Becoming a published author was a dream of mine since I was a kid. The motivation behind publication might have changed as God shaped my heart, but that desire did not. For years, I attended writer’s conferences and critique groups to hone the craft and make those oh-so-necessary connections. I acquired an agent with a well-respected literary agency and continued …
One Brick at a Time
Our house has a 185-foot retaining wall that starts at the edge of our front yard and curves around to end at the edge of the back yard. At its tallest, it stands eight feet and some odd inches. There is a gradual step-up at the beginning and end. Not a small feature by any means, and yet I didn’t …
A Little Spontaneity Goes a Long Way
What is it about small towns that hold so much appeal? Maybe nothing for you. I know some people prefer big cities, but crowds, cars, and chaos exhaust me. I grew up in a series of small-ish towns. Nothing as small as Bell Buckle, Tennessee (under 600 people) or Volcano, California, where we moved from. Our little population sign coming …
When You Come to a Fork in the Road…
It was on our second day driving home from California when Chris announced, “I can’t wait to be back to our old routine.” I concurred. He had flown out to northern California on September 1st, so by the time we pulled into our driveway in Tennessee on Friday afternoon, he’d been gone for twenty-five days—nearly a month. I’d flown out …
Sold for a Song
Never in my life have I attended an estate sale. Even “garage sale-ing” (as my daughter calls it) hasn’t been part of my M.O. It’s not that I have anything against them, I’m just not a shopper by nature, unless I’m looking for something specific. Although, I do love a good deal. In fact, my sweet mother-in-law taught me an …
Quite a Day
It was only seven in the morning and already it had been quite a day. I sat on a stairway tread to await my ride to the airport, my heart beating a staccato, bum-bump, bum-bump, bum-bump. Rubbing my face, Anna Nalick’s voice singing the chorus, breathe, just breathe from her old song, “Breathe 2 am,” ran through my head. I …
My Sweet Irish Twin
Have you ever heard of Irish twins? I never thought much of it until I read the term the other day. It originated in the 19th century and was a derogatory moniker, focused on Irish Catholics, to describe two children born of the same mother within a year of each other. If I had been born nineteen days earlier, my …
Providential
Although Providence is Book 3 in the Apple Hill Series, I actually wrote it first. And second. And third. And then I did massive amounts of editing and rewrites before I sent it to my publisher (Celebrate Lit) last April. Chip MacGregor, well-known literary agent, spoke at a writer’s conference I attended years ago and said most authors have to …
Fool’s Gold
Tell me I’m not the only person out there to ever get a little head-slap from God. It not only hurts (emotionally), but it’s humiliating, as well. That moment when the Holy Spirit unveils my eyes to my failure, and I hang my head in shame. Why does it always come as such a shock? One would think I’d be …
Review of Katherine’s Arrangement
About the Book Book: Katherine’s Arrangement Author: Blossom Turner Genre: Christian Historical Fiction Release Date: August 4, 2020 Marrying him is her only choice to save her family, but Josiah Richardson isn’t at all the man she expected. Katherine William’s family was left destitute when their home was burned to the ground by Yankee soldiers, so the ready solution presented …
