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I began reading The Door Within to my sons several nights ago. Understand, they’ve just come off reading Eragon and seeing the movie, greatly disappointed, of course, with the movie. At ages seven and eight, they’ve still not learned that books are far better than movies will ever be! You have to understand, too, that my boys live in a fantasy world of role playing through their PS 2. So I’m more than thrilled that they’ve listened through at least one long novel. And now. . .they’re interested in yet another. We may save this generation yet. To my eight …

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining Keep Me IN Suspense, a website dedicated to all things suspense. The other hosts include Susan Page Davis, Wanda Dyson, Jeff Gerke, Lisa Harris, Lynette Sowell and Candice Speare. I’m excited about this endeavor because my first book coming out is romance yes, but it’s suspense, too. I’m working on another suspense proposal and this year I plan to write a thriller. I’m already researching on various aspects and I’m very excited and inspired to write in a way that I haven’t been in a long time. For years I’ve had a …

Mt. Everest of Laundry that is. I’ve been trying since we arrived home from our two week visit to Texas for the holidays, to get all of the laundry done. I finally realized that it’s not going to happen. In the meantime, I’m losing all of my blogger reading friends, so I’m going to go ahead and start posting again and the laundry can just . . .sit. . . and wait. . . for. . . I really wanted to post about our trip and Christmas at my families. The pictures of the kids in their pirate gear were …

We’re leaving tomorrow to make a grueling long drive to be with family and friends for the holidays. I’m busy doing laundry, packing and cleaning and doubt very much if I will have time to blog for the next two weeks. I’m supposed to have a post over at Favorite Pastimes the week of the 24th, but blogger isn’t giving me access–some glitch to do with blogger beta. We’ve had a terrible storm here the last few days in the Pacific Northwest. You can view some of the videos taken by another Christian writers who lives on the coast here. …

Thanks for joining me again today for Part 2 of my interview with Kathy Mackel. You can read the first chapter of Trackers at Speculative Faith on Stuart Stockton’s Tuesday post. Now, let’s pick up where we left off yesterday. BG: Fox Faith Movies. . . any possibility of working with them? KM: Many studios have begun to explore faith-based entertainment. I just finished writing the screenplay for The Hidden for Namesake Entertainment. They are definitely among the industry leaders in making faith-based films with studio distribution. Next out the gate for them is Ted Dekker’s Thr3e, followed by the …

From the moment of conception 46 chromosones with 30,000 genes combine to determine all of your physical characteristics: sex; facial features; body type; color of hair; eyes and skin. The above is taken from here.

Wow, has it been more than a week since I’ve posted?! My, time flies. I’m supposed to post over at SpecFaith tomorrow but thankfully, Shannon McNear will be posting for me the entire month of December. Thanks for that break, Shannon. Next week is the CSFF Blog Tour featuring Kathryn Mackel’s sequel to Outriders–TRACKERS. Join me on Monday, December 11th for an interview with Kathy. I don’t have much more to say right now except that I’ve given myself a deadlne to finish the medieval I’m working on by the end of December so that I can start on my …

Thanks to all of you who visited Lisa Harris’s interview with me this week. If you’re interested in possibly winning two books from Lisa, there might still be time to comment on her blog for those. Also, I’m hoping to reveal a new website soon. I do have a flash site which I think is most beautiful, but it’s also most impractical. On another topic, over the past few years I’ve become a news fanatic. . it’s almost a religion with me. I simply MUST have my coffee and watch “my” news in the morning before I’m good for anything …

You can check out an interview with MOI at Lisa Harris’s blog today. Blessings!Beth.

This was my first year to cook a Thanksgiving dinner for my family. Previous Thanksgivings were spent at my parent’s home along with my brother and his family, and one or both of my precious grandmothers. This is my mother’s obsession. She loves to decorate for the holidays and her table is among the finest with all the tableware, crystal and even golden chargers for the dinner plates. She has three or four different sets of china and makes her choice well ahead of time. The last few years she has suffered with Diabetic Retinopathy. I’m not sure if she …