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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 ...

41 Years, 87 Books

In March 1981, I took a yellow legal pad and wrote the opening line of what would become my first published novel. While I had toyed with writing both in high school and as a young adult, I hadn’t given serious thought to writing a novel until the fall of 1980. A number of things played into this growing desire inside of me, but the final straw was reading a book with an ending that didn’t satisfy me.

And so, putting my money where my mouth is (as the saying goes), I decided to write a novel ...

Robin’s Ratings for Reviews

As a reader, I love Goodreads. I especially love seeing the reviews by my friends because that often means I discover books I wouldn’t have read otherwise.

But I am also an author, and I have struggled with putting ratings on books. So for a long time, I only rated my 5 star reads. All other books, many of which I loved, got a review but no rating. The problem with that is, I don’t get an accurate picture of the books I’m reading. I love Goodreads’ “year in review” reports, and putting rating...

Words Matter

I am so excited. Words Matter: Prayers from a Writer’s Heart will release on Valentine’s Day 2022.

Here’s a little about it:

Robin Lee Hatcher shares her heart in this slim volume of prayers. The book got its start in 2009 when she was asked to post prayers in an authors’ email group. These are prayers for anyone who loves Jesus and wants to serve Him. They are prayers that Robin needed to say for herself as well as for others. Above all, they are prayers from her heart, and perhaps th...

Blog Anniversary: 20 years

Twenty years ago today, I wrote and published my first blog post. Over those twenty years, I’ve written well over 3,000 posts, some brief, some long, some silly, some serious.

When I moved from Diaryland to Typepad, I lost some of those early posts. When I changed my website to WordPress and imported from Typepad, I lost a couple of years worth of posts (no idea why they didn’t export or import). But even with those losses, the majority of my public thoughts are still here on this site. Over ...

What’s Next?

Those of you who follow me on Facebook may have already seen some of this information and the accompanying request, but I want to get as much feedback as possible so I’m doing a blog post as well.

I need to make some writing decisions, and I would love your help. My long-time readers know that I’ve written both contemporary and historical fiction as well as dual-time/split-time novels. Some of my novels are romances and some are women’s fiction with a strong romantic thread. I love to write t...

2021 Reflections and My Word for 2022

On December 31, 2020, I wanted the new year to bring an end to the pandemic and the social upheaval and the political unrest that was everywhere. But the start of a new year doesn’t change everything. It doesn’t even change a lot. In fact, the only thing that the new year is guaranteed to change is the calendar.

And here we are. About to turn the calendar from 2021 to 2022. And it’s time for me to do another “reflections” blog post. So here goes.

My word for 2021

This year’s word was RE...