Catching the Acting Bug

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  Sometimes you just need a laugh. I’m a huge Kentucky basketball fan. I have been since I was a young teen and started listening to the games on my little transister radio. This was not a good week for Kentucky basketball fans. Sigh. Oh well. That gives me more time to come up with scenes for my work in …

Hometown Book Party

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Back in 2005 when Scent of Lilacs, my first inspirational novel was published, I decided to celebrate with a book party for my hometown readers. These friends and family had been so supportive of my writing efforts through the years after my first book was published by Warner Books in 1978. I’d had some ups and downs through the years. …

A Showboat Coming – Mirth & Music

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  It’s great when I pick something to write about in my stories that turns out to be extra interesting to research. The river showboat that is the setting for my new book, In the Shadow of the River, turned out to be that way. I knew very little about showboats when I decided to take my story on the river. So …

Have You Ever Heard a Calliope?

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So what is a calliope and how in the world do you pronounce that? A calliope is a steam organ or steam piano that was named after the Greek Muse Calliope who presided over poetry, song, and the arts and sciences. I had to practice how to say it and after looking up the pronunciation a dozen or so times …

Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #21

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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 6/15 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop …

Are You Ready for a New Mystery Photo Game?

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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen My new book, In the Shadow of the River, came out on May 9th. Some of you even got the book before that date as a few flew out to readers early. Always fun to have a new story out on the shelves to sell and in the hands of people …

What a Week!

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Thanks to all of you who are reading my new book, In the Shadow of the River, or have already read it. Some reviews are showing up here and there and everywhere. And even more fun, well, at least different run, is that Jacci Reed went over to Novel Pastimes and did an interview. While she’s back in 1897, through the magic …

5 Days till the Release of In the Shadow of the River

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One of the fun things about having a new book about to release is sharing a few graphics of quotes from the book. Since you know I write inspirational fiction, you might be surprised that one of my characters in this story is a riverboat gambler and that, as Lisbeth says, he’s the answer to prayers. Kelly turns out to …