I got most of you on mystery picture number one! Only one person looked at the picture and figured out what it really was. I liked Lucy’s spider eggs guess, and Donna’s corn on the cob, but not sure I want to take that spider egg photo or eat that corn on the cob!! Bees was a fun guess from …
Are You Ready for Mystery Photo Time Again?
A New Mystery Photo Game A new book out on store shelves surely means a new mystery photo game here on One Writer’s Journal. What better contest could I have for a new mystery? Yes, Murder Comes by Mail, is now out and reviews are beginning to show up. I do so appreciate each and every one of you who …
Loretta’s Bibles
Sometimes you are blessed to get to know a person who is gifted with those fruits of the Spirit named in Galatians 5: 22-23. Love. Joy. Peace. Longsuffering. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-control. I have been so blessed and our little country church was so blessed to have Loretta Riley as that Christian person. I didn’t get to know her …
Winners and Weekends!
Release Week for Murder Comes by Mail What a weekend! What a week! Yesterday my 30th novel, Murder Comes by Mail, released and Amazon started putting up reviews. I never know whether I should read reviews or not. Talk about scary! For an author, that’s what reviews can be. But I’ve been writing a long time and have weathered both good …
Chances to Win
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 …









