Jaime Jo Wright - Author & Professional Coffee Drinker

It was April 27th, 2018. I was given tickets for my family to go see "We Are Messengers" with backstage passes to meet them and the guys from Tenth Avenue North. I was so thrilled. Not for me. I was thrilled for my kids, specifically, my son, who had just turned six and hero-worships worship leaders and musicians. Something strange happened that night during the meet and greet. After pictures, we were all preparing to usher through the line asap so we didn't hold up the meet and greet. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Darren. From We Are Messengers. He told me he wanted to pray for me. I'm a quiet, country, Baptist girl. The whole "led by the Spirit" thing is typically done internally without a lot of outward action. Still, I'd no intention to refuse prayer. So Darren prayed for me. His hand on my shoulder. The STRANGEST PRAYER ever. "I pray you will restore her joy" My joy? I went to the concert and walked away fulfilled but also...

Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all 27 stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 3/14 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop using Chrome or Firefox as your browser (not Explorer). There is NO RUSH to complete the hunt—you have all weekend (until Sunday, 3/17 at midnight MST)! So take your time, reading the unique posts along the way; our hope is that you discover new authors/new books and learn new things about them. Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the CLUE on each author’s scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the Rafflecopter form at Stop #27. Many authors are offering additional prizes along the way! I am super excited to host Travis Thrasher on my blog today! His novel American Omens  is a futuristic telling of government, Christianity, and...

March 2019 New Releases! More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website . This is not an endorsement of the books below Children's: The Case of the Missing Firehouse Dog by Daphne Self -- Majesty, the firehouse dog, is missing. Willie and Jax are on the case to discover who is the dognapping culprit. Could it be their neighbor, Mr. Applebee? Or maybe it is Ms. Thornton? Join the Pintail Duo, Wilhelmina van der Coup and Jackson Barnaby, as they follow the clues to rescue Majesty in The Case of the Missing Firehouse Dog. (Children’s from Ambassador International) Contemporary Romance: When He Found Me by Victoria Bylin -- With his career and faith in tatters, a disillusioned baseball player falls for an optimistic single mom secretly battling cervical cancer. (Contemporary Romance, Independently Published)     His Secret Daughter by Lisa Carter -- He just found out he’s a father… But is he read...

I've come to the conclusion that life was never meant to be lived in massive chunks of time. The funny thing with starting to come to terms with having an autoimmune disease is, you can't plan too far ahead, you can't assume you'll be up to the task, and you can't live in the world of a "disease" and wallow there.  So as my cowboy uncle would always tell, "pull 'em up, Babe" (insert whatever you wish, cause he meant it: bootstraps, big girl panties, etc). I've been "pulling" them up quite frequently lately and noticing how much more I'm noticing the SMALL moments. What do I mean? Well, for example, yesterday my nine year old daughter curled up on the couch with me while I slept and stroked my legs while we watched Ghost Town Gold" (a Netflix Western version of American Pickers ). It's not in my goal as a mom to spend hours on a couch vegging to the television with my kid. But now it's a small moment. S...

Ok fine. I wanted to be all organized with my blog this year, post great book reviews, author interviews and be relevant to you as readers. Fact of the matter is, I just keep thinking about post topics that are more like diary entries. My life ... my struggles. And, who wants to read that? But, in case you do ... LOL! Today it's the attack of the Bad Mom Syndrome. See, for those of you who don't know, I have Lyme disease. Which, in and of itself, sounds to this Midwesterner like an excuse. Because, isn't that what silent, autoimmune diseases sort of pro-create as? Invisible maladies? And Lyme? It's from a stinkin' tick, people. So here. Take your meds, eat this apple, call your doc, and get back to work. The problem is--get ready here for my non-scientific explanation--sometimes you catch Lyme too late and then it mimics a motley-crew of Lupus, MS, and other assorted neurological issues that make me a walking grenade of health issues. With the pin pulled. So i...

It's a new year and with it comes resolutions--of which, I've made none. Which is great! Because, I've already accomplished my goal for the year of making no goals. I can now kick back and read to my heart's content knowing I am a highly accomplished individual. That being said, my first read entered the new year with a freakishly loud BANG -- and sort of makes me want to quit writing altogether so I can become a full-time treasure hunter and find more amazing reads to share. (which is something that's gonna happen here on this blog quite frequently, so keep checking back). I have long fan-girled over Laura Frantz. Laura is the type of person you see across a room, who is subtly graceful and compelling. Her presence is humble and when you chat with Laura, you're transported to a front porch, a old wooden-swing, some wildflowers, a cup of coffee and probably a piece of warm apple pie. All that to say, when I chat with Laura, I'm usually internally screa...