Invitation to join Daisy Chain blog tour

Daisy Chain releases March 1st. Tina at The Blog Tour Spot will be organizing a blog tour March 9-13. My desire for this blog tour is to expose folks to Daisy Chain as well as invite people to share their family secrets at My Family Secrets blog. (The book deals with...

A Slow Burn cover

Here’s the cover of book two of the Defiance, TX trilogy, entitled A Slow Burn. It will release in October. What do you think? And a cool thing happened yesterday: I received my first hot-off-the-press copy of Daisy Chain. It’s always a...

If you haven’t read this book, you need to. Now.

If you want to see the gospel played out in the lives of ordinary (and extraordinary) folks, get this book. It’s life-changing. It’s one of the few books I’ve read this year that I cried through, loving the prose, reveling in the beauty of the story....

Bret Lott’s speech

I had the privilege to listen to Bret Lott address the Christy Awards in July. I recently found out his speech is on the Christy site. If you are an aspiring novelist, take his words to heart. *** Also, look at the post below to win a free book. Only ONE of you has...

The Making of a Masterpiece. Part One. Familiarity.

I’m reading an altogether fascinating book right now entitled Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields. It’s a book about the life of novelist Harper Lee. Though, granted, it’s frustrating that Shields has no first-hand interaction with his subject, I am...