My children and I play a hilarious video game called Overcooked. It’s a multiplayer game, most fun when three or more players work together as a team. The goal in each level is to cook and serve meals to customers in a restaurant. But your kitchen isn’t just any kitchen. Every few seconds, your ingredients […]
We Are All Works in Progress
Some authors possess an amazing superpower. They can write their books in just one draft and barely need revisions. They pass the manuscript over to an editor who then makes some minor copy edits, and the book is ready for publication. It’s all so neat and civilised. I am not one of those writers. My […]
What Should Girls Look For in a Husband?
I turned forty-seven this year. No question about it: I’m closer to a seasoned crone than a fresh-faced debutante. As I get longer in the tooth, I’m increasingly drawn to writing stories about people my own age. At around the half-century mark, life often looks rather different than it did twenty-odd years before. There’s a […]
Relationship Dealbreakers
Seventeen years ago, my husband and I met on an internet dating service. It was founded by a Christian clinical psychologist, and it took the issue of compatibility very seriously. That’s why I chose it over other more casual dating services. Before my husband and I were paired with anyone, we went through over 500 […]
Meant to Be Together (And a Giveaway!)
Last week, I learned a new word: shipping. Not the kind that has to do with boats and sailing the seven seas, but with romance. For context, about a month ago, I got into a video game my children and husband really enjoy. The game is visually incredible, has a deep and touching story, and […]
Rich, Beautiful, and Living in Paradise
As a preteen in the mid-‘80s, I loved soap operas. We lived in Canada back then, and the nighttime American soaps were the best, especially Dallas, Dynasty, and the Colbys. The nuances of the storylines went way over my head. Only the bluntest of plotlines made sense. So I knew that JR, Alexis, and Sable […]
Let’s Go to Church
I’m in the process of worldbuilding for my next contemporary Christian romance series. As I worked on fleshing out the small Norwegian town where my characters live, work, and fall in love, I began thinking about their church. It will probably be an important part of the story since it has a big role in […]
The One with No Kissing
My first romance novel contains no kissing. That poor couple never got to seal the dawning of their happily ever after with true love’s kiss. I didn’t set out to write a kiss-free book. In the back of my mind, I knew they’d probably have to have that moment, and I was working up to […]
Everyone’s got talent, right?
I used to think whistling was something everyone learns to do eventually. Like walking, talking, and reading. Then, I met my husband. He can’t whistle a single note. I’m not talking about whistling through your fingers, the way people do when trying to call a cab, because I can’t do that, either. I mean the […]
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 […]
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