Posts Tagged ‘Before the Storm’
My Curious Readers
Today I received an email jam-packed with questions from a reader, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to answer her questions along with some of the others I’ve recently received. Here we go! Q. I love your books and when I tell my friends about them, they ask what category they are in and I never…
Read MoreSpeaking at Quail Ridge Books
I always love speaking at Quail Ridge, one of my two favorite Independent Bookstores (the second being Quarter Moon Books in Topsail Beach). Quail Ridge does a good job getting the word out and it has a wonderful setup for the audience. I had such a good time. My favorite part of a speaking…
Read MoreThe Sequel Dilemma Revisited
Want to win a copy of The Courage Tree? Check out Emilie Richards’ interview of me on her blog and leave a comment by June 3rd. Good luck! I can’t sleep. It’s this dang sequel dilemma. Remind me never to write…
Read MoreTopsail Island Contest Ends; New Contest Begins
Well, this contest was such fun, and so many of you were in the running with the correct answers from Before the Storm. Here they are: What was the name of Jamie’s church? Free Seekers. We also accepted Free Seekers Church or Chapel. Who was Jamie’s nemesis on Topsail Island? We accepted either Reverend Bill…
Read MoreBefore the Storm, Down Under
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. I received my copies of the Australian edition of Before the Storm today. I guess the book is being released there right now, or will be very…
Read MoreThe Videos: An Unexpected Bonus
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. When I created the new videos about “my writing life” for my website, my plan was simply to answer the questions I’m frequently asked, so that when readers…
Read MoreThe Contest: Would You Like a Vacation on Topsail Isand?
I’m thrilled to unveil the contest we’ve been waiting for! A while back, I asked you, my blog readers, for ways I could celebrate my twenty year anniversary as an author with you. Frequent commenter, Glen Pierce, took the ball and ran with it! Glen lives on Topsail Island, North Carolina, the setting for Before the…
Read MoreThe Challenge of Promoting a Sequel
How do I avoid letting the cat out of the bag? I’m working on the updates for my website and have discovered a major challenge: how do I tell my readers about Secrets She Left Behind without revealing too much about Before the Storm? You see, Secrets She Left Behind stands alone just fine, but…
Read MoreThey're the Same Book!
I’m very concerned! In the last few days, I’ve heard from several readers who are upset because they ordered two different books written by me. . . or so they thought. They’d each read Before the Storm and The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes and they loved them so much they wanted more. So they ordered…
Read MoreCrying in my Coffee
Good crying, though. I hung out at the Opium Den (aka Starbucks) yesterday morning, working on the discussion questions for Secrets She Left Behind. That meant I had to skim through the entire 500+ pages of the manuscript to get back in touch with the story. I was moving through it pretty quickly until I…
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