How to Help Authors: Write Reviews

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Periodically, I’ll get to spend time with readers or developing writers. I absolutely love it. There’s something so fun about rediscovering books through the eyes of a book club. Or to talk about why they want to write with new writers. Often it will come up that they’d like to help and encourage their favorite authors, but they don’t always know how.

Making the Most of Book Fairs

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A couple weeks ago I shared some photos from SOKY, a book festival in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It’s an opportunity for readers to meet authors and discover new books. It’s also a great chance for writers to have fun together. Authors, have a bookfair coming up?@Cara_Putman shares tips for #authors & #readers. Click To Tweet Today, I thought I’d share …

Fiction Friday & Thank You!

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It’s Friday and that means I want to tell you about a book I’ve recently inhaled. But first a sidenote: how on earth is it already the 19th of May! I may be hyperventilating over here!

Okay. Deep breath. Back to Fiction Friday.

This week, that’s Fatal Mistake, a romantic suspense that released a couple books ago and was written by my friend Susan Sleeman. I’m very excited that as I’m telling you about Fatal Mistake (May 19), it’s on ebook sale for $4.99.

It’s a Summer Bookclub

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Last week I finished listening to Wild & Free by Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan. It’s a book I want to dive deeper into and when I mentioned that on Facebook many of you wanted to dive deeper, too. So here we go. It’s been a few years since we’ve done a study together. If you’ve never done with me, these are really low key. We’ll read a chapter or two a week depending on the length of those particular chapters. Then I’ll write a post designed to get us thinking and talking about what was covered.

Fiction Friday: a look at my TBR pile + Giveaway

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It’s Fiction Friday and I’ve been laboring under deadlines. A very good thing when you’re an author. But it means I haven’t read quite as much as I usually do. So I thought we’d have some fun today. Above is a photo of most of the book in my TBR pile. Since I will soon be past deadline on both books I’m working on, which book would you read first? Why?

Lost Chapters of Beyond Justice

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It has been so fun to read reader’s reactions to the characters and story in Beyond Justice. It’s also been wild to watch my kids enjoy the audio version…It’s a little scary to wait for your sixteen-year-old’s reaction to the words you slaved over. It’s also a little unnerving to begin to see what friends and readers think of the book. Some …

Summer Bookclub?

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So I have a question. Anyone interested in doing a book study with me this summer? Either Wild & Free or Galatians? If you are leave a comment below and I’ll start organizing the details. And if you like audio books like I do, you can buy the ebook for $1.99 (as of 5/4), and add the WhisperSync for about $4.