When an author friend sends you a review

Laura FrantzAuthors, Books, how readers help, Inspiration, Reading, Reading Friends, Uncategorized

I got so tickled – tickled pink or rather indigo! – when an author friend sent me this review she’d come across for one of my novels. I tend to avoid reviews though some authors read theirs to learn how to improve their writing. But I’ve found that what one reader loves another loathes so I don’t find them particularly …

Christmas in July

Laura Frantzat my desk, Books, christmas, Heroes and Heroines, Historical Fiction, History, Inspiration, Novel News, Patriots, Reading, Uncategorized

An 1801 portrait by Rembrandt Peale It’s truly Christmas in July for me as I’m close to turning in my first holiday novella to my publisher, Revell. I have a love for this story like no other {though I think I say that about every novel when I’m in the thick of it}. But I do adore this joyful, poignant, …

England in June

Laura FrantzAuthors, Garden, Inspiration, Uncategorized

June was a whirlwind & I’m so happy to be home! I was in England, London particularly, when the heat rose to record temps there. While I didn’t enjoy that & missed their usual temperate weather, I did enjoy all the lush roses. Highlights were tea at the Pump Room in Bath, Cornwall, touring several grand estates, & savoring the …

Dutch & German editions!

Laura FrantzAuthors, Book Covers, Foreign editions, Historical Fiction, History, Inspiration, Novel News, Uncategorized

I wish someone had told my seven year old self when I started writing stories that someday my words would travel around the world & I’d be a “paper missionary” as Janette Oke said of Christian writers not long ago. Now, grown up me is absolutely amazed & delighted when foreign language editions of my novels come into being. Aren’t …