Hello friends!

This newsletter was meant to go out last Friday, but I sent my computer on ahead with family to Florida so that I could hop on a plane Friday without any luggage and meet them here. What was supposed to be an easy trip was fraught with plane complications and flight delays. I arrived in St. Petersburg two and a half hours later than planned (11 p.m.) and missed an entire evening with my five-month-old niece. I made up for that disappointment on Sunday, with a family walk to a French cafe, family pictures on the beach, and lots of baby snuggles.

Today, we traveled to Tampa and visited the Tampa Bay History Center. It had a ton of wonderful exhibits that turned the gears in my head toward more historical fiction books to write in the future. I also decided that a trip to St. Augustine will need to take place in the near future for research purposes. I'm excited and hopeful for years to come of stories popping into my head that I can write down and share, and I look forward to many adventures in new locations. Perhaps we will visit citrus farms, pirate ships, and Civil War-era Florida together one day!

Do you have any recommendations for things to do in the Tampa/Clearwater/Indian Rocks Beach area? I'd love to hear from you!

In other news, Becoming Anne Whitlow will be 99 cents on October 12! If you haven't snagged a copy yet or want to recommend it to a friend, that's a great day to do so!

That's all from me this week! Check out the book below before you go!

Guest Author Spotlight

Francine's Foibles

by Linda Shenton Matchett

She's given up hope. He never had any. Will they find it together?

World War II is finally over, and America is extra grateful as the country approaches this year’s Thanksgiving. But for Francine life hasn’t changed. Despite working at Fort Meade processing the paperwork for the thousands of men who have returned home, she’s still lonely and very single. Is she destined for spinsterhood?

Grateful that his parents anglicized the family surname after emigrating to the United States after the Great War, first-generation German-American Ray Fisher has done all he can to hide his heritage. He managed to make it through this second “war to end all wars,” but what American woman would want to marry into a German family? Must he leave the country to find wedded bliss?

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"But now thus says the Lord,

he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel:

“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine."

Isaiah 43:1