Free from Revell for an honest review.   Cathleen Armstrong's debut novel Welcome to Last Chance, published by Revell (A Division of Baker Books), completes the desired objective for the CBA demographic. Whether or not you classify it as a romance or women's fiction, it will definitely fit the prescribed content for…

       Sometimes it's the little things that bug me as a reader. Since I'm a writer too, it's a tad easier to be bugged by discrepancies of any kind really. Writers tend to be nit-picky because they're constantly faced with criticism and rejection. So they tend to hand out a little of their…

  You will keep in perfect peace  him whose mind is steadfast,  because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever,  for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.   Isaiah 26:3-4 (NIV)

  She was . . . so kind, so lovely, so brave, so caring. She kept a home worth coming home to. She tried to understand me when it was hard to handle a hormonal teenager morphing into a rebellious young woman. She allowed me to be young for as long as I wanted. She hurt…

                                If you like baseball, you know errors are often disastrous for the team committing them and embarrassing for the player who makes them. Major league players making key mistakes can cost them the game. They're unacceptable, disappointing, and distressing when they happen at critical moments. The crowds tend to react unfavorably with unified groans…

         When a writer attempts to write a story with serious intent and hopes to, at the least, touch some hearts, make readers feel either positive or negative emotional responses, and leave a lingering association with them as the pages end, it's unsettling to realize there are no guarantees that even his/her best…

                           http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Certain%20Jeopardy%20by%20Jeff%20Struecker%20and%20Alton%20Gansky If you want authentic military thrills, Captain Jeff Struecker teams with author Alton Gansky to put together an intense story about a journey to Venezuela that morphs into something totally unexpected, acutely dangerous and, as things go terribly awry, with little chance of succeeding. Going from observation status to "certain…

      I wrote this post on titles last year: http://hopeofglory.typepad.com/into_the_fire/2012/03/titles-of-novels.html. Are you satisfied with the titles you've attached to your work? Is naming your stories a struggle for you? I love titles with dual meanings. The innuendoes surface somewhere along the pages of the novel, or the title takes place in conversation between characters and gives relevance to…

  The floodgates of the heavens are opened,   the foundations of the earth shake. The earth is broken up,   the earth is split asunder,   the earth is thoroughly shaken. The earth reels like a drunkard,   it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of…

                     Who can know them? Once in awhile we are given notice of impending actions, but most of the time we are called by faith to believe in what we cannot see, to trust not in ourselves, and to walk in the Spirit. It's a tough go. But it's the best "go". Lee Hough…