Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Whenever I pick up a Susan May Warren book, I know to also grab a box of tissue for my tears and to make certain I’m somewhere I can laugh out loud. Susan doesn’t use mere words to tell her stories, she uses pure, undistilled emotion. Baby It’s Cold Outside, [...]
It finally dawned on me that the time to start acting like a professional writer isn’t after I am published, but before — because if I don’t start behaving like a professional I will likely never be published.  To that end I have a writing blog: Write-Lifting: Exercising Write.  You will [...]
Not your traditional Amish fiction — and what a relief! Â I have just finished reading, Along Wooded Paths, book two in Tricia Goyer’s Big Sky Novel series. (I reviewed book one, Beside Still Waters, here.) Â My favorite thing about these books is the way Goyer depicts the Englischer community. [...]
I have yet to meet a Susan May Warren novel I didn’t love. Â Her versatility as a writer is absolutely amazing. Â Her light contemporary romances have tickled and charmed me. Â Her historical romances resonate with the sight, sounds, and scents of the era. Â Her characters are well-rounded, flawed, and so [...]
I just finished reading, A Lancaster County Christmas, by Suzanne Woods Fisher. It didn’t matter that we were having our own mini heat wave and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt while sitting under the ceiling fan — it was Christmas and a blizzard had stranded me in a [...]