History, Real Life and Faith
The same dozen authors who provided The 12 Brides of Christmas e-book collection last fall for Barbour Publishing, have teamed up again for summer 2015. Appropriately titled The 12 Brides of Summer Collection, this season the e-books will be released in groups of three at the value price of $2.99 for three novellas. To provide a consistent reading experience for the…
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As an author with five published novellas to her credit, I’ve been pondering the lure of a novella. Why do people like to read them? Novellas are shorter works of fiction, usually ranging between 15,000 and 30,000 words– or about 60 to 120 “standard sized” pages. While short stories, on the other hand, have ranged as high as 15,000 words, they’re…
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As an author with five published novellas to her credit, I’ve been pondering the lure of a novella. Why do people like to read them? Novellas are shorter works of fiction, usually ranging between 15,000 and 30,000 words– or about 60 to 120 “standard sized” pages. While short stories, on the other hand, have ranged as high as 15,000 words, they’re…
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Are you guilty of accent borrowing? I am. I was mortified the day I attended a training session and sat beside a woman from Australia. We chatted happily until the session began and the instructor asked the dozen of us for an introduction. My neighbor said her name, and added that while she was from Sydney, she was delighted to be…
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t like failure. I don’t like to fail and I don’t like watching other people fail. But in conversation lately, I’ve been thinking about the good that can come from failure. It just depends on how you look at it. Definitions are always helpful. Failure: 1. omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : failing…
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We spent several days recently with relatives in Slovenia and were awed by the power of the translator. Two family members speak English well enough to feel comfortable as translators: thirty-something Tjasa (Tee-ah-sha), who is a working mom, and 16 year-old Andraz (And-draws), who attends school. Tjasa’s husband also speaks English, but they weren’t available most of the time we…
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