Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to be a writer and tell my own stories. With the release of Someone Found, my third novel and fifth published book, earlier this month, I’ve been feeling very reflective. I am nowhere close to figuring things out. However, now that I’ve got several years of storytelling under […]
The Twelve Edits of Christmas
I know better than to schedule deadlines in December. The holidays have enough stress without trying to finish a book. But this year I’m actually having fun with it. My editor Christina and I met at our first writer’s conference almost fifteen years ago. She’s taught me as much about life as she has about […]
10 Fun Facts About My Upcoming Romantic Comedy
In Husband Auditions, Meri Newberg is the last of her friends to remain single, so she jokingly agrees to try a ridiculous list of ways to find a spouse that was published in a 1950’s magazine article. Confirmed bachelor Kai Kamaka suggests he film her attempts for a YouTube show so he can make […]
Twenty-Twenty Hindsight
Do you have twenty-twenty hindsight that makes you look at your own life and circumstances more critically than usual? Do you think of questions that begin with any of these starters? It would be easier now if I had… Things would be different now if we were… I wish I never did… Those things crossed […]
Strolling through Savannah (with #Giveaway)
Have you ever been to Savannah and Tybee Island on the Atlantic coast of Georgia, USA? These two romantic southern towns are the settings for my Savannah Sweethearts series of 11 books. Some of my readers have commented and asked me about these places, so I thought it would be fun to talk about them […]
A Fiction Writer… Researches
Way back in the 1980s (remember those days?) Bodie Thoene came onto the Christian fiction scene with her Zion Covenant and Zion Chronicle series, detailing pre-WWII Europe and post-WWII Israel. I fell in love with those books. With Murphy and Elisa. With David and Ellie. I’m sure a lot of you remember those books and […]