Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Contemporary Romance”
My friend, Pat Trainum is visiting today. She writes as Patricia Bradley and is departing from her usual romantic suspense novels to pen two sweet Christmas romances in the Heartwarming Christmas Anthology. Have you ever wanted to run away from your problems? I have, so it’s natural that I would write about characters who run away. In my latest story, …
“God had sent her what she’d been too afraid to ask for.” ~ Small-Town Bachelor by Jill Kemerer Do you ever get excited about something only to chastise yourself that it’s impossible? It seems so far out of your reach, you won’t even consider it.We think we don’t deserve wonderful surprises, so we tuck the dream away. We don’t …
Sometimes loving someone means not saying anything. Sometimes silence is sacrificial … you give up all your right answers for the sake of someone else’s need to be valued. You choose not to stifle their pain with words, words, and more words. Love should always be safe. When you tell someone you love them, in a very real sense you are …
There’s so much I love about this quote from author Becky Wade’s novel, Undeniably Yours. (And yes, there is a cowboy in the story. His name is Bo.) But I digress. Back to the quote. At some point, we are all are knocked off kilter by love. Love for another person. Love for our country. Love for a family pet …
I’m having fun here this week — not that I don’t have fun every week. But I’m celebrating the upcoming ACFW Carol Awards with two of my author friends: Deb Raney and Becky Wade. It just so happens that the three of us are finalists in the contemporary romance category. And we’re launching a week-long I ♡ ROMANCE GIVEAWAY where three different …
Yes, I’m celebrating! My third novel, Somebody Like You, releases today! It’s a great time for a Rafflecopter giveaway, don’t you think? And since Somebody Like You has a theme of twins in it, I’m doing a “Win Double” Grand Prize. One person will win $100 Amazon gift card and 3 autographed copies of my books (Wish You Were …
My newest contemporary romance novel, Catch a Falling Star, tells the story of a romance between a man and a woman in their thirties — their late thirties, to be exact. The romance is of the “are these two really right for each other?” kind. I’ve talked with others about whether there’s an expiration date on romance — I even …
Guess who forgot to post her blog last night? That’s right: me. My excuse? I was caught up in prepping my manuscript so that I could push SEND and well, um, send it to my editor — all 87k+ words of it. I woke up this morning. Smiled at the thought of being done … and then thought, “Uh-oh. I …
My just-released novel, Catch a Falling Star, deals with the question: What do you do when life doesn’t go according to plan? The heroine, Dr. Kendall Haynes, has a satisfying life in a lot of ways — except her dreams of happily-ever-after haven’t come true. While Kendall is an imaginary person, the disappointment she struggles with is one many women …
A book takes quite a journey to publication: idea to synopsis to pitch to book proposal to book deal to submission deadline and rewrite deadline and another rewrite deadline and then (finally) the galleys. All of this leads to today: Release day! I had a lot of help and encouragement along the way — and I mentioned many of …
