by Laura Frantz | Jun 14, 2018 | Authors, devo post, faith, Inspiration, Uncategorized, Writing
Every once in a while a book comes along that is so God-timed it seemed the pages fell straight from heaven into your lap. This is one of them. My first thought when I looked up the author was, “How can she be so young and have so much wisdom?”...
by Laura Frantz | Apr 17, 2018 | Books, History, Inspiration, Novel News, Uncategorized, Writing
If you were to ask which country is my favorite other than the U.S.A. I’d say Scotland without pause. Home of my Hume ancestors (and those Ballantynes), Scotland has epic history, scenery, and cuisine, to name just a few of its many treasures. Here are some...
by Laura Frantz | Mar 9, 2018 | Frontier, History, Inspiration, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing
Spinning by Firelight, Henry Tanner (American artist, 1859–1937) Oh, the ongoing joys of research! Recently I spent several hours by the fire reading about the early settlers in what is now West Virginia – The History of Randolph County, West Virginia by Dr....
by Laura Frantz | Feb 19, 2018 | Frontier, Heroes and Heroines, History, Inspiration, My Kentucky Kitchen, Novel News, Reading, Recipes, Uncategorized, Writing
I confess to being a bonafide foodie & cooking along with my heroines, or in this case, baking. Growing up in my granny’s Kentucky kitchen, in which not once in all her 97 years did she do dishes by anything but hand (no dishwasher), everything else was from...
by Laura Frantz | Jan 31, 2018 | History, how readers help, Inspiration, Novel News, Uncategorized, Writing
I’m blessed by readers who enjoy my books and then leave reviews about what the story meant to them. I also admire those who might not enjoy a book but point out what they do and don’t like in a gracious, helpful way. Good reviews are like the finest...
by Laura Frantz | Jan 15, 2018 | Books, Frontier, Heroes and Heroines, Inspiration, Novel News, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing News
Ani Get Your Gun by Anne Kushnick There are some fine frontier authors out there just as there are fine frontier artists. I’ve often wished I could inhabit the head and heart and gifted hands of Pamela Patrick White or David Wright or John Buxton, just to name a...
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