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New Novel about Living off the Grid in California–Release Date 2/10/21

This month, a friend is releasing her first novel. I wanted to highlight this novel because I think it’s a really great book. My friend, Nancy Brashear, was seemingly working […]

To Enliven Your Writing Life, Try Genre Switching

Today, when I attend a writer’s conference, I hear the same advice from editors and agents: Don’t write in multiple genres. Stick to one. As an English major, this comes […]

What Does it Mean to Write Christian Fiction?

I admit that I have been confused for a long time about this topic, though when I first started out, I thought I knew everything there was to know about […]

One More Blog for the Holidays about the Boxes We Use and the Grief that Rambles

Grief, I have discovered, is not something that I can separate from myself and set in a box and put on a shelf somewhere. I know that boxes are great […]

The Rambling of Grief

In my three years of grieving the loss of our son, I have learned that the clichés, the usual ones about time healing or life being bitter/sweet that are of […]