Today I’m excited to share with you Patricia Beal’s upcoming release – Desert Willow. I enjoyed her debut contemporary romance and you can read my Inspy Romance recommendation for A Season to Dance here. Book Description After a failed engagement, Captain Andrew Lee James has focused on building a career in the Army he loves. […]
Book Review: Not Until Christmas Morning by Valerie M. Bodden
Hello from that weird place in time where Christmas is over, we wait on the new year, there’s no school, and if you’re like me, any regular meal planning is out the window. I hope you all had a blessed Christmas! Ours was a Christmas to remember as we celebrated my husband’s birthday with our […]
In Defense of Negative Reviews
If I were a betting woman (which I’m not), I would bet that many of you read the title of this post and needed to take a moment. Fellow authors are probably, even as we speak, sharpening the tines of their pitchforks. Readers are just shaking their heads, sadly, thinking that I’ve officially and completely […]
Book Review – The Cowboy’s Christmas Reunion by Valerie Comer
Y’all, November has been a month of busyness, so when I realized I was due to write a post the day after Thanksgiving, I was stumped about what to write. A writer with no words. *gasp* And yet, I’m still expected to follow through on my commitment to IR and to you, our readers. So […]
Book Recommendation – That’s Amore: That’s Love by Marion Ueckermann
Back in 2017 a group of contemporary Christian romance authors started working on a group project with a difference. ‘A Tuscan Legacy’ was created by Marion Ueckermann and Autumn Macarthur. I was delighted to have the opportunity to join them and Elizabeth Maddrey, Alexa Verde, Heather Gray and Clare Revell on their writing journey with […]
Book Recommendation – Love and Other Mistakes by Jessica Kate
Book Description: Jessica Kate’s hilarious, romantic debut novel proves that love comes in God’s own time. Natalie Groves once had big dreams. But soon after her fiancé, Jeremy Walters, inexplicably broke off their engagement and left town, her father was diagnosed with cancer. Now tasked with keeping her family afloat, Natalie’s grand plans have evaporated . . […]
1 Baker + 1 Florist = Romance (& a #Giveaway!)
One of the perks of being a writer is that I occasionally get to read other authors’ works before they are released to the public. There’s the “sneak peek” factor, of course. When I get to read something before it’s released, I can pretend that I’m one of the cool kids for a bit. Enjoying […]
Book Recommendation – My Beastly Billionaire by Jackie Castle
I recently came across an online discussion that questioned the validity of Christian billionaire contemporary romance stories. One line of thought put forward in the discussion was a concern that it was unhelpful for Christian women to read romances featuring billionaire heroes. This discussion piqued my curiosity. I decided to read Inspy Romance author Jackie […]
Armchair Travel
If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more international travelling than I manage to do in reality. My mom and dad took a six month trip around the world when my dad finished his PhD and I grew up listening to stories of the places they visited, the things they saw, and […]
Book Recommendation – The Saturday Night Supper Club by Carla Laureano
Today I’m sharing my book recommendation for The Saturday Night Supper Club by RITA Award winning author Carla Laureano. In recent months we’ve shared a few posts on our blog on the topic of book awards. Cecelia Dowdy posted in February and asked the question: Do Awards Really Matter? Last month Lee Tobin McClain shared […]