Time is running out to enter my Celebration Giveaway for Murder Comes by Mail. Deadline is noon EST Tuesday, May 17, 2016. I got the nesting cats and they are cute but not as tall as I expected and the journaling Bible is beautiful. So if you want to get your name in the drawing, you have to do it …
A #2 Pencil and a Dream
“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” ~Joyce A. Myers Things are a little crazy, per usual, around here this week. I’m getting ready for my twin grandsons to come visit this weekend. That, along with this book I’m supposed to be writing and my Hometown Book Launch coming up, made me totally forget Wednesday’s post. So here’s …
What Momisms Do You Remember?
We’ve been having fun on my Facebook page with Momisms. Those things your mother used to say to you when you were a kid that maybe didn’t exactly make you happy at the time. And then you grew up and maybe became a mother and found yourself saying some of the same things or perhaps coming up with new Momisms …
Murder Comes by Mail Celebration Giveaway
A new book, Murder Comes by Mail, means a new celebration for me and a giveaway chance for you. I sent out a newsletter this week with all the fun details. And you can read them on my News & Events Page. Here’s a short version. 1st prize is a Journaling Bible with a set of markets. I’ve been hearing some …
The Joys of Hands-On Research
You’re in for a treat with this post. I’ve not met Amanda Cabot face to face, but we’ve become internet friends. So I invited her over to visit One Writer’s Journal. As you will find out, Amanda is a writer who gets it right in her stories because of how she researches everything. She shares some of those research techniques …
Scavenger Hunt Winners
Wow! Now wasn’t that Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt a blast? I had so much fun going through and reading all the other authors’ posts. They were all excellent, but I especially enjoyed Sarah Sundin’s about her daughter’s romance that sort of followed the plot line of one of Sarah’s books and Lyn Cote’s post about Louisa May Alcott. Learned some …
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #4
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #4 Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all 33 stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 3 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS with Stop #1 at Lisa Bergren’s site. The …
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Starts Friday
Have you ever been on a Scavenger Hunt? When we were kids, we would sometimes do a scavenger hunt as a game. We would start with one clue like maybe “What gets hot and blows its top?” Then we’d go hide the next clue in the teakettle spout. That clue might be “What dries by getting wet?” So we’d go …
He Made Everything that was Made
April 19, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. The dogwoods are blooming in Hollyhill. I wish you were here to see them, especially the ones Miss Sally has in her yard. She has a pink one and a white one side by side. She says she bought those and planted them, but she says the ones blooming out …
Look What Came in the Mail
With a book titled Murder Comes by Mail, you might think I should be a little hesitant to open any package that lands in my mailbox or by my front door. LOL. But instead when it’s almost time for one of my books to release, I’m ready to rip into any package that has my publisher’s name as the return …







