I love new releases! Both mine and my favorite authors! (We won’t talk about how I don’t have enough time to read all the books by all my favorite authors, especially not as soon as they come out.) I had a new release this week. It’s always great fun to see a book baby out […]
Find More Reading Time!
2019 is my year to read more novels. I need more depth and less social media to feed my creative muse, and reading is my go-to strategy. But I’m a single mom with two jobs, a house, pets, and a high school senior to take care of, so time is at a premium. I’ve gathered […]
Tickling My Funny Bone by Deb Kastner
As I mentioned in earlier blog posts, 2019 is going to be a big PIVOT year for me and I couldn’t be any more excited. The last two years I’ve felt rather like I’ve been hiding under my bed, afraid to stick my head out and see what is happening in the world. Chicken Little […]
How Fat is Too Fat?
Women come in all shapes and sizes, right? Right. And women say they prefer to read about real women, not heroines who are movie-star glamorous with slender (but perfect) curves, and long, shapely legs the hero can’t keep his eyes off of. Those legs were a recurring theme in a romance I read recently! Women […]
Bon Voyage for Research!
Happy New Year! I know it’s actually January 15th, but the last time I was here, I was talking about Christmas love stories, so this is my first chance to welcome 2019 in with you! I love the beginning of the year. I am a calendar junkie, and one thing I do at the beginning […]
Help an author – download their free ebook!
Free ebooks. Like them, or loathe them? Readers mostly seem to love them. As a reader, I do! Free books can feel like a gift from an author you know and enjoy, and a low risk way to discover new-to-you authors or start reading a new series. And for an author, there can be surprising […]
Sunday Edition
Welcome to my second Sunday Edition sharing photos of snowy southeastern British Columbia, Canada. These photos were taken other years, since I had so many lovely ones and I wasn’t sure what I might be able to capture this year. We did have a very nice snowfall Wednesday this week, though, of about four or […]
Choosing My Setting
Since I live in Arkansas and have family in Texas, those are the states where I set my books. I’m not as brave as Krista about writing a setting I’ve never been to. Maybe someday, but in the meantime, I thought I’d share how I choose my settings. Back in 2008, I was till trying […]
What Resolutions?
And here we are. It’s already eleven days into 2019, friends. Some will say “Hooray!” and some will say “Yikes!” Have you executed your new year resolution yet? Or did you decide to not have any new year resolution this time around? Even though I like checklists, the one thing I try to avoid at […]
Blank Pages Waiting to Be Filled
It’s no secret that 2018 was challenging for me. So I was especially excited to ring in a new year. There’s nothing quite like a fresh start. This year I sat down in my living room super early on New Year’s Day and set goals for various aspects of my life. I dearly love the […]