Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Tracie Peterson!   Writes: Historical Christian romance with action and adventure packed inside. Stories are generally set between the post-Civil War in America and the turn of the 20th century.   About: Tracie Peterson is often called the Queen of Historical Christian Romance with over 130 titles to her name. She enjoys her mountain home in Montana, family and friends and her collie and two cats. Writing for her is a ministry to offer Biblical encouragement to readers, as well as education and entertainment. She loves researching the historical details of each story and sharing interesting tidbits from days gone by in each of her stories.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: My readers are going to enjoy stories of romance set against the backdrop of historical time periods and events. They’re going to be open to Biblical encouragement without preachy overtones, and characters who are flawed, but striving to become a better version of themselves. Most of all, my…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Suzanne Woods Fisher!   Writes: Bestselling, award winning author Suzanne Woods Fisher writes in several genres: Amish fiction, Historical fiction, and women’s contemporary fiction. Anything but Plain is her newest release. It’s a story about a young Amish woman with undiagnosed ADHD (not common among the Amish but it does occur). She feels like a square peg in a round hole, constantly disappointing those she loves. She can’t stay. But how can she leave?   About: Ageless author seeks readers who love PG-rated fiction packed with crisp banter, nuggets of wisdom, gently delivered hard truths, and longings fulfilled.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: Readers craving the kind of books that… You fall into and lose track of time because you can’t stop reading You think about all day long The characters become friends and you worry about them Make you feel happier and more inspired about your own life You finish one book and reach for another by the…

One of the best things about writing the WARRIORS OF THE STONE CIRCLE series has been the crazy, woo-woo things that have happened or I’ve discovered while writing it.  From creating elements or events for my FICTIONAL story that have been discovered later to connecting my husband’s DNA ancestry to locations in the story, it was one surprise after another as truth became wilder than fiction. My series is based on ancient Celtic mythology, but when I was researching the gods and goddesses and the symbols and important details, I realized that a god/goddess was missing. Seven is a sacred number to the Celts and yet there were only six main ancient gods. So, I wondered where the seventh one was. And that led me to a series of “what-if” questions that helped me develop the story that is told in four books – what if the six turned against the seven? What if they exiled her because she was evil and trying to destroy the world? What if there were gates that kept her out of this world? What if those gates were circles of standing stones? And what if the ancient gods/goddesses left behind human descendants who were…

1–What is the title of your latest release? CAGED FURY, book two of the Goldenlach Ridge Shifters trilogy. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When a tenacious bobcat shifter is captured and caged to be sold off as sport for hunters, she must put her trust in the person she got captured along with her in order for them to escape—or die trying. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? This book is set in Alaska, an entirely different location than book one in the series, but still northern. I needed a remote location for the antagonists to be able to conduct their experiments in relative seclusion, and an abandoned wildlife rescue ended up being a perfect choice. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely! She would be fantastic to go camping with. She’s level-headed, outdoorsy, and has a great sense of humor. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Survivor, sexy, and deadly 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned a lot about Alaska and how it’s both similar and dissimilar to my home province of Saskatchewan, where book one in the series is…

1–What is the title of your latest release? RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When Eva’s husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her Magick to find out what really happened that night on the river. RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON is a psychological thriller that weaves together the threads of folk magick with personal & cultural empowerment. At its haunted heart lies a mystery and ghost story, with dark magical realism woven throughout. With deep characterization, domestic suspense, and an unreliable female protagonist, this is my Chicana Girl on the Train. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I grew up in the desert on the Mexicali border of Southern California, then moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where I raised my children and did most of my mothering work, so it’s a natural extension of my themes and characterization of my novels that they take place in the places that raised me. The desert communities I write about remain a magical and potent place of inspiration for my stories. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?…

