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Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments! ~ Jordon Klopp Sometimes, you have to throw yourself a party. A few years ago –well, more like twenty plus years ago — I published my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilac. The reason I was so ready to celebrate was that I had been walking through rejection valley with the books I …
Our country just celebrated its 250th year as a nation. From the very beginning, our nation was established with freedom and the pursuit of happiness as the aim for its citizens. While I might be a few days late with the celebrating, our freedom is something to celebrate every day when we get up and can choose where we want …
A Chance for Kallie Mae is the fourth book I’ve set in the Eastern Kentucky Appalachian area. I like going to the mountains for a story. And I liked researching about the people who love those mountains. Along the way in my research, I’ve come across a lot of the superstitions the mountain people, at least some of them, passed down …
“The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, one is nearer God’s heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.” – Dorothy Frances Gurney I have a picture of me years ago with out garden, but of course, I couldn’t find it. Instead, I found this one of Mom that I took back …
I just sent out a newsletter, and now I’m getting responses from many of my newsletter readers. I love hearing from readers. That’s one reason I like sharing my journal here on One Writer’s Journal because of how some of you often join in the conversation. In the past with my newsletter, I’ve asked for stories about all sorts …
This wonderful book is about an Appalachian community in the mountains that experienced the blessing of learning when the Moonlight School came to them. The author did a wonderful job capturing the heart of the mountain people, and the desire of many of them to learn to read and write. (Connie R) I got my edited work in progress …
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. ~Yehuda Berg How many of you, as children, learned the …
One of the fun things about researching my Appalachian books is reading about the mountaineer’s sense of humor. Since I’m working hard on edits on my work in progress that has a Monday deadline, I decided to share some of the jokes I’ve come across in reading Appalachian books. These are from a book my mother bought years ago — …
A box of books landed on my deck last week. My story, A Chance for Kallie Mae, arrived all dressed up in a beautiful book cover with all my words printed inside. So many words. But it’s my hope that they are the right words that will pull readers into the story and make them cheer on Kallie Mae as …
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane Once more I am searching for the end of a story. Once more it seems to be hiding from me behind a crazy mixture of words that don’t seem to be paving the …