Where are your favorite fall (autumn) vacation spots? What do you usually do when you’re on vacation this time of the year? Do you like to go to the beach or up to the mountains? If you like going to the mountains in the fall, what do you usually do there? Do you spend time […]
Settings Are Characters, Too
I’ve been thinking a lot about story settings lately. Building a setting, I think, is nearly as much fun as creating characters and a storyline. With each Madison Creek story, the lakeside Michigan town grows with more details, such as the park down near the end of Main Street where everyone gathers for events and […]
Summer Nights By the Water
Hola, Jolene here checking in from the Texas Hill Country. I’m writing on the porch of a cabin that sits on the Fro River. The birds are chatter and the water is rushing over the rocks. The shade of old giant pecan trees just invites me to stay and hide from the world a little […]
When Good News Drops In and Saves the Year
I love the feel-good, inspirational stories showing up on social media and in the news this time of year, don’t you? Here are a few examples of stories I’ve heard in recent days: Families enduring displacement after hurricane Matthew and can’t afford Christmas gifts are unexpectedly blessed by the generous contributions of others. A kid […]
About Eagle Point Emergency-glimpse into a series
Hello there! Hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July filled with fun, family and friends. Did you get to see any fireworks? We went to my parents’ where my dad grilled out and made homemade ice-cream. My favorite is cantaloupe, and I feature it in my Eagle Point Emergency book series. Today, I’d love […]
A Story Seven Years in the Making
by: Staci Stallings In retrospect, maybe I shouldn’t have named the book “A Work in Progress.” Maybe that was my first clue of how long this particular book would take to write. The planting of the seed happened over a message board many years ago. Remember message boards? Long before Facebook, you posted something on them, […]