By Carolyn Miller Today I am talking about What Makes a Strong Heroine? It takes a special kind of woman to cope with all the flak, so it was interesting to consider what kind of qualities a woman might need to deal with situations where she could face anything from misogynistic remarks to having hot …
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Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese. Here’s the book description: Three friends. Two broken promises. One missing manuscript. As a senior acquisitions editor for Fog Harbor Books in San Francisco, Ingrid Erikson has rejected many a manuscript for lack of defined conflict and dramatic …
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Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for A Season to Dance – the debut novel from Patricia Beal. I’m sharing the story behind the story of my experience from reading this book a few years ago. Happy Book Birthday next week for A Season to Dance – a May 2017 release! Book …
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Narelle here. I’m excited to introduce my upcoming release – Her Cowboy Blind Date – in the Easter in Gilead contemporary Christian romance (CCR) series. I’ve always wanted to write a romance story with a cowboy hero. The opportunity to join a group project with a few of my American author friends included a small …
Narelle here. Today for Fiction Friday we’re traveling through Ireland via Star Rising (A Coastal Hearts Novel Book 3) by Janet W. Ferguson. Book Description: Star Youngblood has always been a fighter–a necessity after her mother married a monster of a man. Now, she’s finally on the path to the stable life she’s always wanted. Her …
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By Carolyn Miller Christmas. Yes, it’s now just over five weeks away. I haven’t bought many of my presents yet, so there’s a job for December. I did buy an emergency ‘turducken’ (one of those combo turkey / duck / chicken roasts) this week, just in case we need to have Christmas here again this …
Today I’m sharing my book recommendation for Melissa Tagg’s wonderful new release, A Seaside Wonder. It’s the second book in Melissa’s Muir Harbor contemporary romantic mystery series set in Maine. Here’s the Book Description: In one evening, Indi’s world falls apart. Enter the shy professor her family mistakes for her fiancé…make that ex-fiancé. Professor Philip …
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By Meredith Resce For many years (24 to be exact) I have written Christian fiction based mostly in Australia. I’m Australian, so it makes sense to write what you know, or at least where you know. I had a short adventure living in the UK for a year in 2008, and during that time I …
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By Carolyn Miller I’ll forever be grateful to Narelle Atkins for talking at an Omega conference in 2015 about the value of writing in a series. When I heard this, I’d just finished writing my third historical (Winning Miss Winthrop), and was primed to write a sequel to this as a NaNoWriMo project in November …
By Carolyn Miller I recently posted in a Facebook group a question that I’ve been pondering for a while now. Does it bother you as (presumably) a Christian reader to read about Christian characters pursuing relationships when they don’t know if the other person is a Christian or not? I recently read a contemporary novel …
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