The Kindle is here....

As I mentioned in my previous blog, I got my husband a kindle (ebook reader) for his birthday! And I think he is finding it fascinating...as am I. He is already reading a
book on it and learning the ins and outs of navigating it. What a difference it will
most likely make in the world. We have books falling all over in our house and soon that
will not be the case. And for the younger generation I guess they will have virtual books except for a few. I keep thinking that I wish in one way I was younger because it boggles my mind to think how so much of our society is going to change including education for our chilren. And colleges and tuition. So much will be so different...

John will most likely have his ebook "out there" by the beginning of next week. That is
quite mindboggling. This will not affect just books but already is affecting newspapers and in a strange way, even mail delivery. So much like ebooks are being done online....just like this blog...which enables regular people to connect with readers in cyberspace that we may never meet or know in person.

A TOWER.....looms tall....

Yes, it is a mystery but one I will share in a few months! Summer is ending in the
beautiful Endless Mountains of PA but I enjoyed every second of the day that I was awake....

Let's just say that I was frustrated when I woke up much later than I had planned. It's soooo quiet here in the woods:) But the rest of the day went well. Except for
the ending of the Notre Dame-Michigan game....my youngest son got me watching their football games and of course ND lost on the last play in overtime. Why do I submit myself to such?!

Oh, this is a blog about writing so I will say that John (my husband) almost has
his book Earth Is Not Alone ready for ebook format....and the kindle that I have ordered for him as a birthday present is due to arrive on Monday (he thinks it will be
much later.) I'm eager to see how a Kindle works also and am wondering if he will really use it. He has always been one to like the feel of a real book in his hands...but he frequents restaurants every morning and this seems like a great traveling companion so time will tell.

Montrose Christian Writer Conference....

The Montrose Christian Writers Conference is over for this year. It is always nice to have a writers conference in one's hometown ...it serves to get the juices going if they are lagging. The final session today was quite a way to end it as Grace Fabian spoke. She is a graduate of Davis College (old Practical Bible in Johnson City) and her husband was killed while translating I Corinthisns 13 as a Wycliffe Translator. We have our plans of serving God and then the unexpected happens. Suffering is something we don't expect to happen to us....but sometimes it does. As you can imagine it was quite a message. Aferwards many people wanted to tell of blessings during the week.

I, too, felt God working in my life this week. For now I won't go into those. But I will sum up by saying it was a week that I think God will use in my life. As far as writing goes, I have gained some new knowledge and realize the times are changing. I'm trying to help John as he searches out putting his book into e book form. This is new to us and quite interesting. More and more people seem to be reading books on Kindle. And I may be wrong but I think recently for a month ebooks outsold published bookds. I need to check if that fact is correct.

EARTH IS NOT ALONE by John Knapp II

Newly discovered love must face a puzzling prophecy, a Christian minister, an atheistic teacher, the breaking up of one world, and the breaking into another.

for more...read Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 at

http://www.johnknapp2.com

or visit www.amazon.com

Cu[ of Comfort Book of Bible Promises

In March 2010 Cup of Comfort Book of Bible Promises was published and in it on page 303 is my story "New York Calling" ...it is a little history of God's leading in my life to take me from Ohio to New York via Kentucky and Texas.
First I lived in Greenpoint in Brooklyn and then in Briarcliff Manor, NY while working in the city and then in Yorktown Heights. After I met John on a trip to Israel, we later married and moved to upstate NY (Oswego) where John taught at the State University for almost thirty years and we watched our four children grow up and begin life on their own.

Anyway I said all that to say that I like this story because it documents a lot of my life and my love of living in New York. That was also where I first began writing!

And they are in.....!

I'm not talking about articles although I like that idea too!

I'm talking about taxes....I've been waiting on my husband to complete our taxes so we could take them to our tax man....and my husband has been waiting on some papers from the bank so he could do his "figuring".... Finally we got them. Today we have an appt to turn them in....I love getting those kind of jobs completed.

But I also love turning articles in....even IF I have to wait to hear that they are accepted.
One really small article that I wrote for a book about six years ago is hopefully going to
make it in. The editor wrote last month and said she has gotten the go on the book and once
she makes contact with all the authors and gets their signed okays....the book will forge ahead.
That's really nice after all this time....and the article has to do with NE PA where I'm heading....
which is also nice.

I also did send in an article for a possible book (although I won't know for months)
and I'm hoping to complete one more before we leave for Florida. My family and friends won't believe it....especially my immediate family....but I am actually setting goals now for how much
I hope to accomplish each month. We'll see how that works.....I'll let you know!

On the go......!

I'm still in shock as I reviewed my last three posts and realized I have rarely blogged during the last six months! In one I was leaving PA to come to Fl. Then I was here and commenting that I
sent an article in and talking in general about life in Florida. Now we are getting ready to return to PA soon! As I said before, I'm always sad whenever we leave either place.

There has been a lot of drama lately though. My middle son and his wife and child returned from Tanzania for a little over a week. They were ill during that time but Eli (my son) had to board (or got to) board a plane for a month in Sierra Leone. Actually he was looking forward to it but at the same time sad to leave his family for that long of a time. My older son, Ethan, in Israel said he would visit for two weeks in August so I'm looking forward to that. And my youngest son, Andrew, is finishing up three years of classes at Johns Hopkins,( received a small surprise grant:) and watched is wife, Kandace, complete a marathon! Now they are going to WA to visit relatives and then take a 5th anniversary cruise. And my daughter and son-in-law in Nashville have survived the flood that hit that city although Phoebe lost a lot fo days of work due to it. John and I are always happy not to have drama in our lives at our age.

More on my next post.....!

Spring is almost here!

I have been in Florida a month and a half and the time has flown.
Actually I've loved it. I'm a person who loves change I think....usually
I'm quite content wherever I am...Florida is slightly different because
I don't know as many people so John and I can be more isolated....sometimes I enjoy that. As the years have passed however we have made more friends and acquaintances so that is not as true as it was.

I received good news today in that my youngest son received a grant to study in Israel this coming summer at Hazor. And he's happy because his intramural basketball team won its' championship. All of us Knapps
(except my daughter) love basketball. My oldest son just turned 36...he is finishing up a week of vacation in Israel. My middle son and his wife are in Tanzania for another week and a half and my daughter and her husband are coming to visit for two weeks next week. So life is not stagnant.

Earth Is Not Alone, my husband's new fiction book, has kept him busy
and just recently Cup of Comfort Book of Bible Promises (an anthology)
was published with my story 'New York Calling' included.

Happy 2010!

Here it is January 2010 and we had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. God blessed us by enabling us to

finish a room on our cottage so that we had places for our family to sit and it was so much fun to be able to share

it. I will post a picture hopefully....anyway now John and I are finishing up in Montrose after a very busy few months.

It was wonderful because our son Ethan returned from Israel for Christmas and also our two other sons and their wives

as well as our grandchild were here. Only our daughter and son-in-law did not make it. But hopefully we will see them

soon. John advertised his book in a Susquehanna magazine and in many ways God enabled him to get Earth Is Not

Alone known to the public. Now we are getting ready to go to Florida.

Our time has been good but there has also been sadness with the earthquake in Haiti. It is wonderful to see

Christians responding. I wrote an article which has been on a website over December called The Lights In The

Snow. It's been nice to have gotten some writing accomplished and I'm looking forward to the Spring.