I’m sharing scenes from my novel Refuge while I devote my time and energy to working through my editor’s suggested revisions. This process has been fun! I love writing fiction! My editor, Joe Coccaro at Koehler Books, has helped me to shorten scenes …
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My manuscript returned last week. I’m evaluating my editor’s suggestions and devoting all my energy to this task. Continuing my promise to give sneak peeks into Refuge while I work, I share another short passage: Stephen Poff via Compfight Silently, Cain stared …
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As I’m working my way through my editor’s suggested revisions, my head is full of my story. Editing a novel requires all of my brain power. I must carry the entire three-hundred pages in my head, moving the story at …
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My manuscript has returned from my editor at Koehler Books. This month I’m spending my days evaluating each of his suggested revisions for Refuge. It’s a slow-going process. Today I thought I’d share an excerpt from early in the story: Chema Mínguez via Compfight Cain …
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Since signing my contract with Koehler Books, John Koehler and his crew of professionals have moved me toward publication with courtesy, humor, and professionalism. The process has clicked along from Point A to Point B to Point C like a steam locomotive. I’ve loved …
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When I pounded out the rough draft of Refuge in 2009, I envisioned perfect health and brimming vigor as my novel reached bookshelves. Birds would sing, and I would be Superwoman. My youngest daughter was a high school freshman then. …
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I am writing this on my iPhone in my tenth day of illness, flat on my back, tears dried in tracks down my cheeks. This is not how I wanted to begin. Recently I wrote about my summertime workaholic collapse, the lessons …
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I signed the contract for my first novel as my mother-in-law fought death. The emotion of that trial cast me upon the Lord in complete dependence. I had to cling tightly, relying on him for the ability to meet the …
Continue Reading →God created us, called us, and gifted us for specific service. Serving the Lord with all our hearts is how we become ourselves, the people God designed us to be. Our days are numbered, and our time on earth is …
Continue Reading →They come, and they go. Watching adult children leave (again) is much more difficult than when you first received them from the Lord so tiny and new. You were assaulted by love then, initiated into a passionate and protective love that …
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