World's Quickest Interview: Tess Hilmo

It's Tess Hilmo's book birthday today, so of course I had to invite her over for a World's Quickest Interview (WQI)! Tess' ...

Balloon Rally

It's Balloon Rally weekend in our little town of Prosser! This was the view from my deck this morning. They look like Christmas bobbles ...

What If Your Truth Doesn't Ring True?

One of the craziest parts of writing a novel is in the details. What do you do when there's truth in your details, but that truth doesn...

World's Quickest Interview: Medeia Sharif

A big welcome to Medeia Sharif , author of BESTEST. RAMADAN. EVER. (Flux, 2011)!  You probably know how World's Quickest Interviews wor...

How Do You Work?

I'm curious ... What are your best working conditions? I like (and we're talking ideals here): Quiet Something to drink (ie. tea, wa...

Truth Tuesday: The Charmed Life

In case you're tempted to think I'm living the charmed life over here.... I'm a soccer mom now. Officially. I have two kids in s...

We Will Not Forget

My seven-year-old son drew these pictures during church this morning.  He wasn't born yet when the 9/11 tragedy struck... ...but he will...

Reflections on the Journey

The other day I posted about signing with literary agent Emmanuelle Morgen and so many of you chimed in with your congratulations. Thank yo...

Saturday Morning Suprise

Yesterday morning my seven-year-old came charging into our bedroom at the crack of dawn. And it wasn't even Christmas! "There's...

My Big News

I don't know how to say this, so I'll just say it in big red letters: I HAVE AN AGENT! And not just any agent. I have a wonderful ag...

We Have Winners!

I am blown away!  (And not because we had a huge windstorm here the other night.) Thank you for the wonderful response to my BIG GIVEAWAY. Y...