I’m honored to host my guest, Tara Johnson today. We’re members of American Christian Fiction Writers Arkansas, so we see each other several times a year at meetings and once circled Dallas repeatedly trying to get to the ACFW conference. Here’s Tara: Quirky Characters and Wounded Souls by Tara Johnson Barney Fife. Scarlett O’Hara. Inigo […]
Judging a Book by its Cover (+ A Cover Reveal & #Giveaway)
As a reader, I pay a lot of attention to a book’s cover. I can usually tell from the image and the title’s font whether the story will be lighthearted, mysterious, funny or deep. A cover that captures my attention at first glance is often all it takes for me to click on the book’s […]
New Release! Giveaway! Magnolia Storms-Ship Pilot Heroes
I’m excited to tell you about my new novel releasing September 15th called Magnolia Storms! And, of course, I can’t wait for you to meet the hero of the story, Josh Bergeron! While researching the port of Mobile for my last novel Blown Together, I learned about ship piloting. I didn’t really know what that […]
Bittersweet: Oxymoronism at its Best
Bittersweet. It’s one of those newfangled compound words. Ha. Okay. Compound words have been around since Biblical times, so I guess they can’t be that newfangled. ^_^ It’s also an oxymoron. Bitter and sweet. Those two words don’t seem like they should go together, right? When I bite into something bitter, my taste buds shudder […]
Francine Rivers Interview! When Authors Fangirl! Heroines of the Faith!
I admit to being a fangirl when it comes to certain authors, and Francine Rivers is at the top of my list. At the ACFW Conference in 2015, I tried not to stare and grin at her too often, but finally, when she was sitting only a table away, I could no longer contain myself […]
It Takes a Village … of Characters
Here at Inspy Romance we write contemporary Christian romance. We love contemporary Christian romance. In fact, we love people who read contemporary Christian romance. We also kind of like our characters, too. Heroes, heroines, extended family, children, friends, and even strangers on the street who drop a sage word of advice in passing. Characters make fiction come […]
The personal side of research
We have about a dozen horses on our farm that my husband has gathered over the years. Most of them have come here as colts that he bought. A few of them were born on our farm. The one thing they have in common is that my husband, with the help of a farrier a neighbour […]
Cancer Awareness by Merrillee Whren
October is breast cancer awareness month. If you’ve been watching closely you may have seen many people wearing pink. On TV you see newscasters and political candidates sporting pink ties or pink ribbons. Football players are decked out in pink—everything from pink sweatbands to pink shoes. Everyone wants to bring awareness about the fight against […]
Movie Star Cast
Hi! Deb Kastner here. One of the questions I’m often asked as an author is how my cover is made. At Harlequin they use what is called an Art Fact Sheet, which is several pages of details regarding characters, plot and themes, as well as three scene suggestions, all of which they may or may […]
Meet Jason Thompson from Kelly’s Charm
Kelly’s Charm is the first novella in my Seasons of Charm collection. It’s been so fun to re-visit the characters from Love Finds You in Charm, Ohio. If you read or watched Love Finds You in Charm, you already are familiar with Kelly Bennett, so today I want to introduce you to Jason Thompson. One […]