by Olivia | Mar 24, 2013 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
This is not the post I planned to write when I sketched out blog ideas recently. I intended to write about my heart’s connection to Holy Week, which begins this Palm Sunday morning. I was going to invite you to take my hand and step into the drama of Christ’s...
by Olivia | Mar 21, 2013 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
“Did you have to do a lot of research?” When I have opportunity to do an author interview, this is a common question. It arises because my Avenue of Dreams series is historical and my Valley of Choice series has an historical thread that intertwines the contemporary...
by Olivia | Mar 18, 2013 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
Spring allergies are smacking me in the face right now. Hard. Relentless. Merciless. I would take a deep breath if it were physically possible. Sometimes the most mundane things can knock you off your feet, literally and figuratively. Cough, sneeze, blow, sigh. So...
by Olivia | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Twenty-nine August 1952 I had pretty much decided that I hated the heat in Arkansas in August. I was nineteen and had lived every August of my life in that that heat, but I’d read enough to know that it wasn’t like that everywhere, and I dreamed of someday living some...
by Olivia | Mar 14, 2013 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
I have good reason to be excited. I’m reading the final galley for In Plain View, which is due out in June. (This is a sequel to Accidentally Amish in the Valley of Choice Series.) The galley is the final chance to catch stuff. But it has to be only little...