My church is having a fundraiser auction this weekend. I’ve come up with the best idea for an auction item! YOU Can Be a Character in Ginny Smith’s Next Novel! The Most Famous Illegal Goose Creek Parade Book 1 in the Tales of the Goose Creek B&B by Virginia Smith About the story: Al Richardson is counting the days until …
Old Friends and Chili Rellenos
Today I reconnected with a trio of delightful friends over chips and salsa, iced tea, and chili rellenos. All three of these ladies are dear to me, though I haven’t seen them for a long time. For years we belonged to a writers’ group together and thus had an impact on each others’ lives, both professionally and personally. We’ve lost …
Fan Mail and Prune Cake
I love going to the mailbox. Expectation builds as I approach, excitement in anticipating what has been placed in that little box with my name on it. In this day of electronic communication, I get a lot of email from readers, and I love (and answer) every single one. But there’s something special about receiving an actual letter from someone …
Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me
I don’t often respond to those Facebook posts that ask me to repost someone else’s status — EXCEPT when it has to do with books! Recently someone tagged me in a post and asked me to list ten books that have stayed with me for any reason. Who can resist spending a few minutes thinking about her favorite books? Ah, …
He Loves Me NOW
I had coffee with a friend yesterday, and she said something that really resonated deep in my soul. We were discussing choices, and how we’ve all made wrong ones. What a comfort to know that we’re forgiven, and God is working in us to make us more and more like Jesus. I recalled a saying we’ve all seen on bumper …
Killing Zombies for Relaxation
I’ve never been much for video games. They hadn’t been invented back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid, and since my profession has been focused on computers my entire adult life, I never had any desire to play with them when I got home at night. Last fall my 3-yr-old grandson introduced me to my first video …
World’s Worst Blogger
I raise my hand. Yes, I am the world’s worst blogger. But in my defense, I warned you years ago that would be the case. So I’m not making excuses. Just checking in. Sometimes life is more interesting than the Internet. Blogging takes time, and that’s a commodity in short supply these days. I’m a wife, mother, grandmother, writer, speaker, …
For your reading enjoyment, UNLIMITED by Davis Bunn
List Price: $8.99Paperback: 320 pagesPublisher: B&H Books (September 1, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 143367940XISBN-13: 978-1433679407 Simon Orwell is a brilliant student whose life has taken a series of wrong turns. At the point of giving up on his dreams, he gets a call from an old professor who has discovered a breakthrough in a device that would create unlimited energy, and he …
Blog Tour – The Days of Noah!
href=”http://firstwildcardtours.blogspot.com/”>It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST …
Book Review – The Machine by Bill Myers
The MachineA Truth Seekers novelby Bill Myers When Jennifer and Jake lose their mother in a terrible accident, they are sent to the middle east where their scientist father is on the brink of an exciting discovery – a machine that detects the ‘memory’ in ancient artifacts like fragments of stone walls or a piece of pottery, and then reconstructs …