Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome Tony Santoro to Inspy Romance! I’ve known Tony for a long time, since about 2011 in Real World Time™, which is about twelve years ago in Story World Time ™. He was a gangly, mouthy teenager back then, but he’s turned into a fine man. Valerie: Hi, Tony. […]
Pandemic Romance Plots
As I type this, things are slowly opening up in Ohio. I went to the post office yesterday to mail a book and discovered a new normal. Everyone in line practiced social distancing. Everyone in the customer line wore masks. A sheet of plexiglass hung from the ceiling, creating a barrier between the customer and […]
An Informal Arrangement #newrelease & #giveaway
I’m super excited to share my new release with y’all today. An Informal Arrangement (book 2 in the Informal Romance series) came out earlier this month, and what a busy month it’s been! Book #1 (An Informal Christmas) got a new cover to match the rest of the series. Book #3 (An Informal Introduction) […]
Never Imagined, Part 4, a #serial
At long last – the fourth and final installment of “Never Imagined.” I can’t thank you enough for staying with me through this story. If you need to catch up, you can read part one, part two, and part three here. Home from work, Pamela stepped down into the sunken living room of her modest cottage-style […]
Never Imagined, Part 2, a #serial
Hey all! I’m back with the second installment of “Never Imagined.” If you’d like to read the first part of the story before you dig in, you can do that here. And remember – up through October 10th, all blog comments enter you in our 2015 Fall Giveaway, which has lots of delicious goodies from […]
First Impressions by Merrillee Whren
Everyone of us gets an impression of a person when we meet them for the first time. That impression might be good or it might be bad. The heroine of my latest book, Nursing the Soldier’s Heart, which the second book in my Village of Hope series and is on sale now, forms a first […]