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Living in Jane Austen’s World | Conference Highlights

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Recently I attended the Jane Austen Society of North America’s  Annual General Meeting (JASNA AGM), held this year in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The 4+ day event is a literary conference and celebration of author Jane Austen, attended by hundreds of men and women. (Ok, mostly women.) Because I write novels set in the Regency time period when Austen’s novels were published, I see the conference … [Read more...]

Welcome to the (fictional) Chicory Inn

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My new novel released last Tuesday, the third in the Chicory Inn Novels series from Abingdon Press. I HOPE by the time you're reading this, that I have finished edits (and rewrites) for the fourth novel in the series, and am back to working on the fifth and final book. I've written several sequels, and two three-book series, but this is the first time I've ever written a five-book series. I … [Read more...]

The Plot Thickens|Stephanie Grace Whitson

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Each Sunday "Inspired by Life...and Fiction" shares a Christian novelist's newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration. Stephanie Grace Whitson, bestselling author and two-time Christy Award finalist, pursues a full-time writing and speaking career from her home studio in Lincoln, Nebraska. Stephanie has written contemporary fiction as well as historical novels like her … [Read more...]

Cover Reveal!

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On the cusp of revealing the cover for Her One and Only, the fourth and final book in my Porter Family series, I'm feeling nostalgic. I love reading series and I've wanted to write a series for a long time.  After I was married and before we had children, I penned romances for the general market.  Way back then, I had dreams of writing a series.  I published the first book in what was to become … [Read more...]

Guess the movie from the dialogue

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I love, love playing trivia games. So... I'm going to list some quotes from movies, and let's see if you can guess them. The answers are below, but don't peek! Keep track of how many you get right and then let me know in the comments! Ready? Here goes: Movie #1: “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that … [Read more...]

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