Zooming with Appalachian Writers

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 6 Comments

One of the nicest things about writing for the inspirational market is making friends with other writers who are ready to cheer you on and tell their reading friends about your books. While some writers are very prolific and can put out several books a year, most of us are more like one or two books a year writers. Thanks …

Slaying the Dragon to Win Fair Maiden

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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 …

Every Story Needs a Dog or Cat

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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 …

Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #13

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 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 the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 10/15 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop …

Coming This Week – Fall Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 8 Comments

Back when you were a kid, did you ever take part in a scavenger hunt? Or maybe you were the one figuring out the clues to make the hunt fun? I’ve done both. When I was a kid, my sisters and I would sometimes do a scavenger hunt or something like one by writing the clues on strips of paper …

Gardening – An Instrument of Grace

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It’s green bean time in our garden. I grow stick beans. Those are beans that you have to supply something for the vines to grow up onto. We use an overhead wire strung between wooden posts and then twine strings attached to the wire …

Celebrating National Book Lovers Day

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Bibliophile – a person who has a great appreciation for or collects books. Are you a bibliophile? I guess I could say I am since I do love books and have collected a few over the years. Have even written my share. When I think about all the words that have flowed through my fingers onto paper or a typewriter …

Volunteers are the Best Winners

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A couple of weeks ago I sent out a newsletter to celebrate the release of my novel An Appalachian Summer.  I hope if you got the newsletter, you enjoyed reading it. If you didn’t get it, you can sign up to be sure not to miss the next one here on the form in the margin of my website. I’d be …

A Mystery Photo Along with a Reading Challenge

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What a week so far! An Appalachian Summer officially released yesterday, June 30th. As I said in my last post, it is always, always fun having a new book out for readers. Then it can be a little tense waiting to see what those readers are going to say about the story. So far the reviews and comments have been …

Counting Down Until Release Day

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Only ten days until release day for my new mountain story, An Appalachian Summer. A new book being out for readers is always an exciting time. Seems many of my books have had a summer release date. Just in time for some sweet afternoons reading in the porch swing or maybe in a reclining chair on a beach somewhere. You can …