Change is such a double-edged sword. On one hand, it can be a wonderful thing and lead to new adventures or new experiences. On the other, good changes can be difficult to adjust to. Even small ones: I’ve always read digital books using the Kindle application on my cell phone. My husband has had an […]
Tragedy and Romance (+giveaway)
I’ll be the first to admit I tend to lean toward uncomplicated, happy romances by default. Like bacon and cheese, such books make up the majority of my dietary preferences, literarily speaking. However, these aren’t the books I savor. They aren’t the ones to win awards and acclaim and get talked about nonstop. I could […]
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 […]
How They Met #Giveaway
Part of the fun of writing contemporary romance is creating unique, fun, or interesting ways for the hero and heroine to meet. Over the years I’ve used real-life things to inspire cute meets in my books. Like the time back when my husband was a youth director. We took a busload of teens to a […]
Confessions of Authors Who Oopsed
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 now available as one download on Amazon is that readers often speed read […]
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 […]