I was raised on an island in Lake Huron, ran away to Alaska and then the Yukon, had a "road to Mayo" conversion in 1982, leaped by faith into Briercrest Bible College with my husband in 1985 and landed in the "promised land" of central Alberta in 1988.
I've had the privilege of living a few miles south of the Arctic Circle (Dawson City Yukon) and a couple of degrees south of the equator (Papua New Guinea).
I suppose that's why my writing is steeped in the imagery of winter, with the odd palm tree thrown in.
For the past 18 years, I've been a pastor's wife, mother of three girls, caretaker of two dogs, two cats and sundry fish, and oh, yes, a freelance writer.
The writing began in the attic of my parent's house where I wrote stories for my dolls. None of them complained, so I kept it up. The Lord has abundantly blessed, challenged, rebuked, healed and restored me through the process of writing and being involved with writers.
I have two devotional books in print and my novel, One Smooth Stone, released by Castle Quay (Canadian imprint of Augsburg Fortress Books), in Sept. 2007
About the author
Marcia Lee Laycock is a popular speaker, a prolific free-lance writer and author of poetry, short stories and award-winning books. She is best known to Central Alberta readers for her column in, The Spur, which ran in local newspapers for over fifteen years and still appears both locally and provincially. Her first book, The Spur of the Moment, received the Award of Merit at the God Uses Ink conference in Guelph Ontario in 2003. Her second book, Focused Reflections, has been endorsed by notable Christian authors, Janette Oke, Phil Callaway and Mark Buchanan. Marcia's writing has also been broadcast on CBC Radio.
Winner of the 2006 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award
No matter how far you run, God will find you. No matter how bad you've been, God will forgive you. Alex Donnelly is running and trying to hide. He has picked a good place to do it - The Yukon - but he is pursued by friends, enemies, and most effectively, by God. Burning with the need to know about his parents, Alex returns to his birth-city, Seattle, where he discovers that his mother tried to abort him. The trauma sends him on the run again only to find out God has orchestrated a divine appointment for him back in the Yukon. The story is filled with miraculous healing, struggles with rage and an obsession with revenge for a childhood abuser. This story illustrates that God never gives up on those whom He has chosen. God's mercy and grace extend even to those who consider themselves unworthy, and even more, to those who are considered unworthy in the eyes of the world.
"One Smooth Stone is one taut thriller. Marcia Laycock tells a crackling good tale of crime and punishment, damnation and redemption that is at once grimly real and deeply hopeful."
?Mark Buchanan, author of The Rest of God and Hidden in Plain Sight,
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