This summer, I had the privilege to visit Maple Creek. Not the fictional Maple Creek Church, with all its smiling faces and welcoming hearts—its lessons and struggles, joys and defeats.…
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Well—it’s that time again! Book release day! I suppose it’s pretty cliché to talk about it having been a “long journey” to this point . . . when is writing…
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How do you really know? It’s a question we all ask, at some point in our lives. When the world turns upside-down—when our view of the world turns upside-down—when we…
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Yes, it’s that time of year again! You’ve got your core subjects all lined up. You’ve got a (semi) workable draft of your schedule finalized. You’ve yielded to the impulse…
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What colour do you see when you hear the word vibrant? I, personally, see green. Rich, vivid, growing green—the colour of the foliage on well-watered tree at the beginning of…
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Do you ever wonder how much fiction is truly fiction? Do you try to see the author in the characters and imagine which parts of the story are taken from…
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Just what is the role of parents in children’s literature? Do parents have a role in children’s literature? After all—kids’ books are for kids! I believe that the promotion of…
Read moreDid you come back today to find out what my exciting announcement was? Well . . . drumroll . . . I have some news for you. Today is cover…
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The big day has finally come! A Desperate Experiment is here!! In some senses it feels incredibly surreal to be writing this, in another I’m just so terribly excited to be…
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As a general rule, short stories aren’t really my thing. But if an author has ever tempted me to retract that statement, it would certainly have to be Angie Thompson.…
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