Blessing a New Home: More Than Meets the Eye
On my most recent trip down the Blue Ridge to Georgia, Just My Joe and I helped our friend Ed celebrate his new home. I had researched what I thought was the Amish tradition for blessing new homes. Turns out, the Jewish and Italian communities identify similar...
Try This On For Sighs
Or, Love the Second Time Around I’ve been challenged to write about something besides…well…writing. And, to write something serious. “Just once,” a friend advised. “Prove that you can do it.” Apparently everything I write (other than my fiction) is lighthearted or...
A Challenging Bucket List Item
Am looking at my bucket list for 2012. I can’t scratch off “Achieve world peace,” “Tour Ireland,” or “Lose 30 pounds” today, so I’m concentrating on another item on my list: “Find something to come out of.” Or, for you grammar purists, I want something out...
Fun with Radio Talk Shows
I’m tired of hearing about what arrogant snobs we Americans are. We’re elitist! We’re boastful! Oh, really? As I drive the beautiful Blue Ridge between the North and South, I have long stretches of time to listen to local radio talk shows. (There...
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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