It's my pleasure to welcome author Catherine West back to Inspired by Life and Fiction!  I'm endlessly fascinated by the inspiration God uses to guide each author to the story He has for her to tell.  Today, Catherine's going to share with us how He inspired her new release.  Stay tuned at the end of this post for a giveaway of chocolate, tea, and a book (a winning combination)! … [Read more...]

It's both fun and comforting to interact with people who share your love of reading, isn't it?  Many of us are involved in a local book club.  Many of us congregate with like-minded readers via Facebook groups or Twitter, Instagram, and the like.  And perhaps a few of us have had the opportunity to attend a large-scale event for readers. I thought I'd take this post to list some of the … [Read more...]

The last time I blogged I mentioned a "top secret writing project that I’d been working on."  I'm back this week to tell you about that now-not-so-secret project. Are you familiar with the term "epistolary"? I wasn't, until I attended a writer's conference and heard Daisy Hutton, Fiction Publisher at Thomas Nelson, use the term. It sounded so intelligent and literary and biblical that I've … [Read more...]

I'm a huge fan of BBC productions!  In fact, Nora, the heroine of my upcoming book True to You, has a passion for British movies and mini series and television shows that was inspired by my own enthusiasm for the same. After completing Downton Abbey and season #1 of The Crown, I've been indulging my BBC love with Netflix episodes of Call the Midwife.  But then I heard that PBS was airing a … [Read more...]

Those of us who write the stories that sit between the front and back covers of books are artists.  But so are the people who design the front and back covers of books.  Don't you agree? I'm endlessly interested in covers!  A good book cover is a thing of beauty and tricky to achieve because it has to accomplish several things simultaneously.  To me, a book cover should: Communicate the … [Read more...]