As a writer, I read. As a lover of words, description, imagery, and story, I read. As a reviewer, I read. I’m blessed having read numerous books that took me to places I’ve never been and intro [ Read More ]
Reading Habits from Wee Girl to Mature Girl I’ve read from the time I learned the alphabet and strung letters together to form words. “Daddy, what does S T O P spell?” Then came sentences. An [ Read More ]
I count books among my best friends and have since I became an avid reader at the ripe old age of seven. I flew through all the popular series—Trixie, Nancy, Laura, and Anne. I lived in their wor [ Read More ]
I believe my journey into reading and writing romantic suspense started long before I picked up my first book. As the youngest of my siblings, I had plenty of time to entertain myself growing up, [ Read More ]
For Such a Time as This I love a good contemporary romance story. I don’t care if it’s a trope I’ve read a hundred times before, if the characters grab my attention and the plot is solid, I [ Read More ]
My “reading” life these days is more accurately described as my “listening” life, though I fully embrace that audiobooks count as reading. I have four kids, and on top of being an author, I [ Read More ]
I’ll often pull a stack of books out of my bookshelf and plan to read them throughout the following month. (Two months? Three?) Right now, I have two books on the floor by my bed, partially read. [ Read More ]
Ooh, what a fabulous thing to talk about: books, and what I’m reading! I’ve been a reader all my life – it was probably inevitable with a librarian for a mother. I love to read, and I find it [ Read More ]
By Jessie Mattis @JessieMattis Remember that kid in school who got their classwork done early and then buried their nose in a book until the bell rang? That was me. In grade school, I would careful [ Read More ]