'The Christy Awards acknowledge the unique role that storytelling has in communicating deep truths about God and His love and interaction with humankind throughout history.'
"My prayer is that each book captures God's truths. Only through His guidance can this feeble, racing-thoughts-plagued, fifty-five-something woman ever complete a sentence, much less a novel!"
"I didn't start out to write a Christian novel when I wrote [my first novel], but God showed up as I wrote and I couldn't avoid the fact that my faith will always be at work with anything I write.
"I love it that God uses us very flawed people to get His work on Earth completed. I hope that comes through in my novels. When I think I'm hanging on to Him and slipping I do better when I realize He's the one one hanging on to me."