I'm afraid to say that between AWANA, homeschool, and just general tiredness, blogging has fallen to the bottom of the priority heap. Which is why I find myself at 10pm on Tuesday desperately trying to get something scheduled for tomorrow…
I spent the bulk of Saturday at DCFest - a concert featuring Third Day, 10th Avenue North, Mandisa, and several other delightful Christian bands. My publisher had a table and, as I live near, I got to sit and sign…
I'll admit, I had hoped to do another installment of what readers should know about the book industry for today's post, but my husband took yesterday (and today) off and we hopped in the car and drove three hours to…
The Amazon/Hachette brou-ha-ha continues apace and it occurred to me that I'm not sure readers know why this matters. To get to that, I thought I'd do a few little posts on things about the book industry that I find…
I'm excited to announce that I'll be at my first ever book signing as part of DC Fest on August 17th! My publisher is having a table/booth in their vendor area and she asked me to come along an help…
Since I got a handful of comments from people who enjoyed the photos from Ireland, I thought I'd share one more. Since my story stays in County Cork, the characters had to visit Blarney. (Honestly, you can't visit Ireland without…
I just finished a novella set in Kinsale, Ireland. (Well, and other bits of the surrounding Cork county.) When I've got it edited, I plan to submit it to a publisher who has a series of novellas set in overseas…
They (that magical, mysterious "they") say, "Don't judge a book by its cover." But how well does that work in practice? I would say there are four factors that influence my decisions to buy a book - so I wanted…
I mentioned previously that, scandal of all scandals, I used the word "damn" in Hope Deferred. I still stand by that decision, but there are at least two people out there who will never read anything else of mine because…
One of the things new authors are told by the professional organizations they join and the more experienced writer friends they make is to be sure and have blog tours for your new releases. There are a number of places…