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Interact with Teresa Slack
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Last On: Nov 2, 2009 - 6:26 PM
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Member Since:
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February 2, 2007
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Location:
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Hillsboro, OH
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ShoutLife Address:
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shoutlife.com/teresaslack
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Website:
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http://www.teresaslack.com
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Genre:
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General Fiction
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Primary Publishers:
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Tsaba House
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Whoever I am reading at the time. I have a hard time reading without looking for things I would've done differently.
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Myself. No one sees the world the way I do, just like no one sees it like you. We each have our own set of life experiences that affect our opinions and perspective.
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Reading,
writing,
fitness,
animal rescue,
my grandkids,
meeting people,
talking about writing,
laughing,
crochet,
dark chocolate,
traveling anywhere I haven't been before,
hiking,
my church family,
doll collecting
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Evidence of Grace (2007)
A murder conviction sent Sally Blake's killer to prison. Nearly thirty years after that fateful night, a phone call from a potential eyewitness may prove the wrong person is serving time for the crime. But what would drive someone to plead guilty to another man's crime? Noel Wyatt enlists the help of a young attorney, and David Davis, the retired judge who once prosecuted the case, to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. If an eyewitness exists, where has he been for the last thirty years? Is it possible the killer did not act alone? Is that person covering up for the real killer? What evidence does the eyewitness have that might overthrow a murder conviction? Will justice come too late for the person convicted of Sally's murder?
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Redemption's Song (2006)
As far as Jamie Steele can see, there's not a cloud on the horizon. She is finally at peace with the memories of her parents. Her boyfriend, Jason Collier, is attending law school at the same university. Just when life couldn't get any better, Jason makes an announcement that will change their lives forever.
Abigail Blackwood's entire adult life has been a masquerade. When tragedy strikes, she realizes the secret she safeguarded for the past twenty years isn't as well kept as she thought. She will stop at nothing to protect what she has left, even if it means destroying the life of another.
Two women who share nothing more than the love for one man. When their lives are shaken and faith tested beyond what either can imagine, will they trust God? Or will foolish pride drive them to take matters into their own hands?
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The Ultimate Guide to Darcy Carter (2006)
Considered an expert on every subject from online trading to the NFL Draft, Ultimate Guidebook guru Darcy Carter, can't guide herself out of a paper bag. When her editor suggests she write The Ultimate Guide to Finding Mr. Right, Darcy wants no part of it. To avoid Mr. Right and hopefully find out where the sudden discontentment with her life is coming from, she heads south to research one last ultimate guidebook.
Can Darcy trust her heart to recognize Mr. Right when he's standing in front of her? Where does an Ultimate Guide Girl turn for guidance? Her heavenly father who gives wisdom to all who seek it? Or herself, the woman with all the answers?
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A Tender Reed (2005)
"If it weren't for me, you'd be living in an orphanage somewhere, missy."
Abandoned by her parents and raised by a grandmother who never wanted her, Michelle Hurley has stopped waiting for the love and acceptance she longed for as a child. Focusing on her career, her dog, and a gorgeous sportscar, she is content in the niche she's carved out for herself.
Michelle's well ordered life is turned upside down the morning her sister abandons her two young children under Michelle's lilac bushes. All Michelle wants is her life back. She doesn't have time to deal with daycare and tummy aches and becoming someone's Mommy. Nor is she ready to fall in love with two little people who slowly work their way into her heart.
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Streams of Mercy (2004)
On the day of her father's funeral, Jamie Steele discovers he was once the prime suspect in the disappearance of an old girlfriend. All too familiar with his hard fisted lifestyle and violent temper, Jamie has to know if he was capable of the crime everyone in their small town believes he committed. Can she find the mercy in her heart to forget the past and mourn the father she has lost?
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Working the polls. A long day, but fun. Good place for writers to find inspiration.
Nov 2, 2009 - 6:22 PM
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I quit work in 1999 to focus fulltime on my writing career. How the Lord has blessed me since that moment. I believe the most important thing a person needs before deciding to pursue a writing career is a spouse with a steady paycheck and a medical plan. Thanks to the Lord's provision and my #1 fan, my husband Ralph, I hit the ground running. In 2004 my first book, Streams of Mercy was published through Tsaba House. Since then I have published four more novels for the Christian market with a few more waiting in the wings. I recently signed with literary agent, Terry Burns, and believe some major changes are coming to my writing career. I'm going to shine in '09.
