by Lucinda Secrest McDowell @LucindaSMcDowel “Is this the author Lucinda Secrest McDowell?” came the lovely southern voice at the other end of the phone. I had been tempted not to answer. In my daily ritual of decompressing after a busy day at high school, I was sitting on the porch,…

by Lucinda Secrest McDowell, @LucindaSMcDowel Last fall I submitted the manuscript for my twelfth book. On time. Whew! Because it was on a fast track, and I had already made several travel plans that could not be cancelled, I wondered if I could do it. Through God’s grace, prayer support, diligent…

@LucindaSMcDowel Say, it’s been about a month since you got home from that great Writers Conference all fired up and ready to write that first book, submit that requested article, or polish off that book proposal? Only you haven’t actually done any of those things. Yet. You are sitting in…