Writer and Teller of Stories
Stories: fictional, historical, biographical. Devotional thoughts. Writing tips. Helps for home and hearth.
~ Holly Bebernitz
Standard writing seminar advice to the author: “Do not tell the backstory for at least thirty pages. Drive the story forward first.” I’ve tried to...
**This is Part III of how to face an injury and recovery, later to be published as a book titled: Though You Fall. At the beginning of 2025, there was a...
We moved into our new home in February 1990, one of the first five houses in our subdivision. Like pioneers of old, we claimed our ground and began planting...
The scene: parking lot of a four-star hotel. The players: middle-aged couple discussing a friend’s “two-seater” car. Mr.—remarked it was silly for an...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
