I Grew Up Hearing Words Like Snakeroot,

There Are So Many People Who Don't Know Small Towns Exist. When I Write, I Want To Give My Readers Two Things: One Is A Sense Of Consolation, And Two, I Want To Make Them Laugh.

I Learned Not To Be So Bitterly Defeated When My Fiction Took A Beating From Editors. I Learned In Advertising To Color In The Lines And Have My Work Done On Time And To Make It The Very Best It Could Be.

Loving Can Be Hard. Sometimes We Don't Feel Loving, But It Isn't All About Feeling. Very Often It Is About Will. Practice That If You Can.

Publishing Is, By Its Nature, About Deadlines, And Deadlines Are Toxic.

When We Turn From Our Sin, And Have The Blessed Forgiveness Of The Almighty, Then We Can Ask Him To Run Things, And Let Him Be In Charge.