Earlier this month I released a new Christian romance, Love Meant to Be, Book 5 in my Abundance series. It’s a stand-alone story, a second-chance romance featuring a herione who runs a greenhouse business and hero who puts in a solar farm. Why a solar farm you ask? Well, the hero in this book, more […]
Writing When It’s Difficult + Free Book by Melanie D. Snitker
I think we can all agree that this year has been more than difficult for everyone. We’ve had to deal with the quarantine, adjust to educating our kids at home, and generally struggled to keep things normal when life is anything but. I’ve read about some authors who have been able to take advantage of […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Inspy Romance is closed today. Count your many blessings!
10 Ideas for Turning “Survive” Into” Thrive” Without Leaving the House
So, you may be thinking, “Laurie, we’ve been on lockdown and staying home for eight months now. Why this post now?” With the COVID pandemic seemingly hitting a strong second act, with numbers increasing again after a summer of inching downwards, and with no normalcy in sight, I thought I would share some insights I’ve […]
Grrr-attitude
Thanksgiving. (In America, anyway!) The time when I ponder the many blessings I’ve received in my life this year. But let’s be honest here. Because…2020. #AmIRight?? I am at the point now where any time new…trials…crop up, that’s my answer. Because 2020. And 2020 has been a doozy for us here at the Kastner home, […]
Falling for You by Merrillee Whren
If you live in the northern hemisphere, you are right in the middle of fall. Fall here means pumpkins, apple picking, Thanksgiving celebrations, and the lead up to Christmas and New Year’s Day. A few years ago we spent October in Australia and New Zealand, during their spring. I was surprised to see pumpkins on […]
Sunday Edition
Moul Falls was probably everyone’s highlight of our week in Wells Gray Provinical Park back in August. Part of the trail is a relatively flat deactivated logging road which then becomes a forest trail to the top of the falls. You can’t see much from there, so we followed the steep trail (some of it […]
Book Recommendation + Interview with Carolyn Miller + #Giveaway – Restoring Fairhaven
I’m thrilled to welcome my Aussie author friend Carolyn Miller to Inspy Romance. Many of you may have seen or read Carolyn’s regency romance books. Today you’ll learn about her love for Christian contemporary romance (CCR). Carolyn has kindly offered a giveaway of her first published CCR – Restoring Fairhaven: Merriweather Island (Independence Islands Book […]
7 Romance Cliches I (Secretly) Love + #Giveaway
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been watching a lot more TV during this time of quarantine. I’ve also gone back to my Asian roots and gotten into C-dramas, partly to brush up on my Chinese and also for nostalgia’s sake (I used to watch them with my parents when I was young). One […]
Farm and Family
When I decided to write a series centered around a cattle ranching family, I knew there would be many hours of research involved. Ranching is more than a job—it’s a way of life, and it’s often an inheritance. You pick up right where your parents left off. I grew up on a cattle farm in […]