memory lane

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I also took a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s post takes us all the way back to the start of this year. 2018.) This year has been a time of transition and changes but also a year of settling into my new role as a full-time author who is living her dream. That’s right.

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I also took a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to last year, 2017.) A funny thing happened on my way to being a multi-published hybrid author with two successful fiction launches behind me. When other authors in my local writers’ group had questions about marketing or websites or social media channels,

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I also took a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s post takes us a small hop back to 2016.) If 2014 was all about writing and revising new stories on my quest for a publishing contract and 2015 was devoted to the production and marketing aspects of a book launch, 2016 was all about finding

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I also took a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to 2015.) After the lavish blessings and huge green light on my writing in 2014, the year 2015 was devoted to turning that publishing dream and contract for Catch of a Lifetime into the reality of launching the finished product into the

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I’m also taking a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to 2014.) The year 2014 was going to be my year. Depending on how things went, I was either going to go down in flames having done all I could to get my fiction published…or somehow God was going to give me

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I’m also taking a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to 2013.) After the personal drought of 2012, I deliberately dug deep roots into my foundation of faith and started a new blog series called Creation Declares that took a deeper look at God’s fingerprints all around us. Then, following the plan,

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I’m taking a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to 2012.) You know that saying about one step forward, two steps back? Well, 2012 was that sort of year for me. After publishing two short devotional collections gleaned from previous blog posts, I intentionally created a series of posts to last the

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips for our family, I’m taking a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to years 2010 and 2011.) After learning the hard way in 2009 that women’s fiction was a competitive (narrow) genre to try to break into as a debut author, I deliberately chose to expand my chances with a general fiction adoption-reunion story with

(This summer, while there have been a few road trips on our family’s horizon, I’m taking a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to 2009.) With a clear idea of where to take the novel I was working on, I started 2009 with a fresh focus. And thanks to my new membership in American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), I finally knew where to turn for

(This summer, while there are a few road trips on our family’s horizon, I’m also taking a virtual trip down memory lane back to when my writing adventure began. Today’s flashback takes us to 2008.) After dreaming about writing fiction for years, in 2008 I finally started work on a full-length novel. Still feeling guilty about my disobedient attempt in early 2005, I took a different idea from my stack of dreamed scenes, sketched out