A Conversation With Robin Patchen
Robin Patchen is a wife, a mother of three teenagers, a freelance editor, and an award-winning multi-published author of seven novels and novellas. She loves to illustrate the unending grace of God through the power and magic of story. When do you find time to write? Robin: I don’t find the time so much as […]
Mary tells Jared about leaving home as a child, Chapter 25, continued, Phantom Love
Those four little words threw him into a tailspin, but somehow the words to decline Mary’s request wouldn’t form on his lips. He hadn’t said grace or any other semblance of a prayer in two years. His shooting had merely been the last in a long line of grievances against the Almighty. He sucked in […]
An Ordinary Writer Writing Ordinary Books
This piece originally appeared on the ACFW blog on March 29, 2016. Who wants to be ordinary? If I asked that question at an ACFW conference, I doubt anyone would raise their hand. For some reason, ordinary has become associated with dull, listless, uninteresting and uninspiring. As writers, we may be content to live ordinary […]
Jared teases Mary, Chapter 25, Phantom Love
Mary had been relieved when David typed that he had to go because of a client meeting. Her chat with him was off today. She’d ask Amy to stay for dinner after she finished Jared’s massage. She stirred the meat in the pot and slid the chopped onions in, wondering if she should ask Jared […]
