Our Banner Yet Waves
“Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good.” —Titus 3:1, NIV On September 14, 1814, Maryland lawyer, Francis Scott Key stood on the deck of a ship and witnessed the British bombardment of...
Tina Yeager
Award-winning Florida author, speaker, life coach, and licensed therapist, Tina Yeager, was born in Macomb, Illinois. “After an ice storm, my mother allegedly told my father, ‘I'm moving to Florida and taking the kids. Are you coming?’ I doubt my parents made such a...
Susan U Neal
Healthy Living author and certified health and wellness coach, Susan U. Neal, was born in Brookesville, Florida and raised in San Antonio, Florida (not Texas). In a town of less than 500 people, she grew up riding horses and swimming in freshwater ponds. She’s truly a...
Larry J Leech II
Although books by Author, Larry J Leech II line bookstore shelves, you’ll only find his name on a few of them. Larry is a ghostwriter by day, typically writing memoirs, and by night, he enjoys writing suspense thrillers—’cause he ain’t afraid...
Love Note #41
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
DiAne Gates
I’m sure Florida-born Author, DiAne Gates was told on more than one occasion not to get sand in the house, so instead, this sun-n-sand kinda gal put her house in the sand. The first thirty-five years of her life, DiAne lived twenty minutes from the beach....
Love Note #40
“Praise the Lord our God; worship before his throne! Holy is he! —Psalm 99:5 GNT
Beth Duewel
Ohio author, speaker, and blogger, Beth Duewel always wanted to be a writer but as a young and impressionable girl chose a different life path. While a junior in high school, she job shadowed a journalist at the newspaper where her father worked. Her...
Love Note #39
”If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” —Ecclesiastes 11:4, NLT
Deborah Sprinkle
Missouri-born, Tennessee author Deborah Sprinkle is not saying it’s genetic, but she cut her eye teeth on mysteries. Because her mom loved a good mystery book, Deborah grew up on a steady diet of Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Mary Roberts...
Crickett Keeth
Tennessee author, Crickett Keeth was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. While in her twenties, her given name, Janene, fell by the wayside. Because she was “little and bouncy,” she reminded her fellow Campus Crusade for Christ staffers of Jiminy Cricket, and the...
Blue Ridge Appreciation
May 2019 marked my seventh year at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writer’s Conference in Ridgecrest, North Carolina. It NEVER disappoints. Each year, after a multitude of hugs from old and new friends alike, I bid Blue Ridge farewell and descend the mountain with...










