This post is part of a series on bravery I started a couple months ago…you can read earlier bravery posts here. Also, warning, this one gets a little more introspective and meandering than most. Have you ever had a book-slash-movie people repeatedly told you to read-slash-see but you just didn’t get it done for the longest time? I was …
Michael Jordan can play baseball if he wants to! (Or when bravery is knowing you might fail)
This post is part of a series on bravery I started a couple months ago…you can read earlier bravery posts here. So I basically have the coolest siblings in the ENTIRE world. It’s incredibly rare that we’re all four home at the same time, but a couple weeks back, we all found ourselves in good old Webster City, Iowa, at …
A peek behind my writing curtain (Or when bravery is being honest)
This post is part of a Friday series on bravery…because it’s the topic on my mind lately. And I guess I can’t help writing about it. You can check out previous bravery posts here, here and here. An interesting thing happened last week when I was rewriting a scene for my spring 2015 release, From the Start. I was writing …
What I learned from the Man in Black. (Or when bravery is saying “My story isn’t over.”)
(This is part of a Friday series on bravery. Because it’s the topic on my mind lately. If you missed last week’s post, you can read it here.) I mentioned last week that I recently took a weekend trip to Nashville. It was, in a word, FUN. On our last day there, a couple friends and I (shoutout to Clay …
Five times Kate Walker is…me.
In the past month or so as my new book From the Start has landed in early readers’ and reviewers’ hands, I’ve been asked one question more than any other: Are you Kate Walker? It’s a logical question. Kate is, after all, a writer of romantic stories. She’s from Iowa. She loves old movies. Her hair can’t decide whether it’s curly …
What inspired my new Christmas story + don’t miss the giveaway!
It is a truth universally acknowledged… …that when a girl is obsessed with classic movies, her storytelling can’t help but be impacted by said obsession. Turns out every story I’ve written so far has some kind of classic movie thread lacing through it–whether it was an intentional “angle borrowing” as in the case of Made to Last and …
Why it’s going to be quiet around here for a couple weeks.
Hey guys! This week I’m heading off to one of my favorite trips of the year: the ACFW Conference in St. Louis. It’s an event during which about seven hundred writers and publishing industry professionals take over a Hyatt Regency Hotel and basically have the grown-up version of summer camp. Not nearly as many mosquitos. But just as much staying …
Big Birthday Giveaway! (books, movies, cookies and more)
September is my favorite month of the year for about a thousand reasons! Including this: It’s my birthday! Well, not quite yet. My birthday is actually September 28. But I’m starting the celebration early because this month also marks the one-year birthday of a couple pretty special people in my life. Their names are Matthew and Miranda and they’re …
Because…Ollie :)
I’ve been doing a Friday series on bravery in the past few weeks and I had a post ready to go in my head for this week. But then I got distracted. By this guy. 🙂 Yes, it’s true. My nephew is the cutest kid IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. So the bravery series continues next week with a post …
The hot, sweaty, SCARED cowboy. (Or when being brave is looking out the window)
I think I’m about to break a major blogging rule. I’m going to *gasp* process some personal things I’ve been thinking about in blog form—all having to do with bravery. I wrote about bravery a couple weeks ago and ever since, have been reading this amazing book called Let’s All Be Brave and I just have ALL these thoughts. So …
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