I’m thrilled today to welcome Melissa Jagears back to the blog! Our last interview discussed the launch of her Frontier Vows series, and today she’s returned to talk about the second book in the series, Pretending to Wed. Melissa tackles some tough topics in this one, with two beautifully flawed characters whose marriage of convenience story was beautiful to behold. …

It’s always fun to discover commonalities with other authors, and this one and I share a couple fun ones: we have the same first name, and we write for the same publisher! Amanda Barratt’s work is simply outstanding; I adored her previous novel, My Dearest Dietrich: A Novel of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Lost Love, and am currently devouring her newest release, …

I’ve been pretty quiet on my public platforms since COVID-19 hit our country. It seems like anyone with any kind of following is expected to have wisdom to offer, to have some way to make sense of things that, to our finite understanding, just don’t make sense. Friends, I don’t have much to offer. I see people who are jumping …

Wow, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve been on here! Life happened in a major way last August in the form of a serious car accident involving all 5 of us Wens. None of us were seriously hurt, but dealing with the physical, mental, emotional, and legal aftermath of the crash ate up my entire fall, Pac-Man style. I’m …

 I am so thrilled today to bring you one of my very favorite authors and most encouraging writing friends, Joanna Davidson Politano! If you’ve yet to discover her beautiful work, run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and grab yourself one of her novels. Her latest release, Finding Lady Enderly, hits stores August 20, but one of you incredibly fortunate …

It may be hotter than you-know-what where you live, but Christmas is only five months away! To celebrate a little Christmas in July, I’m welcoming my friend Laurie Germaine to the blog. Laurie’s award-winning debut novel, “Tinsel in a Tangle,” is everything Christmasy and awesome; it’ll put you right in the spirit no matter what the weather! In the arctic …

We’re getting into the dog days of summer here in these parts, but for my guest, the energetic and bubbly Jessica Kate, it’s the dead of winter. She’s another of the contingent of delightful Aussie authors I had the privilege of meeting at ACFW last year, and her debut novel, Love and Other Mistakes, releases on July 30! Here’s the …

Have you ever met someone who’s such an accurate reflection of their name that it’s impossible to imagine that person being named anything else? Joy K. Massenburge is one of those people. I first met Joy at ACFW in 2017, and was immediately drawn to her warmth, her enthusiasm, and the sheer joy and love of the Lord that radiates …

Many of us as Christian authors dream of God using our fiction to change the lives of others…but frequently, God changes us, the writers, just as much—if not more!—through the writing process. Today’s special guest, Anne Carol, is one such author. Read on to learn about her incredible transformation, as well as win copies of not one, not two, but …

Book titles are so hard to get just right. How can one encapsulate a 50, or 75, or 100 thousand-word novel into a few words that capture not only the plot, but a prospective reader’s imagination? But when this is done right, a book just leaps off the shelf, and that’s just what my new friend Carol McClain has done …