When Characters Travel: Central America When I started writing Leaving Oxford, a character in the story wanted to start a medical clinic in Honduras. Then, in Going Up South, a group of characters travel there for a mission trip. Tackling the Fields begins immediately afterward. I interviewed so many people about their trips to the […]
Real Life Novel Settings: Oxford, Mississippi #Giveaway
Hello Inspy Readers! I’d thought I’d spend a few of my post talking about my real-life novel settings, starting with my first novel Leaving Oxford. Oxford, Mississippi, is a small college town in Northern Mississippi hills about three hours from where I live. I spent time going to school there way back in the 80s. […]
Bad Boy Turned Hero Stories and a Favorite Inspirational Romance in 2020
Bad Boy Turned Hero Stories and a Favorite Inspirational Romance in 2020! As I was looking over the novels I read this year, I decided Kara Isaac’s Start With Me was my favorite contemporary Christian romance I’d read in 2020. I love how Victor was trying to turn his life around. Here’s a little about […]
Sneak Peek Chapter 1 For the Love of Joy!
Hello InspyRomance Readers! We are less than a month away from the release of For the Love of Joy! I wanted to offer you a sneak peek of the romantic comedy. You’ll see this novel has a very Southern flavor–okay, all of my novels do, but this one even more so! The heroine is not […]
A Month of Christmas Books! + Giveaway
I have a thing for calendars. There, I’ve admitted it. I love them. I remember buying my grandmother one for Christmas every year, taking care to choose one with pictures sure to put a smile on her face (usually filled with lots of cats). As an adult, I buy a wide-box calendar for my fridge […]
New Release! Preorder For the Love of Joy!
New Release! Preorder For the Love of Joy! Hi y’all! I’ve finally finished the romantic comedy For the Love of Joy! When I started writing in January, I had no idea it was going to be such a weird year with floods, diseases, hurricanes, and politics. Yet, God’s still in control, and maybe some of […]
Modern Hero and Heroine Careers
Modern Hero and Heroine Careers People often ask me how I come up with ideas, and if I have to do a lot of research for my novels. Normally, an idea springs from some small thing I hear someone say, a news story I read, or a person I talk to with a certain career. […]
Diseases in Fiction with Janet W. Ferguson
Diseases in Fiction with Janet W. Ferguson Bad things happen in life. Fictional stories would be pretty boring if nothing bad ever happened there too. I like fiction that leaves me with a good feeling at the end, though. So, in my stories, people have accidents or injuries or fires or hurricanes—you name it—that affect […]
Meet Maggie Montgomery
We at Christian Ereader News would like to welcome Maggie Montgomery. Maggie is the new nanny for billionaire Conrad Ayers’ children. CEN: Thanks for coming today, Maggie. Maggie: Thank you for having me. CEN: Tell us a little about your new job. Maggie: Oh, well, my new job is great. It is. I look after […]
Are You in a Book Club?
I’ve been in a local Christian fiction book club for many years—-before I ever thought of writing a novel. Many years ago (maybe 20 years!), a young mother discovered Christian fiction. The books she read impacted her faith so much she started a book club. She felt that God had used those stories to draw her […]