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So glad to introduce you to a fellow first-person point-of-view historical author, Dawn Crandall–you don’t run into that every day! Dawn let me read an early copy of her historical romance novel, The Hesitant Heiress, and you can find my review here on Goodreads. After the interview, please comment below for a chance to win an e-copy of The Hesitant Heiress! I will draw a… Read More
Forgive the shouting, but I’ve waited such a long time to say that! All kinds of cool kickoff stuff going on today (or tonight, if you stayed up till 12:01 am to read this!). But FIRST I want to share the link with you, so you can order your copy of God’s Daughter on Amazon, if you’re thus inclined. Just… Read More
Today, I just wanted to link you up to a couple of excellent interviews I was blessed to do. The first is up today on deCompose–Mike Duran’s always thought-provoking blog: http://mikeduran.com/2013/10/interview-w-debut-novelist-heather-gilbert/. All kinds of probing questions…hope you can check it out! And tomorrow, I’ll be visiting Elaine Stock’s Everyone’s Story blog. Elaine always brings such awesome author stories to us,… Read More
So thrilled to have friend and agency-mate Rachel McMillan reviewing one of her fave books today. Rachel always astounds me with her knowledge of the classics–but she’s also very plugged-in to the Christian book market. You can read all her bookish musings here: A Fair Substitute for Heaven. I’d read the first in the Refiner’s Fire series by Lynn Austin… Read More
One of my fave histfic books ever. Not too many details yet evokes a time period. Driving first-person storyline. I just read an excellent post by Baker acquisitions editor Chad Allen here: http://www.chadrallen.com/2012/11/29/the-not-very-sexy-essential-to-your-books-mind-blowing-success/. Basically, he was in a situation where he had to explain what need would be met by the book he presented to the publishing committee. In other… Read More
Something from my Pinboard: http://menwholooklikevikings.tumblr.com/post/35315102848/viikinkisoturi-ii-jarkko1 I recently read an interesting post by Tamara Leigh, a multi-published author: infinitecharacters.com/2012/11/23/a-traditionally-published-author-wades-into-the-waters-of-self-publishing-by-tamara-leigh/. She discusses how she got some push-back from Christian book publishers on her medieval books, because “inspirational publishers were wary of novels set during the medieval time period due to the stigma of corruption within the Church, the Crusades, and the Inquisition.”… Read More