Part Two with Ane Mulligan   11. Your planning and access allowed for you to get a pretty good jump on marketing your novel. Do you enjoy marketing and promoting? I have to plan and have it done early; otherwise marketing resembles an elephant and scares the fire out of me. My mind…

                         Ane is my lifesaver at Novel Rocket where I'm privileged to post once a month. Without her I could never get the pictures situated with articles. She's gracious, fun-loving, multi-skilled, a beautiful southern belle, and her debut novel (available for pre-order) will release Monday, September 8th, 2014. We did an interview for you just…

                                The CFBA presents Gina Holmes' new release Driftwood Tides, published by Tyndale Fiction (free for review). I love Gina Holmes' voice. It's that down-home, occasionally snarky, often lovely prose, and excellent heartfelt characterization that epitomize her novels. She writes honest and uses the need for forgiveness as a predominant theme in her work.…

                                           "An FBI agent’s obsession with his late father’s secret sets him on a collision course with a past he has carefully avoided, shadowy enemies he never suspected, and a most unlikely friendship with an autistic man who sees reality in ways no one else can. Will Jackson Barrett’s determination to unlock secrets his father…

    . . . but let the wicked be put to shame    and lie silent in the grave. Let their lying lips be silenced,    for with pride and contempt    they speak arrogantly against the righteous.   Psalm 31:17b-18 (NIV)

  I crave insight. I experience hindsight. I want revelation. I receive understanding. None of it all the time. Christians know they are not privy to all of God's mysteries, the whys and wherefores of life and its happenings. We must endure sorrow, pain, suffering, sickness, depression, and fear. We celebrate joy, laughter, growth, fun, talents,…

                                                                           There is something ultimately satisfying in slamming a receiver down or punching the "End" call option on a cell phone. It accentuates the ire, the passion, the dissatisfaction with whoever or whatever upsets us during that telephone call. Now it's not an emotion we should hold onto, but it definitely generates a…

                  Summertime. Can't beat it. Summer evenings . . . silky, soft, sensuous, soothing, and sacred.   Father, thank you for the seasons, each with their own beauty and mystery. Thanks for future perfection and please forgive us for ruining the experience in the Garden. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

                   At some point in my life – I'm not sure when – I learned to put away victories and keep marching on. What has always been tougher to put away are those numerous defeats. They tend to stall my forward progress and suggest I give up. Those "suggestions" seem to initiate the biggest…

   I know sadness. Heartbreak. Sorrow. Hurt. I've felt it inside my skin. There is so little that can be said to alleviate that kind of pain and loss. I always appreciated those who tried as long as they didn't use clichés  or hand out well-worn scriptures which, instead of actually giving comfort, come off…