This past Christmas, our fourteen-year-old granddaughter requested a planner for Christmas. Not just any planner, this one offered about a thousand options to personalize it including stickers, pens, pencils . . . you get the point. Whether she ever really used it for planning or not, I don’t know. It may have just become another art project, but at the time, she loved it.
Photo by Miesha Moriniere on Pexels.com Writing my book, A Plan for Everything, was one of the most difficult writing challenges I’ve experienced to date. That winter, I worked through low-level carbon monoxide poisoning for weeks not realizing what was happening to me, wondering if I would ever get well from respiratory illness, wondering if [...]
Photo by Barbara Webb on Pexels.com I took a sip of my lukewarm unsweetened tea. Very different in Massachusetts from the cold sweet tea I loved so much back where we were from in Georgia. I scanned the group gathered to eat lunch―my husband, Jerry, our eight-year-old Aaron, six-year-old Bethany, and a host of new [...]
In The Key to Everything, the protagonist Genny faces a sacrifice she never saw coming. In fact, as the author writing the story, I never saw it coming either. But, there it was, and I wondered if I were challenged in the same way whether I would be able to follow through as Genny did.
When we hear the word, legacy, we often think of a financial or real estate inheritance. That’s what Genny Sanders first thought in my book, The Key to Everything, when her grandmother died leaving Genny her house. Genny was grateful for the house, but that was only the beginning of her grandmother’s legacy. A legacy [...]
A sense of place has always been important to me. It’s been important in where I have chosen to live, and it’s important in the stories I write. I know what a sense of place feels like and yet, I find myself struggling to capture words that define it. While researching the topic, I came [...]
In The Key to Everything, we find these words: “’Wish I could’ve seen my grandmother’s work exhibited in that depot. She stopped painting in her twenties, though.” David took a sip from his soda. “Why’s that?” Genny swallowed the last bite of her hot dog and plucked one of the zinnias from the pot in [...]
Please welcome Beverly Varnado and learn more about her romance, The Key to Everything, which released last week! Amazon Link What is your writing process like? The simplest answer I could give is to say it’s organic. I don’t always use the same process. I wouldn’t even say that I’m a plotter versus a seat [...]
When Hearts Collide by Sara Beth Williams A reckless mistake landed Jacob “Jay” Mathews behind bars, but it was his inescapable guilt that led him to God. Upon his release, with the help of a spiritual mentor and friend, he strives to move forward with his life. Determined to graduate college, get a job, and [...]
We are happy to present our newest romance cover, The Key to Everything by Beverly Varnado! Blurb: When nurse practitioner, Dr Genny Sanders inherits her late-grandmother’s house, she moves back to her hometown of Worthville, Georgia, determined to leave her past—and her scheming ex—behind her with a new job and new friends. But during a [...]
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