Author Visit: Rebekah Allgood

Hang onto your hats, my friends! I’m so excited to introduce another young author to our “Young Authors” lineup. It’s been quite some time, so when Rebekah Allgood contacted me about a possible interview (and a giveaway, of course!) I was thrilled to...

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Oct 27, 2025
A Brand-new Series and a New Website Makeover

It's been in my mind for over a year now, but I wanted to write a new series about Andi Carter's good friend, Jenny Grant. But I just never got around to it. Well, this summer, I suddenly felt "ready to go." I wrote three chapters the beginning of Ju...

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Oct 21, 2025
Our Favorite Things #20 – Seasons

Read other favorites in Our Favorite Things category 20. Our Favorite Seasons October 1882 Note: Thanks to “anonymous” in the first comment from the Highlighting the Past – October post a couple of weeks ago for this suggestion: Favorite Seasons. Mel...

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Oct 20, 2025
Highlighting the Past: October

OCTOBER HIGHLIGHT: “OUR FAVORITE THINGS” CATEGORY The blog category, Our Favorite Things, highlights all of Andi’s and Melinda’s (and sometimes Kate’s) favorite things. I dug back four years to find this one: OUR BROTHERS. Which is Andi’s favorite br...

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Oct 13, 2025
🔎 October What Am I? Guessing Game

Newsletter Update and RefreshSo, I decided to combine the Circle C and Goldtown newsletters into one list. When I combined them, I was super surprised that--except for a handful of subscribers--most of you were already subscribed to both lists. Now i...

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Oct 07, 2025
October What Am I Winner

Out of 185 responses/guesses (a record!) 167 guessed correctly. Random.org chose #161, Kelly VanDemark, as the winner, the prize chosen was the gold and fool’s gold. Kelly has 48 hours (from last night) to claim her prize. The mystery object is a BLU...

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Oct 07, 2025
Good News – Bad News

Good news first, friends. Drum roll. My publisher, Kregel, is contracting me for Book One, Trouble in Tacoma as well as Book Two [unnamed at this point]. I finished book one so I will be able to send the ms in by February 2026. Bad news: They do stuf...

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Oct 03, 2025
Photo Friday-Cover Playing

My publisher had their acquistions meeting yesterday, but I haven’t heard a thing! I did have good news about Christian Book. The Goldtown Adventures series–for the first time ever–was selected to go in their Christmas Fiction 2025 print catalog. Wit...

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Sep 26, 2025
Highlighting the Past: September

SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHT: “ANDI’s JOURNAL” CATEGORY The blog category, “Andi’s Journal,” highlights all kinds of happenings from Andi’s life both when she is young and after she is married to Riley. I dug deep (about four years ago, when I first moved thi...

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Sep 18, 2025
😱 Radio Interviews Are Scary! 😱

Okay, so here’s the thing about radio interviews: they scare me half to death. At least, they used to. Case in point: Time travel 15 years in the past to November 2010. Back in the day, my publisher, Kregel Publications, had a publicist. This person’...

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Sep 16, 2025
Alphabet Game #9 – Melinda Carter

More Alphabet Characters > Melinda! I bet you would not have thought that — in a pinch — Melinda Jane Carter could trade her dancing slippers in for a split skirt and a lasso. She’s not very good with the lasso, but she was there for her little si...

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Sep 12, 2025
What Am I Winner

Ashlynn Hunt is the winner. Her email bounced, so I was a little worried and thought I’d need to choose another winner, but she did contact me! There were 153 entries, of which 135 got the answer correct: a pineapple. Random.org chose #87 and that ha...

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Sep 10, 2025