History, Real Life, and Faith
I did not plan to write a sequel for my Christmas novella, The Yuletide Bride, but when the opportunity arose, I figured out how to write one. Before The 12 Brides of Christmas e-books were released last fall, Barbour Publishing gave the writers an opportunity to write sequels. We had several days to come up with a synopsis. Our editor liked the dozen…
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What’s a novella? As an author with five published novellas to my credit, I’ve pondered their allure, especially at Christmas time. Why do people like to read them? Novellas are shorter works of fiction, usually ranging between 15,000 and 30,000 words– or about 60 to 120 “standard sized” pages. While short stories, on the other hand, have ranged as high as…
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Are you guilty of accent borrowing? I am. I was mortified the day I attended a training session and sat beside a woman from Australia. We chatted happily until the session began and the instructor asked the dozen of us for an introduction. My neighbor said her name, and added that while she was from Sydney, she was delighted to be…
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t like failure. I don’t like to fail and I don’t like watching other people fail. But in conversation lately, I’ve been thinking about the good that can come from failure. It just depends on how you look at it. Definitions are always helpful. Failure: 1. omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : failing…
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The joy and need for kid translators in Slovenia, and the rest of the world!
My Zumba teacher employed some World War I slang this morning as one of our dancers hurried out to work. “Good luck in the trenches!” The class all laughed, as did I, but my mind didn’t follow Becky out the door. Instead, it hunkered down at the word and I marveled at how events from 100 years ago still live in…
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