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Let’s Talk About Pets! {Giveaway}

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Inspired by Life and Fiction readers, please extend a very warm welcome to my friend Jill Kemerer!  Jill has stopped by today to chat about a subject near and dear to many of our hearts -- pets.  While she's here she's generously offering a pet-inspired giveaway!  Thanks so much for joining us today, Jill.  - Becky Every day when I log into Facebook, I can’t wait to see pictures of … [Read more...]

It’s Deadline Time: Deadly Justice

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Right now I'm racing to deadline on book three in the Hidden Justice series. The book is due on November 1st. I'll make the deadline, but it may be at 11:59 p.m. I have a way of pushing these to the last moment, and then sneaking in under the deadline. So I thought I'd give you some background on what that's looked like over the last month. How exactly did Jaime's story get to the point where … [Read more...]

Gratitude Documented Challenge

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November is nearly upon us, and this year I plan to document my gratitude in my faith planner (with an occasional excursion into my journaling Bible). My goal is to every day write down at least one thing for which I am thankful. I have been using my faith planner for daily Scripture writing (see large version of example at left here), but I decided to take a break from that for the 30 days … [Read more...]

Unplugging for Productivity

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Confession time. I love the online world. Working at home alone as I primarily do, social media offers me a way to pause and “have a cup of coffee with friends” in the comfort of my own home (and sometimes in my pajamas :) ) either here on the blog, or on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. But the truth is, chatting on Facebook is a lot easier than writing a book. And as much as I enjoy … [Read more...]

Special Delivery (and a giveaway!)

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[UPDATE: AND THE WINNER OF Right Where We Belong IS: Kim P! See my note at the end of the comments for instructions on how to get your book. Thanks, everyone, for the great comments!] A few years ago I was invited to write a short-short romantic story for a little magazine called Splickety. (Only 1000 words! Flash fiction, it's called.) I had such fun with that story—even though writing short … [Read more...]

Cover Reveal!

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Falling for You is scheduled to release on May 1st, but I have the pleasure of revealing its cover to you today! This particular story stars model (and eldest sister) Willow Bradford and retired quarterback Corbin Stewart.  Eagle-eyed readers of my Porter Family series might have noticed that Corbin was first introduced in Her One and Only as the hero's friend and teammate.  Midway through the … [Read more...]

For the Love of Libraries

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Most book lovers get their start in a library. Perhaps for you it was the library at your elementary school or the public library down the street. I avidly remember taking my library card to my local public library and checking out a stack of ten books at a time, the maximum I was allowed. I would bring home books from beloved series such as Encyclopedia Brown, Little House on the Prairie, … [Read more...]

Christmas is just around the corner!

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I know, Halloween and Thanksgiving have to come first and then we celebrate Christmas. This is always a very special time of year for those of us who celebrate the birth of Christ. But there is a commercial side of Christmas and publishers like that, too. Christmas stories are all the rage in women's fiction and romance. So I thought I'd get a jump start on tooting my Christmas horn since I have … [Read more...]

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