is your first clue) Can you believe summer is almost here? This year is flying by. Before it gets any older, the time has come to share with you a little about what I've been busy working on for......

... so let's celebrate!  My publisher, WaterBrook Press, has offered to give away two copies of Burning Sky, my debut novel that just made the short list in the Debut Fiction category for the 2014 Inspy Award, the Blogger's Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven...

I just found an Advance Reading Copy of The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn I didn't know I still had. This is a bound copy of the book, typeset like the final, with a very slightly different cover than the final version, the text lacking only its last proofread...

Here it is at last, the release day for The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn. I hope you enjoy the adventure along with Tamsen, Jesse, and Cade.  If you'd like to know a little more about what went into writing this story (and have a few chances to enter a drawing...