Have you started reading the Arcadia Valley Romance series yet? If not, what are you waiting for?!?! Back in January, my team of AVR authors released Romance Grows in Arcadia Valley, which contains six novellas in that world, each introducing one author’s upcoming three-book series. Since then, we’ve been working through our schedule, releasing one…
The third Arcadia Valley Romance novel released this week! I’m thrilled to watch each author’s series begin to take shape. Lee Tobin McClain jumped into the project months after the rest of us had begun brainstorming and working on our novellas in Romance Grows in Arcadia Valley, but when she joined, she went from zero…
It’s so exciting to see the release of the SECOND novel set in Arcadia Valley! I’ve been a fan of Elizabeth Maddrey’s writing for a couple of years, and she was the first author I approached when I started thinking about putting together a project such as this. (I reviewed her novel A Splash of…
I’m excited to share the first novel in the Arcadia Valley Romance multi-author series! If you’ve read Romance Grows in Arcadia Valley, you’ll recall Spring’s Blessings, where a librarian’s desire for a simple garden is complicated when a large white rabbit, a motherless child, and a mysterious neighbor encroach on her carefully laid plans. Poor…
A few years ago I read a remarkable story about how a child with a vision changed the world. If not the world, then the lives of many people in the child’s vicinity. You’ve heard of them, too. A boy who began raising money for wells in African villages. A girl named Jenna operating massive…
The germ of the idea that became Arcadia Valley Romance began percolating for me in the summer of 2014. Yes, that long ago! Shortly after I began publishing my work independently, the still-new concept of multi-author box sets came to my attention. I thought it would be cool to link books about food and farms…