by Joanne | May 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the Courage Chronicles blog hop and giveaway! I hope you’ve enjoyed visiting the first four posts of the giveaway! If you’ve missed any, you can read the stories about courage, plus, enter up to five times into our grand prize: A custom piece of art, hand...
by Joanne | Apr 3, 2019 | Daughters of Northern Shores, Sons of Blackbird Mountain, Thomas Nelson
The ship dipped and sprayed. Water gusted against the sides, foamy and white. Though she was gaining speed, the last of her sails were being unfurled, running rigging pulled tight and laid over the pins. With easy foot placements, Haakon descended the few meters down...
by Joanne | Dec 27, 2018 | Learning How to do This
About nine months after becoming a single mother, I attended my first swing dance. Imagine a room full of vintage-at heart people…newsboy hats, oxford shoes, pincurls and the prettiest dresses. All to the rock and sway of jazzy music. I fell in love with it that...
by Joanne | Oct 4, 2018 | Daughters of Northern Shores, Thomas Nelson, Writing
Join me today in my writing space for the inside process of the final steps of book editing – the galleys! Recently, the galleys for Daughters of Northern Shores landed on my porch. It’s always exciting to find one of those envelopes, to see the return address from...
by Joanne | Jul 10, 2018 | Sons of Blackbird Mountain
Thanks to the amazing folks at Celebrate Lit and a slew of fantastic bloggers, there is a lovely story-inspired prize package that we’ll be giving away to one special winner! Click here to enter! In the video below, I share a little more about each of the...