The last few weeks have been so fun. In addition to our trip to London for study abroad, I’ve had a couple booksignings. It’s been so much fun to connect with readers I’ve known via social media for awhile — there’s something about meeting in person that’s so fun! On Saturday I was at one of my favorite independent bookstores …
Book Talk: Jenny Erlingsson
Book Talk: Jenny Erlingsson Listen to the episode with Jenny Erlingsson One of my favorite things to do on Book Talk is introduce you to debut authors, and that’s exactly what I get to do today. Jenny Erlingsson’s debut book Her Part to Play is releasing, and I had such a good time connecting with Jenny from Iceland. Iceland, y’all! …
A Tour of London and Bath Bookstores & Giveaway
Monday I returned from a trip to London — Eric, two of our kids, and I spent 2.5 weeks there with 16 students on study abroad. It was a great time to explore — and for me to teach in a compressed timeframe, but what I wanted to share with you today is some of the delightful bookshops we explored …
Book Talk: Misty Beller
Book Talk: Misty Beller Listen to the episode with Misty Beller Today, it’s a delight to have Misty Beller on Book Talk. A busy mother of five, we were having a good conversation about the need to edit our lives when we remembered to hit record. Don’t worry, we made sure to go back and include that for you, too. …
Booksignings and Giveaway
Tomorrow my family flies back from England where we’ve been for the last two and a half weeks for study abroad. It’s been a great time of working and exploring. One of my favorite things to do when traveling is to explore bookshops. There are so many amazing ones all over London, Oxford, and Bath. We literally had to buy …
Book Talk: Gabrielle Meyer
Book Talk: Gabrielle Meyer Listen to the episode with Gabrielle Meyer Some authors are simply a delight to talk with, and Gabrielle Meyers is one of those. The fact she made time to chat in the middle of a week with a book launch, edits, book deadline, and proposal? I get tired just typing all that up! For a Lifetime …
Book Talk: Angela Carlisle
Book Talk: Angela Carlisle Listen to the episode with Angela Carlisle I love introducing y’all to debut authors, and today’s conversation with Angela Carlisle is such a fun one. Angela’s first novel Secondary Target is a page-turning romantic suspense that kept me reading when I did not have time. That’s the sign of a compelling book! This novel contains a …
Book Talk: Tracie Peterson & Kimberley Woodhouse
Book Talk: Tracie Peterson & Kimberley Woodhouse Watch the episode with Tracie Peterson & Kimberley Woodhouse Y’all! I may have gushed more than a little at the beginning of this Book Talk! Why? Because I had my friends Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse on for this episode. Tracie and her husband Jim are the ones who pulled me from the …
Book Talk: Amanda Dykes
Book Talk: Amanda Dykes Listen to the episode with Amanda Dykes Today, it’s a delight to have Amanda Dykes join me on Book Talk. A busy mother of four, Amanda first decided to be a writer when she realized she was telling her students to follow their dreams and realized she needed to do the same. She started with a …
Book Talk: Shelley Shepard Gray
Book Talk: Shelley Shepard Gray Listen to the episode with Shelley Shephard Gray Shelley Shepard Gray has been writing her award-winning Christian novels since 2000. Today I’m delighted to have her on Book Talk to discuss her latest, Unforgiven. Like many, when she started writing, it was a new hobby. She wanted to be a principal, but one day forgot …