Real Life is Better Than Fiction

Tattered Innocence by Ann Lee Miller No one is perfect. We all make mistakes. Sometimes we make them knowingly and without a thought to the consequences they might bring upon us and those around us. That’s the theme of this book. Rachel made a choice that almost separated two families. Jake made a similar decision. Neither one feels that they can ever be loved or love another again. They are both trying to run away from the choices they made, running away from God at the same time. It isn’t until they run into the arms of God that they can deal with their past mistakes and be able to face their futures. The only problem I had with the book was that the transitions seemed to be missing sometimes. There were a few times I had to go back and re-read something to understand that Jake or Rachel were looking back to the past. There were a few places when the POV changed abruptly, which was also a little confusing. Not a blatantly Christian book, but a fairly clean read. The th...

My Writing Process Thank you so much to my dear friend, Kate, for inviting me to be on this blog tour. She has been a part of my family for so for many, many years. Please make sure you go check out her blog at http://katehodges690.wordpress.com. You may find a new favorite author! What am I working on? I am never working on only one thing. I’m a freelance writer so there is always something in the works for one publication or another. I do a lot of editing for other people in between my own writing. I am ALMOST finished with my second novel. (Yes, it’s capitalized because I’m excited!) The name of my novel is Belonging.  Read the following blurb to learn more about it. After the death of her father, painfully shy and introverted Shelly finds her world turned upside down. She is forced to speak with people and she may even have to move from her comfortable apartment. Sorting through her father’s possessions at his house brings back many memories, including how they w...

Review of The Justice Game By Randy Singer To some people in today’s world, the legal system is a game. Greed is the idea behind the game in Randy Singer’s story. After a horrific shooting, leaving a woman and her unborn child dead, the husband decides to sue the gun manufacturer, sighting neglect on their part to monitor gun dealers The two lawyers that go head to head in this case, have their own struggles. Those struggles are not made any easier when an unknown source begins blackmailing them into doing what he wants, which is not to settle this case. Kelly Starling is a young, but not a rookie lawyer. She thought no one knew her secret until she received an email with instructions from Luthor.  Jason Noble is a rookie lawyer, with a flair for dramatics. He thought his secret was safe with only a couple people who he trusted. Apparently not, after he received his own email from Luthor.    Both Kelly and Jason have choices to make. Do they do wh...

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Kathleen Y'Barbo and the book: Sadie's Secrets Harvest House (2014) ***Special thanks to Ginger Chen of Harvest House for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bestselling author Kathleen Y’Barbo is a multiple Carol Award and RITA nominee of fifty novels with almost two million copies of her books in print in the US and abroad and nominations including a Career Achievement Awa...

Life is a rat race. So many of us strive to work hard to get that promotion at work only to realize it comes with no pay increase but plenty of headaches. Some of us take on the burdens of the entire world hoping to fix everything that’s wrong. Then there are those of us who just struggle to keep up with the day to day activities and nuances:   work, schooling for the kids, paying the bills, car problems, work problems, homework problems, trying to keep some semblance of order in our house. The list could go on and on. I want this year to be different. I want to jump off the treadmill that gives me only one direction and one speed to run. I want to slow life down and enjoy. I want to be still before God and get to know Him on a level I never knew Him before. I can’t do that with all the craziness that’s going on around me. There will be days I don’t answer the phone, respond to emails, or even get dressed. Last year my theme was “Christ magnified through me.” ...

To get you all in the Christmas mood this Flashback Friday, here is a little Christmas story from the past involving my brother and one of my sisters.   For some reason, Billy always held a special place in his heart for Sarah.   Maybe it was because she was the youngest and he was the oldest.   I really don’t know.             Anyway, Sarah loved it when M & M’s came in a new color:   green.   She would always pick out as many green ones as she could find.   We all let her because she couldn’t have been more than three or four years old.   She was cute then.             One day all the green M&M’s began disappearing!   It seemed like there were hardly any, if any at all, in the bags that Grandma brought us.   Most of us didn’t think too much about it; we just wanted candy.   Chocolate was a staple in our hou...

I hope you are all enjoying the Ruby Christmas story so far. I also hope you are following the picture contest where you can win a prize. All you have to do is compare the pictures and see how they are different. You can find all the details on the WIP blog. Here is my picture. Do any of you recognize the location? Read the chapter to find out where Ruby is today. My chapter is featured today on the WIP blog . Please follow the link to read the continuing story.