Elizabeth Goddard’s Deadly Target–Friday Reader

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Elizabeth Goddard’s Deadly Target is this week’s Friday Reader subject. I loved this story and the characters! Here’s the opening sentence: “For a few hours every Saturday morning, Erin Larson could forget that evil existed.” Now for the photo and verse. Years ago I saw this photo by Wendy McDonald on Facebook and emailed her to see if she’d let me …

Worst of All Cons–Mystery Question

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Worst of All Cons is this week’s Mystery Question. I think these are the most diabolical con of all. In 2019, people reported losing 201 million dollars to cons involving romance. This is more than victims lost to fake lotteries and sweepstakes, impostor frauds, or tech support phishing. But first the photo and verse. I somehow accidentally captured the picture …

Crosshairs’ Ainsley Beaumont Interview–Reader Friday

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Crosshairs’ Ainsley Beaumont Interview is today’s post, and I’m not certain I want to turn the blog over to her… But first the photo and scripture. This photo was taken the morning after an all-night rain. When I went out to pickup up the papers, everything looked so clean and new. The sun was shinning against the trees, and I …

More Diabolical Cons–Mystery Question

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More Diabolical Cons is this week’s Mystery Question. When I started out with this series, I had no idea there were so many cons out there! But first, the photo and scripture. I love this photo taken by Barbar Diggs on Cherokee Lake!  And the scripture just seemed to fit. Now for last week’s Perfectly Crazy Cons. Three of these …

Christmas Trees War–Reader Friday

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                                  Christmas Tree Wars by Delores Topliff is an uplifting, sweet book that I needed. I really enjoyed meeting the characters in this Swede vs Norwegian take on Romeo and Juliet. The story, set in the mid-1960s is a historical. Can you believe that’s …

Perfectly Crazy Cons–Mystery Question

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Perfectly Crazy Cons is this week’s Mystery Question subject. It never ceases to amaze me what people will try to pull over on others and what others will believe. But first the photo and scripture. When I took this photo which was taken at the same time as last week’s photo, I thought of God’s paintbrush and immediately Ecclesiastes 3:11 …

Christmas Cookies Mysteries–Reader Friday

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Christmas Cookies Mysteries is up for pre-order! I’m not certain if I’ve told anyone yet, BUT I’m honored to be one of the fourteen authors (including one of the Oak Ridge Boys) in an anthology with mysteries based on the titles from the Oak Ridge Boys Christmas Cookies album. But first the scripture and photo. I love that verse in …

Really Weird Blotter Reports

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Really Weird Blotter Reports is this week’s Mystery Question, and I’m still shaking my head at some of them. Not sure I can come up with one that’s as ridiculous as some of these… But first the scripture and photo. Late one afternoon last week, I happened to look out my front door and the house across the street was …

For My Writer Friends

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For My Writer Friends: I don’t know about you, but I get a little excited when a new writing guide comes along. Today I get to spill the news that The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Vol. 1) has hit the shelves. This guide is about that killer ingredient our stories need: Conflict. It …