The plumber is coming today. The hot water dispensor will finally work! Yea!
I'm writing Chapter 5 of "Deadly Deceptions", the second Mojo book. It's an amazing experience--what an adventure! (I get the fun and excitement; Mojo gets the real danger.)
And I found a wonderful little book at Wal-Mart over the weekend. It's called "God's Creative Power", and it was written by Charles Capps. Although I have been a Christian since I was ten years old, I received some powerful insights reading this. If your prayers have been bouncing off the ceiling lately, read it.
In the meantime, don't let the news scare you. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of self-control." 2 Timothy 1:7. (Anything else comes from the other side.) Right now, I'm concentrating on the 'self-control' aspect of that verse as I am working to establish a new eating program.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
Dogs Deserve Better
Check out this website: www.dogsdeservebetter.com
This woman was actually arrested for saving a dog, chained and lying under a porch.
The pictures speak for themselves.
This woman was actually arrested for saving a dog, chained and lying under a porch.
The pictures speak for themselves.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
It's Official
"The Last Chance Cafe", starring Kevin Sorbo and Kate Vernon, will air on Lifetime at 9 Pacific time, on November 13. Do I need to tell you how excited I am? This is SO a dream come true!
Keep an eye on the website. We're working on a downloadable kit for a 'viewing party'.
I've neglected the blog lately, and for this, I apologize.
First, I was running madly to finish "A Wanted Man", the western HQN will publish in hardcover next July. (The paperback version of "The Man from Stone Creek" will appear in June). I took a few wonderful days of R and R in Grand Coulee, with my dad and stepmother--very peaceful!
Now, rested and ready, I'm two chapters into "Deadly Deceptions", the second Mojo Sheepshanks book. It's a romantic thriller, and great fun to write.
What's coming up? Well, if any of you live in the South Bend, Indiana area, I'll be speaking at the Open Book Festival on Saturday, September 23. The Festival is being held at the Main Library auditorium, and I'll be speaking from 1-2 pm, with an autographing to follow. I sure hope some of you will come by and say howdy. It's always a pleasure to meet readers in person, and I love doing gigs like this because I love libraries.
More tomorrow. Right now, Chapter 3 awaits. I can't wait to see what Mojo and the crew of ghosts and a certain hunky undercover cop are up to!
Keep an eye on the website. We're working on a downloadable kit for a 'viewing party'.
I've neglected the blog lately, and for this, I apologize.
First, I was running madly to finish "A Wanted Man", the western HQN will publish in hardcover next July. (The paperback version of "The Man from Stone Creek" will appear in June). I took a few wonderful days of R and R in Grand Coulee, with my dad and stepmother--very peaceful!
Now, rested and ready, I'm two chapters into "Deadly Deceptions", the second Mojo Sheepshanks book. It's a romantic thriller, and great fun to write.
What's coming up? Well, if any of you live in the South Bend, Indiana area, I'll be speaking at the Open Book Festival on Saturday, September 23. The Festival is being held at the Main Library auditorium, and I'll be speaking from 1-2 pm, with an autographing to follow. I sure hope some of you will come by and say howdy. It's always a pleasure to meet readers in person, and I love doing gigs like this because I love libraries.
More tomorrow. Right now, Chapter 3 awaits. I can't wait to see what Mojo and the crew of ghosts and a certain hunky undercover cop are up to!
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Bring Your Lunchbox
My dad used to tell a wonderful story--it happened to him or to someone he knew, I'm not sure which. (I'll ask him this weekend, when I go for a much-needed visit.)
Once, there was a man who wanted a job. The local plant was plastered with NOT HIRING signs. Undaunted, the man showed up, on time and dressed for work, with his lunchbox in hand, ready to work. Day after day, there he was, spit-shined, smiling, with his lunch packed. You guessed it--one day the foreman got sick of looking at him and gave him a job.
Now, since I always like to put a spiritual twist on these stories, how does this relate to prayer? Have you asked for something, and asked again, and not received an answer? Well, Hebrews 11:6 says He is the Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. I believe He loves to bless His children, but He also requires us to step up, develop our faith muscles.
So ask again today. Ask tomorrow. And the day after that.
And bring your lunchbox.
Once, there was a man who wanted a job. The local plant was plastered with NOT HIRING signs. Undaunted, the man showed up, on time and dressed for work, with his lunchbox in hand, ready to work. Day after day, there he was, spit-shined, smiling, with his lunch packed. You guessed it--one day the foreman got sick of looking at him and gave him a job.
Now, since I always like to put a spiritual twist on these stories, how does this relate to prayer? Have you asked for something, and asked again, and not received an answer? Well, Hebrews 11:6 says He is the Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. I believe He loves to bless His children, but He also requires us to step up, develop our faith muscles.
So ask again today. Ask tomorrow. And the day after that.
And bring your lunchbox.
Friday, September 01, 2006
A Wanted Man
The book is finished.
I had tears in my eyes at the end--I always celebrate, when I finish a book, but there's some heartbreak, too. I feel like a mother, sending her children off to college all at once, letting them go, sending them out into the world on their own. I feel both pride and sorrow at the prospect.
Anyway, there's another batch moving in soon--I'll be starting the second book in my new romantic suspense series--"Deadly Deceptions", after a short visit to my dad and stepmother in Grand Coulee. The first is "Deadly Gamble", and you'll be hearing more about that as the time to release it approaches--November of this year. And wait until you see the hot cover!
Which leads me to another subject. The books I've written this year--amazingly, there are four of them--are sexier than anything I've written in a long, long time. At the same time, they have a deeply spiritual quality. Go figure.
I had a letter from a dear woman who had read "The Man from Stone Creek"--twice. She was, however, offended by the love scenes. God bless her, she certainly has a right to her opinion, and I respect it. But, as Father Andrew Greely once said, when criticized for the love scenes in his books, the love between a man and a woman is but the palest reflection of the passion God feels for His Creation. You won't find my heroes and heroines involved in promiscuous sex, because I believe that's destructive. Sex is sacred, holy. But you WILL see more passionate love scenes in all future books.
I'm really taking the lid off.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I had tears in my eyes at the end--I always celebrate, when I finish a book, but there's some heartbreak, too. I feel like a mother, sending her children off to college all at once, letting them go, sending them out into the world on their own. I feel both pride and sorrow at the prospect.
Anyway, there's another batch moving in soon--I'll be starting the second book in my new romantic suspense series--"Deadly Deceptions", after a short visit to my dad and stepmother in Grand Coulee. The first is "Deadly Gamble", and you'll be hearing more about that as the time to release it approaches--November of this year. And wait until you see the hot cover!
Which leads me to another subject. The books I've written this year--amazingly, there are four of them--are sexier than anything I've written in a long, long time. At the same time, they have a deeply spiritual quality. Go figure.
I had a letter from a dear woman who had read "The Man from Stone Creek"--twice. She was, however, offended by the love scenes. God bless her, she certainly has a right to her opinion, and I respect it. But, as Father Andrew Greely once said, when criticized for the love scenes in his books, the love between a man and a woman is but the palest reflection of the passion God feels for His Creation. You won't find my heroes and heroines involved in promiscuous sex, because I believe that's destructive. Sex is sacred, holy. But you WILL see more passionate love scenes in all future books.
I'm really taking the lid off.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
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