Writing was a dream of mine since I was just a kid scribbling in a notebook I hid behind my textbook during class. Reading was and still is my first love. I am currently looking for a job where someone will pay me to read books at my leisure. Since that isn't likely to happen, I'll keep writing and read as I find the time.
My husband and I have a blended family of three children and three grandchildren. We also share our home with a foreign exchange student from Japan and two rescue dogs, Angel and Molly. Since acquiring Angel, I have become a huge advocate of animal rescue and am always sneaking messages about the importance of animal rescue into my fiction.
To read more about me and my books, visit my website: http://www.teresaslack.com
If you are part of a writers' group, book discussion club, or ladies' ministry in need of a speaker and live in the Central-Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky area, please contact me at teresa@teresaslack.com. I love to speak about the mechanics of writing, the writing life, and pretty much anything else.
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BOOK SIGNING -
Kentucky Gateway Museum Book Fair - Maysville, KY
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Dec 12, 2009 - 10:00 AM
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Inspiration at the Polls
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11/02/2009 - 6:24 PM
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A few years ago I received a phone call from the election board asking if I would be willing to work at my local election poll. Little did I know this would become a fulltime gig.
For a writer always on the lookout for material, manning the polls...
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- Most Recent Reply: 11/03/09 - 11:48 AM
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Encouraging Words for Writers
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10/22/2009 - 12:07 PM
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We've all been told that to break into publishing, we need to write a great story, one that editors can't put down. But we've also heard tales of editors who have turned down a book that went on to be a huge bestseller. No one can predict how well a ...
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- Most Recent Reply: 11/03/09 - 11:50 AM
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My Surrendered Heart by Sharlene MacLaren
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9/09/2009 - 10:31 AM
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Over the years, many have asked, "What's it like to be a writer?" In fact, I get the gamut of comments and questions?everything from, "How does anybody write a one-inch thick book when I can barely write a one-paragraph Email?" to "How long does it ...
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- Most Recent Reply: 09/09/09 - 3:08 PM
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Bloggers needed for contest.
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8/31/2009 - 9:56 AM
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The first order of business for revamping my Joy in the Journey blog next week is to recruit some ambitious bloggers who want to have a little fun. Vicki Moss and I are hosting a "Where in the World is the Albino Squirrel" game. Participating in the ...
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- Most Recent Reply: 09/01/09 - 10:32 AM
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Finding inspiration
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8/12/2009 - 7:25 PM
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Before you put a pen to paper, before you create your first character, before you do the first iota of research or choose your book's setting, you need a great idea to kick things off.
People ask me all the time where I get ideas and how I insure ...
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Top Friends (1,259 total)
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Recent Guestbook Comments (52)
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Teresa, you are such a blessing to me, thank you for being on sf.
PRAISE GOD!!!
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Dear Teresa,
Saying a prayer for you today. May God grant you exactly what you need. Have a great writing day!
Blessings,
Karina Fabian
www.fabianspace.com
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Hi Teresa! How are you?
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Jesus love the little children! Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 8:21 PM
People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.
~Mark 10:13-16 (NIV)~
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Hi, Teresa. How's everything in your life these days? I think of you often but haven't been spending much time on SL....Haven't forgotten you!!
Did I see a blurb about a first edit?? Whatcha working on??
Have a great day.
Hugs-
Julie
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 Bless your day nice meeting you too! love jewels |
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See how often I check in here at Shout life.=)
I hope you can come to the retreat too.
Be blessed.
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Recipe For Friendship...
1 cup Courtesy
1/2 cup Patience
1/4 cup Forgiveness
2 cups Understanding
1 cup Encouragement
2 tsp. Unselfishness
Stir in a pinch of Praise...
Add a dash of Wit and Humor...
Season with Faith and Confidence...
Put it in a 16 x 9 pan, bake on 350° for a Lifetime
and serve with generous portions of Love and Kindness...
Have a fantastic weekend...
*~Hugs~* CeCe..
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Thanks!!!!! But what do you mean by teams? .... Yep, my newbness is showing, LOL. Steph
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Thank you Teresa and if you are a coffee lover please visit my website. www.Igetpaidtodrinkcoffee.com/Ez2love
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Thanks! Yup, the challenge is to stay involved with way too many things to do! Thanks for writing!
Ellie
www.eleanorgustafson.com
The Stones: A Novel of the Life of King David
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Thanks, Teresa! I will.
