When I Decided to Become a Writer

People often ask me when I decided to become a writer and how I came up with the idea for Snow Out of Season. My Earliest Muses When I was born, my parents named me Christy after the bestselling novel of the same …[ read more ]

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Double Header Novel Hits a Home Run

Love contemporary fiction with a mystery, great dialogue, and relatable characters that will make you laugh out loud? Then don’t miss the novel Double Header, second-place winner of Jerry B. Jenkins’s Operation First Novel Contest. Double Header Synopsis Four years …[ read more ]

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The Calling of Ella McFarland Book Review

For what good works did Christ create you? Are you completing them? In December, I posted interviews with Linda Brooks Davis and Clarice G. James, the other two winners of the 2014 Jerry B. Jenkins Operation First Novel contest. Today, I’m …[ read more ]

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How My Mom Gave Me Away

What’s our greatest hope for our sons and daughters? Is it to see them grow up to be happy, healthy, and wealthy, living close to us in a house with a white picket fence? Or can we imagine a higher …[ read more ]

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A Message to America’s Christians

My dad, Mike Litzau, posted this message to America’s Christians on Facebook last month. Because I thought it was so thought-provoking, I decided to repost it on my blog. Enjoy! A Message to America’s Christians and People of Conscience There’s …[ read more ]

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