The adolescent me stood on the bright white, springy board. The sun beating on the tops of my shoulders. My eyes fixed on the clear blue, inviting water below. “One…two…three…” Voices of my friend and her mother chanted. I stood there longing to jump into the refreshing, cool water but feeling held back by something….
My new novella, “Big Love,” now available on Amazon from Scrivenings Press, caught me a bit by surprise. In so many ways. I wasn’t planning to write a novella. In fact, I was deep in the first draft of a full-length novel at the time. But once the idea floated into my consciousness, a story-ette…
When I was in college, my sister dated a guy I had a crush on. The guy was also one of my best friends. And yes, my sister knew I was interested in more than friendship. While they only dated for a month, I’ve sometimes wondered what life would be like had she married that…
By: Heather Thompson, Author and Bondservant to Christ Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom – that’s what it says in 2 Corinthians 3:17. We sing it, we say it, and we want to believe it. But, we leave out the first part of the verse. In its entirety it says “Now…
Communing with God is not just spending time with Him in His Word, although this is how you really get to know Him. It’s also finding time throughout the day to just sit and be with Him. (Even for just a few minutes.) It’s finding time to take a walk with Him outside in…
April marks the fourth “birthday” of Spies & Sweethearts, book one in my Sisters in Service series. The idea for the story came together as a result of several incidents, the most fun of which was when I met a woman who’d served in America’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor to the CIA,…
The Jericho war, as recorded in the Book of Joshua (chapter six), was perhaps the most unusual battle ever won in human history. The Israelites merely marched around it and sounded trumpets, and Jericho’s walls fell. Some skeptics may say the Jericho event had never happened. We visited the ruins a few years ago. Our…
“The whole world is full of lies. You can’t help telling some and you can’t help believing some.” ~ Fess Parker, as Daniel Boone, 1965 Daniel Boone TV show, “The Hostages.” I was a private investigator and a lie detection examiner for many years. Working alongside my husband in his investigation agency, we dealt…
Many years ago, I started to write a text for a Mother’s Day picture book based on Proverbs 31. I talked about the perfect mother. I took it to an online critique group I was part of. Comments like the mom is too perfect, the story isn’t child centered, and the manuscript is way too…
The inspiration for my new release: Meet Me Where the Windrush Flows This is the first time the setting for a story has been my inspiration. In February last year, I was visiting with the woman who does my income taxes. She knows about my novels and my love of traveling. I mentioned that I’d…