Q&A: Marilyn Sue Shank (Child of the Mountains)
“A New York editor who critiqued the first few pages of Child of the Mountains at a conference asked me, ‘Why does Lydia speak that way?’ I told her, ‘These are the voices of my childhood.'”
“A New York editor who critiqued the first few pages of Child of the Mountains at a conference asked me, ‘Why does Lydia speak that way?’ I told her, ‘These are the voices of my childhood.'”
“For Tattler?s Branch, my research included the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the outlaw Jesse James, 1911 fashions (including maternity dress), telephones, electricity, automobiles, medical practices, Down syndrome, and lots of Scripture searches.”
?The recurring theme in The Prayer Box is grace, what it is, how it changes lives, how we discover it, accept it, and pour it out to one another.?
ACFW Celebrates Editor and Agent of the Year and Lifetime Achievement
“If a reader should turn the last page of Burning Sky and find herself reminded that through trials and tears we have a heavenly source from which we can draw comfort, courage, and strength to help in time of need, I?d be thrilled.”
Literary hybrid genres are popping up everywhere: Romance/Suspense,
Historical/Mystery, and more recently Young Adult/Amish novels
are finding a base of readers.
“Actually, I don’t even like camping, so the irony of God putting me in the middle of a dirty jungle isn’t lost on me.”
A woman meant to serve, a child in the dark, a man standing apart?can these three souls embrace a God with new plans for them?
The season has come for Rhoda to embrace who God has called her to be.
Amid racial tensions in 1954, Mick & Mercy find it nearly impossible to hold on to their someday dream