What is the setting for Hymns in the Hills? Obviously there are hills involved. 🙂 But what hills? Though I don’t say specifically, and you are welcome to set it anywhere, when I was writing this book, the hills in my mind were located nearby in the Ozark Mountains. (Don’t think rugged peeks or snowy […]

Someone asked me what it was like to work with a professional editor. I had to admit that I’ve never worked with a professional editor. For this book, the editing was in several different stages. 1st– I edit as I write. Each day I try to read and edit what I wrote the day before. […]

I thought you might be interested in seeing the old hymn books I used for the hymns in this book. The one on the right I got from my grandma. (I think it was her grandmother’s.) And the other I found at a thrift store. I don’t know if you can see or not, but […]

Let’s talk names, shall we? This story has a lot of characters! And all these characters had to have names. One thing I either love or hate, is coming up with names for everyone. So often I end up with the same sort of names. But not this time. Because this story is set in […]