Christa Allan

AMY WALLACE…….HEALING PROMISES
Facing a new threat
When FBI Agent Clint Rollins takes a bullet during a standoff, it might just save his life. But not even the ugly things he’s seen during his years working in the Crimes Against Children Unit could prepare him for the overwhelming powerlessness of hospital tests revealing an unexpected diagnosis. [...]

Note from Christa: Four of my five children are traveling down Route 20-Something. Along the way, they’ve experienced their share of fender-benders, road rages, missed exits, traffic snarls, and speeding tickets. When I heard about Erin’s book, I couldn’t wait to read it. And I’m not disappointed. How could you not, as a parent, appreciate [...]

Where I’d like to be

Where I am (almost a self-portrait minus most of the facial hair)

An Interview with Debbie Fuller Thomas

Your story is about a mother whose daughter was switched at birth. How does Marty find out that her child was switched?
Marty’s daughter, Ginger, is the victim of a fatal genetic disease, Neimann Pick Type C, which often strikes every sibling in a family. Marty is concerned for [...]

We’re standing on God’s promises, in joyful anticipation of holding you again.
Grammy loves you.
Mark Harris - Wish You Were Here
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A Slightly Harder Word Game 
Three in One

 
Words are sometimes composed of other words. The word dustbin consists of dust plus bin, while together may appear to include three separate words: to, get and her. To reverse the process, which word can be made out of the letters in the three words moor, root, and tow? [...]

A special opening message from Allison Bottke: The interview that follows has been personalized for every blog I’ll be visiting during the month of April. I want to thank Christa for taking the time to read my newest non-fiction book and for sharing it here today on the Setting Boundaries April Blog Tour. You are helping to [...]

So,  Hillary, you were saying?

 Jane Kirkpatrick is the best-selling author of two nonfiction books and fourteen historical novels, including the popular Kinship and Courage series. Her award-winning writing has appeared in more than fifty publications, including Sports Afield and Decision.
She’s won the coveted Western Heritage Wrangler Award, an honor shared by such writers as Larry McMurtry and Barbara Kingsolver. [...]

. . .at NOVEL JOURNEY today.
 

Martina McBride - In My Daughter’s Eyes (LIVE)
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This is my daughter Shannon; she and her twin sister Sarah just celebrated their 25th birthdays. Their older sister, Erin, had a birthday in March, and she got a lot of blog time here. Shannon and Sarah, not so much. And I’m guilty as charged.
I thought about that [...]

You just have to love a company that not only loves older women, but designs a contest to let your inner Dynamo shine. All you have to do is grab your two fun and funky fabulous equally 40+ friends (no, you cannot add their ages to arrive at the magic number), and enter the contest. [...]

 
DIRECTIONS ON HANDOUT:
1. Write an essay consisting of five paragraphs.
2. Staple this handout to the back of your paper before submitting it.
3. Your essay is due at the end of class.
QUESTIONS TO TEACHER FROM STUDENTS:
1. Does it really have to be five paragraphs? What if I write only four?
2. Where do I staple this handout?
3. [...]

Rachelle Gardner’s contest officially ended today. My first line placed fourth (out of 250+). The winner of Phase Two of the contest (writing a 300-word first page using any of the winning first lines) was announced today.
And guess whose first line she used? Yep. Lea Ann McCombs wrote a poignant and tightly written piece. It’s [...]

 The Oxford Word Challenge

Fiendishly Difficult Word Game
Russian Dolls

These puzzles are like ‘Only Connect’ but they involve putting one word inside another word to make a third word. As with Russian dolls, you find one doll inside another doll.
Example: Put the woman into a young fox or lion to make an angel.
Answer: Put the word her [...]

If you’re the parent of teenager, kidult, or adultescent, BUY this book. Buy several copies. Hand them out to anyone breathing who knows a teen, kidult, and/or adultescent. 
I’ve taught high school for over twenty years. This is, without a doubt, one of the single most important books I could place in the hands of every [...]

After this blog post, I’ll need to create a new category. Maybe “Depths of Shallowness” since it’s so oxymoronic. If nothing else, the moronic works.
I suppose, though, this inane topic is the price for waking up an hour before the alarm. Why? Well, let’s see. Toss, turn, toss, turn, turn, toss, turn, toss, toss. If I was [...]

1. Is this going to be on the test? Translation=If it is, I’m listening; if not, I’ll just pretend to listen while I zone out about wanting to marry Johnny Depp and/or what to wear to Prom.
2. Is this long enough? Translation=I’m tired of writing this paper, so is this the minimal effort I can [...]

Rants and Ramblings, the blog of (my!!!) agent Rachelle Gardner, is one of seven agent blogs listed in June’s Writer’s Digest list of 101 Best Websites for Writers. 

Considering about a bazillion (okay, maybe only half a bazillion)agents have blogs, and Rachelle’s is just a wee bit over five months old in blogger land, this recognition is awesome. 
You can [...]