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Preorder All She Ever Dreamed

I’m excited to share that All She Ever Dreamed (Boulder Creek Romance #2) is available on Amazon for preorder. Only the Kindle version can be preordered at this time, but for those of you who like paperbacks, don’t worry. It will be available in that format too. Just look for it closer to the release date.

Preordering the Kindle ebook has an advantage. Preorder price is $3.99. The regular price of $5.29 will apply once the book releases on December 5th.

Here’s the blurb:

Dreams sometime...

My Reading Year Thus Far

In 2013, I participated in my first Goodreads Reading Challenge. I set a goal of 30 books and I read 36. That was my first time to actually track the books I read in a single year. Off and on through the years, I’d tried keeping a notebook by my bed and writing down the books I read and maybe rating them. The habit never took. I kept forgetting the notebook was there.

But Goodreads has made it so easy for me to track, rate, and review, using both my phone and my computer. It has become a habi...

New in Books

Last month, I decided it was time I put some of my ebooks into collections so I could offer them at special prices. These books aren’t part of any series, so instead I did the collections by genre.

Women of HopeLife is hard. God is good.

In this Christian women’s fiction collection, Robin Lee Hatcher presents stories of women who face life’s difficult circumstances with courage and hope.

Miriam’s ordinary life lived out in extraordinary faith inspires others in RIBBON OF YEARS.F...

It’s That Time of Year Again

Recently a friend and I were commiserating about our crazy fall schedules. And this autumn seems especially busy-busy-busy to me.

I’ve got lots of friends and family who have retired or are planning to retire soon. While I am certainly old enough to retire, that word doesn’t seem to be in my vocabulary. And I’m good with that. I’m loving my full life.

Writing

My fall writing schedule calls for me to edit the book I’m almost done revising (All She Ever Dreamed) plus to write one novella ...

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...