Weedin' With The Chickens!

The weather has been so warm! I took the opportunity after work tonight to do some more raking and weeding. Three hens joined me! My chickens are very personable. They are almost like pets!

Hoping to get a picture ready soon of my newest book--it is finally in print! THE CALL FROM A DISTANT FIELD is ready after a couple years of work. It is the third in my courtship fiction series. I wanted to get some copies in time for our church sale on March 25--a benefit sale for our missions in Uganda. It seemed an appropriate way to announce the book since the story takes place in Africa and the mission described in the book is involved in farming to feed the people. Our church has a similar mission in Uganda. I didn't know this when I wrote the book, since I was not attending this church at the time. It is such an amazing thing to me that I want to donate a book for the sale. The proof copy came through in an amazing 5 days--never before happened in my publisher's experience! It was a blessed effort, I am sure, since I found out about the benefit sale only days before the book was in the final stage of corrections. I am thanking the Lord for the results! Blessings, LORI

NEW BOOK COMING SOON!

Here's a little news update. Today was quite humid around our neck of the woods! That made drying clothes the traditional way (clothesline) next to impossible. It's too cool to turn on the air and close the house up, so we are suffering with everything feeling damp. To offset the effect of that I cleaned furiously this afternoon! Always makes me feel better. Although we had to turn on ceiling fans and floor fans to get the linoleum to dry!

Since homemaking was difficult in the humidity, too much off and on rain for gardening or yard work, I was glad that I had scheduled to meet with my publisher concerning details on my books. I spent a few hours with them and we settled on a title to the first sequel! It will be called "A Sturdy Fence." I'm really excited to be narrowing it down. I got to see the preliminary pictures for the cover and that was exciting too! I'll keep you posted on the details and availability of the next two books as I get them.

An interesting thing happened this morning while I was getting ready to head for the appointment with the publisher. Just like a flash, the outline for another book came into my head! Before the day was over, I had filled in most of the details and am about to type up the formal outline. This will make a fourth book in the series--assuming all goes well and I can arrange for the publishing. The book I had in mind for book four might now be book five! Well, that's the way it goes! Blessings, LORI