Merry Christmas! It’s Fiction Friday
It’s fiction Friday on the blog! In the spirit of the season, today’s fiction comes from Mary of Nazareth’s story.
It’s fiction Friday on the blog! In the spirit of the season, today’s fiction comes from Mary of Nazareth’s story.
This month’s excerpt is from the second book in my REFLECTIONS series. A Laboring Hand tells the story I imagined for Martha and her two siblings. We know a few things about them, but much of it always made me curious. Why was Martha in charge? Why wasn’t Lazarus in charge of their family since …
Series are bread and butter for authors. Readers like me who decide to binge read a series if they love the first book make it so. Some of us enjoy writing series, too. But things can get tricky when you’re writing a series. I know this because I’ve written several trilogies in my short career. …
Plans have a way of not working out, but there won’t be any of that “planning to fail by failing to plan” in my life. Over plan? If there’s such a thing, I could be guilty of it.
The first step on forming plans is reflecting on what worked–or didn’t work–before. This post will walk you through my process for setting my goals and intentions for my writing “career.”
Authors do all sorts of crazy things to interest readers in their books. At a time when it feels a bit like the world had gone crazy, I thought it would be fun to apply one of these techniques to a blog post. It begins with a question that only your fictional characters can answer. …
Today, we welcome Mary of Bethany into the Reflections family. Although her paperback has been live for several weeks, today’s the official birthday for digital copies. Believe me, that’s something Miss Mary never would have conceived of during her lifetime. Take a look at this cover. It’s a thing of beauty. Orphan to Saint: A …
I love a good title. That’s why this one makes me smile. It could mean this post will tell you all about the Reflections series. It could mean that. But it doesn’t. Instead, this post is about a particular section in each of the Reflections books that I called the “Reflection Section.” It’s basically a …
Say hello to Martha of Bethany. She’s the second Bible woman to be featured in my Reflections series, books from the heart and for the heart. Tagline Sister and Servant: A Life of Sacrifice and Love Blurb Martha was never meant to be the head of her household, but a plague left her as the …
Back in January, I admitted this would be a year of “building” for my brand, but I had no idea how much being an indie author would tax my creative soul. The reality of “indie publishing” measures up differently than the perception. At least for me. Isn’t that true of many things? Christmas is the …
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This comes to you from chapter six of REFLECTIONS: A PONDERING HEART, the story of Jesus Christ from the journal of his mother, Mary. Is there a better way to spend Christmas than with the Christ? The sun’s last rays kissed the walls of Bethlehem as our group straggled within view of the city. Rather …