It is March FIRST, time for the FIRST Day Blog Tour! (Join our alliance! Click the button!) The FIRST day of every month we will feature an author and his/her latest book’s FIRST chapter! I just got this book in the mail yesterday and am already neck deep in it. I LOVE it! Can’t wait to finish it and post …

If you’re like me, you love books and are fascinated by the process of writing a book. I don’t care if you ever dream of writing your own, it’s fun to see how people create. Robin Caroll is in the middle of a series of great suspense set in the Bayou of Louisiana. This week she was interviewed on a …

Now that I’ve been blogging for a year and a half — YIKES! — I decided to try to put some structure to this endeavor. Now don’t hold me too tightly to it as I get it worked out, but hopefully this will make it easier for you to know when to come and what to expect when you’re here. …

The winner of Death of a Six-Foot Teddy Bear is abookblogger. The winner of Rattled is Bree. Ladies, please contact me so I can get these books out to you. Thanks to everyone who entered. And please check back often! I should be giving away at least one book a week for the foreseeable future! Cara

We break away from the regularly scheduled blog posts to make this announcement… Author and attorney Cara Putman received word on Wednesday that Heartsong Presents intends to contract her three book historical series set in Ohio. The series will tell the stories of three siblings during the war. Watch for an evacuated girl from England, a top-secret military project, and …

Today I’ve been tagged by my friend and ACFW Indiana chapter president Crystal Miller to participate in a game of blog tag. I’m asking you to participate in a reading exercise. Whatever is by your computer (or that you are reading right now) is what I am interested in. I am going to tag a few people who also write …

As most of y’all know, I’m in the middle of a pregnancy that’s not my first. As a result, I’ve flipped through more than my share of “what to expect while pregnant” websites and books and even tip-toed into the “what you’re baby should do” sections. This isn’t my first child, so you’d think I’d be more than prepared for …

BLAST OUT Blog Tour for Trish Berg’s Latest Release… Rattled Surviving Your Baby’s First Year without Losing Your Cool! Can you change a diaper faster than a rodeo cowboy ropes a calf? Need more sleep,more laughter, and ten minutes in the bathroom – alone? You must be a mom….Don’t let the clutter, chaos, exhaustion and Cheerio-dust get you Rattled. With …

What a weekend! I got to spend the weekend in Naples, Florida with Eric. He’s on a whirlwind fundraising/event tour for his job, and for once it worked out well for me to join him. We had a wonderful time talking with donors and walking the beaches near Naples. But Friday morning before I headed to Indy, I got two …

Love Matters. Eric and I just celebrated twelve years of marriage this weekend. Wow! It seems hard to believe, and at the same time many of those years were hard fought for. But now that we’re 12 years in, each one of those times we fought to make it work is well worth it. Especially now that we have children. …