Meet Paulos
If you’ve read my books, you know that my heroes and heroines are characters that are only mentioned a few times in the Bible. Major personages, like Moses and Joshua, are there, but they are not the focus of the story. For my next series, Paul will be a little more involved than Moses and Joshua were. Each story will take place in …
February #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 that Friday at 10 am. Winner will be announced the following Monday at 10 am. This month I’m giving away a signed copy of my book Prize of War. Prize has been on Amazon’s list of bestsellers …
Meet Quin and Tia
Elantia is Sold into Freedom’s heroine. She’s from southwest Britannia, the area that is now Devon and Kent. Her father is the chief of their small village, which is part of the Dumnonii tribe. Britannia was inhabited by the people we now call Celtics, though they weren’t known by that name until the 17th century. They were actually many disparate …
Join Me in Philippi
I’ve been AWOL for about six weeks now. It’s been an incredibly busy 6 weeks, bookwise, on top of two birthdays and Christmas in the same week. I think I’m almost recovered. On the 15th I submitted my manuscript for Guideposts’ upcoming series “Ordinary Women of the Bible.” My book is about Jochebed, Moses’s birth mother. It was one of the …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #1
In light of the other issues orphans face, it should not be surprising that many resort to suicide. With no help in sight and no solutions in mind, some can simply find no reason to keep going. One study found that the suicide rate of adoptees is four times greater than the suicide rate of non-adoptees. A Russian study reported that of the …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #5 and #4
Human traffickers see orphans as the ideal target. If no one misses them, no one will come looking for them. Get hard facts here in the 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report. For the same reason, these children are sold into slave labor. you can learn more about that here and here. If we really want to stop human trafficking, one powerful …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #6
Orphans lose all support—emotional, financial, and more. They often go to work to pay for basic needs, not only for themselves but sometimes for younger siblings, which means they must drop out of school.Nearly eight out of ten orphans in Burkina Faso have dropped out of school. In Zambia, the number of children who do not attend school rising at …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #7
November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. You may not be called to adoption, but you are called to pray. This month, I’ll share ten ways you can pray for the world’s orphans. There are 69 million children worldwide who suffer from malnutrition (World Bank). In 2017, 75 percent …