by Olivia | Jun 1, 2015 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
She was a little girl in Mexico whose mother left her and her brother in the care of their grandmother. Her mother went to the U.S. What the woman that girl grew into remembers about those years was how unloved she felt by her grandmother, who preferred the girl’s...
by Olivia | May 18, 2015 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
This is just a quick post to be sure my new book is on your radar. This is the third in the Amish Turns of Time series. (The others are Wonderful Lonesome and Meek and Mild.) Here’s the skinny: Title: Brightest and Best Release date: August 1, 2015 Back cover:...
by Olivia | May 11, 2015 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
I thought I was being so smart. I had multiple books to mail out to contest winners. By Monday evening I had everything packaged up and addressed. But here’s where the smarts come in. I live fairly close to a post office, but it’s always crowded. Seriously. It has...
by Olivia | May 4, 2015 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
My son was an unusual preschooler. He was obsessed with all things geography, particularly a large floor puzzle of the United States that he assembled countless times. He kept a school room size map of the U.S. on one wall of his room and a map of the world on...
by Olivia | Apr 27, 2015 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter asked me to go with her to look at a rental house. She’s in an apartment now, and she and her roommate feel like they’re ready for more space and a fenced yard for the dog when their lease is up. I went happily. When we...
by Olivia | Apr 21, 2015 | Books in Process
Thanks to everyone who participated in the spring 2015 Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt and stopped by here on your way through. Margie of South Carolina won the drawing for copies of Wonderful Lonesome and Meek and Mild. Happy reading,...
by Olivia | Apr 15, 2015 | Books in Process
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! The hunt runs from NOON on April 16 and ends at MIDNIGHT April 19. You have a nice long weekend to visit all 34 websites. Here’s a basic overview if you’d like to mark it for reference. I’m part of...
by Olivia | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Mark your calendar! We are only days away from the Spring 2015 Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt. This is always a blast, and I’m glad to be participating again to introduce my newest book, Meek and Mild, book 2 in the Amish Turns of Time set. The hunt has become...
by Olivia | Apr 6, 2015 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
One day it was suddenly too much. My office, that is. I was on deadline with edits, so of course I had to reorganize my office in a major way. (My writer friends will understand that logic.) The straw that broke the camel’s back was spinning my chair...
by Olivia | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
There was a time when I could not imagine Holy Week without going to church on Good Friday. In those days, though, I didn’t know the term Holy Week, and the churches I attended were likely to have either a Maundy Thursday service or a Good Friday service. Asking...
