Hi friends and happy Monday! I'm super excited to have my friend and fellow author, Kelly Goshorn, back today. I know you'll love her post. Kelly is graciously giving away a copy of Across the Shores novella collection to a U.S. resident only. To enter, just drop a comment below.  Rabbit trails. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent researching for my historical novels, but I can tell … [Read more...]

Hello! I'm Christen Krumm, author of the new Sunrise novel, On the Golden Cliffs. I'm really excited to be here with Inspired by Life and Fiction! While writing On the Golden Cliffs, my family and I lived in both a two-bedroom apartment as well as a 250-foot RV (after we moved out of said apartment due to a pipe bursting and the apartment flooding). Being in small spaces with three kids between … [Read more...]

Happy Wednesday, friends!  I’ll be speaking at a women’s ministry event this Spring and the talk focuses on the power of storytelling and words in particular. In preparing for the talk, it got me thinking about why I love fiction, and Christian fiction in particular, and for me, it came down to words. Words such as redemption, forgiveness, faithfulness, and my personal … [Read more...]

Hi friends and Happy Wednesday! Have you ever noticed when you really need life to go smoothly, it often turns upside-down? I was recently on a deadline. My final week was filled with sixteen-hour days, copious amounts of coffee, and truly frightening deadline hair as my family has fairly dubbed it. The tighter the deadline, the scarier the updo hair. It was during this week that the first of … [Read more...]

Hi friends and happy Wednesday! I always look forward to my days spent withyou. I love reading a good mystery and I love writing romantic suspense because itcombines two things I adore—the twists and turns of a thriller and the happy-ever-after of a romance. I love reading and writing both, but in real life, I don’tknow about you, but I’m not the biggest fan of suspense. To be brutally honest,I … [Read more...]