Peering Through Life's Window

  A Warm Welcome to Ada Brownell   Ada will give away a copy of Joe the Dreamer, either paper or e-book. To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below.  When Joe's parents disappear, he becomes the target of the radical militant group that enslaves them and his fate could be worse than death.   Hi Ada, first, tell us a little about yourself. I’m the youngest of eight children, six of us redheads, not including Mama. One by one my family became born-again Christians after I was born. Our house was filled with gospel singing and instrumental music. I’ve been a Bible student most of my life and started writing for Christian publications at age 15. I worked as a reporter for 17 years, mostly for The Pueblo Chieftain in Colo, and have a degree in mass communications.  My husband was a telegraph operator for the Rio Grande Railroad . We lived in a cabin on top of Colorado’s Tennessee Pass, in railroad depots and even in a railroad  car. God blesse

The winner of Beyond I Do is... Hat, Horns.... Congratulations Connie Almony!

  A Warm Welcome to Jennifer Slattery To enter to win a copy of Beyond I Do , leave a comment with your name and an e-mail address. Closed Door   I’m not sure when this started or where it came from, but somehow, over the years, my view of obedience has become tainted. I’ve heard so much about open and closed doors and letting go and letting God that I’ve developed this idea that obedience is going to be easy. And successful. But when I read the Bible, that’s not what I see. Consider how many doors Moses had slammed in his face. His own people opposed him, Pharaoh ridiculed him, and the harder Moses pushed, the worse things became. At least initially. And what about Joshua and his encounter with Jericho? He didn’t just have a closed door. He had an entire, seemingly impenetrable, wall standing in his way. Then there’s the prophet Elijah. His life wasn’t exactly a bed of roses. At times, he even thought his work was pointless. But he kept on. As did Isaiah, John the Bapti

Hats and Horns... The winner of Deadly Communications is... Congratulations, Ashley!

                                                      A warm welcome to Lillian Duncan.   She'll give away an e-book of Deadly Communications . To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below. Hi Lillian, you mentioned the town where you live to me. Tell me about it. I live in a small town in Ohio. I mean small—we only have 1 traffic light. But I love living here. I grew up in the area, but moved to the big city of Cleveland for many years. Like Dorothy, I love being home again. Yes, to use the cliché, there’s no place like home. Lots of people like to know what writers read. What is your favorite genre to read? To write? The answer to both is Christian mystery and suspense with a little horror thrown in from time to time. I guess writing is sort of like eating. You are what you read, and for me that means I’m a suspense/mystery writer. Tell us about your latest, Deadly Communications. Deadly Communications features Maven Morris, a speech-language patho

And the winner of In a Texas Ranger's Arms is... Hats and Horns... Congratulations! Linda Weaver Clarke!

A Warm Welcome to Cynthia Hickey   Hi Cynthia, thanks for sharing the story behind your writing! Cynthia will give away a print copy of  In a Texas Ranger's Arms WHY I BECAME A WRITER Funny how this roller-coaster business can tug on someone until it’s either write or die. A bit dramatic, yes, but that’s how most writers feel. I started reading at the young age of five and became hooked on words and stories. Being a shy child, I would make up stories to act out, but it wasn’t until Junior High and an English teacher assigned a writing project that I realized how much I loved putting the story to paper. I began writing short stories in which my younger brother was featured as the hero or I’d write a romance featuring me and whatever boy I had a crush on at the time. When I turned fifteen, I wrote my first “real story” about terrorists taking over a high school. Funny how I have now seen that very plot made into a movie. I couldn’t be stopped after that first “book