History, Real Life and Faith
I first glimpsed Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books when I attended second grade at Seventh Street School. Our school was brand new that year and the library was filled with new books, new tables, new chairs and new students. I sat facing the W section of fiction and there at eye level waited a row of books will matching covers. Intrigued, I…
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Authors get asked all the time how they come up with a character’s name. It’s a mystery. Sometimes it’s obvious: General John J. Pershing, President Abraham Lincoln, Pancho Villa. But more often than not, it’s selective and outside of the author’s control. Just like your friends and relatives, a person’s name is who they are–no matter what they’re called–and you…
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Pam Hillman’s first published novella, The Evergreen Bride part of The Twelve Brides of Christmas Collection, was pure joy to write. When Pam saw the list of proposed titles for the series, she jumped on The Evergreen Bride as her title. “I knew immediately the story would be set in my home state of Mississippi, which is an evergreen state. We…
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I’m attending the UCLA– Cal football game tomorrow and I’m excited about the prospects–because I get to see the band again, live. I haven’t attended a football game in probably 15 years–back in the day when we were trying to help our oldest son figure out what college he wanted to attend. We all went to the UCLA-Stanford football game…
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Margaret Brownley always starts out with laughter: “How many bullets have you taken out, Miss Langdon?” “Yours was the fourth, or maybe the fifth.” She spoke in the same straightforward tone he’d already come to expect. He stared at her. “That many?” “Yes, and they weren’t all accidents.” –The Nutcracker Bride (The Twelve Brides of Christmas) Veteran author Margaret Brownley…
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It happened again this week. While researching World War I and the Alaskan Gold Rush, my heart surged and there I was weeping over the sepia photos one more time. I’m about to publish my fourth historical novella and I’ve been writing two other works lately; I’ve spent the last five years in the marvel of actual photos of real events….
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