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November 15, 2024 By Robin Lee Hatcher

On Monday, I finished writing my 94th book. To Capture a Mountain Man is the third book in The British Are Coming series, and it will release in February 2025. (To confuse things, my 93rd book doesn’t release until summer 2025.)

To celebrate typing “The End,” I went to see “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” on Tuesday. I laughed. I happy-cried. It is a delight from start to finish and should definitely be seen in the theater if at all possible. Treat yourself. You don’t even have to have finished writing a book!! (And if you haven’t read the novel the film is based on, first published in 1972, you really should do that too.)

Although there is still a lot of work ahead of me to make To Capture a Mountain Man shine (revising and editing await), I did some preliminary work this week on my next project, a new novella in the Kings Meadow Romance series.

On a special arrangement with the publisher of that series, I am writing this new novella to be packaged with the only novella set in Kings Meadow, I Hope You Dance. I’ve been tossing around ideas for two or three months now, and the story I want to write finally came together. I’m not sharing the title of the collection or of this new novella. Too soon for that. But it isn’t too soon to share the graphic of my main characters. Meet Jesse, Willow, and Pastor Foster, residents of Kings Meadow, Idaho in 1932.

Beatrix Potter said, “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” That’s exactly how I feel when I begin a new story. I never know where those first words I write down will take me, but I’m ever so grateful that I have the privilege of writing them and then sharing my stories with others.

I hope you have something wonderful lined up to read this weekend. Please share!!

~robin

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Best-selling novelist Robin Lee Hatcher is known for her heartwarming and emotionally charged stories of faith, courage, and love. Her 90+ books have won multiple awards, including the RITA, the Christy, the Carol, the FHL Reader's Choice, and the National Reader's Choice Awards. Robin makes her home in Idaho.
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  1. Lois Kennis says

    November 15, 2024 at 5:50 am

    Thanks for mentioning The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. I read that book years ago. It’s so appropriate for a movie. And congratulations on finishing your 93rd book!

    • Robin Lee Hatcher says

      November 15, 2024 at 7:44 am

      Thanks so much! And enjoy the movie when you get to see it.

  2. Betty Strohecker says

    November 15, 2024 at 8:55 am

    Congratulations on numbers 93 and 94. Also, your new novellas. That is amazing!
    As for something interesting to read, I just finished Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor by Roseanna M. White. It was a heartwarming, wonderful book that I highly tecommend.

  3. Robin Lee Hatcher says

    November 15, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    Thanks for the recommendation. Adding it to my list.

  4. Martha T Robinson says

    November 16, 2024 at 5:25 am

    I just started reading The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barrett. I know it will be a tear-jerker! And next will be Indigo Isle by T I Lowe–which won Christy Book of the Year–I think. Great reading I’m sure.
    Congratulations on writing 94 books! What an accomplishment! I have your book, Words Matter: Prayers for Writers–or something like that. I dip into it when I intend to write. Thanks so much!

    • Robin Lee Hatcher says

      November 16, 2024 at 9:46 am

      Martha, thanks for sharing about Words Matter: Prayers from a Writer’s Heart. I’m delighted to know that it inspires you.

      The Warsaw Sisters also won a Christy Award this week (Historical category) so you’ve got two great books going.

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