Want to learn more about Father Emil Kapaun? Father Kapaun was a chaplain during the Korean War. He was taken prisoner while he was helping other wounded Americans. He helped the enlisted soldier/prisoners although he wasn't permitted to be near them. He stole food to help other prisoners stay alive, and invoked Saint Dismas as [...]
It’s for the children…
I’ve been listening to the Catechism-in-a-Year podcasts from Ascension Press and I feel a bit like sausage. A lot of topics have been covered, and I am stuffed. I have contradictory impulses as we near the end of the year. I am actually about a month behind. There’s always a day here or there when [...]
Labeling books: Am I writing angsty Catholic novels?
Publishing your own books comes with a lot of extra baggage in terms of learning. You do your own cover. You do your own marketing. You do your own blurb. You do your own formatting and copy editing. You do your own marketing. You choose whether you will use Amazon or Ingram for your publisher/delivery [...]
I needed information for one sentence I was trying to write …
We have a family story about a barrel of flour falling off the wagon as it was brought home from the miller. In 1863? The barrel broke. Since it was the family’s winter supply of flour, it had to be scooped up from the ground and used anyway. In the course of looking up other [...]
Happy Halloween
In my current novel the heroine needed a patron saint, and she ended up thinking about Saint Waltruda, whose feast day is April 9. This is also the heroine’s birthday and, though it is a Very Important Day in my own family, it was chosen in the book because I was following the liturgical calendar [...]
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