Pro-Life Vote at Methodist Conference

Testimony

I Was Addicted to Romance Novels
Then God asked me to start writing them, for his glory.
Francine Rivers
I knew from the time I was a child that I would be a writer. I grew up in a Christian home in Pleasanton, a small town east of San Francisco. My mother, a nurse, kept a diary; my father, while recuperating from a heart attack, wrote two nonfiction books on police work. Unsure what I would write, I headed off to college and majored in English with an emphasis on creative writing and a minor in journalism. Rick and I married soon...continue reading >>

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