I’m a published author. Did you think to yourself: that’s so amazing! Her life must be awesome. If so, let me take you inside to the not-so glamorous life of writing. Now, I’m not trying to be a downer or ignore how blessed I am to be a published author. I’d just like to give […]
Best Friends in Love
(Did you ever watch the original Muppet Show? If you did, you really need to read the title for this post like they did the intro to “Pigs in Space.”) One of my favorite tropes is best friends to love. One of my least favorite tropes is also best friends to love. Why do I […]
Sunday Edition
Happy Sunday and Happy Mother’s Day (if you’re celebrating Mother’s Day today in your part of the world). In Australia our Mother’s Day lines up with the US date, but our Father’s Day is in September. I hope you’ll enjoy a wonderful day of celebration filled with joy and peace with your family and loved […]
Author + Reader = Story Magic & #giveaway
One of my favorite parts of writing a book is the moment it goes from being mine to being ours. And by ours, I mean, mine as the author, but also yours as the reader. Because yes, as the author I dreamed up these characters and put them in these situations and decided how they […]
Book Recommendation – Skye by Heather Gray
Today I’m sharing my book recommendation for Skye, the first book in Inspy Romance author Heather Gray’s Rainbow Fall series. The second Rainbow Falls book, Olive, released last month. We will be interviewing Heather and talking about Olive in an upcoming StoryChats @ InspyRomance podcast/YouTube episode. Book Description: Rainbow Falls…where life is lived in full […]
Bad Boy Redemption Stories (& Release Day & sale!)
One of the things I LOVE about writing Christian fiction is being able to explore some of the challenges of life, to delve into some of the nitty gritty aspects of things like financial and family pressure, relationships and estrangement, physical and mental health issues, faith and fears. I love that we can read fictional […]
To Be Seen
I was talking to someone recently about how the person people see when they look at us isn’t always who we really are. Or, more specifically, it’s not all of who we are. When that happens often enough, we can start to feel unseen – like nobody cares enough to look beyond the surface. We […]
Who is telling this story anyway?
Sometimes, I finish a book and I lean back… suddenly aware of the fact that I am, in fact, NOT the character I was immersed in through the pages. In my opinion, that’s one of the most rewarding things about an exceptional book. I get to *feel* like the character. So how does an author […]
Where Do I Live?
When authors write a story, they have to build the world in which the characters live. For most of my stories, I create a fictional, small town near a real, large city. Besides making a town where my characters live, I have to decide where they call home. Will it be an apartment, a bungalow, […]
Sunday Edition
Welcome to May! One third of 2022 has flown by, and today is the first day of May and the dawning of a new month. Last week I travelled to Sydney, leaving Canberra before dawn and passing Lake George on the Federal Highway at sunrise (see photo above). We get excited in Canberra when Lake […]