Happy New Year, friends! Welcome to 2026 – with an exciting, blank slate in front of us! Here are my writing goals this year: Write and Publish: Flames of Suspicion (February, I hope) Flames of Hope (April) Flames of Justice (June) Those will be books 5-7 in the Red Blood & Bluegrass series. Threads of Deception (maybe …
Category: Writing Life
Talk About Frustrating!
September 1st marked my “I’m back to being a full-time writer” phase of life. What made it fun is that I had two major conferences – American Christian Fiction Writers and Novelists, Inc., almost immediately. In fact, this week has been my first week home for the entire week since it all began! As you …
Refreshed, Reset, and Fri-YAY
Happy Fri-YAY! I’m fresh back from my annual spring writer’s retreat. I joined Susan May Warren, Lacy Williams, Misty Beller, Robin Patchen, and Tracy Higley for four-and-a-half wonderful days of talking, praying, crying, laughing, more laughing, plotting books, and talking strategy. We went over things that worked last year (obviously, I didn’t get to take …


