Some days I’m overcome with a profound sadness for the world I live in. Hurting people filled with brokenness and pain. Heartache and loss. Then there are those perpetrating unconscionable evil. On days like these, I pray and seek comfort in fiction. I liberated Rachel Hauck’s The Love Letter from my aforementioned unread paperback stash […]
Once upon a time, I possessed hours and hours of leisure time to expend. Although this season in my life seems like decades ago (oh wait, it is!), and almost mythical, there was a time where I would reread books I enjoyed. Sometimes I would reread a book more than once! (Here’s looking at you […]
There are moments in my life when I *need* to curl up on my bed and dive into a story written by an author I have grown to love and trust. A journey which will be fresh, yet ‘reliable’ for my reader heart, in the sense I know I’ll come away smiling (or snorting/giggling/gasping/swooning) and […]
I spent most of yesterday hugging my youngest (a joy for this mother… and not just because it meant I could read!) while she overcame a bout of sniffles. Meanwhile, my first guest post published on the web! It’s amazing what one can do whilst snuggled on the couch—travelling through time inside the pages of […]
My second novel released yesterday—yes, Wounded Soul is here!—and I lay in bed last night contemplating my writing journey so far (instead of sleeping, because that’s what intelligent people needing sleep do. Ha!). After the sudden realisation my first four ‘book babies’ are/will be girls, I chuckled. Mr Wonderful asked what was happening in my […]
Mr Wonderful and I recently watched a movie which ticked my “romcom craving” box, but left him wanting in the subplot department. I reminded him not every film unfolds like a Bourne thriller. This spurned conversation about genre in books, and I experienced a split-second moment of feeling intelligent as I explained the intricacies of […]
