I received TWO rejections yesterday.  The Mary, mother of Christ, series was axed yesterday, which is somewhat heartbreaking.  I’m licking my wounds today, and sending it off to another publisher.  But this is part of the game–you get some published, and you get some bounced back at you. So what will I do?  I’m going [...]

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In writing news, I finished up the romance novel for one of the publishers I currently work with, and emailed it off.  It’s a good feeling to have a manuscript sent away.  Of course, I had a few agonizing moments of, “Should I have added another sub-plot?  Is it really a horrible, drab bit of [...]

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Alright, this is where I just have to do some bragging….  My two and a half year old son is reading! That’s right–reading!  I figured out he could do it when he looked down at the back of his potty book, which has the word “boy” written across it.  This is to separate it from [...]

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Sometimes I want something so badly that I can taste it.  That’s pretty much the driving force behind my writing.  This opportunity to be published with the Christian line of Harlequin is one of those things I can taste right now. Last night, I finished up the edits of the manuscript, printed it off, and [...]

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Yesterday, I received the edited manuscript for my novel Zacchaeus.  This book is due out this year, I believe, and I’m really looking forward to seeing it in print!  I’ll give you a bit of a teaser… Zacchaeus has a sister-in-law who is nothing short of a shrew.  Every family has one, and Tzofit is [...]

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This picture taken by the Hubble telescope amazes me.  These are two sister galaxies somewhere far, far away from here.  Maybe there is life there. Maybe there isn’t.  Maybe this is simply an example of one of God’s eon-long creative bursts. There are a couple of things that got me thinking in this picture.  The [...]

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I received an answer from Harlequin about the novel I had revised for them.  While I still did not get my “Yes, you are a genius” answer that I was hoping for, I did get a positive response.  The editor liked the story, and if I make some more specific changes, she is willing to [...]

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Last night, I finished editing my latest manuscript.  I’d gone through it, let it sit, and went over it again to find that it was good to go.  So I emailed it off, feeling fantastic. Laying in bed with my husband, I got to thinking about the manuscript. What if I completely removed a section [...]

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My son (who is barely two–have I mentioned that?)  just learned his alphabet.  It’s the cutest thing!  He has a little wooden board that he can pull the letters out of, and he picks them up one by one and announces them.  I’m just so proud of him!  He’s very bright, just like his daddy. [...]

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