With her cool covers, manly men, tough and beautiful women, the McIntire County Series Book 4 is another good one. We'll hear from Winter Austin on the strong heroines in her stories. Stay close.    Father, thank you for the amazing writing skills…

. . . If anyone's name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.   Revelation 20:15 (NIV)

                                 In a comment to yesterday's post (Throwback Thursday), my author friend Brenda S. Anderson remarked about another good writer that didn't sell well in Christian fiction (Mark Mynheir). For those of us who author novels and admire others who do the same, we of course, like all readers, have our favorites, and when we…

                           (Originally posted on April 7th, 2011; "Searching for . . . The Corruptible")  For those of you who enjoyed the salty detectives of Randy Alcorn’s Deception, J. Mark Bertrand’s Back on Murder, and for any of you who’ve ever watched “The Rockford…

                                               Made me smile. Okay, after I cried.    Thank you, Lord, for all those parents, single and otherwise, who are devoted to their children and improving their lives. All they truly need…

           The Youngbloods had a lot of hits back in the day, some of those songs still familiar today. Their lyrics spoke to me during the dark times of my life without Jesus. Sad to say.    Father, thank you for allowing us to walk down the dark roads to discover…

                             Carrie Stuart Parks has written the third Gwen Marcey novel and it's a good one. When Death Draws Near takes forensic artist Gwen to a small town in Kentucky where a serial rapist is on the loose. A surviving witness disappears as…

Some sat in darkness and the deepest gloom,    prisoners suffering in iron chains, for they had rebelled against the words of God    and despised the counsel of the Most High. So he subjected them to bitter labor;    they stumbled, and there was no one to help. Then they cried to the Lord…

      From the novel Sweet Release:  . . . He couldn’t take the casual relationship anymore. He was a firm believer in moving forward—treading water was tiresome and pointless—something you did only when you hoped to be rescued. Clearly, she wasn’t throwing him a lifeline.   Father, every notion, inspiration, right words come from…

                          (Originally posted on August 30, 2012. "Thinking . . . They Almost Always Come Home)  Libby Holden has lost touch with most everything meaningful in her life since her young daughter Lacey's death several years before the story begins. She blames her…