Inventing geography is a ton of fun! Right up there with finding character inspiration photos and house floor plans and music that matches the mood or theme of the story. My characters need places to hang out, which means they need a town with a few amenities even if they live out on a ranch […]
About Valerie Comer
I Forgot I Fell in Love with You
Here’s a romance trope you don’t read every day: amnesia. Or maybe we’ve read it a hundred times, and just don’t remember! Okay, bad joke. In the amnesia trope, the couple has already met, fallen in love, and sometimes even married before the story starts. But then something happens, and one or the other of […]
Shades of Grace
When I was a child growing up in a staunch Mennonite home, life was quite clear. There were wrongs — we called them ‘sins’ — and there were rights. The goal was to avoid the sins and do the right thing. Black versus white. I attended a Christian high school (boarding school) with very conservative […]
Cover, Cover, on the Book… and #giveaway
Cover, cover, on the book — which cover is the fairest look? Choosing a cover for a new story is always entertaining. I’m working with a pro photo manipulator for my cowboy romance covers, and with an illustrator (my daughter, Hanna Sandvig) for the Urban Farm Fresh Romance covers. These two approaches require very different […]
Please Welcome Diana Lesire Brandmeyer! … and #Giveaway
Welcome to Inspy Romance, Diana! I value the friendship we’ve had over the past… wow, how long has it been? Ah… that’s math, Valerie. I’m not very good at it. ? But I think ten years, or was it eight? We met through a Christian writing group, but have never met in person! We’ve had […]
Happy Book Birthday!
Today’s the day! If you pre-ordered The Cowboy’s Convenient Marriage, it should have downloaded to your Kindle this morning. Have you started reading it yet? This is the thirtieth CCR (Christian contemporary romance) released under my name since July, 2014. Five years! And thirty books! What kind of crazy number is that?!? That’s not counting […]
Sunday Edition
Lilacs are one of my favorite spring flowers. They bloomed here a little later this year. Usually they’re in full bloom by Mother’s Day, but this year it was May Long (if you don’t know what that is, you didn’t read my Sunday Edition last week!) Do you have lilacs where you live? When do […]
Sunday Edition
Happy Victoria Day Weekend! (also titled, Happy Sunday from Canada!) Victoria Day falls on the third Monday of May and is celebrated in Canada and Scotland. Not in England, I hear, even though it honors Queen Victoria, who was born May 24, 1819. Why on earth does Canada celebrate Victoria and not the birthday of […]
Convenient… or Not So Much?
You know what’s a tricky trope to write? Marriage of convenience in a contemporary setting! I mean, what makes two otherwise rational and engaging characters decide to get married in this day and age without love? Historical settings are rife with good reasons to do this. Women needed protection back then, whether from rogue men […]
Sunday Edition
Happy Mother’s Day! Whether you’re a mom, a foster mom, a grandma, an aunt, a daughter, a niece, a best friend, a mentor, or whichever, let’s celebrate the women in our lives who are right there when we need them. Mother’s Day can be a sad time, too, remembering those who’ve gone on before. How […]
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