Movie Premieres and Book Signings, oh my!

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I often talk about how writing is a hard career for an extrovert. So often my writing is done in front of a computer and I wait for electronic feedback from my agent, editors, friends, readers. It can feel solitary because the face to face contact usually comes once a year at ACFW. This past weekend, my daughter and I …

Shadowed by Grace in FIRST Magazine

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Many times along this writing journey I have been surprised by God making a way where there is no way. This week that happened yet again, when I found a review of Shadowed by Grace in First for women. My wonderful publicist, Jeane Wynn, worked for months with an editor at First, hoping to find a novel that would interest …

Recipe for Romance Fun

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In my Rainbow’s End novellas, Love’s Prize, I have the hero popping over to the heroine’s condo for many meals. The hero Colton Ryan, heroine Reagan Graham and her brother Scott spend the summer participating in a geo-caching competition. One thing Reagan doesn’t know about the hero is that Colton loves to cook. So he steals every opportunity he can to …

A Day in the Life

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Sometimes it’s fun to step behind the curtain and see what life is really like in Oz — err — Putman mayhem. It also helps everyone to see just how insanely normal the life of this writing mom is.  7 a.m. Wake up thanks to the 2 y.o., but played possum as much as possible until 8. Not easy with …

Let’s have some fun!

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I saw this on Melissa Tagg’s blog and had to steal it.  If you want to play along, the rules of being tagged are simple: answer the questions provided and then tag 11 others. 1. Book or movie and why? I adore books, but I also LOVE classic movies (Melissa and I agree on this). My definition of classic primarily means …