Robin Lee Hatcher's Blog, page 15
September 17, 2021
New Morning Mercies
“Prayer is abandoning all other objects of worship and giving myself to the daily worship of God alone.”
In 2005, I was given the devotional, Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman (and updated by Jim Reimann). I didn’t know just how difficult my life was about to become nor did I know how helpful this little book would be to me during that journey. I wore out my first copy and replaced it with one with a faux leather cover, and I have read through this new copy many times. It is highlighted an...
September 15, 2021
Spotlight on Denise Hunter
About Denise: Denise writes contemporary small-town love stories, peopled with layered characters who have real-life issues. She makes her home in Indiana with her husband, whose home-improvement expertise serves as an unlimited resource for her handyman heroes.
Featured Release: Bookshop by the Sea (April 2021)
Blurb: After raising her siblings, it’s finally time for Sophie Lawson to follow her own dream—opening a bookstore in Piper’s Cove, NC. But she gets sidetracked when a hurr...
September 13, 2021
Sitting at His Feet
For the past week, I have been working through line edits of my June 2022 stand-alone release. This is a dual-time women’s fiction, the historical thread set during WWII. I love the characters in this novel, especially the protagonist who is in both the historical and the contemporary storylines.
Today was a long day, but I am nearing the end. I have a new scene I need to write, then one more existing chapter to proof (accept or reject or add changes), and I’ll be done with this round of edit...
September 8, 2021
Spotlight on Colleen Coble
About Colleen: Colleen writes romantic mysteries with a strong dollop of secrets from the past coming back to muddy the waters. Her husband says if he ever comes up missing, she’s going to jail because of the things she researches for her murder plots.
Featured Release: Three Missing Days (April 2021)
Blurb: It all started with one little lie. But the gripping truth is finally coming out. Three days of police chief Jane Hardy’s past are missing from her memory, and that’s not all...
September 3, 2021
Life Changes
I have lived in my current home for over 14 years. Eight homes on my side of the street have backyards that open into a common area (a small private park). Of those eight homes, six of them have dogs, and it’s the dogs that have brought the humans together in a special bond.
We stand or sit outside and have lovely chats while the dogs play (thanks to a gate we added to keep them in). Once or twice each summer we have a potluck barbecue. The friendships have grown rich and deep, and I treasure...
September 1, 2021
Here in Hart’s Crossing arrives on Audible
It’s here! It’s here! Fans of audiobooks can now listen to the four charming small town novellas included in Here in Hart’s Crossing. The digital download is available as of today on Audible. If you already purchased the Kindle version, Whispersync allows you to get the audio at a special reduced rate, and then you can switch back and forth between reading or listening.
Each of the novellas has a different narrator, and that makes for a fun listening experience.
You can listen to a sample ...
Spotlight on Deborah Raney
About Deborah: Deb writes from the screened porch of her woodlands Missouri home. Her women’s fiction almost always weaves in a thread of romance.
Featured Release: Bridges (January 2021)
Blurb: Bridges is set in Madison County, Iowa, the home of the famous covered bridges. Facing an empty nest for the first time since the death of her husband three years ago, Tess Everett rents out a shed on her property to J.W. McRae, the husband of Tess’s late friend, who is back home in Winter...
August 27, 2021
The Reading Life
This summer I spruced up my website again. This time it was inspired by the cover of my June 2022 release (still to be revealed to readers). Two of my favorite colors are mauve (pretty much all of the “pink” shades and tones are favorites) and teal. The changes I made to my website went beyond the color scheme. They included a change in the look of my blog. And that has caused me to do some reading of old posts.
I wrote my first blog post in January 2002. There are currently 3,063 posts in my...
August 25, 2021
Spotlight on Cara Putman
About Cara: Cara is a Wonder Woman want-to-be who teaches at a Big 10 University and writes from Indiana where she lives with her husband and four kids. She writes legal romantic suspense that is straight from the headlines and set in DC with characters readers love.
Featured Release: Lethal Intent (January 2021)
Blurb: This latest romantic legal thriller by bestseller Cara Putman shines a light on the shadowy world of scientific secrets and corporate vendettas—and the ethical dile...
August 21, 2021
Let’s Take Back the Arts
When I awakened this morning, I discovered that I was writing this blog post in my head as I came to consciousness. I’m sure it was brilliant in that place between sleep and awake while what I actually write will fall short of that. But I’m going to try anyway.
In the 1970s, when I came under the Lordship of Jesus the Messiah, there was almost no Christian fiction. The local Christian bookstore’s fiction section was two shelves high and only two to three titles wide and represented only two o...
