Blending with Balance, the fourth and final book in the Blender Adventures series launches on November 9! Emily Hanford and Ethan Stewart face new challenges as their combined family crowds into smaller spaces during months of house reconstruction. Even the long-anticipated return to school disappoints the two seventh graders due to scrutiny and scorn from … Continue reading Blending with Balance
Stirring with Strife
Stirring with Strife, Book 3 in my Blender Adventures series, has launched! The series includes four novels about a blended family (for readers ages 8-12 and above). In the first two novels, Dicing with Disaster and Mixing with Madness, Emily Hanford deals with typical sixth grade concerns and faces challenges associated with her mother's death … Continue reading Stirring with Strife
Mixing with Madness
Mixing with Madness, Book 2 in my Blender Adventure series, has launched! The series includes four novels about a blended family (for readers ages 8-12 and above). Spring break promises 12-year-old Emily Hanford a long-awaited vacation, basking in the sun on Cancun’s white beaches. But a global pandemic sweeps away her holiday dream and surges … Continue reading Mixing with Madness
Blender Adventures series launched!
Exciting news! Dicing with Disaster, Book 1 in my new Blender Adventures series has launched. The series includes four novels about a blended family for readers ages 8-12 (and above). What girl wants a blender for her twelfth birthday? Not Emily Hanford. But Dad’s poor gift choice fades in light of her suspicions that he’s … Continue reading Blender Adventures series launched!
November
It’s November, the between month. Between leaves tumbling in sun-warmed colors and snowflakes feathering from a slate sky. Between roaring combines churning dust clouds and dazzling white blanketing latent fields. November. Cold, gray. I was born in a dreary November more than 80 years ago. In the same old farmhouse that cradles my weary bones … Continue reading November
The Delight and Truth of Fiction
William Boekestein, pastor of Immanuel Fellowship Church in Kalamazoo, MI, was recently appointed as the social media coordinator for Reformed Fellowship, publisher of the The Outlook. In his continuing task to help Reformed Fellowship build an online presence and engage meaningful internet discussion, he posted yesterday (October 20, 2016) a link to my article on Fiction's … Continue reading The Delight and Truth of Fiction
Living Echoes – it is finished
Almost six years since the initial idea glimmered in my mind, Living Echoes is finally a completed novel. For about half that time, I didn't know how it would end. Every word of the last phrase was clear, except the proper noun subject. It was only as I wrote that the ending crystallized. Then it took me … Continue reading Living Echoes – it is finished
Fiction’s Delight and Truth
An article I wrote about why Christians should read fiction appears in the November issue of The Outlook. You can page through this online preview to read that article as well as a lovely review of my Matthew books.
Matthew has moved ahead
My book boy Matthew has moved into his final phase. He'll leap only a few more hurdles before crossing the finish line. Matthew Moves Ahead is the third and last novel of the Matthew in the Middle series. My wonderful online critique group reviewed all the chapters in it, and I'm finalizing end matter prior to submitting it to the proofreader. I'm … Continue reading Matthew has moved ahead
Thursday Thanks
Today I'm thankful that a mom in Canada took the time to share this on my Facebook page: I am reading Matthew Muddles Through to my nine-year-old and seven-year-old every evening before bed. They are just LOVING it. Every night I hear, 'Please! Another chapter, Mom. Pretty, pretty please?' It's so great to hear of kids … Continue reading Thursday Thanks
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