D.E.A.R. – Drop Everything and Read

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  Have you ever found out about something when it’s already over? Something that sounded perfect? That was me last week when two days late I saw that April 12th, the birthday of author Beverly Cleary (Ramona and many other books), was D.E.A.R. Day. That is, Drop Everything and Read Day. That is definitely my kind of day and I …

Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #26

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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 10/21 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. • Hunt …

Book Treasures – An Interview with an Avid Reader

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“My dream as a girl was to be locked in the library overnight. All those treasures, all mine for a time.” (Susan Gibson Snodgrass) In this post, I have a treat for you as I invited Susan Gibson Snodgrass over to share about her love of reading with us. Authors like me love Susan because she is an avid reader who …

More Love for Books and Reading

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I don’t think I ever finished a book by reading with a flashlight under a cover, but I might have if I’d had a flashlight with batteries that lasted. When I was a kid, flashlights were more luxury than something on every shelf. Most of the time the one we did have seemed to always be lacking batteries and if …

Book Fest at the Library

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In the last few months I’ve had the privilege of visiting several libraries to share about my books with readers there. Last Saturday, it was fun to be able to have one of those book events right here in my hometown. Along with about thirty other authors I got to be part of the first annual Anderson Public Library Book …

Another Hometown Book Party

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  If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. (J.K. Rowling) In 2005, my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs,  was published. It had been several years since I’d had the fun of having a book published.  So when that book was released, it was almost like having a first ever book published again. In fact …

In the Good Ol’ Summertime

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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” -Henry James Do you remember how you looked forward to summer vacation when you were a kid in school? I do even though summer did hold plenty of chores and work days for this farm girl. But there was also time to …