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4 Simple Ways to Encourage Your Favorite Authors

November 1st is considered National Author’s Day, and I missed the party, if there was one, because I was working on a deadline.  November is also National Novel Writing Month. I haven’t participated in NaNoWriMo—the challenge to write a novel … Continue reading

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Small Miracles

I was thinking on what to write for my post and then, when I saw Tara’s post below, it seemed like a confirmation. I had considered the same exact verse to go along with my post. I love it when … Continue reading

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The Government Shutdown is Stranger than Fiction

The past couple of weeks I’ve attempted to research for a new story idea. I say “attempted” because I keep running up against this message: “Because of the federal government shutdown, national parks are closed and the National Park Service … Continue reading

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Don’t Make Me Cry by Elizabeth Goddard

When I’m reading a good book, I’m sorry, but I don’t want to cry. Except isn’t that the sign that a book is good? When the tears come on? Don’t misunderstand, I still want a good book to bring on the … Continue reading

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Discovering Books

In a world of millions of authors and even more books, discoverability has never been easy. While the shift into the digital age has created new avenues of promotion, anyone can get published and everyone is promoting—more than ever.  But … Continue reading

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Love in the Air Releases today!

I’ve always wanted to write a hot air balloon story, and I finally got that chance last year. I’m pleased to share that LOVE IN THE AIR releases today! If you enjoy sweet romances–this is your kind of story.  Back … Continue reading

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Where Do We Get Ideas? by Elizabeth Goddard

Novelists often get ideas from what intrigues us. We’re all different, so what intrigues me will be different than what catches your interest. As a novelist, I hope I find an audience—a group of people with whom my stories resonate—preferably … Continue reading

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More on Books Changing Us

I was so fascinated by Maureen’s post that I started to comment, and then decided to make it  my post for today. I’ve written a previous blog post or two about how books can change us. Maureen’s points are all valid and … Continue reading

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The 2013 Christy Award Winners

Books are important to us here on the Christians Read blog, right? What better place to share the winners of this prestigious award–the most coveted award in Christian fiction. In my last post, I shared I was reading You Don’t Know … Continue reading

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What Are You Reading? by Elizabeth Goddard

Since I turned in my novel at the first of this month, I have a little extra time to catch up on reading. Funny that reading voraciously is what drove me to write, and now with writing, I hardly have … Continue reading

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Is Bigger Better?

  Just received my author copies for my upcoming release, Riptide, yesterday. Actually I received only four of them because they are the True Large Print versions. Not LARGE PRINT, but TRUE large print.  This version is like a trade-sized … Continue reading

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Reading to Escape

This week has been tough all around. I watched the prayer service for the attack on Boston and the news anchor asked how we go back to living our lives.Good question. As I write this post I’m watching the news … Continue reading

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When We Don’t Get Things Write

Yes, I used the word “write” instead of “right” on purpose. Today during home school, I reviewed the differences between the two words with my youngest son and we worked on writing sentences for each word. While we worked through … Continue reading

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A Day in the Life

Of a writer. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. That’s a line from one of my favorite classic novels. Raise your hand if you can’t remember which one. Or Google it. (I love saying … Continue reading

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Happy Valentine’s Day by Elizabeth Goddard

What are you doing on just the biggest romantic day of the year? I searched the statistics for Valentine’s Day and found some interesting stuff. The kind of things you’d imagine and expect, of course. Roses, cards and chocolates spending … Continue reading

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