Thanks for visiting! Edited Oct 27,, 2009
I have a dual purpose for this official web site. The first has to do with writing, the second with helping you come to know my best friend, Jesus Christ, and the power of united prayer.
As president of the Upstate SC American Christian Writers' Chapter, I am always throwing out an invitation for interested writers and wannabees to visit our meetings to learn more about writing and to network with other writers. The chapter meets most months (except June, July and January) at the Anderson County Library, 300 N. McDuffie St.,Anderson, S.C.29621 on the third or fourth Saturdays of the month.These meetings are free and open to the public. The next meeting is Sat.,November 21, at 2:30 PM. This will be a read aloud session. You may come and read aloud five minutes worth of your work and receive brief critiques from fellow attendees. It's great fun and a real learning curve for all of us!
Our Carolina Christian Writers Workshop held October 23-24, 2009, at North Anderson Baptist Church was a great success! Thank you for your help in making it so. Since we are skipping to a spring workshop, our next one will not be until March 18-19, 2011. Mark your calendar and contact me for more details later or go to our Upstate SC Christian Writers' web site listed on the links page! All details will be listed in coming months.
Check back later for new updates to my website, including when my first Christian romantic suspense novel will be published.
Tender Deception
Rachel Ann York has no idea that love, adventure, and a shocking revelation await her in Charleston, South Carolina. What can be better than spending a summer taking care of a five-year-old girl on a working tea plantation? Maybe she can learn more about her brother's plane crash and death reported by the Charleston DEA. She arrives and discovers a handsome new owner, a nephew back from Vietnam--the child's father--who know nothing about her job offer by his deceased uncle. Even with his eye patch, bitterness and distrust, Luke Markham threatens to capture her heart until the night she comes to think he is following in the footsteps of his pirate ancestor, only in drug smuggling. Rachel finds her faith tested by deception, danger and love. Will Luke find his faith again--and a second chance at love?
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Are you blessed with grandchildren? We prayed 14 years for a grand baby while the doctors were saying our son Tim was sterile. But God....!
Read my true story "The Grand Baby Afghan" about the birth of our grandson, Samuel Timothy Martin, in the June 2009 issue of Mature Living Magazine, editor Rene Holt. Here is a photo of Sam this past Christmas full of the joy that has lit up our lives his first year. Yep, Papa and Nana got the rocky horse for him!
Samuel means "heard of God."
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