This month Jill chats with Christian chick-lit author Marilynn Griffith. This bundle of energy is mom to a tribe, wife to a deacon and proof that God gives second chances. While best known for her colorful novels about friendship, family and faith, Marilynn is also a speaker and nonfiction writer. Her nonfiction has been included in CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN’S SOUL and several other devotionals and magazines. Currently, Marilynn is editor of the SISTAHFAITH:BELIEVING BEYOND SHAME anthology and founder of Faithchick.com, a blog for faith fiction… Read More

Listen to CWO Radio this month, as Jill Hart chats with author, Kay Strom. Kay loves to write, and she loves to share what she writes about. Guess you’d call her a natural-born communicator! Author of 34 books and numerous magazine articles, Kay’s work has appeared in many compilations, book clubs, and around the world in many languages. She has recently completed the scripts for two movies and is hard at work on a historical biography and a historical novel trilogy.

In addition to her writing, Kay is an articulate, personable, and dynamic… Read More

Award-winning author Shelley Adina wrote her first teen novel when she was 13. It was rejected by the literary publisher to whom she sent it, but he did say she knew how to tell a story. That was enough to keep her going through the rest of her adolescence, a career, a move to another country, a B.A. in Literature, an M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction, and countless manuscript pages.

Shelley is a world traveler and pop culture junkie with an incurable addiction to designer handbags. She knows the value of a… Read More

With lines like “I’m finding that God is blessing me with messy faces in divine places,” Darlene Schacht has the uncanny ability to warm hearts–captivating them with an inspirational focus.

Perhaps it’s her writing talent laced with design skill and determination that has placed Darlene at the hub of this rapidly growing online ministry for women that celebrated its one year anniversary in March. Christian Women Online has brought about a new wave in the ability to reach out to people both to share faith and to… Read More

This month I had the pleasure of chatting with Margaret McSweeney. Margaret is the author the beautiful gift book, A Mother’s Heart Knows. She is also the founder of ‘Pearl Girls’:

With His love and grace, God covered the unexpected pain in my life of becoming an adult orphan and transformed this pain into a pearl. We are all Pearl Girls™.  Each of us… Read More

Susan May Warren is a multi-published, award-winning author with Tyndale House and Steeple Hill. Her latest release is titled, Wiser Than Serpents. About two years ago, God laid on her heart the horror of the human trafficking problem, and after reading a magazine article by Sara Groves, she began to research IJM (International Justice Mission) with a desire to help. Coincidentally, she was also writing a book at that time, a suspense/ romance novel set in Taiwan about a woman whose sister is trafficked. The heroine goes undercover to try and

There’s never a dull moment in the Y’Barbo household! From hockey and cheer mom to publicist to bestselling author, Kathleen Y’Barbo somehow manages to do it all—and do it well. While wearing her publicist’s hat, Kathleen has secured interviews with radio, television, and print media for clients at NavPress, Hatchette, Integrity, Barbour Publishing, and Broadman & Holman, to name a few. She also brings her own unique blend of Southern charm and witty prose to the more than 350,000 award-winning novels and novellas currently in print. Her… Read More

This month Jill talks with award-winning singer/songwriter Bree Noble. Bree’s powerful vocals and commanding stage presence have won over audiences at large venues such as Saddleback Church and Dodger Stadium and intimate venues like small town churches and coffeehouses.

Although her vocals are always compelling, her greatest asset is her songwriting. Bree is a songwriter who doesn’t sugar-coat the Christian life or water down the issues Christians face. With influences like Nichole Nordeman, Sara Grvoes and Ginny Owens, her musical style is both mainstream and eclectic. Her lyrics are… Read More

Join me as I chat with author Tricia Goyer about her newest on-fiction book, Generation NeXt Marriage: The Couple’s Guide To Keeping It Together. I loved Tricia’s Generation NeXt Parenting and have been waiting not-so-patiently for her book on marriage to be released. It’s finally here! Tricia’s writing style is open, honest and refreshing. She’s not afraid… Read More

Listen in as Jill chats with Lynn Bower Walker about her book, Queen of the Castle: 52 Weeks of Encouragement for the Uninspired, Domestically Challenged or Just Plain Tired Homemaker. The book is full of funny tips, practical information and great homemaking ideas. Walker isn’t afraid to share her foibles which makes the book a fun read.

Lynn Bowen Walker is a Stanford graduate who was trained as a journalist, but who chose instead to dedicate herself to raising a family and building a strong… Read More