Cathy LaGrow's Blog

We’re back! My book has now gone to the printer (much more on that to come), so I am able to resurrect my blog in the best way possible, by talking about a terrific new book. Billy Coffey has just … Continue reading →

Well, here it is…the stunning cover of Grandma’s book, The Waiting, which will be published in May by Tyndale! I am working morning, noon and night (along with my partner, Cindy Coloma) to meet the manuscript deadline of December 31. … Continue reading →

Oh, this is EXCITING. With each novel Billly Coffey has released, his writing and story-telling skills have taken a quantum leap upwards. When Mockingbirds Sing, his brand-new book, is the kind of fiction I wish all Christian novelists were producing. … Continue reading →

Lots of things are happening behind the scenes in my writing world, which is why I’ve been scarce lately and haven’t been chattering on about all the exciting things happening in the world of physics, such as the solar flare … Continue reading →

The great writer Roger Ebert died yesterday, and the news made me cry. Not as soon as I read it but an hour later, when I was driving to the bookstore (hurrying, since I had only a short while before … Continue reading →

Following are the titles of the books I finished reading in 2012. In addition to these, I am still in the middle of so many books, I’m too embarrassed to give you the number (27.) As I no longer finish … Continue reading →

I’ve been MIA here, lately. Turns out, writing a research-heavy historical memoir is massively time-consuming. Who’d have thought? However, there’s no way I’d miss our annual Year in Cool post, because writing this post is more fun than spending a … Continue reading →

Four years. One thousand, four hundred and sixty days. That’s a long time to wait. A long time to work towards redemption. At the age of 12, Dana Vollmer was the youngest swimmer at the 2000 Olympic Trials. She didn’t … Continue reading →

To Kindle or not to Kindle? That is the question. I have no quarrel with e-readers. Since I am a die-hard fan of learning, any medium that gets people reading is fine by me. Read on a papyrus scroll or … Continue reading →

I saw a woman at the park the other day who held forth to a group of her friends, no kidding, for at least an hour solid. I kept looking up from my book, in astonishment –Yep, she’s still talking. … Continue reading →