Bom: The Writing (Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty)

Writing Bathsheba was a bit of a challenge because of the middle. Photo: writing in college.  🙂 Most novelists struggle with the “sagging middle” in the best of circumstances because it’s easy to let the tension level fall.  In Bathsheba, however,...

BOM: The Research (Bathsheba)

Once you’ve written one historical novel about a biblical character, a great deal of the research is done–after that, it’s just a matter of refreshing your memory and digging into story particulars.  Because I’ve written biblical historical...

BOM: The germination of the idea

Some books spring into the mind from out of the blue, and some, like this, are structured into a series.  Since I had already decided that the second book would be Bathsheba–a woman who’s beauty clearly got her into trouble–then the idea was...

Book of the Month: Bathsheba, Reluctant Beauty

If it’s September first, it’s time for another book of the month because I actually have TWO books releasing today! The first is STREET GOD, which is really Dimas Salaberrios’s book–I helped him write his story after Tyndale House contacted me....

Alone in Las Vegas, or How I Lost my Hope

I blogged every single day for about five years, then ran out of things to say.  So now I only blog when I’m inspired.  🙂 Which I am, at the moment. ***** I don’t know about you, but lately  I’ve found it easy to look around and think that I’m...