Living Our Faith Out Loud
"Let us hold unswervingly to our faith, for He who promised is faithful."
My joy and my priviledge is writing for you. My hope is that the stories will inspire both of us to seek an intimate, every-day kind of relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
He is unchangeable, unshakeable. I am only forgiven - sometimes minute by minute! But joy comes with knowing and living for Him.
Coming May, 2009: A haunting tale of love and sacrifice...
Grace Runyon has a secret. When she helps her neighbor's son after a horrible accident, how long can she keep it?
Grace has a special ability to heal the sick and wounded. But when it came to her own family, she lost everything. Fleeing from the horror and pain of loss in Tennessee, Grace tries to forget the past and start a whole new life in Michigan where a very sick man and his little boy send her on a journey of rediscovery and the eventual healing of her scarred soul. How much of her own life is she willing to give to heal Ted? Everything?
Join author Andrea Boeshaar and friends on Saturday, November 22 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM at the Cedarburg Cultural Center for an afternoon writer's workshop, author table, readings from our books, and a book signing of her very special new release from Summerside Press: Love Finds You in Miracle, Kentucky. See: www.andreaboeshaar.com
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Heartsong Presents: Mysteries
The Gold Standard from Barbour Publishing's new Heartsong Presents: Mysteries bookclub is due for release January, 2009. Please visithttp://www.heartsongmysteries.com/LisaLickel0001
for a person invitation and ordering information.
Something is fishy in Robertsville. Follow schoolteacher Judy Winters and her opinionated cat, Carranza, on the trail to uncover her ecologically-minded aunt's murderer--and the mystery of the lost treasure buried somewhere on the farm.
A Short Story for you....
Every couple of weeks I'll introduce another segment of this story:
On the threshold of a new century, orphan Alice Smith leads a life of independence working at City Hall in
Entries: July 12, 25; August 7; August 22; September 3; September 19; October 6
This will probably get as close to a blog as I'll ever be. Check out what I'm reading and what I think of it as a writer--ooh's and ouches, wows and whoas. So far: (Aug 25) From A Distance, (Sept 2) Alaskan Quest, Love, Inspired's: Hidden Treasures, ; (Sept 6) Whistling In the Dark; (Sept 12) Anne McCaffrey; (Sept 14) Escape; (Sept 20) John's Story; (Sept 30) His Name is John; Adam Bede; (Oct 4) Picket Fence Promises; (Oct 11) An Irishwoman's Tale
Teacher Ellen Kesting reading "Little German Girl" to a group in the children's tent at Fillmore's Sesquicentennial celelbration
Lisa Lickel
I live and write in beautiful Wisconsin. My journey to and along a professional writing career began with the Christian Writer's Guild apprentice course. When my classmate, Laurel Salton Clark, was killed in the space shuttle accident, I wrote about her for my local newspaper. That led to a regular assignment reporting on my community. I continue to write freelance articles and work on a favorite medium--radio theater (see favorite links page), write novels and short stories. I am grateful for the wonderful people I've met, for my agent, writing critique partners, and special readers who all teach me something not only about what makes a story come alive, but share their passion for creating a good tale.
My husband and I have two grown boys.
Contact me at: lisalickel@netzero.net
When does forever start? Can it end? Ann Ballard decided to live again years after her husband’s disappearance. Mark Roth loved Ann forever. Together, they learn how far they’re willing to go to stay committed to each other.
“Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its ardor unyielding at the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.” Song of Songs 8:6-7
When you find love, will you define it by its package?
Ann Ballard’s husband, Gene, has to be dead. After seven years of no word, no clue, no more excuses, can she sign his name away and move on with her life? When former neighbor Mark Roth shows up and offers to help Ann resolve the matter of Gene's disappearance, is she insane to return the feelings of a man a decade years younger than she? When Ann unravels the web of Gene's disappearance, the truth will destroy more lives than Gene's absence had.
Mark, a well-respected attorney with amazing faith, overcomes Ann's son's objections to his romance and marriage to Ann. Mark seems too good to be true. How long will it last? How far can his faith stretch?
Fancy Cat Mysteries:
When a small town mayor invites fellow fancy cat lovers Ivy Preston and True Thompson to move their businesses to Apple Grove, can their new-found romance survive the sudden rise in crime?
After being left at the altar, Ivy Amanda McTeague Preston uprooted herself and her cat, Memnet, from her comfortable, boring and lonely life to start over. Ivy’s business was taking messages—or, keeping other people’s secrets, as she liked to call McTeague’s Messenger Service.
Truesdale Thompson was ready to move in a fresh direction with his life. A private man whose physical wounds are the only outward sign of a terrible accident in his past, True opened a branch of his trendy little bookstore and coffee shop enterprise in Apple Grove. As fellow pedigreed Mau cat owners, Ivy and True discovered they have a lot in common.
Within weeks of Ivy settling in, something went wrong. The mayor’s personality changed overnight. Not only does he not recall inviting Mau owners and pet-related businesses to Apple Grove, he was suddenly allergic to cats. At first, only True believed Ivy’s strange tale of someone possibly impersonating the mayor, and as they work together to unravel the mystery of their missing friend, their romance grew.
The neighborhood in pictures for elementary-aged children:
First Children of Farmington
In the 1850s, pioneers moved to the wilds of Wisconsin.
They came from Belgium and France and from the different kingdoms of present-day Germany. They emigrated from Ireland with their stories and their customs. They came west from New York and Pennsylvania. They met the Potawatomi, the people who had lived here for hundreds of years. The people all had to learn to survive - together. Learn about pioneer life from a child's perspective. After all, life hasn't changed that much.
