Thursday, July 28

Report from the road

Thursday, July 28, 2016 Laurel Garver
I'm out on a blog tour this week! For the full run-down, see the kick-off post at Bookish Orchestrations. Many of my hosts are introducing me to their readers by sharing excerpts...

Thursday, July 21

Grief, ghosts, and...God?

Thursday, July 21, 2016 Laurel Garver
"A grieving teen believes her dead father is haunting her" --a tagline for my debut Never Gone, often raises this question: how could this topic possibly be Christian fiction? Photo...

Thursday, July 14

No mere allusion: building fiction through modeling

Thursday, July 14, 2016 Laurel Garver
By guest author Elise Abram visiting us from Canada (hence some variant spellings) Modelling is not (as the title of a previous blog I wrote implied) actually stealing. It's...

Saturday, July 2

Twist on a trope: writing fresh historical fiction

Saturday, July 02, 2016 Laurel Garver
image credit: ranbud at morguefile.com with guest author Faith Blum If you have read any mail order bride stories, you've probably noticed that even though the bride...
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