Mary remembers her first meeting with Aunt Geraldine, Chapter 26, Phantom Love
Mary took a deep breath. Might as well finish her sad tale and be done with it. She wished there was an easier way to tell it, but Jared seemed to understand better than anyone else. Maybe that was why the words flowed out of her so easily. She’d only given Amy the bare bones […]
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 […]
