Announcements

It had been a rejuvenating summer break, but I am excited to get back to our regular programming!

 Coffee & Books

Our next Coffee and Books event will be on August 17th from 1:00-2:00pm EST. Join authors Misty M. Beller, and Jodi Basye for a fun Q&A session! We always have a blast talking books with these ladies. I hope you can join us!

 Book Giveaways

I am participating in three eBook giveaways this month. All books are historical romance, but not all are Christian romance. Enjoy perusing these many reading options!

Happy and blessed reading!

 Historical Christian Romance Writers

Authors, I am excited to offer you many options to enjoy the benefits of being an HCRW member. We now have 3 tiers of support. The first tier is the Drafting membership for just $3 a month. With this membership, you can connect with other authors of historical Christian romance on our private Facebook group and join us for our monthly live Q&A. The second tier is our Revising membership for just $12 a month. In this tier, you get everything in the Drafting membership plus access to the HCRW Resource Library, which houses all our training videos. The third tier is our Editing membership for just $37 a month. Enjoy all the benefits of the Revising membership plus, twice a month critique meeting, and free access to all expert trainings.

You can learn more and become a member today for just $3 a month at www.literaryscape.com/hcrw. I cannot wait to work with you as you join our amazing community of historical Christian romance writers.

How to Write a Book Proposal That Sells

Join Terry Whalin on September 19th from 5:00-6:00pm EST as he walks you through how to write a book proposal that sells, for just $17. *This training is free for HCRW Editing members.

W. Terry Whalin understands both sides of the editorial desk–as an editor and a writer. He worked as a magazine editor and his magazine work has appeared in more than 50 publications. A former literary agent, Terry is an Acquisitions Editor at Morgan James Publishing. He has written more than 60 books through traditional publishers in a wide range of topics from children’s books to biographies to co-authored books. Several of Terry’s books have sold over 100,000 copies.  Terry’s newest book, JUMPSTART YOUR PUBLISHING DREAMS, INSIDER SECRETS TO SKYROCKET YOUR SUCCESS is packed with insight. Also Terry has an innovative online training course to help authors effectively connect with literary agents and editors called Write A Book Proposal. Terry is a popular speaker and teacher at numerous writers’ conferences and an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

If you want to write a book proposal that will catch the eye of an agent and acquisitions editor, then be sure to join us for an hour of training.

Melissa’s Writing Corner 

Every author must decide which publishing path they want to take. With God’s guidance I have chosen to self-publish. There are many pieces to publishing your own book and I want to share this journey with you.

Over the next several weeks there will be a Friday video where I share who, what, where, when, why, and how behind self-publishing. The first video went out last Friday. I have put a link to it and this week’s video, below, for your viewing pleasure.

I am looking forward to sharing this journey with you and in the end providing you with a satisfying historical Christian suspense romance novel.

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Episode Notes

In this episode, Tiffanie, Mom, and Melissa discuss the first book in Sarah Sundin’s Sunrise at Normandy series, The Sea Before Us. We really enjoyed reading and discussing this book. It was a great kickoff to this series. There are spoilers, so if you have not read this book yet, you may hold off on listening to this episode.

Discussion Topics:

·      How God is the perfect father.

·      You cannot escape God.

·      When you lean on God, He won’t give way.

·      Changing yourself to please someone else.

·      All or nothing. No crumbs, the whole loaf.

·      Our loved ones are in God’s hands.

We gave the following ratings to each of the story elements listed below.

(Espresso = an expression, Mocha = Medium amount, Latte = A lot)

• Romance - Espresso

• Suspense - Mocha

• Action - Mocha

• Mystery - Mocha

• Drama - Mocha

• Inspiration - Latte

LiteraryScape’s overall lasso rating of The Sea Before Us by Sarah Sundin is 2.75 lassos. Three out of the four of us gave it 3 lassos. One member gave it a 2. With this overall rating we are sure you will be hooked and hog-tied with this romance story.

Our rating scale:

1 lasso = a throw and a miss

2 lassos = hooked

3 lassos = hooked and hog-tied