When I was in Nebraska a couple weeks ago I got to spend a couple days doing on site research for Sandhill Dreams and Captive Dreams. I’m going to share some of the experiences from that with you over the next couple weeks. For any book I write, there’s a lot of research. If it’s a current suspense, I need …

I just finished a sneak peek at Colleen Coble’s book Abomination, that will release in August. Oh my gosh, people, it is FANTASTIC! I’ll post more about it later, but let me just say she has risen to the challenge of writing a suspense worthy of hardcover. And Thomas Nelson is getting behind it with advertising. Should be amazing! I …

I made several stops on the Carnival of Christian Writers last night. There were some great blog posts, but I found this one over at Cause of Our Joy fascinating. The author shares some of what she learned in a meeting with Walden Media. Interesting note on the role of blogs in spreading the word, too. Tonight I’ll be in …

We made it back to good ole Indiana after a LONG day in the car. Makes me very grateful we don’t have to do it the old fashioned way — covered wagon would be too rough. Since I’m way too tired to post anything creative, I direct you to the Writer Interrupted Carnival of Christian Writers. Each month Gina Conroy …

I’m a new contributor over at the Keep Me in Suspense blog. I’ll be writing a column once or twice a month about the legal system. The first post went up today…my pet peeves with legal vocabulary used incorrectly. Be sure to check it out. I made another research trip today. It’s amazing what you can find when you get …

Today the US Supreme Court issued an opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart upholding the federal ban on partial birth abortion. For some reason, blogger won’t allow me to insert a link, but here’s one place you can go to read the opinion: http://supreme.usatoday.findlaw.com/supreme_court/2006/november/05-38-gonzales-v-carhart.html. In the federal law, Congress had made a determination that a health exception wasn’t necessary to preserve …

Yesterday I drove 475 miles round trip to conduct on site research for Sandhill Dreams. Fort Robinson is way up in the corner of Nebraska, tucked near South Dakota and Wyoming. It is remote country, but God’s country. Absolutely beautiful though very remote. I hadn’t been in that corner of the world for about 12 years, since working on a …

Monday was one of those days that will live in infamy. If you turned on the news, you probably saw non-stop coverage of the shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech. From the first moment I saw the ticker crawling across the bottom of Fox News Channel, my heart dropped and it hasn’t fully recovered. As a writer, one of the things …

This weekend we logged 979 miles on the car. That’s a lot of time in the car. Highlights so far: Abigail lost a tooth last night: She took this one out herself. She had lots of time to twist that tooth while she sat in the backseat. We joined 55,000 of our closest friends at the Nebraska football spring scrimmage. …

I found this the other day, and had fun with the questions. One thing my friends know about me is that I lvoe teh thrill of the hunt — for a good bargain that is. So I wasn’t surprised to be labeled a window shopper. To me shopping is relaxing. Ahh. Wishing I was at the Talbotts’ sale now 🙂 …