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New author, Dan Walsh

I want to introduce a very talented author, Dan Walsh. Dan writes YA set during WW II.

Patrick Collins is seven years old, and his Christmas list contains only three items. He wants the Army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather's house. And, for reasons even he doesn't understand, he wants the wooden soldier tucked away in his grandfather's attic.

Set at Christmastime in 1943, The Unfinished Gift explores how God can use simple and sometimes surprising things to affect powerful changes in our hearts. Like a little boy's prayers, a shoebox full of love letters, even an old hand-carved wooden soldier, long forgotten.

You can preorder The Unfinished Gift now!!! Be sure to stop by Dan's website to read a snip from this inspiring book.

This is awkward

It's too early to be up but yet, I flip on the computer and hit the high lights. I glance over e-mail, slip over to Facebook, and then take a stroll through Reader. Eating the last of my granola bar, I pop my iron pill and nearly choke. Bound by Honor catches my attention. I blink several times, swallow hard, and look again. There it is as plain as anything. A beautiful font, a glossy cover, and a different author's name! What! My Bound by Honor is due for release March 2. This is as bad as going to prom and seeing another girl wearing your dress. I suppose it could be worse, we could be in the same genre. Wait, we ARE! Well, almost anyway. This author writes erotica.

Okay, I'm waking up and things are becoming clearer. These things happen. I just wish it didn't happen so close to my release date. I want to go on record. I had this title waaaaaaay before I saw this other book. That's all I'm saying. I hope we both have great success with our releases.

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COST OF FREEDOM is profiled on the Blazing Trailer's site. Come take a peek at an excerpt and the trailer.

Website

Yay! What a long road. My poor webmistress. After being recreated from the ground up, my website is finally back on track. Thanks, Charlie. (Also, thank you, Nina for pointing out the initial problem.) We've cleaned out the cobwebs and dusted off the furniture. Feel free to visit again.

The best job I ever had!

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Bravo Nathan Bransford

It is easy to rail against injustice, or hurt feelings, and vow to anyone who will listen, (the following must be read with a Charlton Heston-style, Moses voice) if I were in control, I would never be so insensitive. Well, this week, Nathan Bransford gave everyone the chance to do just that.

Instead of arguing with, or trying to appease, irate writers, and I partially blame another blog for starting the backlash, Mr. Bransford devised a much more brilliant solution. An old Indian proverb challenges no one to make judgements unless they have walked in the other person's skin. Many people took the challenge, slipped inside an agent's skin and proceeded to sift through fifty queries.

Ha! I say. Not only did some agents-for-the-day emulate what they shout against, they had to be called down by Mr. Bransford for being too cruel. How quickly one forgets from where they came.

I did not participate. I don't have to stick my hand in a fire to know it's hot. But for those who did and did it with class, the old Indian would be proud. You not only rose to the challenge, you seem to have found a new appreciation for both sides of this prickly fence.

We will still grumble about the lack of fairness, I have done this as much as anyone, but at least we were given the chance to see first hand if we would do things differently.