History, Real Life, and Faith
Back in the closing years of the last century, my children and I drove across the entire state of Tennessee in one day. We were on a mission to get from Annapolis, MD to Santa Monica, CA in the shortest possible time, so we didn’t do much sightseeing along the way. On day 2, however, I decided we needed to…
Read More
The joy of researching history on line, circa 2012!
Thanks for joining us for day #5 of A Log Cabin Christmas bloghop! You can read the official rules page, for those of you still trying to figure out this bloghop contest, here. I’m the author of The Dogtrot Christmas, based on events in my family history. In addition to being a novelist, I’m also a well-known genealogist in some of…
Read More
In honor of the Blogroll/ Bloghop the authors of A Log Cabin Christmas Collection will be running next week, I am posting the original first chapters for what became my story The Dogtrot Christmas. Chapter one was in the last post, today’s post includes chapters two and three. While featuring characters from The Dogtrot Christmas, these “bonus” features provide insight…
Read More
When I wrote “The Dogtrot Christmas,” for A Log Cabin Christmas Collection, I was simply telling a story. As a first time writer, I sent the three short chapters to my agent. She wrote back, “you’ve written a novel, not a novella.” I had to shorten my story considerably. To that end, I just moved the storyline forward eighteen months…
Read More
The lure of owning an actual Rembrandt etching!