This was a tough year for my writing schedule. Despite attending two conferences and self publishing a short story collection(my first published book!), I struggled to write. I’d like to blame it all on my pregnancy and the sickness and tiredness that came with it. But when I’m honest, I can see that while those […]

  I’m happy to be part of the blog tour for Amber Eyes, the second book in Children of the Blood Moon, by S.D. Grimm. If you want to follow the tour, be sure to stop in at Blooming with Books for a book review and interview! Now, I really don’t like putting spoilers in reviews, so […]

January 2018 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website. Contemporary Romance: Her Handyman Hero by Lorraine Beatty — Reid Blackthorn arrives in Dover on a personal mission—to make sure his terminally ill brother gets a chance to meet his daughter. Deceiving little Lily’s guardian isn’t […]

People are confusing. They break promises, grow, move away, change their opinions—they’re hard to trust sometimes. But God doesn’t change. He keeps His promises. He’s omnipresent, so He couldn’t move away. He should be easy to trust. Then why are we often confused by what He’s doing? Life can seem normal until pain arrives and […]

Hi everyone! I’m honored and delighted to welcome Bethany Turner, author of The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck, to Made to Create. I met Bethany at a writer’s conference in 2017. When I heard what her book was about and the passion she feels for writing stories around tough issues, I was deeply inspired. Not only […]