Thanks to everyone who stopped by during the Scavenger Hunt, read about some of the research behind my new release, Mountain Laurel, and entered my drawing. The prizes were two sets of all seven of my published 18th century historical novels, and three hardback copies...

  Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #2 If you've just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! • The hunt BEGINS on 10/15 at...

Save the Date! It's almost time for the Fall Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt (Oct 15 noon - October 18 midnight MST). If you've participated in this event before then you know it's a fun way to discover new authors, new great fiction reads, and win awesome bookish...

Dear Readers, There are two things I've been waiting to share with you today as Mountain Laurel becomes available via booksellers. A Pinterest Board and a Book Club Kit! I've created Novel Boards for all my books, but this one has long been in the works. I do my best...

Happy Friday! Here's a little something for readers awaiting Mountain Laurel's September 1 release. A nice big chunk of Bonus Content, in the form of a prelude, or mini-prequel. Whatever you want to call it, it's yours for the reading, compliments of me and my...

Not Mountain Laurel, that's still a Month, a Week, and a Day away (but doesn't that sound soon, the way time's flying?). If that doesn't sound soon enough, good news! I have something special to share with you, if you are one of my Frontier Faith & Fiction...

Dear Readers, It's time for a sneak peek of my upcoming release, Mountain Laurel. Are you ready for this? Then visit the link below (with many thanks to Tyndale House Publishers for providing the pdf file!):   Mountain Laurel sneak peek   Available for...

Are back covers of books worth getting excited about? If you are the author, and it took you four years to write the book, another two to edit it, and ten more for it to find a publishing home, I'd say the answer is YES. I just saw it for the first time this morning...

So here we all are in the midst of sheltering at home, social distancing from each other, and for some full on quarantine. Some cities, states, provinces and countries are locked down. Across the planet so much of our lives have come to a standstill while we wait out...

Last week I took a day off from writing and went on a road trip with my camera, my first such outing since before Christmas. I spent sunrise on the southern Oregon coast then headed south into northern California. My goal was another beach about an hour and half away,...