by Cherrilynn Bisbano @BisbanoWrites My seventy-five year old widowed mom has a veracious appetite for reading. She loves novels about cats. Yes, she is that cat lady. I have a different palates when it comes to novels. I like suspense thrillers and historical fiction. Some of my younger friends consume…

@LynnHBlackburn I don’t know what kind of writer you are, but I’m the kind of writer that prefers to have at least an hour, preferably a couple of hours, to focus on my story. In a perfect world this would happen every time I sat down to write. I have a…

@LindsBrac For the rest of the year, we’re discussing the Enneagram as a tool for building authentic (and flawed) characters. I am by no means a psychologist or an expert, but I have found that a general understanding of this ancient personality-typing tool helps me build better characters. There's a…

You’re invited to plan a vacation and visit us this summer in Coastal Virginia. When you do, be our guest for dinner at the Bloomshire of Gloucester. Chef Brad (me) will prepare a healthy and flavorful meal especially for you. See me personally at this year’s BRMCWC to make your…

By Katy Kauffman @katykauffman28 Like a textbook. That’s how my writer’s voice sounded when I started to write my first book. I could write devotions that sounded like a one-sided conversation, but my book sounded academic like the textbooks I had in college—factual, cold, distant. I knew I couldn’t leave…

Some time ago, I was writing a story and used a variation of the sentence, “He wished he could be a fly on the wall when they had that conversation.” This puzzled my critique partner, who didn’t know it meant. She had never heard the expression “fly on the wall”…