Meet Birdie L. Etchison

It is fitting to feature multi-published Birdie L. Etchison close to Veterans Day. She has strong military ties and background..

Birdie’s  father was a marine—twice. She was married to an airman for 16 years and enjoyed living in CA, WA, OR, OK, CO, TX, and Tachikawa, Japan. Her oldest son, Bill, Jr., and daughter, Barbara, (who was born in Japan) were marines. Granddaughter Samantha and her marine husband are stationed in Japan. They have four children and the last was also born in Japan.

Born in San Diego and raised in Portland, OR, Birdie now lives on the Long Beach Peninsula in the SW corner of WA State. Juvenile, fiction, and nonfiction titles include best-selling The Celebration Family (by Thomas Nelson); Oregon, a collection of four Heartsong romances, was an alternate choice for a Christian Book Club.


Birdie has been included in several anthologies, including Homespun Christmas, with fellow authors Colleen L. Reece, Renee DeMarco, and Janelle Burnham Schneider. This prolific author also writes articles and short stories. Besides teaching at conferences, Birdie was an instructor for Writer’s Digest School for twenty-two years and co-directed Writer’s Weekend at the Beach, an annual gathering of writers, for seventeen years. As a past president of Oregon Christian Writers, Birdie is still active in OCW. She was included in the 2013 Legendary Locals of the Long Beach Peninsula. Her hobbies include baking and collecting snowpeople.  


Hope at Christmas is Birdie’s latest title. A widowed mother refuses to celebrate Christmas until an uncle comes. A lonely woman needs to find the angel her grandmother used to decorate their Christmas tree every year. A heartbroken storekeeper must sell her shop. A skeptical woman hasn’t celebrated Christmas in years—then hears carolers at her door.

Entertaining, inspirational, and romantic, Hope at Christmas brings smiles and tears. I highly recommended it for those needing a break from the stress of holiday preparations. 

available at Hope at Christmas

Birdie’s best advice to those longing to write for publication?

Believe you are a writer. Saying, ‘I am a writer" makes it more real.

Set up a schedule, preferably the same time each day.
Making this a habit means you will get more done.
If an idea doesn't click, another. (I usually have a list of ten possibilities.)
Try short story/article, novella or longer lengths. 
If fiction doesn't work, go with non-fiction.”