Narelle here. Today I’m sharing with you my book recommendation for A Handful of Hope by Elizabeth Maddrey. This wasn’t the post I’d planned to share today. I changed my mind last weekend after we recorded a bunch of StoryChats @ InspyRomance podcast/YouTube episodes that included an upcoming episode #20 on Mental Illness with Jaycee […]
Teachers of the World … We Thank You!
Without them, none of us would know how to read. Or write. Or do math. Teachers! They play a phenomenally important role in our society. Today, I dedicate my InspyRomance blog post to those treasured people who dedicate their lives to this noble profession. I am the daughter of a teacher. My mom taught kindergarten […]
Reading at the beach
Don’t worry, the title will make sense before you reach the end. Sadly, I am not reading at the beach today. I am staring at this picture, however, as inspiration for my next beach book. I took this last year at Fernandina Beach, Florida. A little about me. I’ve been a reader for as long […]
Handshakes and High-Fives by Deb Kastner
I don’t have to tell you the pandemic has changed life for all of us. Many people lost loved ones. Others had to struggle with not being able to visit and support family in hospitals and nursing homes. When my dear hubby Joe was in the hospital with an infection last November, I couldn’t even […]
What do you look for in a rom-com? (+ #Giveaway)
After the ups and downs of 2020, I decided I wanted to devote 2021 to writing romantic comedies. I have always loved funny things—books, movies, and most of all, puns! And my hubby has said that I’m rather funny in writing (not in person, unfortunately, haha!), so I thought this new genre would be easy […]
Sunday Edition
“Think about the lilies. They grow and become beautiful, not because they work hard or strive to clothe themselves. Yet not even Solomon, wearing his kingly garments of splendor, could be compared to a field of lilies. If God can clothe the fields and meadows with grass and flowers, can he not clothe you as […]
A Beach Interview with Ivan and Brinley (with #Giveaway and #FreeBook)
Hello! Today I’m Journalist Jan, filling in for Novelist Jan, who is supposed to finish revising two books this month ahead of her busy summer schedule. You can preorder one of the these books, Her Love So Sure (Hometown Weddings Book 1), in the Save the Date anthology box set that will be published in […]
When Christians mess up… and a giveaway
I went to an old-fashioned all-girls’ boarding school, founded in 1905 by British missionaries in Africa. They believed the best way to establish Christianity was to give girls a solid grounding in the principles of the faith, so that they would raise their own children under the same beliefs. When I was there as a […]
faith, hope, and love-part 1-#giveaway
I’ve always loved the Bible verse that talks about faith, hope and love. It’s familiar and I think it grounds a lot of people in life. We see the words all over, separate and together. I wrote a series called Richness in Faith. The books came out in the order of love, hope, then faith. […]
Living My Dream Life
People like to ask kids, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Some kids might come up with crazy answers, or change their mind hundreds of times throughout childhood. Not me. As I kid, I knew what I wanted to be: A wife, a mom, and a writer. I guess you could […]