Susan Meissner is a talented, award winning author and a good friend. Love hanging with Sooz whenever I can.She writes:I married my best friend one month shy of my twentieth birthday, which seems incredibly young to me now, but the thing is, Bob’s still the guy I would chose to spend my life with.My dress was frothing with Chantilly lace and a …
Beautiful Brides: Denise Hunter
Denise Hunter is a friend, a popular romance author and a girl drummer!!She writes of her wedding:You can tell it was the 80s by the peach color scheme and big hair. But that’s love shining in our eyes, and true love never goes out of style. 🙂 I was on a tight budget, so I bought my gown for $120.00 at a …
Beautiful Brides: Mary Connealy
Many of you love Mary Connealy’s sweet, funny, historicals! Here’s how charming her own romance turned out! Mary writes: Ivan and I met in eighth grade at a country school track meet. We both attended one-room country schools (different ones) through eighth grade, then went to high school together. We were friends in high school and ran around in a …
Beautiful Brides: Tamera Alexander
Tamera Alexander is one of the sweetest women I know. But she also possesses a sharp, funny wit. Here’s some great pictures from her wedding day. Isn’t she gorgeous? Tammy writes: Hey friends, Let me start off by saying: Arranged marriages still work! I met my sweet mother-in-law, Claudette Harris Alexander, before I ever met my husband, Joe. Here’s where that went… …
Beautiful Brides: Robin Lee Hatcher
Continuing the tour of beautiful brides… Here’s Robin Lee Hatcher in ’89! Doesn’t she look great? Robin writes: First a note about my wedding dress. It was purchased for and worn first by my 5′ 10″ eldest daughter. Two years later, I wore it (as I am under 5′ 6″ it had to be shortened plus I used a belled …
Beautiful Brides: Deborah Raney
Being as I wrote a book about four brides and a wedding dress, I asked some author friends to share their wedding pictures and stories with me. Now I’m sharing them with you! First up, the beautiful Deborah Raney! “When I met Ken Raney and it was almost love at first sight. We dated all summer, but in the fall, …
The Wedding Dress Releases Tomorrow
“True Beauty” Facebook Party & $200 Visa Cash Card Giveaway! Enter Today and Save the Date-4/19! *** What is “true” beauty? Join the conversation at Rachel’s Author Chat Party Event Page. On the eventing of 4/19 we’ll gather to talk about inner and outer beauty and share moments of beauty in our lives. In the meantime, celebrate with Rachel by …
On Being Selfish and Selfless
One of the things I love about being a writer is digging deep to give wisdom and meaning to my characters in dialog and action that’s not trite or expressly something I would say or do. While I’m pro life, I had to write convincing pro choice dialog for the book The Sweet By and By when my heroine was …
Thoughts on Writing Today
Need to edit about 30 pages. Fifty would be better. Sometimes it goes quickly, other times I have to cut and rewrite. It’s hard in this final stage. Last rewriting before turning the book in. I’m not sure if the book is good or if I want it to be good. I’m so close to it, reading every work, dissecting …
Standing n the Surf
I love this image. Standing on the edge of a turbulent surf, watching, the storm roll in. As I took this picture of friend Beth Vogt, I imagined for a moment I was not on shore but out at sea. I wondered how high and how strong the waves crashed two, three, a hundred miles into the Gulf. No land …