Meet My Friend! When I attended the Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference in 2008, I was forced to decide between a fiction mentoring class or a fiction intensive class taught by Angela Hunt. I chose the mentoring class to work “hands-on” with my manuscript and signed a publishing contract three months later. It was the right choice, but I also purchased …
We’re Going Back to Israel! On February 17 – March 2, 2025, we’ll take as many as fifty excited readers to Israel and offer an optional extension to Petra! Wait, “WE”? Yep! My dear friend and fellow biblical fiction author, Connilyn Cossette, and I have teamed up! We’re leading a tour that will focus on our greatest passions: God’s Word …
While writing the rough draft on my first book of David’s Wives, I’ve been enjoying his Psalms during my morning quiet time. Reading a Psalm comforts me in a way no other Book of the Bible does. Biblehub.com says David wrote these Psalms: 1-41 51-71 138-150 If you’ve read any of my Deep-O-Tionals studies on Genesis, you know I like …
When I was a little kid, I remember attending old-fashioned “camp meetings” (outdoor revivals in huge, white tents) with my grandmother. The pianist and organist played on a stage with a choirmaster who stood behind a large pulpit. His arms bounced in rhythm with old hymns as the audience belted out, “Victory in Jesus, my Savior forever!” But when the …
In the first pages of Beauty’s Surrender: Sarah’s Story, our heroine receives her very first personal visitation from Elohim in the form of a dream. She sees herself walking alongside Abram, both of them young and vibrant. She wears her familiar wedding garment and the veil of dangling gold coins. When he pulls the veil of gold aside to kiss …
Let me introduce you to one of my dearest writer friends: Connilyn Cossette. Her first book, Counted Among the Stars, came out a few years after I’d been publishing. It was evident from her debut novel that she’d be a strong voice in biblical fiction. We met for the first time at an ACFW conference. A few years later, my …
Egypt lauded Ra’s lovely chantress, whose heart was stolen by an ambitious priest named Potiphera.
In the powerful prequel to In Feast or Famine, Katesch was taken from her beloved son to become Pharaoh’s Songbird of Memphis. Her influence gains favor for an ambitious young priest named Potiphera. Drought scorches the land. Conspiracies thrive. Loyalties shift. Lives are lost. Can sacrifice free the Songbird from her gilded cage?
