Today we continue the Story Sparks multi-author blog tour with guest Catherine Castle. Between May 21-26, 2018 readers get a chance to enter and win ebooks from six different authors.  Catherine’s winner may choose an ebook from any of her three books listed above on her book spine. Today Catherine will talk about the story sparks that started each of these books rolling. Read on to discover what inspires Catherine’s creativity and to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway . ***** Hi, everyone! I began my writing journey as a stringer for a local weekly newspaper. The hardest thing about that job was finding ideas to write about. I was in Writer Heaven when the editor called with a story idea. It was like getting a bright, shiny gift topped with a beautiful ribbon. The problem was those editorial gifts didn’t come in as fast as I wanted them to when I first started writing. So, I had to figure out where to find more ideas to write about. And of course, the burning quest...

Today, Special Guest Ada Brownell joins us to talk about her experience growing up in a large family.    Ada is a retired newspaper reporter who also has written for Christian publications since age 15. She is author of five books, two fiction and three non-fiction: The Lady Fugitive; Joe the Dreamer: the Castle and the Catapult; Imagine the Future You; Swallowed by LIFE: Mysteries of Death, Resurrection and the Eternal; Confessions of a Pentecostal, out of print but now available for Kindle. Read the first chapter of The Lady Fugitive here: http://ow.ly/CHtxB Ada’s Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06 Her blog: http://www.inkfromanearthenvessel.blogspot.com A late October day I arrived in Fruita, Colorado, screaming. The doctor and Mama grinned, but to some ears it wasn’t a welcome sound. Mama and Daddy had seven children. I was the eighth and the fifth girl. The family had escaped from the Kansas Dust Bowl and the Great D...