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Winner of the July Subscriber Giveaway

Congratulations to Stephanie in Ohio. Her name was randomly drawn as the winner of paperback copies of Cross My Heart and Shadows of Swanford Abbey.

To be entered in the monthly drawing (US subscribers only), be sure to subscribe to the newsletter.

~robin

Plot, Play, & Pray 2022

I returned yesterday from our annual Plot, Play, & Pray retreat in beautiful northern Idaho. We were smaller than normal. There are eleven of us in this wonderful fellowship, but five of them were missing due to a number of issues. They were missed so very much.

Still, despite our reduced size, we managed to brainstorm seven books (two of them via Zoom with absent sisters).

And the Lord was ever faithful, drawing us to His word and into sweet times of prayer and praise.

I led the mornin...

Reading Update

2022 is almost half over, so I thought it was time for a reading update.

This is my tenth year to participate in the Goodreads Reading Challenge (2013 was my first year). Tracking my reading in Goodreads has not only helped me read more books, but I am better about reviewing them, too. As a bonus, reviewing helps me remember what I liked or disliked about a book.

Today, I finished reading my 60th book of this year. Out of all of my Goodreads challenges, my best year to date has been 2020 w...

Do You Like Free Books?

Chances are, since you’re visiting my blog, that you love books and think free books are grand.

I’m going to give away two paperback books every month to subscribers of my newsletter. One will be an autographed copy of one of my books and the other will be a book by one of my author friends.

The July books are:

For more information, check out the Monthly Book Giveaway page.

If you’d like to subscribe to the newsletter, you’ll find the form here.

~robin

Content on Kindle pages

Amazon offers authors and publishers (as well as other sellers on their products) the ability to add additional content (mostly graphics) to a book’s Kindle page. This is something fairly new. Within the past couple of years, I think (but time is still somewhat foggy for me due to pandemic stuff).

To see this additional content on a desktop, a visitor to a book page must scroll down past the cover and description and then past the Products Related to This Item section. On a mobile device, thi...

Every Book Has Its Own Journey

Today, my latest novel arrived online and in bookstores. I’ll Be Seeing You is my 86th release. (To learn more about the story, visit the book page.)

As the title of this post says, every book has its own journey. The journey of I’ll Be Seeing You was bumpy, the kind of journey that can leave a writer feeling “less than.”

The lockdowns of 2020 had a starring role in some important miscommunication, and when I turned in the novel in early 2021, it wasn’t what my editor had expected. She...

Give a Listen

It’s less than three weeks until I’ll Be Seeing You arrives in bookstores, and I’m so eager to share this novel with readers.

Would you care for a sneak peek? Well, a sneak listen since this is a clip from the audiobook. Just click the Play arrow in the embedded Soundcloud audio below and enjoy.

~robin

Mulberry Hollow Giveaway

My friend Denise Hunter is offering up a signed copy of her brand new release, Mulberry Hollow, to one of my blog readers! (US addresses only)

To enter, leave a comment on this blog post, then use the entry form below.

The giveaway will end on Monday, May 2, 2022, at 7:00 AM Mountain Time, and the winner will be notified by email.

If you enjoy small-town stories filled with romance, family drama, and swoony heroes, this will be right up your alley!

Be sure to tell your friends, ...

Hope for Times Like These

I’m participating with 17 other authors in an Easter giveaway. I’m giving away a Kindle version of Whispers From Yesterday to two lucky winners.

Go to Christine Dillon’s website and follow her instructions. (Enter your name and your email, and after confirmation, complete as many or as few of the choices as you wish. The more you choose, the greater number of your entries.)

Catching Katie is Free Today

While I can’t name a favorite book among the novels I’ve written (different books are special to me for different reasons), I do have a few favorite characters and/or couples. Among my favorite couples are Katie and Ben from Catching Katie. As I wrote, I envisioned Katie as a dust devil swirling down the street, leaving a mess behind her, and Ben was the guy with the huge push-broom, following in her wake, cleaning up after her. I so enjoyed watching them fall in love.

The book won the Carol ...