First, I’m so excited to announce the winners of the Hope Chronicles giveaways:  (Each winner will also be notified by e-mail.) Regina Jennings’s prize bundle winner: Wendy Newcomb  Joanne Bischof’s prize bundle winner: Karen K Amanda Dykes’s prize bundle winner: Elizabeth Jorgensen Karen Barnett’s prize bundle winner: Jenny  Sarah Sundin’s prize bundle winner: Becky Guinn GRAND PRIZE Hope Chronicles...

As a child, one of the reasons I looked forward to visiting the small Southern town where my mother grew up was because I would get to see my Great Aunt Lennie. I thought she told funny stories. Maybe I was just enamored of her Southern accent. No, I really think she had a sense of humor. She had good timing. Lennie also had a big boat of a car in the days before seatbelts, and her motto was “the more, the merrier.” (Now that I’m a...

It started out with a simple e-mail from my friend Joanne: Would you be interested in a blog hop? Historical writers, she said. All writing from their story’s heroine’s point of view. What a creative approach to the hopping-of-blogs! I was in. The wheels in our collective brains began to turn: “What if we invite these other authors to jump in?” “What if we do giveaways to go along with the blog hop?” “What if we all have...

Have you felt it?  The pull, I mean. Closer to Him. Deeper. Maybe it was a glimpse you had of another person’s walk with God. The intimacy, the love, the so-in-stride-with-Him-you-can-almost-see-Him sort of surrender. Maybe it was one of those “wake up, take a candid look at your life” moments that ended in bewilderment, and then heartache, thinking… How did I get here? So far from Him? Maybe it’s just a tug you have on your...

Several months back, a writer-friend of mine with whom I’d exchanged a few neat e-mails collaborated with me to bring you this interview today. We put our heads together and planned it out for you, countless days ago. I knew she was a remarkably talented writer, I knew that her heart for serving God’s people through that gift was clear and pure, and I knew that I couldn’t wait to read her book. What I didn’t know was...