Fire. I live in Colorado Springs. It’s a gorgeous setting and every day the view outside my door of the Front Range of the Rockies leaves me breathless. If you’ve kept up with recent news anywhere in the U.S. you’ve no doubt heard that a major fire broke out last week in an area called [...]
Two people at church last Sunday marched up to me after worship and said, “It’s all your fault.” Separately. My goodness. My typical response is to grimace and say, “I know. Everything is usually my fault.” What did I do this time? “I stayed up until 1:00 in the morning reading your new book. I [...]
Ack. I just had new author photos taken. I haven’t seen them yet even in the raw, but I am putting a lot of faith in the photographer’s Photoshop skills for the final product. When they’re ready, I’ll have to let you see at least one of them. After all, that was the point. (And [...]
Most years I have a love-hate relationship with my yard. A couple of weeks ago a friend dropped by my house to pick up something. We stood in my front yard chatting. She noticed some things that were growing well, and I countered by pointing out one flower bed that was empty—despite the fact that [...]
This is the big day! All week I’ve been giving away copies of my books to celebrate my latest release, In Plain View. Today, to wrap up this celebration week, the winner of the drawing will receive four books. Two books in the Valley of Choice series: • Accidentally Amish • In Plain View And [...]
Every day this week I am giving away a different book, all to celebrate Saturday’s official release of In Plain View. Since this is Day 4 of my celebration week, I am giving away my fourth novel–In Plain View, the second book in the Valley of Choice series. This is the book that all the [...]
This is Day 3 of a week-long celebration of the release of In Plain View. The winner of Day 1 was Kat Apel. The winner of Day 2 was amyc in the comments. Today’s featured giveaway is The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow, which is book 2 in the Avenue of Dreams series. Each day I’m [...]
I’m continuing my week of celebrating the June 1 release of In Plain View by giving away a book every day. This is the second day of celebration week, so I’m giving away a copy of my second novel–which also happens to be the first book in the Valley of Choice series that In Plain [...]
Saturday, June 1 is the official release day of In Plain View, the sequel to Accidentally Amish. This is my fourth novel, so to celebrate I’m going to give away books on the blog all week. Here’s the schedule: Monday: My first book, The Pursuit of Lucy Banning Tuesday: My second book, Accidentally Amish Wednesday: [...]
What makes a picture a favorite? Sometimes it’s startling vibrancy of color. Sometimes it’s tender sentiment. Sometimes it’s the response it evokes, from laughter to sadness to awe. And sometimes it’s the story it tells. The picture I am using here is somebody in my extended family on a very proud day. At this time [...]
