First I want to wish everyone a very Happy 2019! And I want to thank you for supporting me and buying my books. As I thought about the coming year, I looked back over my Jesus Calling journal. Since October 9, 2009, I’ve read the devotional in Jesus Calling every day and made notes in the journal. In 2010 my entry …
Suzy and the Highjacked blog…
Hi, Suzy here. I’ve highjacked Patricia’s blog today because she’s been too busy to pay any attention to me. You see I have the password, and I won’t tell her what it is. I mean everything was going along just fine. Every morning while she was working at the computer I was doing my regular thing of sitting in her lap. …
Made To Last–Interview with Melissa Tagg And we have a winner! Johnnie Alexander
Today I want to welcome Melissa Tagg to my blog. This next sentence I stole from her website: In between writing and staring out the window brainstorming, Melissa Tagg works as a grant-writer at one of Iowa’s largest private nonprofits and serves as the marketing/events coordinator for My Book Therapy, a craft and coaching community for novelists founded by Susan …
A Visit with Author Amy Lillard
I am so pleased to welcome Amy Lillard, author of Saving Gideon and the soon-to-be-released Katie’s Choice. Thank you for having me, Patricia. Tell us a little about yourself, Amy. Like where you grew up and where you live now: I grew up outside Corinth, Mississippi, (ever hear of it? J) and spent most of my “growing up” years there. I …
A Conversation with Life Coach Dr. Reba Hoffman
Did you ever wonder what a life coach does? Well, today is your opportunity to find out as I welcome Dr. Reba Hoffman to my blog. I met Reba back in 2010 at Susan May Warren’s Deep Thinker Retreat in Melbourne, Florida, and my life has never been the same. This wonderful, full-of-life woman has encouraged me and dared me …
Interview with Wish You Were Here author, Beth Vogt
Today I’m honored to have friend and fellow writer Beth Vogt on my blog. I first met Beth on-line then at a Deep Thinkers Retreat in Melbourne, Florida. I’ll never forget walking back from dinner and talking with her about writing fiction. A published, non-fiction writer, she wasn’t sure about coming over to the dark side of writing. But let …
You Might be a Writer…with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy
This post first appeared on the MBT Ponderers Blog February 4, 2011 I came to writing rather late in life–at the age of thirty-five. That’s when these people moved into my head and wouldn’t go away until I wrote their stories. And I remember wondering when I could call myself a writer. Have you ever thought about how writers really …
Five Reasons To Enter The Frasier Writing Contest
Number One: The Feedback I received from my Frasier entry was the most in-depth I’ve ever received from contest judges. I’m going to share a comment from one of the judges: SHOW us her emotional response to that (an event in the story) in disjointed sentences, and repetitive gestures, and other body language that would convey how rattled she is. …
The Desires of Your Heart
The tagline for my website is Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord…what does that really mean? For me, it means drinking in His word, talking to Him, listening to Him…trusting Him enough to give Him my desires. That’s now, but when I first claimed …