Fathers are so important, but what happens if someone doesn’t have that paternal figure, due to death or desertion? All kinds of fatherly back stories find their way into my novels from deceased one of Sarah Beth in Leaving Oxford to the terrible paternal background of Dylan Conner in Going Up South, to the wonderful country-talking […]
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 […]
Is it Inspirational or is it Romance?
My first book will be coming out in February (yes, I’m thrilled!), and I’m in the midst of cover design, edits, setting up marketing (okay, trying to understand marketing), etc. As writers, we hear over and over – know your audience, know your genre, know your story. So while Shattered Image definitely falls in the […]