“Cynthia, if you wrote any more with your heart,
you’d have to rip it out to use for an inkwell.”
–Afictionado Editor Michael Ehret
THEY ALMOST ALWAYS COME HOME
is a 2011 CAROL AWARD finalist.
ACFW’s Carol Award
is among the most prestigious honors
in Christian fiction.
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2008 Second Place winner in ACFW’s
Genesis Contest.
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from ABINGDON PRESS.
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THEY ALMOST ALWAYS COME HOME (View Trailer)
She’d leave her husband…if she could find him.
When Libby’s husband is late returning from a two-week canoe trip to the Canadian wilderness, she imagines the worst. But imagination’s fears seem two-dimensional compared to the 3-D reality of what she now faces.
The authorities write off his disappearance as an unhappy husband’s escape from an empty marriage and unrewarding career. Libby refuses to believe that possibility. If anyone were going to opt for escape, it would have been her. If Lacey hadn’t died, their marriage might have survived. But grief’s wedge split the distance between them wide open.
Libby enlists the aid of her wilderness-savvy father-in-law and her faith-walking best friend to help her search for clues to her husband’s disappearance…if for no other reason than to free her to move on. What they discover in the search upends her presumptions about her husband and rearranges her faith.
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2011 Family Fiction Readers Choice
A DOOR COUNTY CHRISTMAS: Four romantic comedies warm hearts in Wisconsin’s version of Cape Cod
The novella collection opens with Cynthia’s story, “The Heart’s Harbor,” which was recently honored as a finalist in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence.
Barbour Publishing
His Grace is Sufficient…Decaf is Not devotional collection (Summerside Press)
Four novelists joined forces to write 100 slice-of-life devotionals to encourage women on the go to
grow in their faith.
As every writer knows, keeping the faith isn’t always easy. On those days when you find yourself literally at a loss for words, you may long for a little writer’s TLC. In A Cup of Comfort for Writers, you’ll meet more than fifty writers who, just like you, have faced down that empty page-and won!-from a woman who enters an elite writing program at the age of forty, and proceeds to blow “the pros” away, to a man who wins his wife’s hand by writing her countless love letters.
See Cynthia’s story on page 145.
Writing So Heaven Will Be Different
Writing So Heaven Will Be Different has compiled articles by others who have also made that their goal. Whether you’re an experienced Christian writer or on your way to becoming one, you’ll get caught up in the encouraging success stories in this book as alumni and faculty of the Write-to-Publish Conference pass along skill-building writing tips and practical encouragement for building a writing career and ministry “so heaven will be different.”
The HEARTBEAT OF THE HOME radio ministry magazine includes a report of how God is at work through THE HEARTBEAT OF THE HOME ministry, a note from Jackie and Cindy, information about new printed resources, a resource order form, and the latest radio station log. We trust that our readers will also enjoy the hope-laced feature articles. Resources available from Heartbeat of the Home.