History, Real Life, and Faith
Cynthia Hickey Cynthia Hickey pulled off quite a surprise in her novella A Christmas Castle. When Annie, a mail order bride, arrives in Arizona to meet the man she’s married by proxy, the situation turns a little awkward: the man is dead and has left behind an orphaned daughter! It’s hard to imagine how anyone could turn such a…
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Introducing A Pioneer Christmas Collection! When Barbour Publishing announced they were looking for novellas for A Pioneer Christmas Collection, they had just a few parameters: the story needed to take place between the 1700s to the late 1800s. The stories were about people surviving a pioneer experience, and celebrate Christmas in a unique dwelling. The stories that appear in A…
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Here’s Chapter Three of my original manuscript for The Dogtrot Christmas. When I finally finished writing the novella, everything changed. Tomorrow, I’ll provide the opening chapter to The Dogtrot Christmas so you can catch a glimpse of where and how Molly and Jamie–not to mention the baby–survived. If you missed the first two chapters, you can read Chapter 1 here…
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Why write a book? To prove self worth? But, don’t we all know a baby is more important than a book?
The concept of order and control haunts me–how about you? (I’m moving today, so this is a pertinent reprise of a past post) My colleague Wendy Lawton and I share a major belief. We both think if we can find an orderly system of management, our life will become simpler, more controllable and efficient. I’m not sure why Wendy is…
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What it means what a chapter in your life closes