Disregard the date on this promotional picture. This summer's new episodes begin on June 24th (2014) at 7 PM PDT. Tomorrow you will be introduced to author Heather Day Gilbert if you haven't already had the pleasure. And on Friday I will post a review of her latest novel Miranda Warning.      Father,…

                                Recently I've warily delved into a few general market books, mostly suspense and mystery novels. I'm a third of the way into my last one for a while. Guess what I've discovered? In Christian fiction sex is taboo. At least anything past "longing looks" and "deep kisses" and occasional thoughts of "possibilities" related to those…

                        Now this escape into the secular market held a bit more of what is expected from general market fiction. There were language issues, one fairly graphic sex scene, and a gay Nigerian artist. Add to that the hopelessness of the dying P. I. Jimmy Booker, and you have a sad, borderline depressing, novel about Jimmy's last case.…

  Trust in him at all times, O people;   pour out your hearts to him,   for God is our refuge.   Psalm 62:8 (NIV)

                              I decided to venture outside the CBA market for a little break just to see if it was possible to read a decent (as in not immorally saturated) crime novel from the talented and prolific bestselling novelist J. A. Jance. I picked up in the middle of her Joanna Brady Series with Skeleton Canyon because this particular back cover…

  Down the road at Novel Rocket today. Looking at the "if onlys". Will you visit?   Lord, I'm grateful for it all. Thank you. So much. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

  Every story starts somewhere and every reader knows there is an end. But some stories begin and end with little variety and not much interesting in between those first and last pages. Some readers love details, others not so much. Writers vary in that process as well and create their novels according to two…

      Most children go through the usual variety of things they want to be when they grow up. Young people quickly eliminate childhood fantasies and begin to establish more pointed goals. Some stick with those designated dreams and work their way to fulfilling them. Or not. We can know that we know that we know…

  Just when you think life can't get any worse after three miscarriages and losing your husband in a car accident, you get attacked and nearly choked to death by a faceless criminal but manage to survive the assault. Sort of. Lisa Newberry is a 29 year old widow who can barely force herself to…

  You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us;   you have been angry – now restore us! You have shaken the land and torn it open;   mend its fractures, for it is quaking. You have shown your people desperate times;   you have given us wine that makes us stagger.…