Sweet Release was originally published well before 2020 and is one of my earlier e-books, not available in print.  This is an excerpt from the second chapter. CHAPTER TWO Matthew Preston pushed his handsome 6 ft. frame out of the chair and stood,…

If you've followed this blog or read articles on it here and there, you'll find multiple posts about or regarding the general genre of Christian Fiction. Much of those posts have expressed some frustrations. Not because of the authors who write it – after all, I'm one of them. Not because of many of the…

  Michael McDonald and Patti LaBelle! Great duet. Great voices.    Father, may all who've received your gifts and talents know from whom they're given. In the Name of Jesus, Amen. 

I enjoy the different ways stories come to be told. Pre-conceived ideas that make it all the way to a finished manuscript, the stark realization that hits mid-thought of something else and becomes the compelling reason for another story. The experience that forms a narrative in the mind and makes its way into a plot.…

  " . . . Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body…

The first two chapters of my novel . . . in a love song available only in ebook format.  . . . in a love song PART 1 One The first time he looked over the half-empty pitchers of beer on the oblong rough-hewn table and past the cheeky smiles and loud laughs of the…

                                                            An old post . . .  Bastion What comes to mind? A castle? A bunker? A fortress? A citadel? Probably not the bastion of the…

  As a non-bestselling author, I've learned a few things along the way, having started this writing novels thing later than most. So here's what I'm going to tell you about me. Who I don't want to be as an author: I don't want to be an author who ignores the fact that I can…

  A little more smooth jazz to make you linger in that sax sound by the great Candy Dulfer.    Father, thank you for your wonderful musicians. May each one with that gift realize from whom it comes. In the Name of Jesus, Amen. 

                        Rocky Road is the second novel in the Sons of Scandal Series by Becky Wade. Jude Camden is the younger of two sons born to Fiona and philandering former famous professional football player Felix Camden. Jude became an attorney first but is now…