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At the end of the summer my family went to Indianapolis. One of our stops there was the Indiana Museum of Arts Sculpture Park. One of the installations there is called Park of the Laments. We walked through a dark tunnel to get to… Continue Reading “Rocks and Sprinklers and Hope”
What a release day! Yesterday was full and happy and I smiled a whole lot. Thanks to everyone who posted about A Cup of Dust, to those who came to the Facebook party, to all who sent me warm and happy messages. I am… Continue Reading “Reading A Cup of Dust”
Enter to win a copy of A Cup of Dust and stick around to read a fun interview! Jessie’s the kind of buddy I get a tummy ache around. Why? Because we laugh so hard the whole time. If I spent more time with… Continue Reading “Susie Finkbeiner: The Novelist You’re Going to Want as Your New Best Friend”
This weekend my husband and I went to see The Martian. It was every bit as good as I’d hoped, maybe even a little better. I know I’m enjoying a movie when I don’t analyze plot and characterization and just get pulled into the… Continue Reading “The Martian, The Dust Bowl, and The Will to Live”
You know what I love? Book release parties. Yeah, I like being the center of attention (I’m the youngest of four…of course I love it). And it’s fun to see copies of books in the hands of eager readers. But the really great part… Continue Reading “Pearlie Lou, Grandma Pearl, and My Favorite Necklace”
This is not the blog post I had planned for today. I actually had a post half written about facing fears and courage and sharks (yes, sharks). But then I heard something on NPR that absolutely wrecked me. It was a report on how… Continue Reading “Life is precious.”
Last weekend I was at the Breathe Christian Writers Conference. 200 some writers, editors, agents gathered to celebrate the writing life. It was fabulous, inspiring, exhausting (in the best way possible). I could go on and on about the wonderful things that happened, the… Continue Reading “It’s a Prayer.”
The people living in the wasteland of the Dust Bowl region knew suffering. It was beside them, trickling in through every crack in the roof, they breathed it in with every inhalation. Suffering was ever present in their every moment. Still, many of them… Continue Reading “The Next Year People”
When I was writing A Cup of Dust a two characters just appeared on the pages. Weird, right? Well, not for novelists. This happens to us all the time. One of them came with the name Beanie Jean. See, I knew I wanted Pearl to… Continue Reading “Beanie, Mad Mabel, and An Author’s Love”
Originally posted on Catie Cordero:
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing multi-published author, Susie Finkbeiner. She is a wife and mother of three children, living in West Michigan. She grew up in an art-friendly home where art was not only encouraged; it was…
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