Anyone else feel like the holiday hustle began right after Halloween this year? It’s been CRAZY at my house.  But, you know me. I’ve always got time to read a good book. Or two! And I want to share them with you. I met Lisa Carter in 2010 at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference , before she had an agent, or… [ read more ]

God wants me to be a bay leaf. Sounds exciting, right? Yeah. I’m not so sure about it myself. I woke up early a few weeks ago, too early to get up. The time of day when I fade in and out of awareness, praying, listening, thinking. On this particular morning, my mind flipped between… [ read more ]

Most of us accept death as a part of life. But not everyone. In Singularity , the second book in The Jevin Banks Experience, Steven James plunges us into a world where research into brain function and artificial intelligence that is intended to help quadriplegics or children with life-shortening diseases is being hijacked by psychopaths. Psychopaths who will… [ read more ]

Through the Balustrade pulled me in from the first page. Roxan is seventeen and has her own shanty. And she’s thrilled about it. What? Immediately, I want to know why she’s on her own at seventeen. Why does she think a dirt-floor shanty is a little slice of heaven? What kind of horror was her life before this… [ read more ]

Love’s Awakening is the 2nd book in The Ballantyne Legacy by Laura Frantz . I’ll admit it. My expectations were high. I had fallen completely and thoroughly into the world she created in the first book in the series, Love’s Reckoning, last September ( you can read my review here ) and have been eagerly waiting for more of the story to unfold.… [ read more ]

A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you my review of Stranded by Dani Pettrey.  You can click here to read it .  In  Stranded , Book 3 in author Dani Pettrey’s acclaimed Alaskan Courage series, reporter Darcy St. James knows something is wrong when her friend vanishes from her job on a cruise ship. Everyone else believes Abby simply left of her own… [ read more ]

Y’all know that I prefer to read any series of books in order, but I made an exception with The Promise because I was intrigued by the concept…a man has been lying to his wife for five months and he’s about to destroy his already fragile marriage because of his deception. Jean Anderson has no idea that… [ read more ]

So how much writing did you get done this summer? Every time someone asks me this, I have to fight an intense desire to slink away in shame. Instead, I mumble something about being busy with the kids and vacation because I hate to tell them the truth. How much did I write this summer?… [ read more ]

I read a lot. I read a lot of romantic suspense. I even try to write it. This combination of reading and writing has given me a pretty good idea of the elements that need to be present in a romantic suspense novel to keep everybody happy. This is both good and bad because sometimes… [ read more ]

There are few things that make me happier than walking to my mailbox and finding a new book. I particularly enjoy it when the book isn’t available for purchase yet. This is probably because I have the patience of a fruit fly and I don’t like waiting for anything. Right now, I’ve got four—that’s right—four… [ read more ]