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My kitchen changes with the seasons and this wrap seems to match autumn so well. Healthy and delicious and out of the ordinary. Enjoy! Ingredients 1 medium acorn squash (unpeeled), cubed 6 ounces applewood-smoked bacon (in one piece), cubed 6 leaves sage, chopped Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper 4 whole chives, chopped 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 2 tablespoons …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] So happy to share this pre~sale from my publisher & Baker Book House. For those who’ve preordered, you keep me writing. Many thanks! Tidewater Bride Pre-order [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column] [/et_pb_row] [/et_pb_section]
📖 Excited to gather my influencer team for Tidewater Bride starting September 15th! I’ll post the sign-up link that day. If you’d like to read the novel, post reviews, & share in creative ways come January, I’d love your help. Thank you!
Readers ask such interesting questions about me & my books so I thought I’d share a few fun, fast facts here. When I look back at my life in snapshots like these I see God’s hand at work, shaping me to be a writer, a particular kind of writer with a certain kind of story to tell. Each of us …
Today I happily turned in the pages of Tidewater Bride, my last look at the book before it goes to print. January 5th will be here before we know it! I hope you enjoy reading this novel as much as I enjoyed writing it. Now if only I could time-travel back to the 17th-century and meet some of those characters …
I’m awaiting the final pages for Tidewater Bride, a last review/reading before the book goes to print. My last visit to Jamestown was solo on an overcast spring day. Solo research trips are one of the most wonderful things on earth! I took these pictures, including the statue of Pocahontas, a historical heroine of mine since childhood. But who was …
Selah Hopewell seems to be the only woman in the Virginia Colony who has no wish to wed. True, there are too many men and far too few women in James Towne. But Selah already has her hands full assisting her father in the family’s shop. And now she is in charge of an incoming ship of tobacco brides who …
It’s that wonderful time of almost summer when I just pressed SEND and returned galleys of Tidewater Bride to my publisher & am now almost ready to share the new cover while awaiting the final pages to read one last time before the book goes to print. I usually run out into the garden and pick flowers to decorate those …
Some publishing houses are known for their beautiful cover art and I’m happy my publisher- Revell – is one of them. Cover reveals are one of my favorite parts of publishing so it’s a joy to share some upcoming historical fiction that recently caught my eye. It’s especially fun to celebrate these before my own appears soon for Tidewater Bride. …
What inspires a novel or character? Sometimes it’s simply an image like this one. When I first saw it I knew I was looking at the heroine in my twelfth historical novel, Tidewater Bride. She embodies Selah Hopewell, the enduring, emotionally torn daughter of James Towne’s cape merchant. Right down to her befreckled skin! I consider it a gift when …