Welcome to winter driving! My hubby and I spent a few days watching our daughter’s three girls earlier this week. While the valley bottoms are snow-free, the same isn’t true of the mountain passes! We were actually very happy to see so much snow along the roads on the heights. Snow came late up there, but at least it came. Every little bit of moisture is helpful there as we “look forward” to this year’s wildfire season and pray it won’t be anything like 2023’s.
Winners this Week
WINNERS of our 10th and final Birthday Bash have all been contacted. If you recognize your name, but didn’t receive an email — there are still a couple of you who haven’t responded — please check your spam in the email address you use for commenting on this site. Then respond to that email. Okay? We’ll hold these open until Sunday night before choosing (a) new winner(s).
1) Trudy
2) Melissa
3) Lori
4) Dianne K
5) Natalya
6) Betty
7) Alicia
8) D’anah
9) Bonnie
10) Bridgette
Congratulations!
StoryChats @ InspyRomance
Story Chats releases an all-new episode every Friday. This week on Episode 165, Valerie and Narelle chatted with Nicole Deese about her new release, The Roads We Follow . You won’t want to miss it!
Listen to our fun show on your favorite podcasting app, through the player on our podcast tab, or watch us on YouTube!
Last Week on Inspy Romance
On Monday, Lindi Peterson mulled memories, books, and adventures
On Tuesday, Angela Ruth Strong revealed the cover of Fiancé Finale
On Wednesday, Jaycee Weaver discovered hidden gems
On Thursday, Emily Dana Botrous wondered pushy? or persistent?
On Friday, Valerie Comer proclaimed not everyone wants to be happy
On Saturday, Toni Shiloh memorialized a lifetime between the pages
Next Week on Inspy Romance
Monday: Amy R Anguish
Tuesday: Judith McNees
Wednesday: Elizabeth Maddrey
Thursday: Carolyn Miller
Friday: Julie Carobini
Saturday: Jan Thompson
Our daughter’s family lives near the river, close enough to easily walk down. The first afternoon Grandpa and I went with the 12yo and 7yo, but after that the 12yo and I went without them! I’m sure glad we can step in and help out our kids’ families when it’s needed! And they do the same for us.
It occurs to me that folks who’ve read my Riverbend series might be interested to know that this is the river (and town) I patterned Riverbend around.
New Releases
March 2024
A Great and Glorious Gift (Farm Fresh Market Romance 3) by Valerie Comer
Tangled Up in Love (Trinity Lakes 9) by Carolyn Miller
For Better or For Granted by Amy R Anguish
Bonding with the Babies (Rocky Mountain Family 6/ K9 Companions 20) by Deb Kastner
The Billionaire’s Wife (Billionaire Next Door 6) by Elizabeth Maddrey
A complete list of Inspy Romance books by our authors over the past decade is available on our BOOKS tab.
Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances. Her life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary inspirational romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie and her family grow much of their own food and are active in the local foods movement as well as their church. She only hopes her creations enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.
A blessed Sunday to IR authors and readers. Congratulations to the winners of the Birthday Bash. Happy Reading! Thanks for the beautiful pictures, Valerie. So delightful to make memories with the grandchildren. Happy Spring to the Northern folks. Best wishes.
I believe I am the Lori who won one of the bundles ??? but I didn’t see an email and I deleted my spam folder so I cannot check.
Good Sunday morning. I see a “Bonnie” was a winner. There are 2 of us and I am suspecting that this is the other Bonnie since i did not see an email to me.
Congratulations to all of the winners. This has been a good time here on Inspy. I will miss the posts, but I subscribe to so many newsletters from this group. So, I will keep up with you all.
Just want to say thank you once again. I pray often for the Lord’s guidance in your writing and your life. Thank care and God bless.
Congrats to all the winners, I hope you all enjoy your prizes <3
Thanks so much, Renate!!!
I’m sorry – it’s a different Lori! The winner of #3 has been contacted, and she’s claimed her prize.
Thanks for asking, Bonnie. The Bonnie who won #9 has been in touch and has received her prize.
I’m so glad we’ll continue to see you around. I am grateful for your prayers. (((hugs))))
I hope they do, too, Milica! Have a great week.
Beautiful pictures for us to enjoy, thank you Valerie!
Also thank you to all the wonderful authors who contributed to the prize packages, I certainly never expected to win a package, the anticipation is such fun though, and congratulations to all the other winners, I hope you enjoy your prizes. I was lucky enough to win a prize containing books from some of my favourite authors.
I will certainly miss the bright spot at the end of the day that the IR blog has been for me and so appreciate all the committment, work and time all of the authors have contributed to creating such a great blog. Thanks
Good morning and a Big Thank you to All the INSPY authors who contributed to all these Awesome giveaways! I am one of the Very Lucky winners and I Thank you all from the bottom of my Heart, you are all such Awesome and Great authors. Congratulations to all the other winners also! Thank you for sharing your awesome photos. And I agree spending time with grandchildren is the Best and being able to help our children is Always great also as them helping us out also and greatly appreciated. I love it when I spend quality time with my grandchildren , I have 3 grandchildren and 2 of them live in our same town, so I teach them their Catechism lessons and have been doing it for 10 years and I have really been enjoying it. Our grandaughter who is the oldest will be graduating from HS this May and she is still having her Catechism with me, I love spending this time with both of them, her brother , my grandson is in the 10th grade. May you have a great Sunday and a Great week. I Thank you all Inspy Authors for all that you have done for us and all you keep on doing for us. We will certainly stay in touch , Thank goodness for Social media. God Bless you all and your families.
As one of the lucky winners, thank you to all of the Inspy authors!!! Congratulations to the other winners, too! I LOVE your pictures!! You’re going to need to start posting some of them in your FB group, so we can keep enjoying them!!! You’re making the best memories with your grands!!!! My maternal grandparents passed away when I was four and five, so I have very vague memories of them, and I never knew my paternal grandmother. I do have memories of my paternal grandfather, though there aren’t many of those, either, as we didn’t live close to him and didn’t see him much when we’d go to visit other relatives. I found this blog thanks to Autumn MacArthur, about 8 or 9 years ago, and I’ve loved it every day since!! Looking forward to more books by ALL of you!!!
Thank you so much for your kind comments, and I hope you enjoy your prize :)
I hope you enjoy your prize, Alicia! Having grands nearby is amazing, isn’t it! Our son’s family (with a 11yo and a 2yo) lives right next door, and our daughter’s family (with a 14, a 12, and a 7) live less than two hours away… but in winter, with two mountain passes between, it seems a lot further!
Hope you have a great week.
Congrats, Trudy! And we’re so thankful you’ve been part of our community for so long. We have missed Autumn since she left us!
My dad’s parents passed away when he was young, and I only have a couple of vague memories of my mom’s dad, who died when I was about seven. My mom’s mom lived to 93, though, and enjoyed knowing my kids when they were young, so that was a treasure! I love being present in my grandkids’ lives.
Congratulations to all the winners!
That sounds a lovely time with your granddaughters Valerie. The snow on the road looks beautiful but I don’t envy you driving in it – we get so little snow here in the UK everything grinds to a halt when we do so I have no idea how to drive in snow.
A happy Sunday to you all.
Hey Ruthie! I can drive in snow but I don’t love it. It doesn’t faze my hubby at all!
Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you all for all your hard work in putting it together. God bless you.
Thanks, Debra! Hope you have a great week.
Thank you! What a blessing this blog has been!
Have a wonderful and fruitful week (in the Lord).
Congrats, Natalya! I hope you have a great week, too. :)