Freerunner got an updated cover to reflect its status as a Selah Awards Finalist. Freerunner is up against three other YA books, and...

Catching Hope is set in the country of Haiti, a country I first visited in 1997 in conjunction with the adoption of my son Jeff. Then I...

Preparation for the blog tour actually begin back in November. We had scheduled it for the last week in February, but we cut it a little...

Catching Hope is on blog tour for the next 13 days. I was a bit nervous about this due to the reactions to Freerunner on blog tour. Both...

The cover models for both books are amazing young women, but have very different stories, backgrounds and families. Today I'll talk about...

My second teen fiction book is now available through amazon and Good Reads as well as the publisher, Elk Lake. Here is the back cover...

As I mentioned in my last post, almost every review mentioned that Freerunner was a hard book to read. Thankfully overall the book seemed...

#teenbooks #teenfiction #hopeandhealing #blogtour #issuebasedfiction Freerunner is on Day 10 of a blog tour. It has been both hard and...

My book teen fiction book Freerunner is, obviously, set against the backdrop of freerunning. I'm not sure when I first thought of writing...

I have been working on an underwater crime scene story for quite a while. It's being written slowly because I have little knowledge of...

Freerunner is the story of a 15-year-old who freeruns to escape the memories of abuse/molestation she suffered as a young child. So many tee

Larissa, the cover model for Freerunner, shows off her Freerunner wristbands.

In doing my final edits, some of my main character's words/thoughts stood out to me more than others. Here are four of my favorite...

In the past I've written preteen/young teen devotional or interactive non fiction books. But I've realized that sometimes a story is the...

This is not a cooking blog, this is real life supper-scorched-let's-order-pizza cooking. But there are some recipes so easy that it would...

I'm trying to use up some bags and cans of beans from food distribution after the hurricane. So I've made chili using different kinds of...

If your family is like mine, there are dishes that are favorites through the years but have no recipe. It's just a bit of this, a dash of...

At the beginning of the year, we each make a list that's a combination of a goals list, to do list, and wish list. One of my item was to...

Mary Higgins Clark has long been my favorite author. She is not only a master of suspense, but she turns out a page turner that is...