Fact and Fiction

Continuing with the revisit of my Fact and Fiction story (see Part 1 here)… Life Happened I had what I would call a normal, happy childhood,…

  Over on Inspired by Life and Fiction, the authors have been posting “Ten Things You Might Not Know About Me“. We’ve had so much…

It’s difficult for me to know what to blog about the next two years (2005 & 2006). It was a time of personal grief and…

Pausing for a moment in the narrative of my writing journey, I thought I would talk about closed doors and open windows. I can’t recall…

Publishing is a bumpy business. I suppose some authors have careers where they somehow avoid rejection or cruel reviews or canceled contracts or an absence…

When I first felt God calling me to write a story about alcoholism in a marriage, I confess that my initial response was, “Lord, I…

Like everyone else in the world, writers go through all sorts of things in life. Good things: Falling in love. Marriage. Birth of a child….

Looking at the Ribbon of Years cover in my Life is Hard but God is Good post of earlier today, I was reminded of something…

We all have them, right? Years that seem to have more than their fair share of hardship. I think 2002 would qualify as one of…

Published novelists in the CBA often get asked about the list of things that a writer can’t put into their books. There seems to be…

2000. Wow! Remember how we were all wondering if Y2K would crash the banking systems around the world? Now that seems like such an innocent…

The year of 1999 was an eventful one. It saw my first two books published in the CBA market (The Forgiving Hour in February and…

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to…

Okay, the last time we met, I had arrived at July 1998 and the RWA annual conference. Now I’ll give you a glimpse of what…

We’ve arrived at 1998. By this time, I’d been writing for 17 years. I’d had 25 historical romances released from three ABA publishers, with two…

Around 2:00 a.m. the next morning, after agreeing to the three book contract from Publisher #5, I woke up in a cold sweat. If I’d…

I told you in my last post how I prayed that God would show me exactly what I was supposed to write and for whom….

Well, I have covered 16 years of my writing life in fewer than 30 posts, and we are now up to 1997. My last post…