Booksigning Tomorrow!

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I am so excited! My first booksigning is tomorrow, Saturday, December 1st. If you’re in the area, please join Colleen Coble, Brandt Dodson, Jamie Carie, Denise Hunter and me for the signing. It will be from 1-3 p.m. at Carpenter’s Son, 1165 S. Creasy Lane, Lafayette, IN. I’ll be sure to post photos, etc. next week. Have a wonderful weekend!

Kim Sawyer Interview

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I am delighted to have my fried Kim Sawyer join us for an interview. She’s a talented writer, who quickly pulls readers into her settings. Kim, you live in Kansas and your books are set there. How do you find your ideas for the books?To be honest, more often than not, the ideas find me. Inspiration strikes, and the story …

Win Canteen Dreams

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Check out Michelle Sutton’s Blog for another chance to win. She’ll post a review soon, but here are her initial thoughts: If you enjoy historical fiction you will love this book. It’s interesting, has great tension between the hero and heroine, and occurs in a fabulous setting. I’m enjoying this story immensely and if I hadn’t been working on my …

Review: Finding Father Christmas

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I don’t often read novellas, because most don’t have enough going on to keep me interested. However, Robin Jones Gunn crafts a wonderful tale with Finding Father Christmas. Miranda Carson travels to England one Christmas to find the father she’s never known. As this tale begins, she enters the Tea Cosy on Christmas Eve. She’s already questioning her decision to …

Reviews: Bygones & Beginnings by Kim Sawyer

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Can I admit that Bygones sat on my shelf for six months. I wanted to read it, but I was afraid I would be unable to get into a story about the collision of old and new with the Mennonite thread. Yet from the moment I picked up this book till I finished it the next day, I could not …

Preparing for Christmas

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We made it home late last night from our Thanksgiving trek. We added a weekend away to the trip, and it’s really good to be home. Today we’ll put up Christmas trees. It was do it today or not at all…and that just didn’t seem right. So as we begin to prepare for Christmas, what are some of your favorite …

Thankful Hearts: Day Four

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I’ve spent this week blogging and thinking about the different ways that I have been blessed. So many of them are truly good ways…and yesterday I shared some of the hard things. So here, in no particular order, is the rest of the list until I can think of more LOL… A husband who loves imperfect me…and no one knows …

Thankful Hearts — Day Three

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A quick aside…I have to tell you that if you’re looking for great odds to win my book, go to Sabrina’s blog. Right now, if you enter, you’ll be the only one who doesn’t already have the book. So hie thee to her blog, ASAP! You just might get to give thanks for winning a great book! ————– Thankful Through …

Thankful Hearts: Day Two

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First, Camy Tang has a fresh interview with me up on her blog. Camy is a delightful gal who writes great chick lit romances. I LOVED Sushi for One, and am tickled to be over on her site. We’re giving away a copy of the book, so be sure to hop on over. ——— There’s a Veggie Tales song about …

The Winners are…

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The winners of Try Dying are: Nora St. LaurentDawn Thomason andNancy. The winner of Splitting Harriet is: Janna Ryan. Congratulations, ladies! Please contact me by November 21st to receive your books.