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RT Reviews Award Nomination!

By on January 16, 2018

This morning, I was honored to wake up to the news that Devil in the Dust had been nominated for an RT Review Award!  To have been chosen by the reviewers from the bazillions of books they read every year more »

WhiteFire Scavenger Hunt Stop #3

By on June 22, 2017

Three Prize Packages!!! Welcome to the WhiteFire Publishing Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to go back to stop #1 and collect all the clues in order (scroll down for a full list). Once you have more »

Why I Write

By on June 15, 2017

Today, my fifth novel releases. It might be easier to start off with why I don’t write. I don’t write to teach a lesson. I don’t write to spread a message. I don’t write to sprinkle hope or joy or more »

The moment you realize how subtle racism can be.

By on May 15, 2017

The moment you realize how subtle racism can be. As someone of Northern European ancestry, I approach this topic with caution and with the knowledge that I can never fully understand racism in America from a personal perspective. That being more »

Coffee Cups and Camisoles Giveaway!

By on April 25, 2017

Click through on this Author Interview and check out the giveaway for Devil in the Dust!    

Writing from the Dust

By on March 21, 2017

Why I wrote Devil in the Dust. One Sunday after church, we decided to go to lunch with another family. We hadn’t had the opportunity to get to know this couple well, but the conversation was amazing, we laughed until more »

Stranger Than Fiction

By on July 11, 2016

File this under research that didn’t make it into the next novel but is too interesting not to discuss. …and if you LOVE bunnies, you should probably stop reading right now. During the dustbowl in the 1930s, there were a more »

Fresh Fiction – Enter to Win!

By on June 24, 2016

6 Things I Learned About Writing Suspense from Reading Suspense   Enter to win a signed copy of Soul’s Prisoner! Just comment on the blog at http://freshfiction.com/page.php?id=8459   Looking back now, I realize that every time I picked up a book as more »