Please welcome this weeks guest Kathy Harris for The Journey. She answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? I’ve often wondered how we can know at a young age what we want to pursue in life. No doubt God places the desire within our heart as a calling to be fulfilled at the time and place He ordains, the path remaining uncertain. By the time I was seven or eight, I knew I wanted to be a writer, and I followed that dream through high school and college. … [Read more...]
Featured Book: The Warden’s Lantern
The Warden's Lantern is written by Joselyn Vaughn. Book Description: Dark, creaking trees. Cracking thunder. A ghostly orb. Barbara Milanowski couldn't have picked a worse night for her amateur paranormal investigation, but she couldn’t let her longtime crush Elmer Derecho’s skeptism go unchallenged. When Elmer runs her off the road with his motorcycle and scolds her for being out in the inclement weather, her happily ever after drops with the barometric pressure and the loss of her … [Read more...]
The Journey with Anne Mateer
Please welcome this weeks guest Anne Mateer for The Journey. She answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? My writing journey began way back in middle school, when I dreamed of someday writing historical fiction. I was quite prolific through my teenaged years. However, through college, marriage and early motherhood, my writing declined to fits and starts. But in 2000, when my youngest child went to kindergarden, I embarked on the writing life with a new … [Read more...]
Featured Book: Secrets of Willow Shade
Secrets of Willow Shade is written by Jean Kinsey. About the Book: Secrets of Willow Shade released August 21, 2012 in e-book format by Desert Breeze Publishing. It is the first in a series set in Logan County, KY, the county where the author was born. Logan County has a lot of history and even more folklore. Secrets is a warm romance mixed with suspense, filled with family bonds, a failed marriage and inspiration to forge ahead. Maddy Kennedy sets out on a journey to find her … [Read more...]
Featured Book: Tapestry of Trust
Tapestry of Trust is written by Mary Annslee Urban. Book Description: Burned once, school teacher Isabelle Crafton vows to stay from Charlie Hamilton. He let her down once and she isn’t willing to trust her heart again. Trust has never come easy for Isabelle. She never knew her father and was abandoned by her mother at eight. Raised by her great-aunt, Isabelle always tried to make good choices, for fear of losing her aunt’s love as well. But, at eighteen her greatest fear is realized when … [Read more...]
The Journey with JoAnn Durgin
Please welcome this weeks guest JoAnn Durgin for The Journey. She answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? Have I always known I wanted to be a writer? No, but I’ve been a voracious reader my entire life. Nothing thrilled me more than getting those Scholastic leaflets in elementary school. I poured over them, studied them and had a ball choosing which books to get. The days the books arrived were great. I’m really not a strange person, but even the smell of … [Read more...]
Writing Fiction
I’ve been writing my first fictional book ever. It has been quite the experience. I will tell you writing fiction is so different than writing a college paper. A year ago when I started this journey, let’s just say, I was a little green behind the ears. I was so naïve to the proper rules and etiquette of fiction. Like the dreaded passive verbs (was/were/had) and ‘ly’ words. These are a big no-no in fiction (who would a thunk). I can remember growing up reading romance novels (starting … [Read more...]