Ever have a day (week? month? year?) when Murphy’s law kicks in? Everything that could possibly go wrong… just did. Sure, there might’ve been a pleasant moment or two in there as well, but it seems those were only in there to get your hopes up so they could be crushed again! As much as […]
How Fat is Too Fat?
Women come in all shapes and sizes, right? Right. And women say they prefer to read about real women, not heroines who are movie-star glamorous with slender (but perfect) curves, and long, shapely legs the hero can’t keep his eyes off of. Those legs were a recurring theme in a romance I read recently! Women […]
Hello — My name is Kassidy #giveaway
Hi, everyone! I’m Kassidy North, and I’m blogging here today for my author, Valerie Comer. She figures I owe her the favor because she’s been working on my happily-ever-after for over four years. I didn’t know I needed one. A happily-ever-after, I mean. Also, she says she’s too busy to blog. Like I have all […]
What does Flavors of Forever even mean?
Does eternity have a taste, let alone multiple ones? Is infinity the same thing as forever? Are everlasting and eternal synonyms? These are the questions that wake me up at five in the morning — trust me, it’s not my alarm clock. I prefer to not even know that there is such a thing as […]
A Fan Visits Bridgeview
Today I’m handing the mic… er, the keyboard!… over to the woman who is probably my Number 1 fan, Paula Marie. So I have been a huge fan of Valerie Comer’s books for a long time, and I fell in love with Green Acres, but now that the Urban Farm Fresh series has grown so […]
The Wedding Quiz… and #giveaway
Oh, my! What a lot of weddings! Wishes on Wildflowers released a week or two ago. It’s the fourth book in my Urban Farm Fresh Romance series, and suddenly it was time for ALL THREE of the other weddings to actually happen! I’d done some chronological overlapping, with Secrets of Sunbeams (Eden and Jacob’s story […]
He Loves Her… He Loves Her Not #giveaway
Did you ever sit amid a field of flowers, plucking petals while murmuring, “He loves me… he loves me not…”? Jasmine Santoro was once that kind of romantic. She’d fallen in love with Nathan Hamelin back in high school, and she could glance at a wildflower and know whether to start with “he loves me” […]
Like to Talk Books?
You know that book you read that you adored, and you really wanted to talk to someone about it? Maybe you got some of your friends to read it just so you could compare notes. Maybe you suggested the title to your local book club… Oh. Wait. You don’t have a local book club? I […]
Interview with Myles Sheridan – and #giveaway!
Valerie: Hi Myles! Great to have you at Inspy Romance today. Myles: Great to be here. I think. Valerie: What made you decide to go for a position teaching first and second grade at Bridgeview Elementary School here in Spokane? Myles: Well, I like younger children. They’re not as jaded as the older ones. I […]
When Readers Speak
One of the perks of being an author is getting reader emails. We love to hear from you! About two and a half years ago, I wrote a short story called Peppermint Kisses. You were offered this story if you joined my email list. Thousands of people have read it. Dozens have emailed me asking […]