Christian Indie Authors Network Blog

        A  DAY IN THE LIFE                         I usually head to my desk around eleven a.m. After checking my email, I go to my X account, do some posting, and respond to posts. Then I check Facebook to see what’s happening there.             ​                         If I’m honest, it’s easy to spend too much time on X. My monitor is divided into two sections. My work in progress (WIP) is on the right, other things on the left. That work in progress keeps calling to me, telling me to get going. But it’s easier to look at X than to figure out what comes next in the plot line. Pulling myself up by the bootstraps, I move my eyes to the right.                                    Once I get back into the WIP, I’m totally immersed. In fact, when I stop writing, it takes me a minute to get my head back into reality. While writing, there is constant rewriting and going back over what I’ve written. For example, I don’t want to leave my main character standing by a window in one paragrap

  My first book published by Elk Lake Publishing, Inc. in The Victory Series, a three-book series, is Hope Doesn’t Disappoint (2022).                  A mother and wife addicted to gambling loses everything – her husband and two girls, her job, and her home. Disliking shelters, she chooses to live out of her car. Although she receives therapy for addicted gamblers, she still can’t kick the habit. When the addiction takes her to the bottom, the only way she can look is up. When she does, she finds the only One who can remove burdens, destroy yokes, and give her hope that doesn’t disappoint.        The idea for the book came from watching someone close to me struggle with the addiction and seeing how rapidly it took hold. While doing research for the book, I attended a peer group for addicted gamblers where I met personally those struggling to overcome the addiction. I visited casinos, and witnessed first-hand the complete absorption of those waiting for the digital sounds of winnin