Remember my French guy? The one whose story I planned to finish? After that post, I got busy. I found a historical thread to tie into the contemporary story. I polished my 124 pages, worked in the new thread, and expanded the manuscript to 141 pages. It was a great story. I loved the characters, […]
Finding Creativity at Christmas
I hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas season! We have a new tree this year—since we’re in a new house that has higher ceilings than the last one, I splurged on a gorgeous flocked tree that is taller than our old one, and I love it so much I’m already dreading the day it has […]
Story Struggles and Gingerbread Cookies
Lindi here. Happy December! The month of hope, beginnings, and cookies. Yes, cookies. I love cookies. But, we aren’t talking about cookies today. (I want to make gingerbread cookies this year. I’ve never baked them and I love gingerbread! If you have a recipe you LOVE, I’d LOVE for you to share it in the […]
When Do You Find the Time?
by: Staci Stallings By far the biggest question I get from my writer friends is: “When do you find the time?” While right now there are a lot of novellas being released which usually run around 20,000 to 40,000 words, my books tend to be…. uhm, longer, to say the least. The one I’m working on right now […]
My First Research Trip
If you’ve been around InspyRomance a while (long enough to experience a Sunday Edition or two when I’ve been on), you might have realized that I enjoy doing a few crafty type things. I taught myself to crochet when my husband and I were first married (mostly because we barely had two nickels to rub […]
Writing Retreat
Writing can be a very solitary, lonely pursuit. Even my husband, parents, and son don’t really understand the part of me that’s driven to get the stories out of my head and onto paper. I spent a lot of years going it alone. Eventually I found two local writing groups. Though some of the members […]
A Reservation for Romance: Behind the Scenes
A Reservation for Romance, the third and final installment of my Homegrown Love Stories series is finally releasing this week, and I’m hopeful you will enjoy Brooke and Grant’s story. I’ve shared before that Brooke Jennings Lockwood is one of my all-time favorite characters, and I really wanted to do her story justice. So […]
What’s in the Box Plus Giveaway
I love books and I admit, I love bargains, so I’m grateful for the existence of box sets. I believe the first box set I bought was Splash! where I discovered several new to me authors (also a plus about multi-author sets). Later, I found it was fun to work with other writers while publishing […]
On Changing Seasons and Big Life Events
Some life events are just hard to get over. Like, riding in a canoe for the first time with your husband who thinks faster is better and rapids are fun. We are such opposites. And yes, that stinkin’ canoe tipped. I ended up in that cold, Michigan river. For a minute. I say a minute […]
A change of plan, and why I have my word for 2019 already!
Nearly 2019? Surely not! We just had New Year, didn’t we? It can’t possibly be fall. I didn’t finish writing my summer book yet! Uh, it appears it really is the middle of October. 2019 is just 10 or 11 weeks away. Oops! Life, and God, can have a funny way of changing our plans! […]