Hope Haven

Upon starting at GuidepostsBooks last year, my first task was spearheading the development of our newest original fiction series, Stories from Hope Haven, which follows the lives and families of four very special nurses in the fictional small town of Deerford, Illinois.

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A Flight of Fancy

Recently, GuidepostsBooks had a party. Not a gather-in-the-conference-room and eat a homemade cake kind of party (though we do enjoy those as well). This was a full-out gala to celebrate the publication of our new book Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart, by Beth Pattillo.

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Mysterious Ways

One of the interesting things about working at GUIDEPOSTS is that the unusual is often part of the day-to-day job. The most popular column in our magazine is Mysterious Ways—inexplicable true accounts of events in people’s lives. We investigate each and every one—and indeed, they are true and miraculous. 

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One Woman, Big Change

I remember the first time I saw the hit reality-television show The Biggest Loser—I was in South Carolina, visiting my in-laws.

When my father-in-law (flipping channels, as men everywhere like to do) landed upon it, I immediately made my enjoyment known. I didn’t even really know the show at all, but I knew it would definitely be better than two hours of football.

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Ageless

What’s fun about book publishing is the same thing that was fun about reading when I was a kid: the way books can transport you to different worlds, teach you something fascinating, open a window into a totally new way of life or experience.

And it’s the same at GUIDEPOSTS: the viewpoints, stories and worlds I am exposed to on a daily basis fuel my love of life and knowledge.

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Reconnect with God

Last week, a group of us here at GUIDEPOSTS spent a couple of days learning about the role of inspiration in people’s lives. There were many interesting facts presented about the times and circumstances in which we look for inspiration, the kinds of things that we find inspiring and how our search for inspiration reflects who we are and the way we live our lives.

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Believing in the Unexpected

Faith is often presented as a matter of the head, a philosophical leap, a decision that’s settled once and for all.

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His Story

Last night, I bought a ticket to Arizona for my grandfather’s funeral. For obvious reasons, I’ve been thinking about my grandfather a lot in the past few days.

The day after he passed away, I sat down at my desk and pulled out the notes he had recently sent me for a memoir that he wanted to write. He had asked me to help him pull his life story together.

I looked back over the fragments of his life—some handwritten, some typed (no doubt by his wife—Pop Pop wasn’t very up on technology).

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I Don’t Have a Kindle, But...

I have been debating getting a Kindle. I work with books everyday—I feel as if I would be cheating on them. What if they found out? And my son works in a publishing company in which he’s responsible for getting books printed. If I were to buy a Kindle, would he be out of a job?

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Curling Up with a Good Story

I hold a romanticized image of what people do when they sit down to read: wrapped in blankets with piping hot cups of tea nearby, they curl up and are swept away on grand adventures, perhaps even reading by the flicker of candlelight. It’s true that my romanticized vision hasn’t quite evolved into the 21st-century yet.

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