Swept: Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche I found the link for this story on the Women Cruisers Yahoo Group, of which I am a huge fan because we’re all women who are, who have been, or who want to be out cruising the seas. The book … Read more →

  Chila:   A legacy lurks within me bound within each cell— the longing I have to matter and passion to do it well, to tread while leaving footprints and live while loving hard, to fight the wakeful sleeping and benefit from scars.   I’ll fall off the edge of … Read more →

Bobby  Weaver has written the book we’ve all imagined — because we’ve all seen it in action:  the church goer who decides she’s the gatekeeper; the pew sitter who glares if you accidentally slip into his spot before he’s had a chance to plop there; the name callers and finger … Read more →

The first time I read one of Jane Lebak’s stories, I wanted to cheer. Jane makes me laugh and sometimes shed a tear or two. But most of all, she challenges me to imagine: What if? When I first read The Guardian, a novel published in 1994 under the name … Read more →

Nicole Petrino-Salter is a friend of mine. I’ve never met her, but I believe I know her heart. She’s also a writer. Her gift as a storyteller shines in her self-published work, The Famous One. Joey Parr struggles to fill his God-shaped hole with everything except God. We’re each of … Read more →

The cover caught my attention: red, with an overturned, spike-heeled shoe, and the title Rhapsody in Red captured below. It was obviously a mystery, as a matter of fact, “A Preston Barclay Mystery.” I bought the book, asked Donn Taylor to autograph it at the ACFW Conference, and turned the … Read more →