Sunday Inspiration: Deeply Loved
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzu Last week I was so busy getting my latest ebook, Dragonslayer, on line, that I almost forgot Sunday Inspiration. And I did forget that it was the Sunday before Valentine’s Day. My bad! Luckily love never goes out of date,…
Read MoreDragonslayer Arrives at Bookstores
Dragonslayer is online at last, and I am delighted. Some years ago I was happily writing romances for Silhouette Books when my editor tapped me for a new promotion. Did I have a profession I would like to explore? I immediately volunteered to write about a minister. Dragonslayer was the result. Be careful what you…
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The Editing Process: Teenagers and Talking Raccoons
Bet you thought I was serious when I said I was finished with The Swallow’s Nest. First my husband blogged to complain about the horrors of living with an author at the end of her book. Then I told you I’d sent it in and had “gone fishing,” which wasn’t quite true. I’d gone on a cruise,…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “Why I succeed”
With the Super Bowl coming up today, I thought this would be an appropriate quote for all of us. Certainly no athlete can be successful without knowing how to accept and learn from failure. And it’s just as apparent that no human being can grow and find meaning and joy in life without letting failure become…
Read MoreNorthanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Defense of Novels
The Better World 2017 Reading Challenge is even more fun than I expected. On January 18th I blogged about the challenge here, and then I promptly got down to business. First I chose and finished Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage. Scroll down to the bottom of last Wednesday’s post to hear my thoughts…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Be gentle
“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here… And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a…
Read MoreA Novelist’s Thoughts: Casey Daniels
I love anniversaries. I love them because sometimes I’m absolutely amazed that I have actually made it to a certain date in my life. Wedding anniversaries mean that I kept on truckin’ through the bad times as well as the good–not that “keeping on” is always a good thing, mind you. My husband and I…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Power of Off
“We are spending far too much of our time doing things that don’t really matter to us.” -Nancy Colier I was at the beach the other day with my husband — have I mentioned how much I love living in southern Florida? — and as soon as we got our chairs and umbrella set up…
Read MoreReading Challenge: Are You Up For One?
Some words are just loaded with meaning, aren’t they? I’m thinking of the word “challenge.” “Challenge,” only second to “resolution,” appears frequently in print and in conversations in January. We’re challenged to exercise more, eat less, drop all our bad habits like a fledgling backpacker, tossing canned goods and bottles of water behind him, ten…
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