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What’s Your Name? What’s Your Story?

May 27, 2021 by Merrillee Whren

Characters are the most important element in the story for me as a writer and a reader. So getting to know my characters tops the list. Often the actually writing helps me know my characters. I know some writers interview the characters to learn about them, but that doesn’t work for me because I am […]

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Quiz: Could You be a Heroine in a Romance Novel?

May 12, 2021 by Angela Ruth Strong

It’s wedding season! I love hearing all the stories of how couples got together. It inspires me to write better because, really, there are a lot of overused tropes out there. I’ve overused them myself. Though I’m happily married, and I feel like my love story would make good fodder, do I really have what […]

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Revisiting Characters

March 2, 2021 by Shannon Taylor Vannatter

  A Texas Bond, book three in my Texas Hill Country series, officially released last week. It was inspired partly by my husband and I dabbling in flea marketing after shopping them for years. The picture I included is the booth we had full of items we created or repurposed. It was fun fitting our […]

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Bring in the Sidekick + Giveaway

May 22, 2020 by Andrea Boyd

It may surprise some of you to know that the character I consider my most important to date is not one of my main characters. It’s Sheba Burris from Love’s Redemption. She’s a former alcoholic who works in a mid-grade restaurant. At first glance, she seems low key, but Sheba supports the lead female character […]

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It’s Complicated… (interesting characters usually are) + cover reveal

February 11, 2020 by Jaycee Weaver

If you’ve been on social media at any point in the last decade, you’ve probably noticed at least one of your “friends” with the relationship status It’s Complicated. The phrase has filtered its way into our culture in all sorts of ways—movie titles, song lyrics, book themes, mindsets. It’s complicated isn’t always a response we’d […]

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Character Interviews by Merrillee Whren

January 27, 2020 by Merrillee Whren

Today we have Brittany Gorman and Parker Watson from A MATCH TO CALL OURS, the newly crowned book #1 in my Front Porch Promises series, as our guests on the blog. Interviewer: Hi, Brittany, I’m so glad you could join us. Brittany: Thanks for having me. It’s not every day that I’m featured on a […]

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The Psychology of Getting to Know Characters

December 16, 2019 by Staci Stallings

by: Staci Stallings So, my blog this month stems from a couple of questions I got from my Facebook group, Staci’s FAN-tastic Readers, The first comes from Christina Jay: “Maybe not much of a question, and it’s something you’ve talked about a bit here but you have really dug deep into psychology with the Imagination […]

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Quirky Characters & Wounded Souls

August 9, 2018 by Shannon Taylor Vannatter

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 […]

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Judging a Book by its Cover (+ A Cover Reveal & #Giveaway)

June 11, 2018 by Liwen Ho

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 […]

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New Release! Giveaway! Magnolia Storms-Ship Pilot Heroes

September 9, 2017 by Janet W Ferguson

New Release! 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 […]

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