Peering Through Life's Window

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  Tracy will give away a digital OR PDF (non-U.S. resident) copy of Overflowing Hearts. To enter to win leave a comment and an email address below. Hi Tracy, first, tell us a little about yourself. I’ve been writing for twenty years, which is not quite half my life. I never expected to become an author, as I was naturally a math girl in school. However, God often has different plans than we imagine. And greater than we can dream. When I got the bug to write, I started with a love for stories and a desire to share the lessons God taught me, scribbling words in between nursing babies, homeschooling, and volunteering at my church. Now, it’s quite amazing to say that I have over twenty books published and 6 more scheduled in the next 8 months. Were you an avid reader as a child? If so, what did you read? As a very young child, I wasn’t an avid reader. I say I began reading by default because everyone else in my house would spend quiet winter afternoons (when there wasn’t a football ga...

 More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the  ACFW Fiction Finder website Children’s Middle Grade: Jack and the Red Giant  by  Amanda Cleary Eastep  -- Snowball wars are being waged against the Tree Street Kids, and Jack Finch is building his greatest invention yet--the Abominable Snowman-ator. But his biggest battle will be against his distrust of Buzz Rublatz, the neighborhood bully. (Children’s Middle Grade from Moody Publishers)     Children’s Picture Book: Otto and Ollie  by  Penny Frost McGinnis  and Hannah L Wickline -- Otto and Ollie are best buddies. They live next door to each other and spend their days playing and pretending what they’ll be someday. When they have a disagreement, they discover it’s not what they’ll be, but who they’ll be that counts. (Children’s Picture Book from Mt. Zion Ridge Press)   Contemporary: What the River Keeps  by  Cheryl Grey Bostrom  -- In the beautiful Pacifi...