Today marks 19 years since I walked down the aisle and said “I do” to the man of my dreams. I was a whole whoppin’ 18 years old, but y’all. My heart was head-over-heels. So today, I thought I’d share a few tips for lasting 19 years and being more in love than ever before. […]
Once Upon A Laugh – 8 Novellas, 1 (wildly) Wonderful Sample!
It’s here!! Book releases are SO much fun… all the hours and hours and hours (and hours)… (and more hours…) of endless writing, sleepless nights, wrestling with characters, editing until your eyes feel like they will shrivel up and die, all culminate into fruition because it’s done. Book is out there for people to love, […]
Romantic Comedy: Is it all just a bunch of fluff?
Hello. My name is Krista Phillips, and I write non-fluffy romantic comedy. I know… what? There IS such a thing? How can that possibly be? For those who may not know it exists, I thought I’d enlighten you today! I like to say I write filled-cupcake fiction. Fluffy (fun) on the outside, but when you […]
First Love
I was looking for inspiration when I read Krista’s post about Will and Hanna from The Engagement Plot. She mentioned the sparks and conflict between them, and how it made for characters close to her heart. I started my new romance, Anchored, and I think I need to start over because I’m just not feeling […]
The Engagement Plot – The making of and an excerpt
Y’all. This is the week. The Engagement Plot officially releases on Wednesday, November 1st. Of course, Amazon started mailing books over a week ago and even published the ebook a little early, but no matter. Wednesday is still my day of celebrating since that’s when all the other retailers will release it. (Feel free to […]
Fall Romance + a Gift Card #Giveaway
Falling For You is here! Have you gotten your copy yet? Six brand-new fall-themed romance novellas for only 99 cents. Yay! I’m going to share a mini-blurb for the other five novellas in the set, and then I’ll give you the full blurb and an excerpt for An Informal Date, my contribution to Falling […]
The Christmas Eve Kiss
My hubby and I had an odd “courtship” if you want to call it that. We met, uh, online. Like, not match.com or anything like that. No, we did it old school. We met in a chatroom back when they were cool. It was July 1998. I lived in Northern Minnesota and he lived in […]
Novella: A Little Side Dish!
We’re all here… reading this blog…. because we have presumably two things in common. 1.) We like romance. (insert happy sigh….) 2.) We like to READ! So today I thought we’d have a little book chat! I released my second book last month, A Side of Faith. I’m super excited as it is a new […]