Sending Grace

Doing the stuff

[Praying Medic @prayingmedic]

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[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

@prayingmedic Naw, I’m good. Scars and wrinkles show that I’ve lived.

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

@JoPappas4 Falling on our knees before a most Holy God is a place where we begin to understand.

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

Paint the picture. Tell the story. Again.

[CountryBoyWrites @CountryWrites]

This week it’s Fiddling Friday, and I ask a question every creator faces: when should you stop?

I reflect on when to step away from a manuscript, why distance helps the editing process, and why reviews matter so much to independent authors.

There’s also news from the Chimera Cycle, a glimpse at the next Spectral Detective story, three fantasy book spotlights, and a promise of an upcoming Substack short story featuring a missing body, an abandoned boarding house, and a young Detective called Sam Mercer.

Read When to stop?

https://t.co/dEj2LefXua

[Dee🌵Artist @denise_artist]

This needs to be said. And repeated. 👇👇👇

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

I agree. It didn’t make sense why that spy balloon wasn’t taken out.

[Dee🌵Artist @denise_artist]

Remember the spy balloon?

[Dee🌵Artist @denise_artist]

I had no problem with Kristi Noem’s work… or the ad campaign. I live in a border state where the drug cartels are the “handlers” of some of our worst politicians.

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

Seems it is doomed to repeat, and even to a larger degree what has happened to the great state of California that became looney.

[Dee🌵Artist @denise_artist]

Will New York self-correct after all the wealthy taxpayers take their tax dollars to a sane State?

[Dee🌵Artist @denise_artist]

Maoist communist tactics still exist. Now, in America.

[JoannPappas @JoPappas4]

Jesus said, " I AM the root and the offspring of David."
- Revelation 22:16

He showed this reality to the Apostle John, also a Jew, on the Greek Isle of Patmos.

Meaning that Jesus forever identified Himself with the King of Israel, David, and that ZION abides forever.

Those who demonize the word Zion are deceived by those who want to destroy the state of Israel.

If one claims to be Christian while hating the state of Israel, they have to throw out the Old Testament Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the foundations of the Christian faith.

The bond between Jesus and Israel is forever.

[Dee🌵Artist @denise_artist]

If Marco Rubio is addressing it, it’s a greater concern than we realize.

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

One monster is dead. But that’s not the end of it.

[CountryBoyWrites @CountryWrites]

Chapter 27: Lost and Found

Christmas returns to Blackthorn House, but peace does not.

Robert lies in the crypt, the Shuck is dead, and Jack tries to understand grief amid firelight, greenery, and festive cheer. Then Antony slips away, and a hidden secret comes to light: Dr Adler’s lost silver knife, buried for two years in Ten-Acre Wood.

What follows exposes betrayal, jealousy, and the cruel cost of disobedience.

A chapter of Christmas warmth, cold resentment, dangerous discovery, and the lesson that some wounds do not heal like the others.

https://t.co/skA9AEvI4O

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

Beautiful work ❤️

[JoannPappas @JoPappas4]

@RealisticPoetry Poiesis Collab
Meaning: bring authentic creative works into being by collaboration.

Example: @denise_artist made beautiful multimedia papers by hand from which I cut remnants and made these collages.

[CountryBoyWrites @CountryWrites]

Frillies Friday

How do you make historical fiction sound authentic without making it hard to read?

In this week’s newsletter, I explore the challenge of writing across two eras: seventeenth-century Shropshire in Lost Boy Jack and the world of 1945 in The Spectral Detective.

From pottage, tumbrels and dingles to rods, roscoes and niftic suits, I look at how period words can enrich a story—provided the reader can understand them without stopping for a history lesson.

Research builds the world. Instinct brings it to life.

#HistoricalFiction #WritingCraft #AuthorNewsletter #LostBoyJack #TheSpectralDetective #Worldbuilding

https://t.co/WJ0i2ygCp9

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

My favorite chapter! Lovely Lady Caldwell, a Night Knight to hunt, Jack as bait, the Shuck is gonna be dead meat.

[CountryBoyWrites @CountryWrites]

Chapter 25: The Hunter

Jack wakes from fever into a changed world.

Robert is dead. The Black Shuck has marked Jack. And a new power has arrived at Blackthorn House: Sir Lucian Viterion, a Night Knight of the Dominion.

Cold, ancient, and utterly certain of himself, Lucian sees in Jack not a wounded child, but a living thread leading back to the creature in the dark.

A chapter of recovery, judgement, dangerous honour, and the moment Jack learns that survival can become its own kind of summons.

https://t.co/96I6JaHdMe

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

@prayingmedic Say his name, Seth Rich.

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

This dreamer steps up into love and loyalty means not being complacent but singing out loud against bullying. It doesn’t just happen in high school folks.

[CountryBoyWrites @CountryWrites]

Honouring Legion Landing High

A star athlete steps out from behind his school’s polished image and turns a musical performance into a public stand against bullying. With one song, one costume, and one unforgettable reveal, Brad reminds everyone what Love and Loyalty should really mean.

https://t.co/ve8ZE2iCxt

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

@denise_artist Eye opening clip from the way back machine.

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

Healing insight from our dreams. ❤️

[Praying Medic @prayingmedic]

Book link.
https://t.co/fF6owdyHlc

[Sending Grace @SendingGrace56]

Very much needed!

[Praying Medic @prayingmedic]

A discussion with @marygrace about healing emotional trauma.