Posts about fear
5 Things No One Will Tell You About Being Published
2013 was a pretty amazing year for me. My first novel, Five Days in Skye, was published, and I made the official jump from aspiring/contracted writer to actual author. With it came an inside look into the mysterious world of “being published.” But what I found was not what I...
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Words for Women: I Am Woman, Hear Me Cry by Cynthia Ruchti
I was his only hope. My husband had to remove the chimney liner from our 100-year-old two-story farmhouse with a creepy attic. And he couldn’t do it alone. He needed someone to climb up through the attic, that’s right, and up the hayloft-like Little House on the Prairie ladder with...
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Words for Women: First You Must Ask
I’m launching into a new phase of my blog. For the past several months, I’ve been writing most of my own posts, tweaking topics and formats. Now that we’re reaching the end of summer and rushing into conference season, I thought it was time to turn over the reins and...
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Words for Women: Who Do You Think You Are?
If God is for us, who can be against us?…We are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ~Romans 8:31,37 (NIV) I stared at the e-mail attachment from my editor. For a moment, I think actually heard the Jaws theme music playing in the background. Line edits. Finally. The moment...
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