Peering Through Life's Window

Hats! Horns! Congratulations... Deborah Malone!!

A warm welcome to the woman behind The Women of Valley View - Sharon Srock. To enter to win The Women of Valley View: Pam leave a comment and an e-mail address. Were you an avid reader as a child? What did you read? My father’s job moved us around a lot when I was growing up. I didn’t make friends easily, but I learned that books could move with me. I read a lot of different things. Probably my favorites were the Trixie Beldon series and Victoria Holt mysteries. As a young wife and mother I had my romance period as well. From there I moved to Science fiction and fantasy. Now, I don’t read a specific type of book. If it grabs my attention, I’ll read it. Interesting to find someone else who reads all genres. So, you went from reading to writing. Why do you write? The short answer is because God told me to. The long answer is harder to explain. I never dreamed of being a writer when I was a child. I dreaded book reports and English assignments. One day I wok

 Photo courtesy Photobucket Jesus lived among the Jews and the gentiles showing us his Gospel of love, telling us how to live in peace and care for each other. “...Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22: 37 – 39)  Photo courtesy Photobucket The suffering He endured illustrates how imperfect and cruel the world can be. “Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, ‘We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified…’” (Matthew 20: 17 -19) His crucifixion shows us God’s unconditional love. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him sh

Hats...Horns...Congratulations, Becky!

Connie will give away a print copy (U.S. Only) OR an e-book--winner's choice. To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below. It's a pleasure to have Connie today. Please tell us a little about yourself. I am trained as a mental health counselor and though I no longer see clients, I still work at a Christian counseling facility. I’ve been married over twenty years to a man who inspires the mischievous banter of my hero and heroine. I also have two children who model the quirkiness of my more colorful characters. Lots of writers liked to read as children. Were you an avid reader as a child? What did you read? Okay, this is where all you avid-reading-child-people cringe … I watched WAY too much T.V. and read mostly non-fiction as a child. I know—it’s awful!!! But then I hit twenty, and found some books that interested me. Eventually, I started reading classic 19th century literature (I LOVE Jane Austin, George MacDonald and Charles Dickens) and finally

Thanks to everyone for visiting! It was difficult to choose a winner. This time I scrambled up names and picked. Hats and Horns... Congratulations...Janice! Come by on Monday, March 31st to read about Connie Almony's re-telling of Beauty and the Beast , At the Edge of a Dark Forest . See you then.

  A warm welcome to Christine Lindsay! She'll give away an e-book of Londonderry Dreaming . To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below.     A FAVORITE IRISH DESSERT THAT CAME FROM NEW ZEALAND by Christine Lindsay With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, I can’t think of anything more perfect than to share with you a dessert that I discovered in Ireland when I was visiting family there in 1988. The funny thing is, the dessert Pavlova originated in New Zealand. But Northern Ireland (the six counties in the northeast) is still a part of Great Britain to this day, so it’s only natural that a dessert from another British Commonwealth country should be one of their favorites. Writing the romance novella Londonderry Dreaming of the Passport to Romance line was such a hoot for me. Being born in N. Ireland, and all my relatives still living there, I simply had to write this book when I saw the call for submission by Pelican Books for a romance set