Peering Through Life's Window

  A Warm Welcome to Dr. MaryAnn Diorio To enter to win the e-Book leave a comment and an email address below. Hi MaryAnn, first, tell us a little about yourself. I was born again 50 years ago and have had an adventurous life walking with Jesus.  My wonderful husband and I have been married for 51 years and are parents to two amazing adult daughters, parents-in-law to a very smart son-in-law, and grandparents to six rambunctious grandchildren.  Although I formally trained to be a college professor of foreign languages—a career I pursued for a while—when I was thirty years old, God called me to write for Him. I now write fiction for both adults and children and am loving it. Thus far, I’ve published five novels and two novellas for adults, and seven books for children.  Why do you write? To point people to Jesus Christ. Tell us about your latest book. My latest novel is titled Miracle in Milan. It is set in Milan, Italy, and is the story of a young, female auditor who ...

A Warm Welcome To Christine Lindsay (Shown with her Tom Horton cup) Christine's publisher offers a rare discount of only 99 cents May 11 and 12 for Sofi's Bridge , the winner of the RWA Readers Choice Award 2017 for Historical Romance. Read the First Chapter Free    here Snag the 99 cent deal   here Hi Christine, congratulations on your award. Let's talk about books and your writing. Many writers loved to read as children. How about you? If so, what did you read? Huge reader as a child, and all the childhood favorites. It all started when my mother used to read to me as a child, and the book I remember a first was Heidi . I guess that’s why I live close to the Cascade Mountains that cross the border from Canada into Washington State which is where Sofi’s Bridge is set. Why do you write? LOL, it’s in my DNA. Can’t help but write. What pushed me to actually do the thing I had wanted to do all my life, and which I didn’t start until I was in my ...

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 f...