Christa Allan

My brother, knowing what a coffee junkie I am, sent me an email with these photos from coffee shops in Vancouver.     

  FROM TERRI:
What I’d like to tell you about the featured book, THE RENOVATION: CARTER MANSION (Book 1 in the Project Restoration Series):
You may be, like me, HGTV fans who watch the many shows about fixing up old houses. You find yourself glued to the glimpses of contractors and owners engaged in the process. You live vicariously through [...]

Continuing the airport saga…….hubby is navigating LSU sites on my laptop, and I’m finishing Eat, Pray, Love (which, BTW, is a must read), wondering if the plane will arrive before the end of the book.
End of book.
No plane.
I cruise to the counter (only because Ken refused to do so having asked twice already which, I [...]

I’m in an airport in Oklahoma. I’ve been here for two hours and thirty-two minutes.Why?BECAUSE OUR CONNECTING FLIGHT IS DELAYED. Someone in the transportation industry does not fully comprehend the meaning of “delayed.”  It DOES NOT mean sitting on your tush for 120 minutes longer than planned. Well, maybe it does.    

GOLDENEYES

 
Publisher:  Vintage Romance Publishing
 Release Date:  March 30, 2008
 Delia Latham is a former newspaper Staff Writer and a frequent contributor to her hometown’s regional publication, Bakersfield Magazine. She also writes greeting card verse, short stories, articles, and songs. Her editing and proofing skills have been utilized by numerous authors, including Dr. Chuck Wall, founder of the [...]

Life, Death, Resurrection of Jesus - This Man byJeremy Camp
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg0DUcEH1jA]

On My Cross - Christian Easter Music Video
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-P4rbp6e3c]

<

Thanks to Debbie Ohi at InkyGirl for the lead on these: ARGUMENT #2 BY TOM BENDTSEN   ARGUMENT #6     10,000 books     TOM BENDTSEN

****************************************************************************************** 
The Yo-Dawg-Show-Me-What-You-Got Double Decker CHALLENGE  is over at Rants & Ramblings, [my!!!!] agent Rachelle Gardner’s blog. This contest is a terrific opportunity for  writing fun, and the payoff is having it read by Rachelle! Don’t wait! Click, read the rules, and go for it!   
********************************************************************************

Rebuses are groups of letters, numbers, pictures, etc. that represent words or phrases. IOU is a kind of rebus, representing the phrase ‘I owe you’. Most people know a puzzle in the form of a rhyme which starts; ‘YY U R,’ which means ‘Too wise you are . . .’Try to solve the following rebuses.
Example: Which two letters, [...]

****************************************************************************************** 
The Yo-Dawg-Show-Me-What-You-Got Double Decker CHALLENGE  is over at Rants & Ramblings, [my!!!!] agent Rachelle Gardner’s blog. This contest is a terrific opportunity for  writing fun, and the payoff is having it read by Rachelle! Don’t wait! Click, read the rules, and go for it!   
******************************************************************************

Here is the timeline of the journey to publication:
1. You have an idea.
2. You begin to write a book.
3. After the first two chapters, you are so smitten with your own genius, you pause to jot down the names of actors who will [consider themselves lucky to] portray your characters.
4. After chapter two and a [...]

      This is my beautiful oldest daughter, Erin and her equally beautiful husband, Andrae. Erin was born on St. Patrick’s Day; two weeks before her scheduled due date. She almost didn’t make  it into the world due to some last minute scary stuff in delivery. But God placed us in the hands of two competent [...]

Erin: I know this is about a daughter and her father, but it captures my heart…just like you do. Steven Curtis Chapman-Cinderella[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUk5SZ18WhY]