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Our Preschooler’s Best Quotes from 2015
It’s that time of year again when we look back at my preschooler’s best quotes from the year before! Our oldest daughter, Michaela, turned four in August. Here’s some of her sweetest, funniest, and most profound comments from January to …[ read more ]
• • •Smart, Fun, Relatable Fiction: An Author Interview
At the Writer to Writer conference in Hershey, PA, I was thrilled to meet Clarice James–author of smart, fun, relatable fiction–and then discover we were both winners of the Operation First Novel contest! Clarice, how did you feel when you …[ read more ]
• • •Linda Brooks Davis: An Author Interview
Hi, Linda! How did you feel when you won Jerry Jenkins’s 2014 Operation First Novel contest? Traumatic—in a good sense—would describe the experience of learning I had won. I wasn’t able to attend the conference where Jerry made the announcement, …[ read more ]
• • •Brandy Vallance, Operation First Novel Winner
I still remember the lovely dinner I shared with Brandy Vallance at the Writing for the Soul conference and the moment Jerry Jenkins announced she won the 2013 Operation First Novel contest. Today, I have the privilege of interviewing this …[ read more ]
• • •My Operation First Novel Story
Have you ever had an impossible dream? Ever since I won a Butterball turkey in a short story contest in sixth grade, I’ve dreamed of penning novels. But first I met other adventures. I earned a degree in English and …[ read more ]
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