The Working Writer by Author Sarah Ladd

“How do you manage to do both?” I hear this question all the time!  You see, I am an author.  I am also a marketing professional.  I have two careers – both of which I enjoy very much, but both of which take a great deal of time and attention! So back to the question:  “How do you manage to do both?” I know that I am not the only author who...

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Contemporary Romance Book Review ~ Wishing on Willows

About the Book "Does a second chance at life and love always involve surrender? A three-year old son, a struggling café, and fading memories are all Robin Price has left of her late husband. As the proud owner of Willow Tree Café in small town Peaks, Iowa, she pours her heart into every muffin she bakes and espresso she pulls, thankful for the sense of purpose and...

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Christmas Day Trivia

1.  In 1962, the first Christmas postage stamp was issued in the United States. 2.  Christmas trees have been sold in the U.S. since 1850. 3.  Christmas wasn’t declared an official holiday in the United States until June 26, 1870. 4.  President Teddy Roosevelt, an environmentalist, banned Christmas trees from the White House in 1912. 5.  The...

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Happy Holidays from The Borrowed Book!

The Borrowed Book would like to wish our friends, followers and family a very Merry Christmas! We will return next week with a new author interview, along with the popular Did You Know? post by Candace Speare-Prentice, Monday reviews from Amber Stokes, Friday giveaway with Elizabeth Ludwig and our Sunday devotional with Shannon McNear. Until then, friends, be safe!  If...

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Sunday Devotional: What is Christmas?

I hate Christmas. Terrible of me, but ... there it is. As with everything else in my life lately, I’ve been wondering why. This can’t be right—normal, maybe, in the sense of understandable in the logical progression of what has seemed sometimes to be a most illogical life—but is this where God wants me to be? I seriously doubt it. How can He be pleased with my impatience over the countdown to the holiday, my annoyance at the anticipation...

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Winners!!

Good morning, 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:  Elaine K (elaineking1 at hotmail dot com )  - The Sinners' Garden by William Sirls. Congratulations, Elaine! 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 puzzles 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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A Visit From Author William Sirls

Today we speak with William Sirls, a writer who truly has a story to tell. But don't take my word on it -- read on! 1) Have you always wanted to be an author? If not, what made you decide to write, and how long have you been at it? I never had any intention of being an author but was inspired to write the original version of The Reason way back in 2004, which was...

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Did You Know? ~ An Old Fashioned Cure for Locked Jaw

That green tape is  holding the book together I recently acquired a book called, The Circle of Useful Knowledge: For the use of Farmers, Mechanics, Merchants, Manufacturers, Surveyors, Housekeepers, Professional Men, Etc., Etc., Etc. (Yes, that’s really the title.) It was written and published in 1877 by Charles Kinsley. Over the next few weeks, I’d like...

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Know Where You Are Going Before You Get There by Author William Sirls

I love being an author and writing The Sinners’ Garden was a lot of fun. It also presented quite a few challenges for me from the first couple drafts to what became the final version of the story, not because of the normal bumps in the road we authors frequently hit, but by my accidental deletion of the story’s original ending along with around 19,000 other words, which...

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Winners!!

Good morning, 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:  Paula O(kyflo130@yahoo.com)  - Carolina Gold by Dorothy Love. Congratulations, Paula! Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed Book....

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Historical Romance Book Review ~ Elusive Hope

About the Book "In a colony named New Hope, while their friends are seeking a Southern utopia. . . . Hayden is seeking revenge. Relentlessly. After years of all but selling his soul to track down his scoundrel of a father, Hayden Gale discovers his search must continue in South America, where his father is reported to be helping colonize Brazil. Hayden has nothing...

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Sunday Devotional: Christmas Lights

The holidays are so steeped in commercialism that I hesitate to even write something Christmas themed. Do we really need one more devotional about the birth of Jesus? We’ve heard the old familiar stories so often that our ears can become dull and our hearts hard. The eyes, however, are still capable of being pierced by lights, and when other things fail to move me, often my attention is captured by all things glowing, glittering, and flashing. Could...

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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 puzzles 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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Writing Without a Kit, by Dorothy Love

“When you write your books, do you make them up all by yourself or do you use a kit?” This question from a third grader during my years of writing for young readers still makes me smile.  If only there were a kit!  Writing is the hardest job I’ve ever had. Harder than newspapering and working retail during my undergrad days, harder than being a public school...

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