Freerunner won second place in the YA catagory of the Selah Awards Wednesday night at the Blue Ridge Christian Writer's Conference. It...

Last time I blogged about my 2021 list of things to do and places to go. One of the things I want to do is visit Florida state parks. We...

At the beginning of each year I make a list that is a combination of goals, a to-do list, and a wish list. It might contain books I want...

I planned to post more often, but the weather has been great, the kids were on spring break for a week, and even after they returned to...

This is my book cover model for Catching Hope. Only 14 when the cover photo was taken (while she was visiting for my daughter's wedding),...

Picture above--Near where the teens go on their outing. There is one day left of my blog tour. Catching Hope has been well received. The...

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...