Last week I got my book turned in! Y’all, that is such a good feeling. As my husband put it, a monkey is off my back. I might even call it a gorilla. But now it’s time to dream about what my next series and books are. I have some ideas, but they are glimmers. I might want to do …
Book Talk: Ann Swindell
Book Talk: Ann Swindell Listen to the episode with Ann Swindell Who doesn’t love a good Christmas story? And who doesn’t love celebrating someone’s first novel? In this episode of Book Talk with Cara, we get to do both. Ann Swindell is my guest and we’re talking about her brand-new novel Christmas in the Castle Library. This novel allowed Ann …
Happy Thanksgiving
Once upon a time there was a girl who dreamed of writing books. Books were magic carpets that transported her through time and across space. The only problem was her favorite authors simply did not write books fast enough. What was a voracious reader to do? She already haunted the local Christian bookstore, a feat she did with such regularity …
Book Talk: Morgan Tarpley Smith, Lenora Worth, Betsy St. Amant
Book Talk: Morgan Tarpley Smith, Lenora Worth, Betsy St. Amant Listen to the episode with Morgan Tarpley Smith, Lenora Worth, Betsy St. Amant It’s almost Christmas, and that means it’s time to read Christmas books. Today I’ve got three delightful authors on Book Talk to talk about their novella collection A Louisiana Christmas to Remember. In these three, interconnected Christmas …
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Six Books I’m Excited to Read
The rest of this month I have to be nose down, fingers on keyboard, every moment that I’m not teaching, grading or engaged in a most do activity with my family. Those include high school swim meets and Thanksgiving. While I’m being focused and diligent, I’m building quite the to-be-read pile for after I turn this book in. These books …
Book Talk: Tessa Afshar
Book Talk: Tessa Afshar Listen to the episode with Tessa Afshar Today it is such a pleasure introducing you to my friend and author Tessa Afshar. She is the author of 12 award-winning, best-selling novels, but it has been a journey for her to get here. She first started writing in her twenties, but after two rejections stopped. Then years …
Book Talk: Patricia Bradley
Book Talk: Patricia Bradley Listen to the episode with Patricia Bradley Writing can be an intense process, and today I’m talking to a woman who has written 18 full-length novels since 2013 in addition to many shorter-length romantic suspense books. Patricia Bradley is wonderful at creating stories that pull you deeply into character-driven stories that are filled with questions because …
AI and Time Management + a Giveaway
The other day I was on LinkedIn and saw a friend who teaches at Indiana Wesleyan University post about asking ChatGPT to tell her who she was. I had done something similar six months ago about my writing, and the results weren’t great (hers weren’t either six months ago). Yet, this time around she was pretty impressed with how the …
Book Talk: Robin Jones Gunn
Book Talk: Robin Jones Gunn Listen to the episode with Robin Jones Gunn In this episode of Book Talk, I have the pleasure of introducing you to my friend Robin Jones Gunn. Robin is such a light — I adore spending time with her even if it’s constrained to Zoom. Today we’re talking about her brand new novel Tea with …
Book Talk: Irene Hannon
Book Talk: Irene Hannon Listen to the episode with Irene Hannon Y’all, I have been a huge fan of Irene Hannon’s romantic suspense for years. I have so many of them on my bookshelf and can’t get rid of them. It is a delight to host her on Book Talk today to talk about her latest book, Over the Edge. …