In 2019, even before I published the last book of the Main Street Minden Series, I started dreaming up what my next series would look like. I had learned an unfathomable amount about writing and marketing from my first four books. And I was going to take all of those lessons and put them to […]
Character Interview and Giveaway
Today Zach Dawson is here for an interview. He is a celebrated pro football quarterback whose record-setting career was cut short by a horrendous injury. Our reporter is looking to find out what is happening in his life today. Reporter: Hi Zach, welcome to the Inspy Romance blog. Zach: Thanks for having me. It’s been […]
Series or Standalone (plus a #Giveaway)
When I first started writing, I always thought I’d write standalone novels. Most of the books I read were standalone, and I didn’t have any desire to write a series. After I released my first book, people started asking for a sequel and wanting to know what happened to one of the characters. I just […]
5 Reasons Rom-Com Rocks (plus 10 books you can win)
I enjoy reading romantic suspense, and I tried writing it, but my editor kept taking out all the humor. Apparently it’s not scary anymore if the heroine binge eats whenever she’s in a dangerous situation. Picture the hero and heroine in hiding. The hero peeks around the corner to gauge their surroundings and comes up […]
Here’s to a Beautiful 22 #giveaway
Hello January! We’re getting a blast of cold air here after a week of 70 degree temps. Georgia=all 4 season in one day. Author Kimberly Brock had an Instagram post about starting a new book. Drafting, she called it. I really liked how she described the process of creating a new story. It got me […]
The Year of Books
I’ve always been an avid reader, but writing has kind of eclipsed my reading time lately. I used to make reading goals like 100 books a year and wildly surpass them. Recently, I’ve been doing well to finish a book in a week. Not any more! 2022 is going to be a year of books […]
My Boy and Me… and #giveaway
Hi! My name is Dafne Santoro, and I’m taking over the blog today for my author, Valerie Comer. If you’ve been hanging around in her fictional world for a while, we’ve probably already met, since she’s recorded the romances of my older brother and sister and a whole bunch of my cousins over the past […]
Most Anticipated Indie CCR Reads of 2022
So my title was getting long and doesn’t express everything I wanted to say. For instance, you may not realize that CCR stands for Christian contemporary romance and Indie means independently published. I also didn’t get to say that my list only contains books from the first quarter. I figured I’d be here all day […]
Fly Away With Me (+ #giveaway)
Wanderlust is in my blood. When my dad finished his PhD, he and my mom headed off on a six-month trip around the world. And I grew up hearing stories of their adventures. I remember hearing about staying with a missionary family in the Philippines and the neighbor coming over to apologize that they had […]
Character Hometowns: Dauphin Island, Alabama #giveaway
When my friend’s daughter began telling me about her internship with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab a few years ago, I knew right away that I wanted to set a book there! She was studying manatee migration patterns. The large mammals had started leaving their habitats in Florida during the summer to forage for food […]