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Progressive Dinner: One-Bowl Chocolate Cake (September 30, 2015)
“That chocolate cake makes for a delicious end to any meal or as the perfect homemade birthday cake for the chocolate lover in your life.”
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Guest Post: Review of The Three Most Wanted
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Review of The Three Most Wanted by Corinna Turner (September, 2015)
“Through their encounters with would-be allies, Margo and Bane reflect on the consequences of making a deal with “the devil” and whether the ends ever justify the means. If it’s never okay to cooperate with evil, when is cooperation with those who commit evil acts (even for good ends) allowable? Even advisable?”
Save the Date: York Book Expo, Sat., Oct. 17, 2015
Only 8 weeks away! Fun, FREE activities for the whole family! Please visit me at my table from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. I’ll have paperback copies of Stay With Me and samples of Rebecca’s Fantasy Fudge.
Stay With Me Author Interview with DaTechGuy
During the Catholic Marketing Network Trade Show, I was interviewed about Stay With Me by DaTechGuy. (July 23, 2015)
Guest Post: Natural Family Planning Awareness Week
Guest post today at Erin McCole Cupp’s blog, Will Write for Tomato Pie, for Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week.
NFP Week: Meet Carolyn Astfalk, Captive Panda (July 22, 2015)
“Between my first and sixth pregnancies, they joy and excitement of a sonogram had been replaced by gloom and dread. After that first awe-inspiring sonogram, three of my four subsequent pregnancies were marked by black and white monitors with tiny, motionless babies—if you could see the baby at all.”
“Nova” Excerpt Featured by Tuscany Press
An excerpt from my short story submission to Tuscany Press is featured on its blog. “Nova,” written last winter, was inspired by the death of my former pastor. (July 6, 2015)
“He closed his eyes, hoping to relax in the arms of his Father, but no amount of external peace could quiet his soul. It irritated, like a pebble in his shoe. With every step forward it rankled and distracted until he gave up and succumbed to sleep.”
[Update: Tuscany Press is no longer in operation.]
Stay With Me Awarded Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval
Stay With Me by Carolyn Astfalk, available from Full Quiver Publishing on October 1, 2015, has been awarded the Seal of Approval by the Catholic Writers Guild. Books are evaluated by the Guild for both their Catholicity and editorial integrity.
The purpose of the Seal of Approval is to help Catholic bookstores and venues by determining the Catholicity of a work. Members of the Catholic Writers Guild are faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Writers Guild is an organization of Catholic writers, artists, editors, and illustrators. Its purpose is “to help build a vibrant Catholic literary culture by offering educational programs that encourage Catholic spiritual growth, teach Catholic writers about their craft as well as how to sell and market their work.”
Guest Posts: Why I Write, Review of Wounded Healer
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Why I Write (June 24, 2015)
“I emerged from that experience with a horrible first draft but a concrete means of transferring the stories that flickered like movies in my mind into coherent, concrete products.”
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Review of Wounded Healer by Jay Gage (June, 2015)
“The story is well-written and satisfying with enough twists to hold the reader’s interest. Its ending affirms our humanity and the reality that our lives can change drastically in an instant. God is in control; humans are not.”