That’s me many moons ago. I was that little girl who loved playing in the dirt. I still do, but now I can call it gardening and act all sophisticated about it!
A few tidbits about me:
- I’m God’s girl, and Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.
- God has blessed me with an amazing hubby and daughter who understand I’m culinarily challenged. Just ask them about my famous potpourri chicken and how we ate fast-food that night.
- I write contemporary women’s fiction and Christian fiction, sometimes in the subgenre of Christmas fiction.
- After reading Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery,” I was inspired to write what I call a “boom ending” to my stories that either shock or surprise the reader at the end. I do this as often as I can, although never in a dark tone.
- I write devotions and share them online with my readers, who are family to me.
- My basement office is decorated in all-things Christmas ALL YEAR LONG where I can play Christmas music as loud as I want.
- I drink BIG cups of coffee and tend to talk too much. The two may be related.
- I have curly hair that argues with me when I try to control it and REALLY bad photos to prove the dispute. See below.
- I could live in flannel shirts, jeans, and fuzzy socks year-round, unless I’m in the garden!
- A few of my favorite books in no particular order: The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern, Epiphany: A Novella by Paul McCusker, The Christmas Bus by Melody Carlson, Almost Heaven by Chris Fabry, It’s a Wonderful Life Advent Devotional by Anne Morse, Forever Christmas by Robert Tate Miller, Heaven by Randy Alcorn, Things Unseen by Mark Buchanan, Take My Heart, Oh God – Riches from the Greatest Christian Women Writers of All Time, Growing 101 Herbs That Heal by Tammi Hartung, A Marriage Carol by Chris Fabry and Gary Chapman.
- I love stories about angels, heaven, miracles, and God doing extraordinary and surprising things. Oh, and stories that make me cry!
- A few of my favorite movies: It’s a Wonderful Life, Scrooge (Albert Finney version), I Can Only Imagine, Rudy, and Boys Town.
- A dream I usually only talk to God about: I’d love to see one of my Christmas stories on the big screen! I’m praying.
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You can also check out my live interview on PJNET.tv with Coach Mark Prasek where I explain my walk with Christ and a little bit about my love for writing Christmas stories.
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Joey Rudder 