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 […]
Lost Pages
Remember my French guy? The one whose story I planned to finish? After that post, I got busy. I found a historical thread to tie into the contemporary story. I polished my 124 pages, worked in the new thread, and expanded the manuscript to 141 pages. It was a great story. I loved the characters, […]
Writing Retreat
Writing can be a very solitary, lonely pursuit. Even my husband, parents, and son don’t really understand the part of me that’s driven to get the stories out of my head and onto paper. I spent a lot of years going it alone. Eventually I found two local writing groups. Though some of the members […]
Friends & Cousins
Last month, I committed to finish an old book that I’d fiddled with for years. I ended up finding a local historical thread for my story, getting the synopsis updated, and adding eighteen pages to the book. I’ll take it. Not as much as I wanted to do, but it was a busy month with […]
Inspiration & Making It Happen
Years ago, when our son was little, my sister-in-law lived in Memphis. She invited us to visit and bring our son to a mall with a carousel inside. We had a nice visit and our young son loved the carousel. On the way out of the mall, a cute guy with long hair and an […]
Quirky Characters & Wounded Souls
I’m honored to host my guest, Tara Johnson today. We’re members of American Christian Fiction Writers Arkansas, so we see each other several times a year at meetings and once circled Dallas repeatedly trying to get to the ACFW conference. Here’s Tara: Quirky Characters and Wounded Souls by Tara Johnson Barney Fife. Scarlett O’Hara. Inigo […]
The Perfect Anniversary Gift
Sing with me to the tune of the Brady Bunch theme (if you’re old enough to remember it): Here’s the story of a lovely lady who was busy writing books, and couldn’t clean So her house turned upside down, without a vacuum and the bunnies won. Okay, so I stink at poetry and […]
Roundup of Blogs
Several of the inspy authors have personal blogs also. I thought since you’re here–you know at a blog–and you like it, you might want to check out more. So here’s the roundup in alphabetical order: Julie Arduini’s blog – Surrender Issues and Chocolate features inspiring messages of surrender, book reviews, faith issues, family, writing, a […]
A Much Anticipated Wedding
Over the years, I’ve written lots of fictional weddings. But around here, I’m excited about a real one coming up. Let me backtrack. I’m an only child and it never bothered me. I had close cousins and lots of friends. But when my older cousin became an aunt when I was 13, it hit me […]
Introducing Myself
Back when the Inspy Romance Blog started, a friend of mine asked if I was interested in joining. At the time, I was on another group blog, had one of my own, and was up to my eyeballs in deadlines. I declined. Over the years, I checked in with Inspy Romance several times and was […]
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