by Alena Mentink | Mar 6, 2025 | Books, Home to Osceola
My Home to Osceola series is fictional. The characters are created out of my own head and the plot is formed as I put those characters through hard circumstances. You won’t find my stories in the history books, sorry to say (or perhaps not so sorry since no real...
by Alena Mentink | Mar 4, 2025 | Books, Home to Osceola
With most of my books, I can remember the moment an idea took fire and started spinning itself into a book. One scene jumps to life vividly, and then bit by bit, the rest of the details of the story follow. Not every author works that way. To each their own...
by Alena Mentink | Mar 3, 2025 | Home to Osceola
People talk about having “a sense of place.” You know how it is, the ties you have to a certain area, whether that’s a specific house or piece of land or part of the country. Both Jase and Miriam crave that sense of belonging in A Time of...
by Alena Mentink | Mar 1, 2025 | Home to Osceola
My great-grandma’s house was always one of my favorite places to go when I was young. She had a big closet with toys for me and my siblings to play with. She had crafts for us to do involving stacks of colorful paper, highlighters, and giant calendar...
by Alena Mentink | Feb 28, 2025 | Home to Osceola
Since A Time of Proving released just two days ago, it begs the question . . . Why a book series set in Nebraska? Honestly, I think Nebraska is the best of all fifty states, so of course I have to write about the area. (Yes, I grew up here, and yes,...
by Alena Mentink | Feb 27, 2025 | Books, Home to Osceola
Today I want to introduce you to the characters who appear on the pages of A Time of Proving. The characters are one of my favorite aspects of this book because they each have a life and voice of their own. Time would give out on me to talk about all of them, so...
