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"Although I'm forced to use the internet, Facebook, and my smart-phone to survive in this business, I'm really very un-techy. I still write the first drafts of my novels longhand."

"My hope is that through the trial portion of the book, readers will understand that infants born during late term abortion are often capable of surviving, but in more cases than you could imagine."

"But what really solidified it for me was that when I asked on my teen blog for anyone who would like to help me with the project from the standpoint of personal experience, 6 of the 20 or so regulars on the blog contacted me. All of them had experience with purposely hurting themselves."

"Elysium belongs to a new genre of Christian fiction called Apologetics Fiction, or sometimes Literary Apologetics. As such, the goal of this series is to deal with the topic of why Christianity is unique among the world religions."

"Ben's wife died in a car accident two years earlier, sending him to self-medicating with booze. Esther is fighting demons of her own with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Both are emotionally wounded. Both have never sought after dreams."

"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