My New Appreciation for Genesis 1 and the Crazy Characters God Places on the Earth
I write because I like creating something from nothing. Molding an entire world. Filling it with potential. Plunking in characters that I love and setting them free. Sound familiar? Does it remind you a bit of Genesis 1, and how God must have felt at creation? I’m not...
Illumination of Antietam
Each December, the Antietam National Battlefield Memorial holds an Illumination in honor of the soldiers who fell during the Battle of Antietam in 1862. At twilight, 23,110 luminaries are lit, one for each soldier who was killed, wounded or missing during the...
Ready, Set, Launch!
It has been a long road to it but it is time to celebrate. Brimstone Fiction (A new imprint of Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas) official launch is today as well as the official kick off of Crossing Into the Mystic’s launch. I would like to invite you to...
“You Can’t Get There from Here”
More accurately, the old-timer said: “You can’t git dere from ‘ere.” He buttressed it with the same conviction I’d employ were I arguing the earth isn’t flat. Then, as though to emphasize the finality of his statement, he hocked up a swallow of tobacco and spit it...
Historical intrigue interwoven with modern-day suspense and a touch of the mysterious.
Contemporary romantic suspense.
Coming-of-age sagas.
About Koontz’s Writing:
An award-winning writer, former journalist and corporate escapee, D. L. Koontz writes about what she knows: muddled lives, nail-biting unknowns and eternal hope. Growing up, she learned the power of stories and intrigue from saged storytellers on the front porch of her Allegheny Mountains farmhouse. Despite being waylaid for years by academia and corporate endeavors, her roots proved that becoming a writer of suspense was only a matter of time. She has been published in seven languages.
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American Society of Journalists and Authors
American Christian Fiction Writers