Christmas Lost – And Found! by Tessa Afshar

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Greetings, y’all! Mesu here. 😉 As this year’s holidays approached, I tried to think of a gift I could offer my readers, and I thought ya’ll might enjoy hearing from other authors about their special holiday memories. I’m thrilled to introduce my sweet friend, Tessa Afshar. Most of you probably already know her through her UH-mazing biblical novels, but did you …

How To Enter The Secret Place

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With Thanksgiving behind us, we shift into Christmas and our secrets begin. We don’t tell Uncle Johnny about the fishing pole wrapped in a refrigerator box beside the tree, or little Susie about the American Doll she’ll finally get this year (that she’s been asking for since she was four). But a few other secrets pop up around the holidays …

Thanksgiving: Past and Present by Brennan McPherson

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Hi, Gang! Mesu here. 🙂 I’d like to welcome my dear friend and fellow biblical fiction (bibfic) author, Brennan McPherson, to my pre-Thanksgiving blog! Brennan and I have been email buddies since his first novel released in 2016. Soon after, we collaborated with Carole Towriss on The Psalm Series in which each of us wrote a novella about a psalm of our choice. …

3 Ways I Visualize My Ancient World

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When y’all get to heaven, you’ll recognize my sweet husband by the heavily-jeweled crown on his head. Among other things, he’s put up with my complete inability to VISUALIZE how anything will look after a change. So Guess what he gets to do when I say, “Honey, let’s rearrange the living room furniture!” Yep. First, he changes it so I can …

How To Choose Your Friends

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How do you pick your friends? Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo? Draw straws? Rock, Paper, Scissors? I recently spent a whole week with six friends at North Carolina’s Outer Banks. All but one came because they were writers, but I was fascinated by the chemistry that developed between these women–the swirling of my various worlds that collided under one roof. It was interesting …

Q & A With a Google Curl

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When Isaiah’s Legacy released, on February 18, 2020, several of my BFF team got together to do a blog tour. Some asked me to write about research topics, while others asked for Q & A formats. Since we had pretty low activity, I’ve shared the posts from that tour on my own blog over the past seven months. I hope …