Lately I’ve been talking about how I’m moved to change my backlist (older books) to reflect my ‘new direction’  in Christian/clean romance. Okay, okay, so if you’ve read my past blogs, you know that it’s been some time since I knew that this was what I needed to do. Yet somehow I kept dragging my feet and not listening to He Who Lives Upstairs. Well, I’ve finally caved–funny how God gets you to do that–and I’ve starting rewriting my older, contemporary books. Two have already been completed. Those are The Trouble With Love Potions and Always Texas. In order, they are a zany rom-com and a heartwarming tale of second chances. Currently I’m working on Maybe It Was Texas which is a mix between the two, a little humorous and definitely heartwarming. You might have known it as Blame It On Texas.

Somehow in all this planning and rewriting and shuffling around, I came up with the idea to give my readers (most of whom love the Amish sub-genre more than any other books) a chance to experience my contemporary work for free. Yes, FREE! So starting next Friday (August 4, 2023) I will be posting the first chapter of  A Million to One for you to read.  This book (once upon a time All You Need Is Love) will be available a chapter at a time, one each week until we reach  the end of the book.

The hopes are of course that everyone loves the new and improved version of it so much that they are on board for reading my other contemporary titles. Might happen. Might not. But it’s a chance I’m willing to take.

I’m actually re-writing as we go–I’ll be a little ahead of you but not by much–and as of right now I would classify A Million to One as “clean.” That means no sex and no language. I will stop here and say that it might become cleaner, but there will be no shift in the language nor will any bedroom scenes on the page be added. (Side note, the characters are all married in this tale so I can’t attest to what they might do behind closed doors.)

So what is clean versus Christian? That is the question for the ages. More and more I’m seeing books that are really, really clean (no sex, no language, no alcohol or drugs) being touted as “Christian” even though there is no Christian worldview in sight. It can make it a little more difficult to find books that do have traditionally Christian characters, but that’s the trend. I’m sure I’ll be talking about this more in the future. For now know this…

I’m committed to making all of my backlist as clean as possible. I’m not opposed to social drinking or sex scenes that are implied. These could crop up in any of my stories–Marrying Jonah and Gabriel’s Bride being two of my Amish romances that have sexual relations off the page. I understand that there are those who are not okay with these aspects and if I offend, I apologize. It’s not my intent. My goal is to give you the best story I can, told in the best way I can tell it and still have a PG rating.

I hope everyone will come along with me in reading A Million to One! All you have to do is click FOLLOW in the upper righthand corner of the page, and you’ll be notified by email when a new chapter is posted. In between chapters, I will be announcing when new books are released as well as cleaned up versions of older titles are re-released. And I might just tackle the question of Christian vs clean. If not I’ll definitely be exploring that in 2024.

Until then, thanks for reading!