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Christian Fiction Wednesday

I love to help readers find books by the many wonderful Christian fiction writers I’ve come to know through the years. I can’t read them all, but I can at least tell others when a new book is out. Here’s the latest offering.

~robin

[image error] THE BRIDE WORE SPURS

by Janet Dean

The Cowgirl Takes a Husband!

To keep the Texas ranch she loves, Hannah Parrish will wed a man she doesn’t. Cowpokes won’t take orders from a young, single female. But while her exasperating neighbor Matt Walker jokes about her being a...

Inspiration and Epiphanies

[image error]I was in at the doctor’s this morning for my annual physical, and after she heard about my piled-up deadlines, she asked about inspiration. I basically told her my inspiration comes from the need to pay the mortgage. Paying the rent and utility bills and buying groceries have long been the source of inspiration for writers. I learned long ago that ideas begin to flow after I get my fingers moving on the keyboard. If I waited for them to strike first, I would never get anything written.

But I m...

Just Two Weeks to the Start of the Christian Fiction Scavanger Hunt!!!

[image error]Want a chance to win an iPad Mini with 31 new releases loaded to it? Or maybe you’ll win the 31 autographed books in print form. And/or maybe you’ll win one of the bonus prizes offered by individual authors. There will be winners, and it can’t be you if you don’t play.

So mark your calendar for noon on Friday, May 17, 2013. That’s when the hunt kicks off. You’ll visit the 31 one web sites of the participating authors and look for clues. When you reach the end, you’ll enter the answer into the...

E X H A U S T E D

I finished the “polishing” stage on Book #69 (not telling the title just yet) on Thursday afternoon. When I opened my Mail program to send it to my editor, in came an email from a different editor who was sending me the typeset pages of Beloved (Book #68) which need to be proofed and returned by May 16. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I have major revisions on a different book (#70) that are due on May 15.

[image error]“No rest for the wicked,” my grandma used to say. Sometimes I feel like I’m chasi...

Novel Lovers Giveaway Winner is …

[image error]Congratulations to Brenda Sweeney, winner of the 12 autographed novels in the Novel Lovers Giveaway.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the giveaway. We’ll do this again sometime in the future. It was great fun.

Coming soon: Another scavenger hunt! Are you ready to play? Mark your calendar for May 17-19.

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Christian Fiction Wednesday

I love to help readers find books by the many wonderful writers I’ve come to know through the years. I can’t read them all, but I can at least tell others when a new book is out.

~robin

[image error] FORSAKEN DREAMS

byMaryLu Tyndall

They Left Everything Behind to Build a New Southern Utopia

Colonel Blake Wallace has seen enough death to last a lifetime. Weary and disillusioned, he slumps beneath the weight of defeat and loss. With his entire family murdered by the North and his name appearing on a list of offic...

Are My Heroines Really Me?

[image error]I get asked the question in the title of this post a lot. And to some degree, the answer is yes. I am in all of my characters, not just the heroines. After all, they come out of my imagination and my experiences and my research.

But it is more true that my characters are very much individuals and often very different from me, even in those stories where I’ve used my life as inspiration. It is a wonderful moment in the creation of a book when a character takes on a life of her own. I love it wh...

There’s a Reason They Call Them “Deadlines”

[image error]Sunday night, I reached the end on my contemporary novel that will release in January of 2014. Sunday is normally my day of rest, but sometimes a book doesn’t cooperate and extra writing time must be grabbed wherever available. Today I’ll be busy proofing and polishing and getting ready to send it to my editor. And once it is sent, I have to hit the ground running on major revisions on my next historical. Those revisions are due much too soon. And then I need to start a novella. Ack!

Am I havi...

Christian Fiction Wednesday

I love to help readers find books by the many wonderful Christian fiction writers I’ve come to know through the years. I can’t read them all, but I can at least tell others when a new book is out. Here’s the latest offering.

~robin

[image error] SWEPT AWAY

by Mary Connealy

Swept away when her wagon train attempts a difficult river crossing, Ruthy MacNeil isn’t all that upset at being separated from the family who raised her. All they’ve ever done is work her to the bone. She prayed for a chance to get away, an...

Winners in the “In Celebration” Drawing

Five names from those leaving comments on the In Celebration post last week have been drawn and the winners notified by email. They are:

Robin D.

Ronda S.

Tina B.

Cathie M.

CW

Thanks for joining me here on robinleehatcher.com. I have really enjoyed reading your comments.

BTW, I’ve started a new Goodreads giveaway. This time the prize is Wagered Heart. So check out the sidebar on my home page and be sure to enter.

~robin