When the Teapot Boils [Patricia Lee]

I never had a burning passion to write a book. Like a teapot simmering on a stove’s back burner, my idea to write a novel also sat.

Write a book? Ninety-some thousand words? I couldn’t imagine such a feat.

But the teapot on the back of the stove kept simmering.

A Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes [Sara Davison]

Have you ever had a pair of shoes that were so perfectly worn around your feet, so completely comfortable, that you never wanted to take them off or wear another pair? New shoes can be the opposite—uncomfortable and sometimes even painful. But often they are also beautiful, and it is well worth the effort to try them on, break them in, give them time to adapt and mold to your feet.

Our comfort zone is the same.

[Bryan Davis] If I Should Die

“If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.”

As a pre-school youngster, I often whispered that prayer while covering my head with a blanket. Rumors of war, tornado warnings, or even a bump in the night would raise fears of death in my young mind. What would happen if I should die? Would I live on in heaven? Would God really take my soul to be with him?

[Alyssa Roat] Are You a Workaholic?

In our newest contemporary romance novel, Picture Imperfect, the female lead Caroline could be defined as a workaholic. But how can you tell if someone is a workaholic—including yourself? “Workaholism” doesn’t just mean that someone works a lot. We all have to work long hours sometimes. Instead, workaholism refers to a work addiction. Researchers from

[Alyssa Roat] Hold Fast to Dreams

I started my debut novel, Wraithwood, at sixteen. I finished the first draft at seventeen and brought that unpolished manuscript with me to college. I was pursuing a degree in Professional Writing. I’d been promised I’d be published within my first semester. I knew other graduates had gotten their books published in college. This was