Sample chapters, characters, all things books
A Touch of Paradise at Winchester Lake State Park For over thirty years, we lived across the road from Winchester Lake State Park in north-central Idaho. What a privilege to hike to and through and three miles around this high mountain vacation spot any time we wanted, any season of the year. You’ve got to […]
Retta felt her thigh muscles burn as she pushed her lace-up, high-top shoes into the dirt. First Joslyn, then Christen fell back. Soon she could see neither. “Don’t turn around and look. I know I can win. I have fast legs and am not fat, Travis Lott. Just have strong bones.” The pale blue prairie […]
HELPS ON THE FAMILY LIFE TRAIL We all need trail tips now and then. Being a parent is more than rushing around in a frenzy of work. Or earning the money. Good dads take time to know themselves, their wives, and especially their children. We want to be good dads, but sometimes we run out […]
Novel Release Lillian’s Legacy by Carmen Peone Novel release Lillian’s Legacy features Lillian Gardner, a healer in using natural medicines. She considers herself the black sheep of her family. In an attempt to prove her value, she sets off into the wilds of Eastern Washington and Indian Territory. Her companion is Doctor Mali Maddox, an […]
Don Runcie might as well have beaten Reba with a tire iron and left her for dead. The effect wrenched the same. Her joy wadded up in a bloody rag at her feet. “Reba Mae,” Jace began and stopped. A gust of wind dashed over them, whipping Reba’s hair and spinning ground debris like devil […]
I needed to know as many 1991 facts as possible that might impact my newest fiction series characters in small and big ways. My newest novel, Beneath A Campderown Elm, Book 3, happens in both fictional and real towns on the Idaho high mountain Camas Prairie in the summer of 1991. So, I studied the […]
7 REASONS WHY I NEED CHURCH by Stephen Bly Do I need church? Can’t a Christian make it alone? Why can’t I worship God in the comfort of my home, enjoying the best preaching and music the media has to offer? Why can’t I just enjoy being alone out in the woods–just God and me and […]
LAURA Award-Winning Author Carmen Peone releases Girl Warrior, a fast-paced, action adventure, horse race story. Leave comment to enter novel giveaway! Picture a little girl keen on entering a horse race. She’s leading a pony down a well-groomed lane. She’s the one with the photo of a shaggy-maned pony on her backpack. Serene posters line her bedroom […]
Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing, Cowboy Christmas Western Novel by Award-Winning Author Stephen Bly, Book 1 The Stuart Brannon Series. Limited time Holiday discount now available! Excerpt from Christmas western story, Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing: “About midnight, the baby came. Lisa had been in horrible pain until then. Cleaned things up a […]
Books I’d Like To Read October 2017 Christian Fiction Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website. Contemporary Romance Christian Fiction Releases: A Waltz for Amber by Kimberly Rose Johnson — Amber, a struggling dance teacher, fights to make a success of her studio. The quickly approaching […]
Comments on the Blog