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You’re invited to help me celebrate the launch of The Demons Among Us through a Zoom party Sunday, October 10, at 4 p.m. EDT. I’ll talk a little bit about my publishing journey, answer questions, read the first few pages of the book, and host a couple games with prizes. I regret we can’t celebrate in person as planned, but the COVID-19 numbers are spiking here in Georgia and I don’t feel…

Writing about Ethnic Characters

Edwina Perkins I’ve heard Edwina Perkins speak twice. After her first presentation, entitled The Danger and Power of Words, I felt like I’d been sucker punched. I was more prepared the second time. After all, I’d invited her to be the guest speaker at our American Christian Fiction Writers N. Georgia Chapter meeting. Her message is powerful and should be heard by all Caucasian writers and…

How Christianity and books launched Friday the 13th

Are you hunkering down in your home today, worried that bad luck might befall you? Don’t feel alone, one in four Americans say they’re superstitious.

How did Friday the 13th become the spookiest calendar date? Early Christians were the first to acknowledge Friday as an unlucky day. After all, Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Later, Christians dubbed the day as Good Friday in acknowledgement of…

NaNoWriMo Makes Me Nervous

Friends, I need a little prayer. For the past four years, I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo . . . with dismal results. This year, for once, I’d love to meet my goal.

NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It takes place in November for some strange reason. I don’t know about other writers, but November is a super busy month for me. Added to my regular routine are holiday…

Syncing Audible & ebooks

I tried something new this week. I bought The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell on Audible and linked it to an ebook.

I love listening to books in the car while running errands, but dislike switching to a different story to read when I return home. It usually takes me a few minutes to reorient myself with the characters and plot. Then, I have to do it again when I get back in the car.

It’s…

It all boils down to trust. God is teaching me patience. This weekend, he gifted me with the most wonderful surprise—a contest win!

When you hear God’s voice say, “Trust me,” listen and obey. He’s serious.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been grumbling that the three publishers to whom I’d submitted The Demons Among Us haven’t replied. I’d been told it would be six to eight weeks before I heard anything . . . if I heard anything. Sometimes publishers don’t bother to reply to those whose submissions are horrendous. The…

Early this summer, I co-hosted two drive-by baby showers. At first, I was appalled by the idea. I’m a born and bred Southern girl. We do things a certain way by tradition.

My mother gasped when I told her what my friends and I had concocted. “That doesn’t even make sense,” she said, turning up her nose.

But it worked. For the first shower, we set up an open-air tent in the new mama’s…