I’m slogging along in the middle of the book, but just wanted to take a minute out to say I’ll be reviewing books for Waterbrook/Multnomah and posting them on my blog. Seems like a sweet deal to get free advance review copies, eh? As well, I’ve been asked to provide a blurb for LOVE’S RESCUE, by Tammy Barley, to be published by Whitaker House. I’m really touched and flattered to be asked to do that!

I’ve also been working on planning our April trip to Texas. I think half the fun of a trip is in the anticipation. We’ll be landing in El Paso and driving on to Alpine, if all goes well. I’m excited because I’ve never been that far west in Texas. The next two days we’ll be spending in Texas’s magnificent Big Bend country. Accomodations there seem to be either $$$resort-priced or barebones basic. We’ve opted for something middle-of-the-road in the tiny town of Terlingua.

Then we’ll be going on to the San Saba area, which is the locale in which I set MARRYING MILLY and my current work-in-progress, SOMEONE FOR SARAH. Any onsite research I have done in my writing career seems to be after the fact rather than before, but these days I make up fictional towns, rather than trying to make a real one fit in with what I need. One time when I was in England I checked out Winslade, a town I’d used for a medieval Laurie Grant book, only to find out it was a post office address and nothing more. There was only a sign in the middle of the countryside.

After that it’ll be on to visit my aunt and cousins in the Austin area! And now, I’d better get back to my SARAH.

Blessings, Laurie