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...

ONE WEEK from today, April 15, two novels will release from WaterBrook Multnomah. The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn is set in 18th century western North Carolina. A Broken Kind of Beautiful is set in the South Carolina of today. At a glance, these two novels would seem...

If you live in the United States, you might recall that the original colonies to form a union during the 1770s, ultimately becoming our first states, numbered thirteen. You may also recall that the 14th state added to the union was Vermont (March 4, 1791). But did you...

Only one more month until April 15th! Here's a peek at the "new" back cover for The Pursuit of Tamsen Littejohn. A few of you have seen the "old" back cover, if you have an Advance Reader Copy. Can you spot the biggest change?  Click on the image for a larger...

I've never been a girly girl. When I was little my idea of fun was crawling under our giant forsythia bushes with a knife from my mom's kitchen drawer and sawing off boughs to peel and make my own bow and arrows for target shooting. That's more or less still how I...