History, Real Life and Faith
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…
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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…
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Starting Friday, the nine novella authors of A Log Cabin Christmas Collection will be blog hopping around the Internet for two weeks. In honor of my participation, I’m going to post the three chapters I originally wrote for what became my story The Dogtrot Christmas. Once written, I sent the three short chapters to my agent, Janet Grant, who kindly wrote back…
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My husband and I once had an opportunity to buy a Rembrandt. You know, as in a work of art created by the painter. While visiting a small San Francisco art gallery in 1979, we poked around in the back where they kept their less important works. Two etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn of Holland were for sale, $1000 each….
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Eighteen years ago, my husband decided to read all the works of Sir Walter Scott. We lived in Hawai’i at the time, and I methodically requested Scott novels every time I went to the library. Because the Hawaiian library system covers all the islands, some of the books had to be shipped to O’ahu over water. One volume came to…
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I could barely get my suitcase zipped up for all the books given to me at the American Fiction Writers’ Conference in September. I wasn’t too worried, even though I had two stops to make before returning home to the west coast. The best gift was Ann Voskamp‘s One Thousand Gifts, which I read on the plane. My personal favorite,…
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