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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 …
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 …
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye I hope you all enjoyed …
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius Br. Fred, our preacher for many years at the little country church I attend, used to always tell us how he woke every morning thankful for a new day. Each new day …
Why do we love reading? Why do you love reading? Why do I love reading? Let me count the ways. Oh wait, I asked my newsletter readers to do that for me, and have they ever been counting up the reasons and sharing them. That’s great. I’ve loved every response I’ve received. Here’s one that just grabbed me as such …
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. ~Carre Otis The Kentucky Book Festival was great yesterday. I had a nice position for my book table in the “circle” as the helper told me when I arrived yesterday morning. My table companion was a …
Today, September 21st, is World Gratitude Day. I admit that I had never head of that until I saw it online today, but I feel like it’s something good to celebrate with a special day. Then when I looked up more about World Gratitude Day to find out why we have this day, I was surprised about how it came …
“You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.” – Lito Tejada-Flores No, I’ve never had the urge to climb mountains. I like to hike up trails into the hills, but I’ll leave the actual mountain climbing to others. But when I saw this …
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. —Elizabeth Hardwick What a great weekend at the Columbus Book Festival. If you ever get the chance to go to this festival, you should go. That is obviously a message many readers and writers who live close to Columbus, Ohio, are ready to embrace. Thousands of people showed up for their third …
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen Are you ready for a new Mystery Photo Game? I know. I’ve been promising one for a while, but I had that book to finish and the new book, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford, just released to try to talk up to all the readers I know or hope to …