Confidence, Paging Confidence…Has it Left the Building?
A Lesson from an Island Stranger “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”― Henry David Thoreau “The eyes of others (are) our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf “When I was a child my mother said...
Are You a Music Fan?
A beta reader for Crossing into the Mystic suggested that I was showing my age by having my character Clay – a young, brave, dashing, handsome guy, of course – describe the Eagles’ Greatest Hits album as the best one ever produced. Clay shares this thought while...
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...
Beautiful Simplicity
My Two Sentences Worth: A writing tool and something to carry it in – I can sooo relate to this gal (including the boots and cat). What about you – what one item would you stow in your case that you must have with you wherever you go? (Be sure to watch this coming...
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 Christian Fiction Writers