When Characters Travel: Central America When I started writing Leaving Oxford, a character in the story wanted to start a medical clinic in Honduras. Then, in Going Up South, a group of characters travel there for a mission trip. Tackling the Fields begins immediately afterward. I interviewed so many people about their trips to the […]
When Characters Travel-Real Life Novel Settings: LA & Malibu #Giveaway
Hello Inspy Readers! I’m continuing my posts about real-life novel settings, this time focusing on Los Angeles and Malibu, California. While my first two novels in the Southern Heart Series are mostly set in Oxford, Mississippi, the characters do end up traveling to California. These West Coast cities are very far from where I live, […]
Real Life Novel Settings: Oxford, Mississippi #Giveaway
Hello Inspy Readers! I’d thought I’d spend a few of my post talking about my real-life novel settings, starting with my first novel Leaving Oxford. Oxford, Mississippi, is a small college town in Northern Mississippi hills about three hours from where I live. I spent time going to school there way back in the 80s. […]
Bad Boy Turned Hero Stories and a Favorite Inspirational Romance in 2020
Bad Boy Turned Hero Stories and a Favorite Inspirational Romance in 2020! As I was looking over the novels I read this year, I decided Kara Isaac’s Start With Me was my favorite contemporary Christian romance I’d read in 2020. I love how Victor was trying to turn his life around. Here’s a little about […]
Sneak Peek Chapter 1 For the Love of Joy!
Hello InspyRomance Readers! We are less than a month away from the release of For the Love of Joy! I wanted to offer you a sneak peek of the romantic comedy. You’ll see this novel has a very Southern flavor–okay, all of my novels do, but this one even more so! The heroine is not […]
New Release! Preorder For the Love of Joy!
New Release! Preorder For the Love of Joy! Hi y’all! I’ve finally finished the romantic comedy For the Love of Joy! When I started writing in January, I had no idea it was going to be such a weird year with floods, diseases, hurricanes, and politics. Yet, God’s still in control, and maybe some of […]
New Audio Book- Magnolia Storms #giveaway
With all the storms in the Gulf and elsewhere this year, it seems timely that this audio book is releasing, since the theme of this book is about God being with us through the storms of life. And 2020 has brought its share of storms. I often get tired of reading or hearing my own […]
Modern Hero and Heroine Careers
Modern Hero and Heroine Careers People often ask me how I come up with ideas, and if I have to do a lot of research for my novels. Normally, an idea springs from some small thing I hear someone say, a news story I read, or a person I talk to with a certain career. […]
Enemies to Love Tropes–Star Rising
Today I wanted to talk about the writing trope: Enemies to Love. Funny thing is when I started writing, I had no idea what tropes were. In fact, I’m still learning. These days, the word trope has also come to be used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices in creative works. I looked […]
Diseases in Fiction with Janet W. Ferguson
Diseases in Fiction with Janet W. Ferguson Bad things happen in life. Fictional stories would be pretty boring if nothing bad ever happened there too. I like fiction that leaves me with a good feeling at the end, though. So, in my stories, people have accidents or injuries or fires or hurricanes—you name it—that affect […]
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