This week I have a two part series for The Journey. Today is part one of The Journey with Kathleen E. Kovach. Please welcome her as she answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? I have told stories all my life. Before I could form letters, I would chatter in the backseat of the family car, spinning yarns that would make my older sister roll her eyes and declare, “Mom! Make her stop!” Once I learned how to write, my stories filled notebooks. Psalm 139:13 says … [Read more...]
Featured Book: Victoria and the Ghost
Victoria and the Ghost is written by Janet K. Brown. From the words of Jane, here is a little bit of background info on the story and what her book is about: The title of my book is Victoria and the Ghost. In North Texas where I live, a historic Texas ghost town by the name of Clara caught my interest. A German man started the town. Colonel Hermann Specht loved his adopted nation. He purchased the area, cut streets through named for Texans, and planted trees not native to the state. He … [Read more...]
The Journey with Bonnie Engstrom
Please welcome this weeks guest Bonnie Engstrom for The Journey. She answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? Wow, huge question. How did God influence my writing journey? It started out with a salad. A little background: I had been an empty nester for several years and spent a lot of time on my computer. One day I came across an online prayer request site. I found myself sitting at my desk praying for needs, sometimes three hours a day. During these … [Read more...]
Featured Book: Winds of Wyoming, A Kate Neilson Novel
Winds of Wyoming, A Kate Neilson Novel is written by Rebecca Carey Lewis. Here is the book blurb: Fresh out of a Pennsylvania penitentiary armed with a marketing degree, Kate Neilson heads to Wyoming anticipating a fresh start on a working guest ranch. A typical twenty-five-year-old woman might be looking to lasso a cowboy, but years of mistreatment by men have tainted her regard for the opposite sex. All she wants is to get on with life on the outside and avoid another felony, which could … [Read more...]
The Journey with Lori-Ann Whyte
Please welcome this weeks guest Lori-Ann White for The Journey. She answers the question: How have you seen God work in your writing journey? I’ve always been a bit…different, but no one expected me to move from academic excellence for the better part of six years at a university—and no degree. Thanks to such a stellar display of unparalleled brilliance, I’ve been at home for the past two years. What seemed like the worst possible thing has turned into numerous opportunities for growth, and … [Read more...]
A book worth mentioning
I feel blessed the I am a member of the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) group. It has been through this group that I have received the obvious, lots of help improving my writing. But more than that I have start to form some of the most wonderful friendship. The road that it took me to get to this group has been an interesting one but God knew in his timing when the right time would be. On my www.kristenatunstall.com website, I have started to new weekly columns. One is where I … [Read more...]
New Monday Weekly Thread: Book Feature
I'd like to formally announce that as of today, I am starting a new weekly thread every Monday for featuring books that have either been released or are going to be. Please stop by every Monday for the latest post. On rare occasions I will have a feature book or series on either Wednesday or Thursday. If you would like to have your book featured, please go to the "Featured Book Request" page located at the top of this website. Fill out the form with the book(s) you'd like to have featured … [Read more...]
Joining GoodReads
I finished reading this book from a fellow author of mine that I know through ACFW. Her name is Rhonda Gibson. She is the recently published author of The Marshal’s Promise. I love the book. I purchased it as an e-book. After finishing it this evening, I read the last page where she wrote a short letter to the reader. On it, it mentioned her website www.rhondagibson.net. I went to go check it out because I wanted to write a comment to let her now I had finished it and how much I truly enjoyed … [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...]
Becoming a Writer
What has writing done for me? Well more than I ever thought even possible. I remember sitting in my high school English class and being just a “C” student. It was hard for me. To get into college I couldn’t even test into English 101. I would have had to go three below and start with English 097. I mean, you really can’t much lower. So for years I have always thought of myself as a terrible writer and that my English writing sucked. By the time I was around 22 or 23 years old I was … [Read more...]
