I'm currently in Nashville! For the third year in a row, I've journeyed to The Athens of the South aka Nashvegas aka The Buckle of the Bible Belt aka Music City USA in November in order to participate in the Art of Writing Conference and the Christy Awards. His Highness and I arrived on Tuesday and that night I attended a dinner for Bethany House employees, authors, and authors' spouses. … [Read more...]

I wish that the process of writing a book was as serene, latte-filled, and creatively delightful as it seems like it should be! I'm pulling back the curtain today, reader friends, and giving you a glimpse at what's truly happening in a writer's mind and heart during the four stages of the process. Stage 1: Pre-writing "A new story! It's so shiny. So sparkly." "I love these characters!" … [Read more...]

It's cover reveal day for Stay with Me, book #1 in my upcoming Misty River Romance series! After I finished writing my Bradford Sisters series in June of 2018, I began casting around for inspiration for a new series. I'd just finished two family series in a row and I wanted to find a way to link the series characters in a new and different way. Around that time, a young soccer team was … [Read more...]

After our oldest daughter moved out last month to attend college, my teenage son lobbied to move into her old bedroom. (That bedroom is the most popular kid real estate in the house because it has its own bathroom and he'd long been sharing a bathroom with little sister.) Little sister had her eye on brother's old bedroom. And I had my eye on little sister's old bedroom as a guest bedroom and … [Read more...]

Our family reached a huge milestone a few weeks ago. We moved our oldest daughter into her freshman dorm room at college! If you've been following my blog posts for awhile, you might know that I grew up in Riverside, California, then raised my own children in Dallas, Texas. Our family has taken frequent trips to California to visit my relatives. Thus, I wasn't surprised when my daughter … [Read more...]