For those of you who like beach reads during the summer, I’m offering Finding Love in Seaside as a free download. It’s a prequel novella to my Resort to Love Series. Click here to download. The downside to having entire the series non available as one download on Amazon, readers often speed read through it […]
Unkissable (and other unconventional titles)
The cover is unarguably the single biggest draw to a reader in deciding whether or not to choose a book. A close second, though, is often the title. Just the other day, I read a comment online from a woman who couldn’t bring herself to read a friend’s book simply because the single-word title was […]
Loving the Unlikeable
I was chatting with an author friend the other day, and she was bemoaning the fact that a handful of her beta readers had read the second chapter of her current work in progress and let her know that they didn’t like her heroine. So my author friend was trying to decide what tweaks to […]
Blurred Lines: Clean or Christian Romance
As an author, part of my job is to decide where my books fit. In an actual bookstore, this would mean the singular big decision about whether I want my books shelved in Christian Fiction or Romance. Online, this becomes much trickier. Books can be placed in dozens of categories and subcategories in the online […]
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 […]
Book Birthdays
Launching a book into the world is something every author does a little differently. In fact, it’s probably something most authors do differently for each book. Some of that is because we learn what works and what doesn’t. Some is because the stuff we learned about what works can change on a proverbial dime and […]
A New Leaf #Giveaway
So I got a new desk. I didn’t mean to. It was supposed to be for my husband. I do most of my furniture shopping on Facebook Marketplace and flea markets. I’d found a white desk just like it a few months ago, but it was three hours away. So when I found this one […]
Did I Say That Correctly?
This blog post was inspired by my husband. He was reading a library book, and some wannabe editor had written a correction to something in the book. What was that correction? This person changed “another thing coming” to “another think coming.” I have always said, “another thing coming.” There is some controversy concerning the correct […]
A Season for Writing
I’m a planner. No, I’m a super planner. I love planning things almost as much as I love doing the actual things. I can spend a year planning a family vacation. Imagine how unprepared I was for the curveballs of this year. I had big plans in my personal life and for my books. I […]
Ask the Author
Confession time. I have thought and procrastinated and thought and started and stopped and started and…. I keep coming back to the idea of hosting an Ask the Author Party. So here we are, dear readers! What do you want to know? Do you have burning book questions about one of my books? Are you […]