Happy Sunday! I recently learned that my city in Australia, Canberra, has been declared an international tree city of the world, joining 138 cities around the world that have been recognised for their leadership in managing urban trees. The cities that have been recognised are spread across 21 countries, including the cities of Toronto, Auckland, […]
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Sunday Edition
Happy Sunday and Happy Mother’s Day (if you’re celebrating Mother’s Day today in your part of the world). In Australia our Mother’s Day lines up with the US date, but our Father’s Day is in September. I hope you’ll enjoy a wonderful day of celebration filled with joy and peace with your family and loved […]
Book Recommendation – Skye by Heather Gray
Today I’m sharing my book recommendation for Skye, the first book in Inspy Romance author Heather Gray’s Rainbow Fall series. The second Rainbow Falls book, Olive, released last month. We will be interviewing Heather and talking about Olive in an upcoming StoryChats @ InspyRomance podcast/YouTube episode. Book Description: Rainbow Falls…where life is lived in full […]
Sunday Edition
Welcome to May! One third of 2022 has flown by, and today is the first day of May and the dawning of a new month. Last week I travelled to Sydney, leaving Canberra before dawn and passing Lake George on the Federal Highway at sunrise (see photo above). We get excited in Canberra when Lake […]
Book Recommendation – Turn to Me by Becky Wade
Today I’m sharing my book recommendation for Turn to Me, Becky Wade’s new Misty River Romance book that’s releasing on May 3, 2022. Here’s the Book Description: His promise will cost him far more than he imagined. Guilt has defined Luke Dempsey’s life, but it was self-destructiveness that landed him in prison. When his friend […]
Author Newsletters & Reader Magnets & Free Books – Love them or Hate them?
Many years ago Valerie Comer asked the authors in our blogging group to provide a link to our author newsletter for the Inspy Romance website. She later asked us to provide information on our free reader magnet stories that are available for our newsletter subscribers. I had great intentions of creating a reader magnet for […]
Sunday Edition
Hi from Australia! Autumn will officially arrive in Australia next week, and the leaves in Canberra are already starting to change color and fall many weeks earlier than usual. The photo below is from my neighborhood. Australia is a land of weather extremes. We can suffer brutal droughts and bush fires, and also flooding rains […]
To drink or not to drink in CCR books… + #Giveaway
To drink or not to drink…that is my question for you in the context of characters making beverage choices in contemporary Christian romance (CCR) books. When I first started writing Christian romance, the Christian publishers had detailed lists of acceptable and unacceptable content in the fiction books they published. The consumption of alcohol (liquor) was […]
Sunday Edition
Happy Sunday! We’ve finally had a week of warm, dry weather in Canberra, Australia, that is beach weather and feels more like a normal summer. I’m not a fan of heat and humidity, and I’m happy with our cooler overnight temps and daytime temps that sometimes reach the low 30’sC (high 80’sF). Two summers ago […]
Sunday Edition
Happy Sunday, and Happy Valentine’s Day for tomorrow! (Or today, if you’re in Australia, New Zealand or the Asia Pacific and reading this post on Monday in your time zone.) Some of you may be celebrating Valentines early this weekend. I’d love to hear if you have any special plans. The Winter Olympics is on […]
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