Ten years ago, if someone asked me what type of book would I write, I probably would have answered it would be nonfiction. Not that writing fiction was foreign to me. I remember during many college classes, I would write
Recently, I attended a memorial for the older sister (61 years old) of a friend who had died years earlier. Through the grace of God Jeanni lived to see her daughter’s 16th birthday, then she slipped away at the age
How do you share with a friend the pain you feel after finding out that your pastor is actively sleeping with over half of the female members of the congregation? How do you confide to your friends that your savings
By Piper Huguley It is said that the most segregated hour in the United States is Sunday at 11 a.m. So when it is time to worship God, Christians in America choose to worship in churches that skew one way
In my previous blog, I shared my journey to publication. As you can imagine twelve years was a long time to have a dream. There were moments of indecision and doubt. There were time spans where I pushed my writing
One of the perks of being an author is that I get to attend book club discussions with readers. There’s one question that I can count on being asked at every meeting. And that’s “Are any parts of the story
For this month’s blog post I decided to let my character, Eugeena Patterson, do the talking. As a bit of a setup to the post, I do want to let readers know that Eugeena is the main character in my
I really didn’t know the answer until a paper trail led me to Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina and other American ports of entry for those who were destined to be enslaved. Here’s my story… I became interested in my
At nearly every book signing, someone in the audience asks me, “Where did you get the idea for this book?” Of course, my short answer is, “From the Lord,” because, really, my life is quite boring. I don’t watch much
I chose the title, Home at Last, for this post because it’s about the path I took to find my place in this wide world of publishing. Of course, I continue to evolve, but this is the story of my
African Americans have mixed feelings about our past. Some of us shrink away from watching or hearing about things that happened to the ancestors in our past. We avoid the movies, the mini-series, documentaries and the books. Yet, when February
Hello all. Today I felt led to share one of the entries from my 30-day devotional, If These Shoes Could Talk. All I will say is, “God is still in the miracle working business.” Swish. Swish. My windshield wipers did
In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon says that the whole duty of man is to fear God and to keep His commandments. Growing up in a minister’s home, I had a great respect and love for God. I was involved