Reading, Writing, Reviewing
Cozy up early this year. 🎄 We’re talking with Lisa Jordan about her first Christmas romance, “Find Me in the Silent Night,” small-town feuds, and the making of the Jonathan Island series. New Book Bites episode drops this Wednesday, 10/7!
🎶📚 What happens when 17 authors each pick an 80s song and write a story? 🎶 In this episode of Rebecca and Rebecca, we talk with six authors from Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, a short story anthology from the DFW chapter of American Christian Fiction Writers. You’ll hear about rom-coms, mystery, and a whole lot of 80s fun. We also cover how songs sparked story ideas, why the 70s are next, and how anthologies help writers build readers. Listen or watch now, then grab the anthology for your next five-minute reading break!
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What if the myths we grew up with were actually true — and quietly shaped the course of history? In this episode of Book Bites, hosts Rebecca Reed and Rebecca Yauger sit down with author Janyre Tromp to talk about her newest novel, Burning the Raven Tree, part of her Threads of the Lost Myth series.
Janyre shares the Slavic folklore behind the book, including the legend of the World Tree, and how she layered it into a cold case mystery set in the forests of northern Michigan. She also opens up about her nearly 30-year career in publishing, her work with Wild Heart Books, and the indie author services company she co-founded with bestselling author Julie Cantrell to help self-published writers thrive.
Plus, Janyre explains the fascinating neuroscience behind storytelling — and why a good story sticks with us long after the facts fade.
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On this episode of Rebecca and Rebecca, we brought the whole crew — SIX authors, ONE unforgettable series.
Meet the ladies behind Heart of Nashville: a six-book connected Christian romance series featuring hockey players, single dads, studio musicians, ghostwriters, and a found family of friends who all hang out at the same East Nashville cafe. We chat with Tara Grace Ericson, Elizabeth Maddrey, our own Rebecca Reed, Andrea Christenson, Carrie Padgett, and our old friend, Jessica Wakefield.
We talk about how the series came together, how they kept timelines from colliding, and why they’d do it all again. Five books are out now, and book six drops October 5!
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You may have seen the post on social media and even ran across this interview on your favorite podcast place, but guess what? We forgot to post this delightful interview right here on our website. So, in case you missed it:
What happens when you cross meticulous historical research with an author who dictates her books scene by scene? In this episode, we sit down with Danielle Grandinetti, author of the Di Stasio Giornaliste Agency series, to find out.
Danielle takes us inside her process as a self-described “immersive writer,” walking through the dictation workflow she’s built to get stories out of her head and onto the page as fast as she can tell them — and why she believes that process is really a return to the ancient tradition of oral storytelling, not a shortcut around it.
Then we turn to the books. Her current release, Eyewitness Sketch, follows Gabby, a sketch artist covering the Prohibition era on the islands of Door County, Wisconsin, and Andre Johansson, whose Icelandic heritage reflects the real Scandinavian settlement history of the region. Danielle shares how Gabby’s experience as an Italian woman in a Norse community draws on her own family’s immigration story — and how the 1930s’ rollback of women’s workplace gains shapes every step of Gabby’s fight to be taken seriously.
We also get a first look at what’s ahead in the series: Emma Hancock at the Olympics in Sabotage Games (out this September), Lena’s FDR campaign-trail romance in Shrouded Trail, Tabby’s Dust Bowl story at the Chicago World’s Fair in Fraudulent Progress, and a Berlin Olympics finale in Hostile Ally.
Whether you’re here for the history, the craft talk, or the swoony small-town romance, this conversation has something for you.
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Author Abbey Downey talks about her upcoming historical romance, The Marquess’s Masked Archer, the newest entry in her Headliners and Heartstrings series.
Set in 1907 at Cedar Point Amusement Park, the story follows Sylvie, a young woman secretly performing archery shows to hide her identity from her wealthy family, and Miles, an English marquess who fled to America after a false scandal and now studies insects for a living. In this episode, Abby shares how the book’s title changed at the last minute, the real history behind women in competitive archery, how she developed Miles’s unusual career as an early medical entomologist, and the faith journey both characters go through over the course of the story.
Whether you love clean historical romance, stories rooted in real research, or characters with unexpected careers, this episode has something for you.
📖 The Marquess’s Masked Archer is available for pre-order now.
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What do you do when you discover your family actually owns a castle in Ireland? If you’re author Carolyn Miller, you turn it into a romance series. In this episode, Carolyn talks about the real 2015 trip to Ireland’s west coast that sparked her Fairall Romance Legacy series, and how that inspiration carried into her latest release, “An Irish Hope.” She shares the story behind her favorite (very relatable) scene, how her hero revealed himself as she wrote — she’s a self-described pantser, not a plotter — and why she loves weaving real places into her fiction. Plus: a sneak peek at her next series, set in Italy. Grab a cup of tea and settle in for a chat full of hope, heart, and humor.
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In this episode of Book Bites, Rebecca and Rebecca visit with Morgan L. Busse to talk about the conclusion to her epic fantasy trilogy, Winter’s Dawn — written, she says, during three of the hardest years of her life. The Rebeccas dig into the enemies-to-lovers romance readers have been waiting for, the moment Morgan’s editors said “finally,” and why she called this one “a book of worship.” Join us for this candid, moving conversation about craft, faith, and finishing the story she set out to tell.
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This 1930s era story is equal parts mystery and romance intertwined with setting and second chances. Join the conversation as the Rebeccas discuss the unique character origins, multiple mysteries, and intriguing occupation the heroine has in this prohibition story complete with all the story pieces that suggests. Will Eyewitness Sketch by Danielle Grandinetti be your next inspirational read?
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Clint Hall, “a science fiction and fantasy author known for stories of hope, wonder, and adventure” (and an all-around great guy), joins Rebecca and Rebecca to discuss his latest release, “Worlds Collide.” Learn about characters, world-building and being a discovery writer (or not) on this episode of Book Bites. Check out our Linktr.ee for all the places to watch or listen to this interview. You’ll enjoy meeting Clint!
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