When I was getting ready to send today’s awesome guest questions for this Q&A below, I had to do some mental digging to remember when I first met her. Then it hit me: I met Amanda G. Stevens in Florida. Beautiful Florida with its warm temps and ocean views…and yearly MBT Deep Thinkers Retreat. Amanda and I were both aspiring …
Why it’s going to be quiet around here for a couple weeks.
Hey guys! This week I’m heading off to one of my favorite trips of the year: the ACFW Conference in St. Louis. It’s an event during which about seven hundred writers and publishing industry professionals take over a Hyatt Regency Hotel and basically have the grown-up version of summer camp. Not nearly as many mosquitos. But just as much staying …
A peek behind my writing curtain (Or when bravery is being honest)
This post is part of a Friday series on bravery…because it’s the topic on my mind lately. And I guess I can’t help writing about it. You can check out previous bravery posts here, here and here. An interesting thing happened last week when I was rewriting a scene for my spring 2015 release, From the Start. I was writing …
Big Birthday Giveaway! (books, movies, cookies and more)
September is my favorite month of the year for about a thousand reasons! Including this: It’s my birthday! Well, not quite yet. My birthday is actually September 28. But I’m starting the celebration early because this month also marks the one-year birthday of a couple pretty special people in my life. Their names are Matthew and Miranda and they’re …
Because…Ollie :)
I’ve been doing a Friday series on bravery in the past few weeks and I had a post ready to go in my head for this week. But then I got distracted. By this guy. 🙂 Yes, it’s true. My nephew is the cutest kid IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. So the bravery series continues next week with a post …
How to pack for the ACFW (or any) writing conference
Around this time of year, I always write a post about the ACFW Conference. Posts like If Best = Random Then These are My Best Conference Tips or How to Stalk Your Favorite Author at ACFW. If you’re not attending the conference, I apologize for the uselessness of this post. And I offer up this for your amusement instead. If …
Goodreads giveaway! Because I will take any excuse to celebrate.
Guess what? Over the weekend, my second book, Here to Stay, turned four months old. I celebrated…by working on my third book. I will make a little confession here: Back when I was writing Here to Stay, I may have had a few moments of frustration. By which I mean there were days when I wanted to finally put to use …
What I learned from the Man in Black. (Or when bravery is saying “My story isn’t over.”)
(This is part of a Friday series on bravery. Because it’s the topic on my mind lately. If you missed last week’s post, you can read it here.) I mentioned last week that I recently took a weekend trip to Nashville. It was, in a word, FUN. On our last day there, a couple friends and I (shoutout to Clay …
The hot, sweaty, SCARED cowboy. (Or when being brave is looking out the window)
I think I’m about to break a major blogging rule. I’m going to *gasp* process some personal things I’ve been thinking about in blog form—all having to do with bravery. I wrote about bravery a couple weeks ago and ever since, have been reading this amazing book called Let’s All Be Brave and I just have ALL these thoughts. So …
Things to do when you’re super sick (complete with pie chart)
I got really sick last week. I’m kind of still sick now as I’m typing this. There’s been a LOT of cough medicine consumption. The result is this post. I’m…sorry. ***** If a person is going to have a blog, she should use said blog to benefit humanity, yeah? Well, today I’m using my blog to educate the general public …