

Love for Your Wounded Heart
I've written a book for abandoned wives, which I do believe is sadly needed, but a mentor friend suggested I broaden the audience. As I...


Finding Love Behind the Scenes
There was a lot of kissing on the set of Finding Love in Big Sky this weekend. My husband and I got to go for one day, and we saw both...


The Story Behind My Movie
In the book The Emotional Craft of Fiction, literary agent Donald Maass claims that only misguided writers dream of having their novels...

Five Real-Life Stories That Made it in my Cozy Mysteries
This morning, a friend sent me an article about a woman who was arrested for breaking and entering based on the evidence of Cheeto dust....
Confessions of an Author with Nothing Interesting to Say
My characters have more interesting lives than I do right now, but I'm okay with that. Life goes through seasons, and in the season of...


Love Anyway
I had to work until six on Sunday, so I showed up at the Super Bowl party during halftime. Of course, my husband was singing karaoke, and...


The Mystery of the Heirloom Bible
In cleaning out our garage this weekend, we found a lot more than expected. Specifically, we found a Bible dated 1888 and engraved with...


Outtakes of the #TargetDressChallenge
If you're on social media, you might have seen pictures making fun of the old fashioned prairie dresses currently on sale at Target. The...


Facebook Famous
A friend told me last week that I'm "Facebook famous." I joked back about the 800 readers in my fan group, feeling like that really isn't...


The Divorce of a Romance Writer
I'm working on a book proposal for Naghmeh Abedini. If you don't remember her story, she was married to the American pastor imprisoned in...