Welcome to the official COVER REVEAL blitz for When You Look at Me by Pepper Basham, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! When You Look At Me is the 2nd book in the Pleasant Gap Romance series and releases October 25, 2018. An unexpected mother-to-be A romance-leery composer And a forgotten […]
Four years ago, Jane Warwick escaped the shame and heartbreak of being jilted at the altar by becoming a housekeeper at the secluded Inn at Simeon Ridge. Predictable and quiet, the inn helps Jane find a place to heal and celebrates her strengths, where she is promoted to head housekeeper. […]
Happy Friday! And welcome to First Line Fridays, hosted by Hoarding Books!!! Since it’s Friday, it’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Since award season is beginning in bookdom, I thought it might be fun to feature some of the […]
I love this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic – Bookish Settings I Want to Visit. In coming up with my list, I decided very quickly that I needed to narrow my focus down to avoid another Top 100 Tuesday fiasco 😉 So I zeroed in on small town settings… and […]
When Dr. Alex Murdock is demoted to a university in rural Virginia, the last thing he expects to find is a future. But country charm never looks as good as it does on Rainey Mitchell. Rainey Mitchell doesn’t need a high-class flirt in her wounded world, but trouble and temptation […]
Y’all know how much I love this girl – as a friend and as an author! And I’m delighted today to participate in the cover reveal for her November release, Charming the Troublemaker. When Dr. Alex Murdock is demoted to a university in rural Virginia, the last thing he expects […]
From the young girls like Hermione Granger to superheroes like Wonder Woman, strong heroines inspire us to “fight like a girl” while still listening to our hearts. But what does it mean to ‘fight like a girl’? Pepper Basham and I discuss some of our favorite strong female heroines as we […]
Recently, Pepper Basham talked about how her hero in the upcoming Charming the Troublemaker (November 2017) is ‘adorkable’. Adorkable can mean: silly in a cute way adorably awkward kinda nerdy but really endearing too So that got me thinking about other ‘adorkable’ characters that I love. Like Eisley Barrett in […]
As part of the Celebrate Lit Blog Tour for Pepper Basham’s fantastic romcom Just the Way You Are, I’m delighted to chat today with her heroine, Eisley Barrett. Single mom, Eisley Barrett, prefers to keep romance safely housed within a centuries-old mystery, but when she travels to England to unearth […]
Happy last First Line Friday before Valentine’s Day! Normally, I would have you grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line, but today I’m going to mix it up a little bit in honor of this romantical holiday that is nigh upon us. You […]
Happy New Year’s Eve Eve!! Today I’m doing something a bit different. Since I’ve been talking all week about my favorite reads of 2016, I thought we’d transfer that concept to First Line Friday too. So instead of reaching for the book nearest you and telling us the first line, […]
Jessica Ross’ scars run much deeper than the wounds of a world at war. Determined to escape the ghosts of her past and the German influence on her nightmares, she returns home to the sleepy Appalachian town of Hot Springs, NC, only to find the renowned Mountain Park Hotel has […]
Today, the lovely folks at Top Ten Tuesday have given us free rein within a Thanksgiving theme, so I’m taking advantage of another freebie week to talk about books for which I’m thankful. These books range from nonfiction to fiction, current to less than current, but they all have something […]
This week on Top Ten Tuesday, we are asked to give our Top Ten ALL TIME FAVORITE books of _____ genre. Ok…so… my head exploded when I first read that topic and I went into what is commonly known as the book blogger fetal position. This occurs whenever someone asks […]
Y’all know how much I love my girl, Pepper Basham! So much so that I carried her around in my pocket with me during Laura Frantz’s book signing. But at the #CFRR2016 I got to be in the same room with her!! Actually, the same house with her! AHHHHH!! You […]
Welcome to a Back to School freebie edition of Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly linkup hosted as always by the marvelous team at The Broke and the Bookish. Since we were given much freedom with our topics today, I opted to feature some of my favorite books with teachers as […]
Friday completely snuck up on me this week. But here it is!!! Yay! And since it’s Friday, it’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line! The book I’m featuring today is The Thorn Keeper by my dear friend Pepper Basham. And […]
Welcome to the Pinned in Time Blog Hop: a twelve day party celebrating Pepper Basham’s Penned in Time series! There is a Pinterest scavenger hunt, exciting giveaway, behind the scenes looks into the worlds of The Thorn Bearer and The Thorn Keeper — as well as a glimpse into the heart of their […]
This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday is going to be fun to follow around amongst all the different blogs and see what everyone else posted. We’re talking about things that books have made us want to do – and by association the books that have inspired us to do […]
Hello ladies and lords! After this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post on Books Set Outside the U.S. – in which I purposely left out England too – a couple of my dear reading friends still bemoaned England’s absence. I am nothing if not accommodating, but it really needed its […]