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Wilma on 9/21/09 - 10:35 PM
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Thank you for the welcome! I was quite surprised to see someone on here that lives close by. I live in Anderson Township. Small world isn't it?
I enjoy writing and reading too. Ive never had anything published, but have lived an interesting life.
I had a diary for over 25 years but decided to destroy it.... didn't want my kids to read it after I was gone!
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Excellent. And you're right - it's funny we haven't crossed paths before now!
I'm glad to put a face to a name - and a gorgeous car, too!
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2009 is YOUR year!
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SENDING LOVE YOUR WAY AND PRAYING ALL IS WELL WITH YOU!
The greatest of all our gifts is love. Without love we are merely sounding cymbals. Clanging gongs! See 1 Corinthians 13:13. Love is the greatest force in heaven and in earth. Because God is love and has shed abroad in the believer's heart the love that exist in His very own heart. It is by the exercise of this love that we defeat all the evil of this world and its master. As we love God, our Father, as Christ does. And love others as we love ourselves, we become winners; undefeatable spiritual warriors.
Spiritual warfare is a necessary reality in the life of all the redeemed in Christ. satan has been for sure defeated by Jesus' sacrifice. But, at the present time neither he nor the whole passel of his cronies are silent and inactive. Therefore, if it is written in God's word pursue it with the very passion of heaven until the promised results are established. You have been given the greatest gift that heaven has to offer, which is the very Spirit of Love. Through Christ God defected satan and forever sealed his doom. Then He graciously invited all who will, to sit with Christ in the heavenly places and share in that victory. See Ephesians 1:20; 2:6; 3:10.
When this is the stance of our life, we move into the fullness of who we have become in Jesus. This love is the very same love by which He fulfilled the law and the prophets. See Matthew 7:12; 22:40, Galatians 5:14, Romans 13:18; 10:4, Act 3:18 Luke 22:37. And then set us free to be as He is in this world. 1 John 4:17. It is this restoration of who God created us to be that satan fears and is so adamantly opposed to. In this place no weapon he forms or anything he says against us can prosper, because God Himself will condemn him. Isaiah 54:17. Why is this so? It is so because when we fail to exercise the use of God's greater power and authority over him, he is enabled to use his greatest power against us. Remember satan is a defeated foe whom God has given us authority over all of his power. Luke 10:19. However, we must take our place in His kingdom and live out this promise.
Satans greatest weapon against the child of God is to convince us that he has more power than we do in Christ. Or we could say more power than Christ in us. While satan and all his minions are thoroughly and eternally defeated they fight on. And you and I are the targets of their arrows of evil intentions. Therefore, just as these principalities and powers of evil fight for his kingdom to rule; we must fight for the kingdom of our God to rule here as it does in heaven. We accomplish this by way of our becoming spiritual godly lights in the darkness of this world. Lights set a blaze by the Spirit of God, which neither man nor demon can extinguish. Satan is defeated but far from inactive. God's people are winners, but far from living out the full reality of our victory in Christ. If you as a victorious conqueror (and this is who God says you are) fail to go forth and conquer evil in the authority of Jesus name; satan will still hold you captive to destruction and defeat. See Romans 8:37. Never forget that winners actively pursue the prize set before them. Until at last they possess all of the benefits of that prize.
Go now and knock down those walls that stand between you and all the benefits of your redemption in Christ. It is written: As Jesus is so are you in this world. We are the throbbing pain in satan's evil heart. When we live up to whom God created and calls us to be. We are actually not enlisted to defeat satan. Christ did that. We are to take our place as lights through which Jesus shines as He Himself dispels the darkness of evil which fills this world. It is Jesus who enforces and ensures our victory and satan's defeat. Copyright © Sylvia F. Liani 2009
May all that is allowed in heaven fill your life each day. And may all that is not allowed there be forbidden in your life. See Matthew 16:19; 18:19.
Love big, stay strong in the Lord and let the power of His might forever be your stronghold of safety.
NEW BLOG TO FILL YOU IN ON MY ABSENCE
Big affectionate hugs,
Sylvia xoxoxo
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"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
Many blessings to you and yours on this coming weekend!!
~~LAURA~~
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kiera on 8/29/09 - 8:01 PM
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Thanks for the happy birthday.
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Oooh cool! :)
I'm always up for finding a another 'kindred spirit' :D
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Thanks for the sweet note! I hope you're having a wonderful day!!
Kristen
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