I hope you’ll have some free time to read this summer–in between all the other things we have to do. 🙂 I’ve put together a Summer Reading Special for you–five books for ten bucks. Can’t beat that! Details can be found here. And...
Every book needs to be edited–no exceptions. Dave Long is my most excellent editor on this series, and honestly, the thing I remember most is this: When Delilah is feeling threatened by an enemy from her past, Dave wrote, “Why doesn’t she just send...
I keep a ten-year journal–I’ve done it for 18 years. I can only write a few lines on each page, but it’s enough to remind me of where I was at that point in each year. The other day–May 11, to be exact–I read the entry from May 11, 2015:...
David Long, my editor at Bethany, did the substantive edit on this book, and my agent offered input, too. My biggest problem (and have I ever mentioned how important it is to have other people give you their perspective?) was that Bathsheba’s story spanned at...
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...
