Rachael Phillips


Author - Speaker - Singer
Welcome to my Coffee Corner, where we can kick back and chat over caramel mocha lattes--how about double whipped cream?

Need a smile to chase away the blues? Check out “Dam It All, Anyway” my wedding story which won the 2004 Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award, or my other magazine articles.

Ride with Me into Christmas

I’m celebrating my first published fiction!  It’s a novella called Ride with Me into Christmas, one in a comic romance collection, A Door County Christmas. Characters in all four stories wreak romantic mayhem on beautiful Door County, Wisconsin, a peninsula bordered by Green Bay and Lake Michigan.

Barbour Publishing’s fiction editor Rebecca Germany surprised me with my first contract at the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference last September! I’m grateful to work with her and fellow novella authors Eileen Key, Becky Melby and Cynthia Ruchti.

A Door County Christmas will release in September 2010.   

Coffee Corner
Do you carry a membership card in the American Secret Society of Paranoid Packrats? Have you vowed to hoard every clothes hanger, newspaper rubber band and 10-year-old greeting card until your house, spouse, or both explode, so help you God?

If so, you can appreciate the agony this Clutter Queen experienced while moving after 23 years. . . .

Need Inspiration?
Follow the links to excerpts from my four biographies from Barbour Publishing's Heroes of the Faith series:  Frederick Douglass, Billy Sunday, St. Augustine, and Well with My Soul:  Four Dramatic Stories of Great Hymn Writers.
St. Augustine was recently translated into Chinese for publication in China.

Or invite me over for coffee at your club, group or church. We'll inspire each other!
 


Research for
Ride with Me into Christmas  

tandem

My husband Steve and I on our
tandem bicycle.

authors
Me with my Door County Christmas buds, left to right: Eileen Key (My Heart Stil Beats), Cynthia Ruchti (The Heart's Harbor), and Becky Melby (Christmas Crazy), all doing Door County Sundae research at Not Licked Yet, a frozen custard restaurant that figures in my novella, Ride with Me into Christmas.