13 years ago today I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. That might have made March 26th a dark day on my calendar. It didn't though. That very day I began to see the hand of God at work in the details of that journey. That very day I began to experience what...

I began writing years before I ever heard the words write what you know strung together and aimed at writers. I'm awfully glad about that. I'd likely have misunderstood it. From my very first attempt at writing fiction I immersed myself in a culture and place I'd...

I swear this writer dude, Keith Cronin, is one of the boys in my basement.* He outlines my** method of writing in his post on outlines, The Big O, at Writer Unboxed, as clearly and exactly as any writer ever has. I mean, pretty much everything he says I've done, or am...

Wisdom came as God's gift, but sacred love was forged through passion's fire. Standing in the shadow of his famous father, young King Solomon wavers between fear and bravado, longing for a love that is true and pure--a love that can be his cornerstone. A shepherdess...

I've added Relz Reviews to my top blog roll, Books & Writing Blogs, over on the side bar. This is a lively, frequently updated book review site for fiction written from a Biblical world view (i.e. Christian or Inspirational fiction). Today she's spotlighting Julie...

I've been reading the well known devotional, Streams in the Desert, this year. And as I've long been in a season of waiting for writing and book related matters, I thought today's entry was very appropriate and wanted to share some of it here. It's a timely reminder...

Another week, another chapter. Only one chapter? That sounds like such a slow pace, seeing as I spent at least four hours a day every day this week sitting here working (and more besides researching). But I had a few not so stellar writing days this week--you know...

It's the day after Valentine's Day and I'm ready to fall in love.  I've looked...    I've flirted... Throughout the pre-Civil War South, older slaves too worn out for anything else worked daily in the plantation's loom room, weaving and creating cloth...

Midway through January I began a new work in progress (WIP). I started it a few weeks earlier than I'd planned, but the first part of the WIP was vivid and nudging at me to get written, so I went ahead and did the research for that section first (focusing on Fort...

I'm endlessly fascinated with and charmed by non-USA English speakers' accents. Scottish, Irish, New Zealanders, Welsh... the list is long. Which probably explains why many of the characters I write don't sound like I do when they speak. Since my stories are set in...