1–What is the title of your latest release? SECRETS OF THE NILE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have joined his formidable mother on a holiday to visit the exotic treasures of Egypt. Their host, Lord Bertram Deeley, is a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities, who has invited his closest friends on a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor. But on the first night of their journey, he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast, a victim of cyanide poisoning. Who amongst this group of his nearest and dearest would want to kill their generous host? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Egypt has fascinated me since I was a little girl, and my parents took me to the Tutankhamun exhibit at Chicago’s Field Museum. It was also an enormously popular destination for Edwardian travelers, so it made perfect sense to send Emily there. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life? Absolutely! We’d sit around eating Stilton and drinking port. 5–What are three words that describe your sleuth? Intelligent, elegant, loyal 6–What’s something you learned while writing this…

1–What is the title of your latest release? AN HEIRESS’S GUIDE TO DECEPTION AND DESIRE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A quirky heiress/crime columnist reunites with her former fiancée to search for a missing actress in Victorian London. Banter and hijinks follow. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I studied Victorian England in grad school and had wanted to set something in that era for a while. This series was the perfect opportunity to do that because of how much crime journalism and the middle class expanded in this era. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely! Caro would be loads of fun and we could talk about our cats together! 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Sexy, Repentant, Smitten 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I didn’t use it but I learned that the first sports club in London with an indoor swimming pool was founded in the 1860s. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I usually wait until I’m totally done but I’m thinking about changing my process for my next book. 8–What’s your…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE LOST MELODY 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant enters an asylum looking for a patient they claim is not there—and finds unexpected music in a hopeless place. The origins of music therapy combined with Victorian asylums and mental health. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I had a dream once that I woke in a strange stone house of sorts, with no memory of how I’d gotten there, or why they wouldn’t let me leave. The heroine’s journey is not quite the same, but that dream spurred me into researching asylums in Victorian England! 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely! We’d play piano duets and talk music! 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Musical, compassionate, determined 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Even trapped in awful circumstances, freedom does exist. There’s only so much about a person you can actually lock up. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I edit more than I write, I think. Every few pages, I go back over…

Hi, everyone! Irene Hannon here to tell you about my latest romantic suspense novel, Body of Evidence. This book features Grace Reilly, a forensic pathologist in rural Missouri, who uncovers an odd pattern in the seemingly natural deaths of older residents. Swoon-worthy Sheriff Nate Cox is skeptical of her suspicions—until someone starts targeting her. They join forces, but as they work together to expose the truth, the danger intensifies. Suddenly, more lives are on the line…including Grace’s. But the heart-pounding adrenaline rush in this book isn’t confined to the high-stakes, life-and-death plotline. Because in the midst of all the mayhem, romance also blooms. So buckle up and get ready for a gripping roller-coaster ride!   B is for brotherhood. Actually, in this case, sisterhood. Grace is tight with her two sisters, so expect some lively banter and good-natured sisterly teasing. O is for Oh, My! Be prepared for a surprise at the big reveal! D is for dang. As in, I didn’t see that coming—an advance reader comment. Y is for yesterday. Both Grace and Nate have secrets in their pasts that could affect their future.   O is for Odor. Nate has an olfactory issue that is not conducive…

Do you love spy stories as much as I do? I used to visit my cousins’ lake house every summer and the only books in the house were spy novels—Neville Shute, Ian Fleming’s James Bond books, John le Carré. When I’d finished devouring my own books, I would start on these. In recent years, I’ve also found some terrific spy thriller series on television. Here are just some of the fantastic shows I’ve enjoyed. Let me know if you have any to add to the list!   The Americans   This edge-of-the-seat Cold War spy thriller series is about two agents who were infiltrated into America to live like a normal suburban married couple while undertaking dangerous undercover missions for the Soviets. They live this way for decades, even have children together, before things start to unravel when an FBI agent moves in across the road. Brilliant performances by Keri Russell (of Felicity and Austenland fame) and Matthew Rhys.   Homeland   Carrie Mathieson is a bipolar CIA agent engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with a returned American prisoner of war she believes was turned by Al-Qaeda. Carrie’s manic episodes, which allow her to think laterally and come up with…