The Midwife Cover Reveal
The day after I miscarried at ten weeks, I received an email from my publisher with the final cover for my second stand-alone novel, The Midwife. When I opened the attachment, tears welled in my eyes. A woman holding a child.
In Every Season
On midnight, October 7th, as my husband and I knelt on the cold slate floor of our bathroom and stared down at our son cupped in my palm, I found that the most tragic event of my adulthood was also
Reconciling Honeymoon Expectations With Marriage Bliss
Whoever says honeymoons create a state of suspended bliss hasn’t been on one in a while. I was barely twenty-two when I married. My husband, on the other hand, celebrated his twenty-ninth birthday flying back from our honeymoon in Kauai,
Surviving A Newborn Novel
My best friend called about four days after the birth of my novel, just as she had called after the birth of my daughter seventeen months before. “How are you?” she asked. I had carried my cell phone out on the
Walking In Memphis…& Meeting “The King”
About a week and a half ago, I received an email from one of the hosts at WREG.TV in Memphis that said they would love to interview me and help promote my book signing at Booksellers at Laurelwood. I had planned
In-depth Interview About The Amish Heritage
On July 13th, The Outcast had a book launch at my mother's store, Miller's Amish Country Store, in Greenbrier, Tennessee. My agent, Wes Yoder, attended and invited his cousin along, whose name is Rachel Yoder Shetterfly. I liked Rachel
The Outcast Now A Bestseller!
As you know from my post, The Truth Behind Book Signings, the author life is not always easy. This past week, however, something happened. I don't know if the social media galaxies aligned, or if all those midnight, let-me-pay-back-my-advance prayers went
The Seed For Story & A Blank Page
Though I turned my second stand-alone novel, The Midwife, over to my publisher on June 1, promotional work for The Outcast took up June and most of July. I also started preliminary edits for The Midwife that took up much
Visiting A Utopian Commune
This weekend, my mother, my best friend, and my seventeen-month-old daughter visited a reconstructed British village nestled in the Tennessee mountains. In 1880, an author named Thomas Hughes founded Rugby as a Utopian society for those who wished to escape