Two years ago this month, Max and I took a trip to East Texas for our anniversary. A few weeks before that, an idea for my next book had come to me – something quaint with a small town feel. A place where readers would feel welcome. A few other ideas bubbled up, none of them particularly related, but they …
STARDUST Book Video
In three short weeks, STARDUST will release. I can’t wait for y’all to read it! Everything about this book has been pure delight – from the research trip to East Texas to letting the characters dance onto the pages to seeing the cover my publisher created to holding the first hot-off-the press copy in my hands. It’s a feeling I …
>THE SWEETEST THING by Elizabeth Musser
>This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing The Sweetest Thing • Bethany House (June 1, 2011) by Elizabeth Musser ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elizabeth Musser, an Atlanta native, studied English and French literature at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. While at Vanderbilt, I had the opportunity to spend a semester in Aix-en-Provence, France. During her Senior year at Vanderbilt, …
>Lagniappe
>I’m borrowing the title of this post from Jason Ashley Wright, the quirky Mississippi boy who’s one of my favorite columnists in our local paper. The first of the month he channels his Southern roots and throws in some lagniappe – a little somethin’, somethin’ extra, as he says. Last weekend I went to the Celebration of Books and attended …
>Review and Giveaway of A SLOW BURN by Mary E. DeMuth
>A SLOW BURN by Mary E. DeMuth My Review: This second course in the Defiance Texas Trilogy was a bit of a surprise to me. Instead of continuing with Jed Pepper’s story, Mary takes us deep into the lives of Daisy Chance’s fragile, drug-addicted mother, Emory, and Jed’s warm-hearted friend, Hixon, whose own life is marked by uncertainty and grief. …
>REVIEW OF WHAT THE BAYOU SAW by Patti Lacy
>I met Patti Lacy on the run at the Minneapolis ACFW conference. In our five minute encounter, I knew I’d met a writer who sizzled with life, embracing it with joy and wonder. Soon after I read her debut novel, An Irishwoman’s Tale, and saw that same quality in her writing. She writes with abandon—exuberant prose with a magnetism aimed …