by Joanne | Sep 24, 2013 | Rag Bag
This week I have the absolute privilege to team up with some amazing authors! And each day readers have the chance to win these great books! PLUS, my publisher has a special something up their sleeve… we’ve got a bundle of country goodies as the Grand...
by Joanne | Sep 9, 2013 | Rag Bag
This week is the big American Christian Fiction Writers conference, and it’s my first year to get to go! The first year I’d hoped to go I was too pregnant to fly. They literally would have banished me from the airplane. The year after that, I had a baby in...
by Joanne | Aug 27, 2013 | Rag Bag
Good day friends! I am so excited to have a guest on my blog today… my friend and upcoming author, Melissa Tagg! Melissa writes in a way that is laugh-out-loud funny and does her book not have one of the CUTEST covers ever?! Melissa is a former newspaper...
by Joanne | Aug 13, 2013 | Rag Bag
About two years ago, I was sitting with a woman who is as beloved to my life as they come. We were talking music and I was sharing some of my favorite worship songs. She’d asked if I’d ever listened to Sovereign Grace. Sovereign who? Sovereign Grace. I had...
by Joanne | Apr 30, 2013 | Rag Bag
It is my absolute pleasure to get to share with you about my good friend, Jocelyn Green and her FANTASTIC Civil War series, Heroines Behind the Lines. I recently read the first book in her series, Wedded to War and absolutely loved it. Rarely am I swept away in a...
by Joanne | Apr 9, 2013 | Folk Music Spotlight, Rag Bag
As one of my absolute favorites, this song by The Lumineers has been in my writing mix for a long time. Just last week a good friend messaged me with the video saying how much it reminded her of Lonnie and Gideon… *smile* …and wondered if I heard it. She...