Exciting news! I have just signed a contract with Leafwood Publishers for a book due out in the fall of 2016. Don’t Hide Your Light Under a Laundry Basket: 101 Bright Ideas for Wannabe World-Changers will be a collection of stories, tips, and creative ideas to help women tap into their passions and leverage their influence for the good of the world and the glory of God, even when they’re deep in the throes of motherhood.

But now I need your help! This would be a pretty boring book if all of the stories and ideas came from me, a white thirty-something mama who lives in the sticks. Who are some mothers you know who are making a difference in their homes, in their communities, and around the globe that I should interview? Do you have any one to three sentence tips or testimonies about missional parenting that you’d like to submit for possible inclusion in the book? (If yours are chosen, you’ll be credited and receive a free copy of the book.) Pretty please, let me know!

HUGE thanks to my agent Rachel Kent of Books & Such Literary Management, to my beloved Buds in the Redbud Writer’s Guild, and to my amazing, supportive family, especially my husband Aaron, who always pushes me to do and be more than I thought possible for myself. And thanks to everyone else who has been cheering me on along the way. Your encouragement means more than you could know.

Okay. Time to buckle down and get to work.