I’m thrilled to welcome Carla Olson Gade as my guest this week! Carla is one of the first writers I met online when I started blogging a few years ago. She warmly welcomed me to the community, and I’ve loved watching her career grow. She has a great love for history, so of course I had to ask her to…
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Top 5 Signs You’re a Word Nerd
For years, I denied the truth. But no longer. I’m a word nerd and proud of it. I realize this shouldn’t be a surprise since I write books and everything. But it took me a while to accept and embrace the brain God gave me. Here are some signs that you, too, may be a word nerd… 5) You work on the…
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Meet and Greet With Author Julie Lessman
I’m so excited to welcome author Julie Lessman here today! If you’ve ever met Julie in person or online, you know a party follows her wherever she goes. So it’s no surprise that her books are filled with emotion and passion. Her unique brand of fun splashes into the interview below! American Christian Fiction Writers 2009 Debut Author of the Year…
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Meet and Greet with Author Anne Mateer
I’m thrilled to welcome Anne Mateer today! Her book, At Every Turn, recently released with Bethany House Publishers, and its premise grabbed me right away. I loved the concept of a girl in the early 1900s who has a need for speed and ends up in auto races, and the book didn’t disappoint. Anne Mateer has a long-held passion for…
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Do you trust me? No, really…Do you TRUST me?
I heard the whisper on an ordinary morning. I was standing at the kitchen sink, rinsing dishes and listening to my daughter’s chatter. And yet, somehow it wasn’t an ordinary morning. I’d been grappling with doubts and questions, wondering what the next day would hold. The next month. The next year. I felt myself wrestling with God, claiming the feelings…
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Meet and Greet with Author Rachael Phillips
I’m so excited to welcome Rachael Phillips as my blog guest today! Rachael and I share the bond of belonging to the the same agency. I got to know her and her witty humor over cheesecake at an agency reception…Nothing like laughing off the calories, right? 🙂 Rachael Phillips (www.rachaelwrites.com), an ex-choir director, began her unplanned writing career when the church secretary…
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