Oregon Trail - Derinda Babcock

In Search of Destiny

April 21, 2016 by Derinda Babcock

In Search of Destiny: Book Two in the Destiny Trilogy If you read Dodging Destiny, did you wonder what happened to the people Lexie Logan left behind in the nineteenth century? I did. Originally, Dodging Destiny was written to be a stand-alone novel, but all of my beta-readers told me I couldn’t stop with the first novel. They wanted to know what happened to the characters when the Civil War broke out. They wondered how Lexie’s experience changed her after she returned to the twenty-first century. I listened and began to research. Book Two, In Search of Destiny, is now available for …

SAGEBRUSH: FRIEND OR FOE?

April 23, 2014 by Derinda Babcock

SAGEBRUSH: FOE When my family first moved to Southwestern Colorado, our pastures were overgrown with sagebrush. At the time, we didn’t have the equipment to remove it quickly, so the only way to get rid of it was with a mattock. This was time-consuming, back-breaking work, that nobody liked, but it had to be done, because nothing much would grow near sagebrush. It produces a strong chemical that repulses most plants, animals, and insects, so up until recently, we considered it a noxious plant with no value. SAGEBRUSH: FRIEND Then I researched for the second book in my DESTINY trilogy. …