These past couple of weeks I’ve spent a whole bunch of time on the road. My husband and I drove from Minnesota to Tampa, Florida, to watch our son graduate college (yay!) and to bring him home. Two days driving down, two days in Tampa packing his belongings and attending the graduation ceremony, and two […]
A Tuscan Legacy in Rios Azules, Texas, plus Excerpt and #Giveaway
We’ve traveled to Tuscany a lot at Inspy Romance lately with A Tuscan Legacy series, but why break tradition of giveaways and excerpts? Besides, I’m thrilled to share my contribution to the series with readers. As I feel at home at Inspy, I’d love for you to help me celebrate my new release, Rapsodia. Rapsodia […]
Up, Up, and Away + #giveaway
Eek! In twelve days time I’ll have my bags packed (I hope), and I’ll be getting ready to leave for the airport. Yes, I’m off again…my annual overseas trip—long may they last. This time though, I’m not going to the usual places like the UK, Finland, Hungary. This time I’m heading in totally the opposite […]
Fun and Folly in Foreign Travel by Merrillee Whren
This is the third year in a row in which my husband and I have taken a trip overseas, this time to Spain and Portugal with a day-trip to Morocco thrown in. The flight from Boston to London Heathrow begins with a cool photo from the plane. I’m going to share some of the fun […]
What a Week! (and how to grab 15 romances for free)
Some weeks pass by in a slow hum-drum, feeling as if they’ll never end. Others whiz by in a flurry of activity, appointments, engagements—and when they’re over, you wonder where they went. This week’s a pretty big one for me! It commenced with the most important day in the Christian calendar, the culmination of the […]
A Peek into a Writer’s Conference
By the time you read this I will have returned home, but today I am writing this post in a bit of a rush because I’m packing to leave for the American Christian Fiction Writers national conference in Nashville. I’m the world’s most introverted person and am seriously hearing impaired, so conferences take a lot […]
Stereotypes by Merrillee Whren
In recent posts, I’ve been sharing some of the photos from trips I have taken. I’m going to do the same today with a little different perspective. As writers who create the characters in our stories, we are warned not to make our characters too stereotypical. We want them to be what they call three-dimensional. […]
A Cambridge summer – punting, picnics, and happy-ever-afters?
Valerie gave me a hard act to follow with her wonderful post about her story in the Whispers of Love boxed set. Sadly, my story has no goats! It does though, have Cambridge, the beautiful and historic university city where my husband and I spent many hours together in our dating days. For a long time, I’ve wanted […]
Lessons Learned (The Story of the Empty Suitcase)
One of the most terrifying, yet ultimately funny, things happened as we arrived at the airport early one morning in Louisville, Kentucky, last January—final destination San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jim pulled the suitcases from the trunk of the car and my daughter, Chelsea (who’d driven us to the airport), set my suitcase on the sidewalk […]
Different Customs and Cultures by Merrillee Whren
I’ve been blessed to have traveled to all fifty states in the USA and over twenty foreign countries. All of these place have their own cultures, which often includes different kinds of food. Here is a photo of some delicious Spaetzle, a dish popular in Germany and Austria. You’ll also notice an empty bottle of […]