If you enjoy classic authors like Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, or Regency novels written by current-day authors, you’re invited to join a new Inspirational Regency Readers group on Facebook. Not sure what “Regency fiction” is? This refers to novels set in England during the years 1811-1820 (or thereabouts). Examples of current inspirational authors writing Regency novels would include me … [Read more...]

How are you connecting with others during current shelter-at-home orders? As a writer, I am accustomed to working from home and sometimes not leaving my house for several days in a row, but after all these weeks, even this introvert is getting lonely and eager to reconnect with others, and I imagine you are as well. Like many of you, we are attending church online. The sermons are excellent, … [Read more...]

If you feel like a castaway, stranded on a desert island about now, I can relate. I just turned in revisions to my editors today (whew!) for a novel I’ve been working long hours on, called, A Castaway in Cornwall. Hunkering down to work on rewrites during a quarantine wouldn’t have been so different from other years, as I am usually at home derriere-in-the-chair for weeks on end when deadlines … [Read more...]

During these serious times, I'm thankful for fun friends like Erica Vetsch, who dreamed up a creative promotion and invited me and Michelle Griep to participate with her. All three of us have written Regency-era novels and we all live in Minnesota. Getting together to film the video segments was so much fun! I hope you enjoy watching them (and I hope the three of us will be able to get together … [Read more...]

One of my favorite days of the year is visiting one of my favorite book clubs: Tantalizing Ladies Tea--A Christian Book Coterie. This is the group of women I fictionalized as the "Ladies Tea and Knitting Society" in my Tales From Ivy Hill series. They invited me to join them again last Friday, and again, it was such a blessing to be included! Best of all, we had a surprise visit from one of … [Read more...]