by Sara Brunsvold   “Have you ever had something you’ve always wanted to do? An idea that wouldn’t leave you alone? An experience you...

What resilient women and failed rebellions can teach us about each other by Christine Hill Suntz   On January 1, 2021, I made a...

by Shelley Shepard Gray   I do love when a story revolves around two people from completely different worlds. It’s a common storyline in...

by Robin Jones Gunn   Norman Rockwell’s side-by-side painting entitled Going and Coming reminds me of childhood trips to the beach. The...

by Shannon Sue Dunlap   “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12, NIV)   Forty...

by Jane Kirkpatrick   “I have your next story!” She stood in line at the Woodland, Washington’s Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens to have me...

by Liz Johnson   I booked the excursion for my niece. At least that’s what I thought as my family and I planned our trip to Prince Edward...

by Suzanne Woods Fisher In 2018, five women in Jackson, Wyoming, launched a campaign called Shoot 'Em With a Camera—Not a Gun to protect...

by Ann H. Gabhart I’m not a dancer. I’ve never whirled around a ballroom in an elaborate, ruffled and beribboned ballgown. About the most...

by Joanna Davidson Politano I do a lot of looking down in this season of my life—down at my computer, down at my nursing babies, down at...

by Pepper Basham Grief isn’t usually something people associate with romantic comedy. Because it isn’t funny. It’s hard, long,...

by Kim Vogel Sawyer In September of 2020, as restrictions were beginning to lift following the COVID quarantine, my husband took me on a...

by Lynn H. Blackburn When I was younger, I frequently made the following statement: I’m not creative. At all. This was before I began...

by Angela Hunt My latest release, The Daughter of Rome , is set in that ancient city during the time of Nero. I don’t know why we are so...

by Janice Cantore It can be dangerous to ask a suspense fiction author where they get their story ideas. The answer might be some twisted...

by Elizabeth Goddard Growing up in a small town in East Texas, I loved reading the gothic romances of the Bronte sisters, Victoria Holt,...

by Colleen Coble People ask where ideas for novels come from, and for me, it’s generally a news article or documentary, but Ambush came...

by Jayna Breigh I am in a season of endings. My son graduated from high school in May 2023. My father died in February 2024, and my baby...

by Jill Eileen Smith Dawn of Grace is my first-person fictional account of the life of Mary Magdalene. Most of us have heard of this...

by Jennifer Deibel The damp Irish air kissed my cheeks as we strolled along the streets of the quaint Donegal Town over two decades ago....