Inspiration Everywhere One of the most frequent questions authors get is where do we get our ideas. This is an especially popular question for those of us who write romantic suspense. I always thin [ Read More ]
Hello My Reading Life Readers! We are exited to let you know there will be a change to my Reading Life. the name of the blog will be transitioning from My Reading Life to Pages Of My Life. T [ Read More ]
Helena Smrcek I love Christmas. And by that, I mean the Christmas music, the baking and cooking, present wrapping, the whole entire shebang. But one of my favorite things is decorating our Christma [ Read More ]
I Wish You a Bookish Christmas by Penny Frost McGinnis In December, like many of you, I tend to read Christmas books. Since I was a child and heard the stories about St. Nicholas, I’ve been fasci [ Read More ]
Have you ever heard of the Icelandic tradition of Jolabokaflod (the Christmas Book Flood)? This tradition of buying books for Christmas presents began in Iceland during WWII. Supply chains were cut [ Read More ]
I confessed in my last My Reading Life post that I’m a fickle reader when it comes to fiction and that I was finding it difficult to make it a priority in my reading life. That was back in June a [ Read More ]
Dear Blue Ridge Reader Connections—thank you for having me! I believe this is the third time I’ve done this blog topic, but that’s okay—I read a lot! I’m on Book 126 for my GoodReads Chal [ Read More ]
by @HelenaSmrcek Here comes a confession. I grew up hating reading. Ironic as it may sound, coming from an author, I had a good reason for it. Although never formally diagnosed, I had a mild form [ Read More ]
Have you ever read a story and imagined that you could BE a particular character? When I was a kid, I literally wore out a set of Little House on the Prairie books. I read the covers right off of t [ Read More ]
By Maryann Landers My husband and I are traveling north from southern Utah to our home in Alaska in a forty foot bus conversion. This grand adventure will take us through Idaho, Montana and up into [ Read More ]