I grew up reading the kind of historical fiction that revolves tightly around real historical events or people. I loved how much I learned, not just of how people lived in another time and place, but how they lived out events …
Last Day to get A Home for My Heart on sale!
The ebook sale of A Home for My Heart ends TODAY! Get your copy for $1.99 before the price goes up again! Amazon Barnes and Noble Christianbook.com …
Ring of Secrets by Rosanna White
There are few things that thrill my heart more than an amazingly written piece of historical fiction. I don't just mean the kind that plops you down in another time and place, replete with details of life and culture, though …
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
I am not a book reviewer. I've never pretended to be. I simply tell y'all what I like, thus I often group together what I've been reading. But even as I composed such a post last week, I knew A Fall of Marigolds by Susan …
Catching Up on My Reading
While I am always reading, there are some moments when I am whipping through books and others where life interferes and my time to read is severely limited. Lately I've been on a roll and here and some good ones I've …
Giving a Book for Christmas?
Are y'all as panicked about getting your Christmas gift list finished as I am? While perusing some book sites recently (namely, Amazon and Christianbook.com) I found some great deals on my first two books! So if you have a …
On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin and A Heart Deceived by Michelle Griep
My life has been crazy lately. Between quick-drafting a new novel during Nanowrimo and traveling with my husband on business, reading time has almost fallen by the wayside. Almost. But lately I've read two great historical …
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Welcome, Christine Lindsay!
Hey, y'all! My friend and fellow author Christine Lindsay has come by today to share a bit of her story. Christine and I met (if I remember correctly!) in 2009, when both of our unpublished historical novels were Genesis …
A Title for 2014!
Ok, so remember how in a last minute change, Bethany House went with my working title, A Home for My Heart, for this latest release? Remember how shocked I was--and how excited, because it was the first of my books that had a …
Love’s Awakening by Laura Frantz
There are some authors that you enjoy from the get-go. But you also know when their books take a decidedly different turn. One that propels their work from the "books I enjoy" category to the "books I must read." With the …