What fun to see that my Shaker Christmas novel, Christmas at Harmony Hill, is on special e-book sale right now at most internet sites for the very low price of 99 cents or less! That gives me the chance to offer you a very inexpensive gift of a story for Christmas. The book is set at the end of the Civil …
Have you ever wanted to attend a book event hosted by an author you’ve wanted to meet? Well, now’s your chance to meet at least three authors, Sarah Loudin Thomas, Cindy Sproles, and me. All of us have written stories set in the Appalachian Mountains. Sarah has set all her books somewhere in the mountains. Her new release, The …
“Good cover design is not only about beauty… it’s a visual sales pitch. It’s your first contact with a potential reader. Your cover only has around 3 seconds to catch a browsing reader’s attention. You want to stand out and make them pause and consider, and read the synopsis.” ― Eeva Lancaster I just sent out a newsletter with a …
May your troubles be less, your blessings more and may nothing but happiness come through your door. –Irish Blessing Blessings only come to those who notice . An unthankful heart is like a finger trying to sift the sand for iron–it doesn’t discover God’s mercies. But a thankful heart, just like the magnet, sweeps through life’s circumstances and finds daily …
Have you ever eaten at Cracker Barrel and noticed all the old pictures hanging on their walls? Those stern ancestors of some family that didn’t care enough to keep their pictures? They are always large framed photographs. Poster sized. No small eight by ten photos for them. The men nearly always have long beards and look like the father or …
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. – John Wooden Some years ago at a book fair a young man who might have been twenty, give or take a year or two, came up to my book table and asked, “Are you famous?” I remember first being a bit surprised by the …
Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way. ~Phil McGraw Slaying the dragon for your true love – now, that sounds romantic. And a bit dangerous, I have to admit. Dragons are big …
The Eleventh Hour is a phrase meaning at the last moment, taken from a passage in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard in the King James Bible, Matthew 20:1-16. In that story the owner of a vineyard goes out and hires workers early in the morning and then two more times a little later in the day and …
Crows squawked raucously in the trees. It sounded like they were tearing something apart, something they didn’t even want, just for the fun of destroying it. ~Janet Fitch The last two mornings when I was our early walking my dogs I’ve seen a number of crows fly from the west to the east. One other day I’ve seen them …
When you are a dog lover like me and you write stories to share with readers, you might come up with some four-legged furry characters from time to time. So far I haven’t put Frankie in a story yet, but here in this picture he looks like he’s telling me that might be a fun idea. Well, actually he’s insisting …