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Diane Craver, Shelley Shepard Gray, Cathy Liggett, Mindy Steele, and I are compiling a list of fun questions we will answer at our Panel Discussion and Signing event next month. There will be giveaways and books for sale! Do you have questions you’d like to hear us answer? Send those questions to Laurie at lauriestroupsmith@gmail.com. …
Author Tracy Fredrychowski recently invited me to be a guest on her popular “Buggy Talk” Podcast. We talked about writing, fiction, and The Pocket Quilt Series, and I read the first chapter of my most recent release Pockets of Peace, the third and final book in the series. In case you missed the conversations we …
To celebrate the May 24, 2022, release of Pockets of Peace, I’m hosting a Release Week Book Chat over on my Facebook page. It’s easy to participate, and there will be prizes! How will the Chat work? Visit facebook.com/lauriestroupsmith on May 24, 25, and 26. A new question related to Pockets of Peace will be posted each evening at 8pm ET. …
Here it is! Once again the gifted cover designer Elaina Lee with For the Muse Design and the team at Vinspire Publishing have delivered. This story is set in Pinecraft, and the bright colors remind me of the dresses worn by the women there. I love how Elaina incorporated the child-sized chair to represent this story in …
Suzanne Woods Fisher, Shelley Shepard Gray, Kathleen Fuller, Amy Clipston, Leslie Gould, and I recently gathered in Pinecraft, near Sarasota, for the Amish Snowbird Getaway. Readers traveled from all across the country to join us, and we talked about reading, writing, and the Amish. At both the library event and the luncheon, there was a constant buzz of …
Friends have been posting pictures of visits to pumpkin patches and apple orchards all month. They’re canning applesauce, apple butter, and pie fillings. When I think of fall crops, I don’t think of tomatoes, but we are have quite a harvest of Sweet 100 tomatoes this year. Earlier this summer, we needed to move our …
I truly appreciate the support you have given me whether you recently discovered my books or you have been with me since the beginning when publishing a book was merely a dream. To show my gratitude, I am offering a free digital download of The Veil of Violet, an Amish Horse Progress Days Novella exclusively to …
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