Sunday Devotional: The Outcome

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Winners!!

Happy Saturday, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is: Mary Preston - Catch a Falling Star by Beth Vogt. Congratulations, Mary! Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed Book....

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Weekly Drawing

It's Fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! To enter: Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzle in the comments section as well as your email address for notifying you if you've won. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner, but by leaving your time, you double your chances. Want another entry? Tweet your puzzle time and mention The Borrowed Book, get another entry....

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The Here and Now of Contemporary Romance, by Beth K. Vogt

God turned a season of burnout in my life into a sudden bend in the writing road. That virtual curve led me from life as a nonfiction editor and writer to the “Dark Side” of writing fiction. Novel writing demanded a new set of skills, mastering things like subplots and layers and description and dialogue – both internal and conversational – and Voices of Truth and...

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Did You Know?~ Egg Coffee

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If You Give a Character a Lie by Author Beth Vogt

Beth K. Vogt is a nonfiction author and editor who said she’d never write fiction. She’s the wife of an air force physician who said she’d never marry a doctor—or anyone in the military. She’s a mom of four who said she’d never have kids. She’s discovered that God’s best often waits behind the doors marked “Never.” If you give a character a Lie that...

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Sunday Devotional: Longing For Home

12.00 This time of year I always get a little misty about heaven and how indelibly changed I am by those I love who’ve gone there before:  my adoptive father, July 3, 1984, and our sixth baby, Duncan Reid, July 13, 1999, after his birth just eleven days earlier. But the tug toward heaven has always been there ... A certain chording in a song, An almost-familiar landscape, A certain scent… Awakening memories— Leaving me breathless— On...

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Winners!!

Happy Saturday, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is: KayM - Afloat by Erin Healy. Congratulations, KayM! Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed Book....

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Weekly Drawing

It's Fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! To enter: Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzle in the comments section as well as your email address for notifying you if you've won. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner, but by leaving your time, you double your chances. Want another entry? Tweet your puzzle time and mention The Borrowed Book, get another entry....

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Erin Healy on Writer's Block (aka Writer's Fear)

I think most writers have experienced the cold chill of uncertainty that freezes our flow of words from time to time. The writer who thinks writer’s block is primarily a problem of imprecise metaphors and weak ideas—that is, of not being able to find brilliance on the tip of her tongue—will spend a lot of energy looking in the wrong place for the solution she really...

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