As promised, here is the second portion of chapter one. Final installment next week! “Shhh, little one.” Kebi called Miriam over with open arms. “It’s all right. Abba can find them—”“No!” she shouted, pulling away. “Shifra’s husband said the king’s guards took them as the sun rose. Carried them to the villa in chariots.”Another contraction stole Kebi’s voice, but her …
Meet Jochebed
So I went AWOL last month. I didn’t intend to; real life interfered. My last two kids are graduating in two weeks. One turned 18 in April and the other one hits legal adulthood tomorrow. There was prom, with dresses and hemming and shoes and matching bow ties. My mom’s memory is getting much worse and she frequently thinks I …
March Giveaway
I’m going to be hosting a giveaway each month this year. They will start on a Monday at 10 am EST and end the following Friday at 10 am. Winner will be announced the next Monday at 10 am. This month I’m giving away an paperback set of the “Journey to Canaan” trilogy: In the Shadow of Sinai, By the …
Tyranny, Time and Trust
So it’s 9:53 pm and I’m writing tomorrow’s blog post. I procrastinate. A lot. Or maybe I just have four children. Everything that is not bleeding, hungry, crying, yelling, or broken gets pushed to the bottom of the list, and a blog post tends to be very quiet. Invisible, even. Until I realize it’s Thursday night and something needs to …
D is for Digging In
There are two things that begin with D that I am very grateful for that I’ve already written about. One is diversity, and the other is Delta jets. There are several other smaller D words I thankful for. One is denim. I love jeans; I hate dressing up. I don’t mind dresses or skirts, as long as they’re comfy. Comfort …
The End is Near…
Unlikely Merger is finished! Although we don’t yet know the ending….it’s a huge secret! Until we know which hero Mercy chose, Write Integrity Press is keeping us entertained with stories of road trips and summer, and Fay Thompson Lamb is revealing—finally—who write whom with interviews of each author. Working on a collaborative novel was a fun and new experience …
Thomas Nelson’s The Voice
At the writers’ conference I attended in September, I was given a copy of a new version of the Bible entitled The Voice. It’s a completely different type of “translation,” and I imagine there will be those who love it and those who hate it. For books that tell stories and contain a lot of action, the text is almost …
Why Can’t Hallmark Publish My Book?
I love the TV show Castle. I love the mysteries they solve each week. I love the logo, with the pen that slices down into the A, releasing blood, that looks more like a book cover than the opening of a TV show. What I don’t like is the unrealistic way they portray the life of a writer—the way he …
Was There a Full Moon That Night?
Writing historical fiction is usually research intensive. Sometimes every sentence needs to be researched. Comments that in contemporary fiction would be commonplace need to be meticulously fact-checked. Something like, “He considered her opinion as he bit into the juicy peach,” means you have to make sure there were peaches in that time, in that season, in that place. Maybe peach …