by: Staci Stallings I saw a post the other day on Facebook that said, “Only 45 more weeks until Christmas Day!” For the average person, they would probably laugh that off. For me, it literally caused a zing of anxiety to zap through my body. I’ve told you here about my son’s Christmas light show, […]
Mirror Mirror, From the Story
Author’s Note: There are some scenes that just stay with you forever. This is one of my favorites. Enjoy… It seemed the height of insanity to be out here on a vacant field celebrating when he hadn’t heard from her in 48 hours. Why did everyone else seem to think it should be so easy […]
Imagination
by: Staci Stallings Sometimes living in my imagination is difficult. Maybe that’s because I have what people call a “vivid imagination.” Do you know what that means, to have a vivid imagination? For me, it means that what I “experience” in my head is often as real or more real to me than things that […]
Reader Take Over Day, Hosted by Staci Stallings
Okay, InspyPeeps, They gave me the keyboard today (not a smart idea if you ask me but we’re not going to tell THEM that!), and I’ve been thinking about this since my last post over here. One of the things you guys said in the comments several times was: “I love learning about authors and […]
Thoughts on “The Price of Silence”
by: Staci Stallings “The Price of Silence” was the third novel I wrote, and with this one, I struck out in the direction of YA, or young adult, though I didn’t know what that was at the time. Still trying to marry my love of romance with how to write inspirational and not become completely […]
Love as a Verb
by: Staci Stallings One of my most popular series is called The Courage Series (To Protect & Serve, White Knight, and For Real). The Courage Series revolves around a firefighter who becomes kind of the center-pin for a whole group of friends. In the course of the three novels, the characters again and again face […]
This is Why I Write, Behind the Story: If You Believed in Love
by: Staci Stallings Every so often, my husband takes my three kids either camping or snow skiing. Because I don’t enjoy either one, I get to stay home. On these “by myself” vacations, I rent, buy, or dive into my stash of DVD’s. I get Chinese food for the whole weekend and only leave to […]
The Thinnest Thread
by: Staci Stallings I think people who don’t write have a notion about how the process goes. They think that a writer gets an idea, mostly fully formed, then they sit down and plot the book out, crafting all the twists and turns on paper before they ever start writing. The writing is of course […]
Mirror Mirror (Excerpt)
Mirror Mirror Excerpt As much as he hated washing dishes, Luke was having an immense amount of fun watching Sage walk in and out. He began to notice that each time she came back, she would say something to him. “Don’t quit your day job.” “I feel like Santa.” “I hope you don’t blame me for […]
20 Years… Not So Long As it Seems
by: Staci Stallings It was 20 years ago that I pulled something I always loved to do out of the mothballs and dusted it off. At the time, I was a 20-something with a one-year-old and a whole bunch of time on my hands. You see, prior to that, my life had pretty much been […]