Last Week’s Review of Book #1 in Series Last week I reviewed, Sold Into Freedom (Planting Faith, Bk #1), and shared a little about my sweet friend, Carole Towriss. I didn’t mention that we worked together with a third friend, Brennan McPherson to write a Psalm series in 2018. Brennan wrote Book #1: The Hunter and the Valley of Death, …
3 Ways Publishing a Book Is Like Spring Gardening
I’m not a gardener, but I lived in Indiana for most of my life, so some farm girl stuff sort of soaks in. My grandma could put a twig in the ground, and a tree would grow, but I somehow got the proverbial “black thumb.” Though I tried a vegetable garden a couple of times (not very successfully), I was …
Review of Sold Into Freedom by Carole Towriss
If y’all have followed my posts for very long, you’ve heard me mention my friend, Carole Towriss. I don’t remember the exact year we first met, but it was early in our publishing careers. Whenever it was…our hearts were instantly knit together. Don’t you love friendships like that? Carole and her hubby John joined Roy and I on our 2020 …
Review of And Their Numbers Grew by Naomi Craig, Donna E. Lane
Meet my precious friend, Naomi Craig, and her co-author, Donna E. Lane, whom I haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting. I first “met” Naomi when she became an enthusiastic member of my exclusive BFF team (Biblical Fiction Fans). She wanted to learn everything about writing and marketing biblical fiction—and has certainly surpassed me on many levels! I’m so excited …
Covid Changed Our Tour Sites and Short Stories Changed Our Hearts
In June of 2018, I began dreaming of returning to Israel for a second trip. My hubby Roy and I had made our first pilgrimage in 2000. We thought a 2020 trip to celebrate my 10th traditionally published novel, Isaiah’s Legacy, was a great reason to organize a readers’ tour of the biblical and historical sites mentioned in my books. …
Ahinoam From Imagination to Image With AI
The photo at left is what computers looked like when I first learned to use them in high school. (Yes, I’m ancient.) So, when my assistant, Amanda, wanted to do an AI graphic of how I imagined AHINOAM, the first of King David’s Brides mentioned in 2 Samuel 3:2-5, I was a little skeptical. I’d been writing about Ahinoam for …