Close your eyes, press play, and step into the story. The audiobook of Eden is ready for your listening pleasure!! THE AUDIOBOOK IS LIVE!!!!!! Friends, I’m so excited about this! This has been a huge project but now it’s all worth it! After I published Eden, which was in itself an incredible but daunting journey for me, I just knew I had to have an audio version as well. But it was scary because that was another totally new process to figure out and I didn’t want to do it unl

Cloudy Skies Make the Most Beautiful Sunsets I’ve spent the past week basking in the glow of some of the most gorgeous sunsets I’ve ever seen! My husband and I have been visiting Venice, Florida and wow, every night is a sweeping vista of color. Each one is unique, but after watching several, I realized the most breath-taking sunsets need a sky that is cloudy over clear. The clouds, which one would think would obscure or dim, actually serve as a prism—scattering light, adding

Hello Old Friends and Welcome to New Ones! I’m very excited because more of you are signing up to read my newsletter! Thank you and welcome to the party! Let’s be friends forever! 🩷 I once came across a quote I love that says, “Two readers rarely meet as strangers.” I love that. Something about readers (and writers too) makes us instantly bonded. I just went to a writers’ conference called Storymakers, where I ran around like a chicken with its head cut off, (I saw this grow

Hello, Friends! While spring has sprung in many places by now, here in my hometown it is still cold. It snowed only yesterday! No fair! Sunshine, bike rides, hiking—right now I can only daydream. And believe me, I do. Daydream—isn’t it a cool word? As a practice, it gets a bad rap sometimes, like meaning you lack focus or don’t get things done. But maybe we should be doing more of it! I have been daydreaming about this idea lately. :) I even named one of my composer husband’s

Good Morning, Friends! It’s a cold, blustery day in Utah, which is a great time to transport myself to the island of Eden, where right now it’s reaching the end of summer and the beach is warm and inviting. Come along for a visit and dream of toasty sand in your toes and golden sunsets as you peruse the newsletter today. CELEBRATION TIME! What are we celebrating, you ask? 100 PAGES OF ECHOES OF EDEN! Yep, I have finished 100 pages of the sequel, which is huge because I’ve bee

It’s 2025! Can you believe it? And. . .my first ever newsletter! We are embarking on a new journey together, friends! So thank you for traveling along with me. 🙂 2024 was awesome! I published my debut novel, Eden (which you probably already know because you are on this reader list), it was a best-seller on Amazon in multiple categories for several weeks (crazy, right?), David (famous composer husband) created a beautiful song for the book, also called Eden (how romantic 😍),

ALLIGATORS, DOLPHINS, AND SHARKS—OH MY! Hello from sunny Florida! Yes, it has been many moons since I wrote my last newsletter. My two biggest excuses are 1) I’ve been working on Echoes of Eden and 2) We built a second home in Venice, Florida! Having a winter getaway has been a dream of mine for many years and now it’s come true. Our new adventure has begun. We have spent about five weeks here and I’m telling you, this place is wild! Alligators are everywhere (including in th

I hope you are having a lovely holiday season leading up to a most wonderful Christmas. In case you haven’t enjoyed the audiobook of Eden yet or have been waiting for a good deal, I wanted to let you know about a holiday sale through Closed Door Romance. Eden Audiobook for $6.99! Here’s how to get it: Eden on Closed Door Romance OR GO TO www.closeddoorromance.com, then type “Eden” in the search bar. You can also order signed copies of the book there, which I should be able

A Cornucopia of Stories: The Reader's Harvest Ah November, the month of thanksgiving. A season to savor stories and celebrate the joy of reading. One might say that God, country, and family are what we give thanks for during this time of year and I say yes, absolutely! But can we also make a little room in our gracious hearts for the gathering of good reads? For the bountiful harvest of books we enjoy this season and every season? Books! They give us an abundance of nourishme