Tonight is the LIVE webcast discussing All My Belongings, why I write, how I write, and offering an opportunity for interaction through questions and comments from viewers like you. This is from the Litfuse Publicity Group’s email: Celebrate the release of Cynthia Ruchti’s novel, All My Belongings, at Cynthia’s LIVE webcast TONIGHT (6/11 8PM EDT)! Click here for a time zone converter. Connect with …

I Was Minding My Own Business…

…when this news came through social media from one of my editors. Scroll down the list on the link to see that two books you’ve been praying for and reading–TWO–won Selah Awards in their individual categories this week! When the Morning Glory Blooms and Ragged Hope: Surviving the Fallout of Other People’s Choices. My heart is so full of gratitude, …

“An important and timely book for our generation”

A “Life Lessons” interview with host Rick Tocquigny offered the insight that we’re now living in a generation that will spend more time caring for aging parents than we do raising our children. How does that information affect you? How did it affect Becca and Isaac in the new release All My Belongings? You can take a peek at the …

Interview with Alton Gansky

Two things converged to help make this recent interview with Alton Gansky, director of the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers’ Conference, especially gratifying. It was recorded via Skype just the day after the release of my newest novel–All My Belongings. And the BRMCWC Selah Awards program had just announced that another of my novels–When the Morning Glory Blooms–and my nonfiction–Ragged …

Spring Scavenger Hunt

So glad you stopped by today. This is my first time participating in a Fiction Scavenger Hunt. It’s an honor for me to be included with these dozens of fiction authors whom I’ve long admired. And I’m excited about the interaction with readers–both those whom I already consider friends and those new to me. The prizes will amaze you…and so …

Think Spring…Eventually

The weekend of April 4-5, 2014, I’m participating in an online scavenger hunt with 29 other authors. Come join the hunt, enjoy the unique content from each of these authors, get to know them and their books better, and enter for an opportunity to win a great prize. If you don’t win the Kindle Fire HDX plus $100 in Kindle …

Your Story

Your story began long before you were born Lightyears before A man And a woman Thought they made a child. But what they did was Step into your picture, The storyline, The plot of who you would be. Can you see? You thought they made you, Produced a baby. And they helped, But maybe They’ve gotten credit for being The …

More Than Just Headlines

I have the privilege of guest posting at the Embrace Grace blog today, talking about the other side of a debate that has hit the headlines recently. No matter the topic, there’s a lesson tucked between its folds. Even in this. http://iembracegraceblog.com/2013/12/13/look-but-dont-touch/  

WHERE THE ROAD LEADS

Are you living a destination life or an explorer life? Much of my life is spent headed for a particular destination–the end of a project, the specific spot on the map. But on a recent research trip to Bayfield/Ashland/Madeline Island in the northernmost tip of Wisconsin, I allowed myself the freedom of exploration. As I pointed my car down this …