You all really know how to make a blog book party fun. Thank you so much for showing up and for all the great questions you’re asking. I picked three to answer on tonight’s post. If you’ve already read them in the comments, you already know my answers. But maybe some of you waited to see some of the …
I had my Hometown Book Party Saturday and people actually showed up to hear me talk about my books and writing. Every person who entered the meeting room was like a special gift to me. They even smiled when I asked my son to take our picture. Some came who had been to almost every one of my book parties …
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ~ Stephen King Sunday I wrote a post sharing about the many Hometown Book Parties or Events I’ve enjoyed throwing for my reading friends here in my town over the years. I tried to find some pictures of …
Back in 2005 when Scent of Lilacs, my first inspirational novel was published, I decided to celebrate with a book party for my hometown readers. These friends and family had been so supportive of my writing efforts through the years after my first book was published by Warner Books in 1978. I’d had some ups and downs through the years. …
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” — Gertrude Jekyll Do you have a vegetable garden? Or have you ever had one? When I was a kid, I assumed everyone had a garden. Out where I lived in the country, everybody did, and …
It’s great when I pick something to write about in my stories that turns out to be extra interesting to research. The river showboat that is the setting for my new book, In the Shadow of the River, turned out to be that way. I knew very little about showboats when I decided to take my story on the river. So …
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” ~John Harrigan We built a fence this morning. Well, we put it together anyway. Some years ago after we built a room over our old cistern and added a deck to the house, my husband, sweet man that his is, decided to make me a flowerbed running along part of …
Another storm slammed us this afternoon. The second Sunday afternoon in a row that we’ve had wild storms. Last week we didn’t lose power, but this week we have. Our whole road and area along with plenty of others across the county are without power. The crews are out there working, but other storms keep rolling through. It’s not dark …
So what is a calliope and how in the world do you pronounce that? A calliope is a steam organ or steam piano that was named after the Greek Muse Calliope who presided over poetry, song, and the arts and sciences. I had to practice how to say it and after looking up the pronunciation a dozen or so times …
He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. -Psalm 107:29 (NKJ) Do you like thunderstorms? When I was a kid, my family lived in an old farmhouse. We couldn’t even imagine having an air conditioner. We depended on the air conditioning of summer breezes through our windows. We didn’t have water piped to our house. We depended on …