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When Writing Deadlines Collide

You know that nervous little quiver you can get in your stomach when panic wants to rise up and defeat you before you even begin? Deadlines can do that to you.

I am in the early chapters of writing a new book in a new series that will release in November 2014. It’s going along quite well, but I’m still feeling my way in the story as I meet new characters and they face new circumstances. It’s a contemporary story with an historical thread running through it, which I love. And my per day word co...

Christian Fiction Wednesday

I know many, many authors of Christian fiction, and I love to help readers find them. I like to feature their books whenever possible. So be sure to check out my New in Christian Fiction blog posts on Wednesdays. You just may find another favorite author or two.

~robin

RULES OF MURDER, A Drew Farthering Mystery

by Julianna Deering

From his black Homburg hat to the crease in his stylish cheviot trousers, Drew Farthering is the epitome of the well-bred English gentleman of 1932, but things at Farth...

Story Settings

While characters reign supreme for me as a novelist, story settings are important to me too.

Through the years, I’ve “created” a number of towns in which to set my stories, most of them set somewhere in Idaho, a few of them elsewhere. Of course, all novelists do this to one degree or another. Even when they use a real town or city, they add a house or a street or a business. This is true in historicals and contemporaries.

As long as you surround your fictional setting with reality, your readers...

One Week Remains on Goodreads Giveaway: Patterns of Love

Have you read my RITA Award winning novel, Patterns of Love? If not, this is your chance to possibly win an autographed copy. All you need is to be on Goodreads and you can enter to win.

Goodreads Book Giveaway


Patterns of Love
by Robin Lee Hatcher

Giveaway ends August 09, 2013.

See the giveaway details

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Who Are the Prayer Warriors in Your Life?

Eleven years ago, I attended a novelist retreat where another writer spoke about the importance of having a prayer team. I felt a quickening in my spirit that I needed to do this.

Unbeknownst to me, I was about to enter a difficult season where I would be crossing a long, dark valley. I thought I was to put together a prayer team only to pray for my ministry of writing and for a specific book that I knew would be difficult to write. Turns out, I was going to need prayer over many areas of my l...

No Wonder It Feels Like Life is Whizzing By

I was trying to catch up with reading the blogs I subscribe to this morning. Usually I stay up with them, but travel always puts me behind. I had close to 500 posts in my Feedly. Needless to say, I skimmed the vast majority of them. But this graphic caught my eye and I just had to share it with you.

Online in 60 Seconds [Infographic] is an infographic that was produced by Qmee

347 new WordPress blog posts go up every 60 seconds!!??!! Could anyone possibly be reading mine?

~robin

The post No Wonde...

Brainstorming Expands Your Brain

Like it or not (and I definitely don’t like it), another wonderful year of brainstorming in Northern Idaho is coming to a close. For eleven summers, a group of writers has been gathering in Coeur d’Alene to plot, play, and pray. I’ve shared about it every year, I think, and a couple of years ago, I wrote a post called Brainstorming 101 so others could see how we operate.

These gals have given me tons of great ideas through the years, but this year the timing was so perfect as I am about to sta...

Win Ebook Editions of Belonging & Betrayal

This new contest is for digital ebook lovers. Beloved releases on September 24, 2013. I want you to be ready by reading the first two books in the Where the Heart Lives series. The winner will get copies of both Belonging and Betrayal for their Kindle or Nook or other ebook reader. For each entry item you complete, you’ll get one entry in the contest. Complete four and get four entries earned. Complete five, get give entries. Prizes will be awarded on or about September 16, 2013.

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Countdown to the Release of BELOVED

I am so excited about the upcoming release of Beloved. Just two months from today.

I feel a special affection for Diana and Tyson. Not sure why, other than I love stories about second chances, and boy-oh-boy, does Tyson ever need a second chance with Diana. I can’t help believing that this is a perfect conclusion for the Where the Heart Lives series.

I will be running a couple of contests over the next two months so watch for the first of them to appear soon.

~ robin

RWA 2013 and a Facebook Party

I wrote this blog post as I returned from the Romance Writers of America conference in Atlanta where some 2100 romance writers and publishing professionals gathered for four days of workshops, networking, and the awards ceremony that is––I kid you not––on par with the Oscars

RWA was founded in 1980. I had the honor to serve on the Board of Directors for five years, two of which were as RWA’s President. There are so many wonderful people who I am privileged to call “friends” because of RWA. (Ph...