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Pinterest War Wrap Up

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For the past month, I've been busy battling my author friend Katie Ganshert in weekly Pinterest Challenges. We've been holding our Pinterest Wars biannually since 2013.  For 4-6 weeks each spring and fall, we find a challenge on Pinterest and announce it on Facebook and Twitter each Monday.  We attempt the challenge during the week.  Then, each Friday, we ask our Facebook and Twitter … [Read more...]

Summertime Dreaming

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It's summertime, well, almost. And that means to start dreaming about what you want to do this summer. For me that's a combination of doing the following things. It's hoping for time to breathe. Maybe read a few books. Write a few words. There's something about summer that always speaks of newness and pause. There's something about the longer days, and the pinker skies that make me think … [Read more...]

2nd Annual BRITISH BLOOMS & BOOKS GIVEAWAY

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Hello, gentle reader, and welcome to the second annual British Blooms and Books giveaway! This week, we’d like to celebrate the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. After enjoying this post, please visit each of the other five authors’ blogs (links provided below) and, after reading, follow one simple instruction and then leave a comment on each blog. You’ll be entered to win a … [Read more...]

Books…they’re not only for reading

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There is something about books and bookshelves lined with favorite books that just makes a house feel cozier and more welcoming. But books don’t have to be only for reading. As a writer of books and an even more avid reader of books, I’ve begun to look at books in a whole new way, thanks to the creativity of my crafty daughters and daughter-in-law. If you cringe at seeing books “destroyed,” you … [Read more...]

Twenty years with Love Inspired and so many books left in my brain!

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This year is really special to me. I sold my first Love Inspired book in late 1996 and it was published in December of 1997. I was Number Twelve in the first year launch authors. I'd already published five books by then, three with Avalon and two with Leisure. I'd been struggling on where to go next but when I landed at Love Inspired, I knew I'd found a home. I could write the romance novels I … [Read more...]

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