I'm already dreaming of the days of summer. I'm ready for increased sunshine, fun trips, and more time with my family.
Now, I have something else to look forward to: SUMMER OF SUSPENSE.
16 Tales by 16 of Your Favorite Authors
Enjoy the best of Christian suspense in this sixteen book anthology by some of Christian Fiction's most popular mystery and suspense authors. Stories of suspense by Mary Alford, Christy Barritt, Patricia Bradley, Vannetta Chapman, Mary Ellis, Debby Giusti, Ruth Hartzler, Shaen Layle, Ruth Logan Hearne, Loree Lough, Amy Lillard, Elizabeth Ludwig, Nancy Mehl, Serena Miller, Samantha Price, and Alana Terry. All for just .99 cents!
Summer of Suspense is now available for preorder at Apple and Barnes & Noble. This anthology collection will release on August 6th. After the release week, the book price will be $9.99, so don’t miss out on this amazing read for just .99.
Are you looking forward to Summer? What about any of these books or authors?
It's almost time for the annual "A to Z" blogging challenge. Most repeat participants have already begun planning their posts for this April, and will soon be posting theme reveals. Are there any themes you would particularly care to see, or learn about in April? This year is the TENTH ANNIVERSARY! Sign ups will begin on March 1. To learn more about this challenge, or what you can expect to see this April, be sure to follow their website http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/
Have you ever participated in this challenge? Will you be taking part this year? What do you think of the changes?
It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group!founded by Alex J. Cavanaugh. Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs. You can also join us on twitter using the hashtag #IWSG, or on the Facebook page. Now, IWSG hosts have changed up the format in an effort to make it more fun and interactive.Every month, they will announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG Day post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post or let it inspire your post if you are struggling with something to say. Don’t forget to visit others that day to see their answers. Want to join, or learn more? Visit our - Sign-up List.
FEBRUARY QUESTION: Besides writing, what other creative outlets do you have?
MY ANSWER: I enjoy various creative outlets at different times: Photography, Sewing (clothes and mouse ear headbands), Crochet (most often blankets, but some clothing items), Cross Stitch, Painting, Coloring, Drawing, Crafting, and Scrapbooking. How about you? Besides writing, what other creative outlets do you enjoy?
Mine is Someone to Watch Over Me by Judith McNaught. She has been a popular author and the Amazon page for this book shows more than 200 reviews in favor of the publication. However, none of my friends seem to have read it. In this book, Leigh Kendall is relishing her stellar Broadway acting career in her marriage to Logan Manning, scion of an old New York family, when her husband finds the perfect mountain property for their dream house. But while driving upstate on a winter’s night, Leigh is run off the road in the midst of a blinding blizzard. When she awakes in the local hospital, seriously injured, the police inform her that her husband has mysteriously disappeared, and Leigh becomes the focus of their suspicions. The more she discovers about her husband and his business affairs, the less she realizes she knew about Logan Manning. Now, Leigh is heading deeper and deeper into unknown territory—where friends and enemies are impossible to distinguish, and the truth becomes the most terrifying weapon of all in this thrilling tale filled with unrelenting suspense, unforgettable characters, and powerful traces of greed, ambition, and desire.
3. Favorite Disgusting Food
SPAM Cheeseball. A friend turned me onto this years ago, but most people completely cringe away from even trying it since it includes SPAM. I only use half a can of smoked SPAM with mine, but a friend uses the whole thing and then adds pineapple and rolls it in parsley or pecans. Here is the recipe I use: Mix 2 - eight oz cream cheese, 1/2 can of smoked SPAM, 3 chopped green onions, 1 and 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. onion salt, 1/4 tsp. garlic powder, 1/2 tsp. soy sauce, and 1/2 tsp. red pepper. Roll into a ball and chill to desired consistency. Serve with favorite crackers.
4. Favorite Thing To Do When No One Is Looking
Lay around in my pajamas.
5. Favorite Opposite-Sex Guilty Pleasure Movie
I know I'll catch a lot of crap over this one, but I absolutely love Blazing Saddles. It's offensive on so many levels, but I love this movie. It's a 1974 American satirical take on Westerns. In it, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the people of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new leader. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend (Gene Wilder) are the only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population. Directed by Mel Brooks, who also has several small roles in the film, the movie includes a star packed cast including Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, and more.
6. Favorite Book I Wish I Had Written
Wuthering Heights. Regardless of genre, 99% of the time I prefer books with a happy ending - life can be depressing enough. I want my characters to have a chance at "happily ever after." However, one of my absolute favorite reads of all time doesn't have that. Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell". Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece. The novel has inspired adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations, a musical, a ballet, operas, and a song by Kate Bush.
7. Favorite Weird TV Show
Tales From the Crypt was a horror anthology television series that lasted through most of the '90s and I dedicated a lot of my high school and college years to watching a show that gave us all some serious nightmare fuel. And not just because of the Crypt Keeper. The show did campy and cheesy horror exactly the way that it should be. It was not too self-involved, and never seemed to take itself too seriously. It was the perfect combination of campiness and unsettling horror.
8. Favorite Bucket List Thing I Probably Won’t Get Around To Doing
Visit every country in the world. There are 195 countries in the world today. Unless you count EPCOT, I have only been to three so far. For now, I'll settle for having visited half of the states in America. I'm working on taking my kids to each of the 50 at least once before they graduate. Did you know many of our states are larger than some countries?
I hope you'll play too. If so, please leave me a link below so I can visit yours!
16 Tales by 16 of Your Favorite Authors
