This is the question my infamous critiquer keeps asking me. Last Friday I turned in my third round of edits on my first sixty-three pages. Why is this character doing this? And why that? Why is she thinking this? And why that? What is she feeling? And why? With each successive round of edits I’m [...]

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We’ve just wrapped up our fourth annual Author Crush Month! Wow. Every year I get so nervous sending out those email requests. I have to work up my courage to press “send.”  And every year I’m thrilled when an author I admire says, “Yes.” The personal contact is fun—authors are real people! And the email [...]

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This year my book club read Healing Stones by Nancy Rue and Stephen Arterburn and then we all went out and read the other books in the series on our own! This is a deep, well-crafted series and I highly recommend it. What really impressed me about these books was how the authors were able [...]

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