BIG publishing news: I'm a #Harlequin author!!! 💖 A Texas state park-set romance is coming your way in Dec. 2025 from @HarlequinBooks, thanks to senior editor @MelissaEndlich.📚 Couldn't be more thrilled!🎉 #ThinkHarlequin #LoveInspired #theworldneedsmoreromance

"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable sensations." –Vladimir Nabokov

Though it's the end of an era with Season 11 of #Grantchester 📺, at least I can enjoy the novels on which the series is based again and again. 📚 Thanks for all the memories #JamesRuncie and @masterpiecepbs! 💖 #grantchesterpbs #grantchestermysteries #noveladaptation

"Agatha Christie was a woman who scrupulously kept her private life hidden from view, dodging the press, granting no interviews, and even, for a brief time, famously disappearing." (back cover, autobiography) So what happened? Historical fiction gives a possible answer...😏📚

For children to flourish, they need to grow up reading and being read to. The following is a list of essential books for any beloved children in your life. And they’re brilliant enough that they can be enjoyed equally well by adults. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, preferably in a kid-friendly version. These shockingly strange stories of magic and adventure fired the minds of authors like Lovecraft, Dickens, George Eliot and the Brontë sisters. FIVE CHILDREN AND IT and THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET, by Edith Nesbit. A series of books about four children who have misadventures with a Psammead and a phoenix. The way Edith portrays kids was a major influence on Narnia and Harry Potter. A WRINKLE IN TIME, by Madeleine L’Engle. Awkward, brainy Meg Murry must travel to the ends of the universe to rescue her father, in a visionary fusion of science, mysticism and cosmic horror leavened by L’Engle’s gentle Episcopalianism. LITTLE WOMEN, by Louisa May Alcott. Not just for girls. Alcott is second to none as a writer of characters, and in telling the story of the March sisters and Laurie, she becomes the closest thing we have to an American Dickens. ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. Harold Bloom called them the greatest children’s fantasies ever written, and they are my personal favorites. Every child needs to know the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN, by George MacDonald. A girl named Irene must battle a race of sinister goblins with soft feet who are threatening to abduct her and force her into marriage. The influence of MacDonald’s Goblins can be seen in The Hobbit. THE WESTING GAME, by Ellen Raskin. A child’s first introduction to the mystery genre. Turtle Wexler is one of the all-time great children’s book heroines, and reading the end of this book as an adult still brings me to tears. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, by Jules Verne. Some of the most thrilling adventure stories ever written, satisfying a child’s fascination with things that live in the sea or beneath the earth. A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, by Lemony Snicket. A masterpiece of contemporary fantasy, Snicket’s unique blend of whimsy, Gothic horror and clever wordplay birthed a generation of darkly funny, verbally precocious readers. Read to your kids. Teach them that reading is for pleasure, not to pass a test. Let them read what they love. Let them see you reading books with joy and enthusiasm. That’s how you get a child to fall in love with reading. That’s how you make a lifelong reader.

Murals of downtown Brenham, Texas 🎨 #muralpainting #murals #BrenhamTX #Texaslife #artiseverywhere 👀

Murals of downtown Brenham, Texas 🎨 #muralpainting #murals #BrenhamTX #Texaslife #artiseverywhere 👀

Thank you, Bucs. 💙 @BlinnBaseball caps off their season as our National Runner-Up. The no 3 seeded Bucs fought through their 10th #jucows appearance, making moves on the field and in our community. Congrats on an incredible season, Blinn! ⚔️💙 (1/3)

Two of my #closeddoorromance novels are now available in a new app for readers who love clean, #upliftingromancenovels.📚 Find my #TexasBBQBrothers duet series at #BrightHavenBooks, a subscription service you can try for free: brighthavenbooks.com/product… Thanks, @TulePublishing!🥰

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a list in possession of three or more items is in want of an Oxford comma.

Architecture and ambiance, #NewOrleans style 🎭

Congratulations to the Blinn college baseball team for qualifying for the fourth consecutive year to participate the NJCAA World Series held in beautiful Grand Junction, Colorado!!! GO BUCS!!

An absolutely iconic pairing ☕❤️ #iykyk #breakfastofchampions💪 #beignetsallday #timetotravel #coffeetime #NOLA

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talking about books, publishing, and Texas story building with fellow @HarlequinBooks @LoveInspiredBks author @MindyObenhaus. 📚 Author to author talk is the best! ☕ #booktalk #writerly #loveinspired #harlequinauthors #authorlife

One class can change everything 💡📖 #Blinn grad Lukas Collins turned his passion for Czech language & culture into an opportunity to study abroad at Charles University in Prague this fall. The world is calling! 🌍 blinn.edu/news/2026/05/lukas…

Big bookish giveaway and an author interview that includes me ☺️ #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #bookgiveaway #Harlequin @HarlequinBooks #authorinterview

Happy #NationalNursesDay! Nurses are at the heart of brain aneurysm care — and at the heart of BAF. Shoutout to our Co-Founder Deidre Buckley, RN, and every nurse in our community. Thank you for the lives you save.

"Evidently, I'm not the only one who likes chocolate"(p. 7).🍫 Same @davidlebovitz, same.🙋‍♀️ #TheGreatBookofChocolate, originally published in 2004, is now updated in this resplendent REVISED edition.📚 What a fantastic reissue and wonderful journey through all things chocolate!

"Why You Should Beware Homophones" by Audrey Wick @WickWrites via @WritersDigest #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips writersdigest.com/write-bett…

Shakespearean tragedies:"the mental equivalent of a cold shower; shocking, awful, but in some obscure way good for you, bracing you for the terrors of life and keeping your mind off bad thoughts about politics, society and the way the world changes." #ShakespeareIsHardButSoIsLife