Hola, Jolene Navarro checking in from the Texas Hill Country. My latest book is out in the wild. The heroine, Belle De La Rosa, is a busy single mother that is working hard to hold the family ranch together. She also volunteers to help her community. Like many of us, she has responsibilities that pull […]
Sunday Edition 04-22-18
My family has officially moved to the Texas Hill Country. Granted, two-thirds of our belongings are still waiting in our previous house for the movers to load it up and bring it next weekend, but at least we’re here! We did bring two trailers worth of stuff ourselves, and we have nearly all of that […]
Celebrating a New Release
Good morning! I am officially ready for summer and all of the new summer reads. I even have one of my own to add to the collection of summer books releasing this years. An Encore for Estelle, book 2 in my Melodies of Love series is now available, and for a little while longer it […]
Take Me to the Beach! #giveaway Blown Together #eBook
My happy place is at the beach, so it made sense to me to set my fourth novel there.Walking along the sandy shores of Fort Morgan, Alabama, while a storm approached, the story fell together in my mind. A lonely (and quirky) romance writer who was the queen of bad dates lived in a little […]
Pets in Fiction plus Giveaway
Aren’t pets wonderful? How many of you fell in love with the dog, Barnabas, or the cat, Violet, in Jan Karon’s Mitford Series? I did. I could just picture the large dog pulling the pastor down the streets of Mitford. Or what about the vaporous dog, Friday, from Lisa Wingate’s The Story Keeper? Wasn’t he […]
A Story Takes Wing
After countless years, rewrites on top of rewrites, hopes raised then dashed then raised again, my childhood dream is about to take flight! Come early March, my first book will be released. (<insert cartwheel here!>) It’s had multiple names, multiple revisions, even multiple covers. It has made its way around contests, critique groups, and beta […]
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 […]
Nobody Warned Me
by: Staci Stallings When I first started writing Contemporary Christian Romance in 1996, nobody told me what a crazy, twisting road this journey would turn out to be. First of all, back then there was no such thing as Contemporary Christian Romance. It literally did not exist as a genre. I had been told to […]
The Great What If
Have you ever wondered how your life would be different IF you’d made a different choice here or there? If you’d bought that house instead of this one? Gone on a date with this guy instead of that one? What if you’d decided to go to a different college instead of the one you went […]
The Ultimate Surprise
Do you like to be surprised? If you’re like me, your answer is, “it depends.” I NEVER liked having my brothers jump out of the dark to scare me when we were growing up. I ALWAYS like finding money in coat pockets when the seasons change. I love getting a cheerful card in the mail […]