Years ago, when I first stepped away from teaching to write full time, I was faced with the dilemma of what to write about. Write what you know, was the adage that came to mind, so I made the grievous error of trying to fictionalize my own story. I found out at my first writer’s conference that this is mistake …
Review of The Medallion
About the Book Book: The Medallion Author: Cathy Gohlke Genre: Historical Fiction (World War II) Release date: June 4, 2019 For fans of bestselling World War II fiction like Sarah’s Key and The Nightingale comes an illuminating tale of courage, sacrifice, and survival, about two couples whose lives are ravaged by Hitler’s mad war yet eventually redeemed through the fate …
Review of This Healing Journey
About the Book Book: This Healing Journey Author: Misty M Beller Genre: Christian Historical Romance Release date: July 18, 2019 The mountain wilderness of her family’s home in the Canadian Rockies is all Hannah Grant has ever known. Now at the age of twenty-four, she’s on a journey to help her father to find the son he gave up for …
Finding Mayberry
Ever since I can remember, something has always drawn me to the South—or more accurately, something has given me a hankerin’ for the South. Born and raised in California, I’d never even visited a Southern state until the last ten years or so, unless you count the road trip my parents took my brother, older sister and me on when …
Stars of Alabama
Thanks to one of the first friends my husband and I made when we moved to Tennessee, I’ve been following a writer almost daily. Sean Dietrich, also known as Sean of the South, posts an anecdotal story every day. Every. Day. It’s all I can do sometimes to post a blog once a week! But Sean is a very unique …
Surrendered Summer Book Club Read
I’m trying something new (and hopefully, fun) with my debut novel, Surrendered, and I’d love for you to be a part of it. Just grab your copy of the book—and if you don’t have one, hop over to Amazon to purchase the paperback or ebook today—and join the Surrendered Summer Book Club Read (public) Facebook page. We’ll get started on …
Unexpected Gifts
About a week ago, I had a dream. Or, more accurately, a low-grade nightmare. I was sitting at a large table at Hein & Company Bookstore, copies of Surrendered in front of me and pen in hand, but there was no one else present. The longer I sat alone, the higher my level of anxiety. This, of course, was because …
Meet Kathy Boyd Fellure
Novelist (and children’s book author) Kathy Boyd Fellure will be celebrating the release of book two in her On the Water’s Edge Tahoe Trilogy next month. Lake Cottage Book Haven is a continuation of Emily and Jack Conner’s story from her debut novel Language of the Lake. Her new novel, which takes place in 2008, is set in a Tahoe …
Survival of a Blog Tour
Well, I survived my very first Blog Tour. In case you’re not familiar with what that is, think technological book tour. Instead of the author going from place to place to introduce his/her book, the book itself is sent to various reviewers for their honest review. The reviewer then posts it on their own blog, as well as on Amazon, …
What’s In a Brand?
It seems like the word for this season in my life is Branding. Those teaching some of the classes at Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference threw it around as if it were a simple thing—and for some, that might be true. Even if you’ve never heard of someone branding themselves, you know brands. Just Do It! Got Milk? Zoom Zoom (Mazda …
