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Camy Tang snagged this cool meme from The Surrendered Scribe (thanks, Julie!). I’m stealing it from her 🙂 BTW, be sure to check out Camy’s review of Canteen Dreams! She called it one of the best historicals she’s read this year, and I didn’t even know she was reading it 🙂1. Do you remember how you developed a love for …

Ohmigosh! Canteen Dreams finaled!

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I just found out that Canteen Dreams finaled in the ACFW Book of the Year contest in the short historical category. Honestly, I am so honored. When I sent in the book, I hoped I might make the finalist list, but also tried to be realistic enough to recognize it was my first book and it would be up against …

Love Starts with Elle Trailer

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This made me smile. I loved the book, but this is the first time I’ve got to meet the star of a book I enjoyed. Go get this book, folks! What do you like in book trailers? What makes you want to go buy a book? I’m still trying to decide whether to make them for my books…but this one …

I’m back from Orlando

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Arrived home at midnight yesterday — hence no post, but here’s a glimpse of what Rebecca and I’ve been up to. Writing can be very solitary work. Think about all the hours that a writer spends in front of a computer crafting the words and story that a reader can inhale in a few hours. I belong to American Christian …

Orlando Living

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Since THursday I’ve been in Orlando with Rebecca attending a writer’s retreat. Now, I’d love to have photos to post, but what did I forget? Yep, my camera! Ever have times in your life where you look around and think: Wow, God, I’m not sure why I’m here, but thanks so much for the opportunity! That’s been the last 3 …

Chat with Melanie Wells

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I’m not familiar with this group, but thought some of you might be interested in this: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER AUTHOR TO CHATABOUT WHAT LIES BETWEEN THE LINES:Melanie Wells Joins Readers on Online Bookstore Chat WHO: Melanie Wells, author of the critically acclaimed Dylan Foster series – “When the Day of Evil Comes,” “The Soul Hunter” and the newly-released “My Soul to …

Wiser than Serpents Review & Author Contest

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Susan May Warren’s latest thriller Wiser than Serpents, is another page-turning, nail-biting, can’t-life-stop-until-I’m-done? kind of book. The third in the Mission:Russia series, this book from Steeple Hill stands completely on its own. Somehow I have book two but managed not to read it, yet didn’t feel like I missed anything that was important to this book. Yanna Andrevka infiltrates a …

Another Dream Comes True

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As a teenager — when most people want to meet movie stars — I wanted to hang out with authors. I get to do that for beyond anything I could have imagined. I literally have to pinch myself some days when I think about the people I admire that I have come to know and call friends. Well, today, I …

Interview with Christy Barritt

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Christy Barritt is a friend who has just seen her second book release. Suspicious Minds was a great read, as is this interview. So turn on some Elvis and kick back… This is your second book…was it hard coming back to the same main character? Why or why not? I actually loved coming back to the character of crime-scene cleaner …

Act Two: A Review

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Act Two: a Novel in Perfect Pitch is a delightful offering from Kimberly Stuart. This is the first of her books that I’ve read, though I’ve heard great things about her books. Particularly from a friend of mine who happens to be her agent. Any thoughts he was merely biased evaporated as I read this book. New Yorker Sadie Maddox …