Wow, it’s been a busy summer and I can’t believe that it’s almost over. Personally, I’ve had a very exciting time in last few months helping my daughter organize her August wedding, getting my garden, house and patio presentable for various festivities and their visit in general.

Now, I am breathing calmly again and it’s back to work …

Yes, back in June we won our 2nd IPPY Gold Medal in the Canada:West category for our latest book and my first co-author responsibility, Whispers Across Time. It was such a fun book to write and edit and fans were congratulating us even before the award. Then the award happened and boy did it attract sales with that huge, shiny gold medal sitting on the stand!! I gotta tell you, if you are a writer and publish your own book, you just have to consider entering this contest or any other one that fits your genre, for that matter. Trust me … an award matters! We’ve gone into our 2nd printing already and sales of our 2007 Gold winning book, Loyalty’s Haven also increased substantially even though it was part of a series.

As usual with one of my husband, J. Robert Whittle’s novels, they are different but this just makes them more popular. This is a romance and there is no sex, it’s time travel but it’s our avenue to get in more history, and it’s a ghost story but not scary in the least. It’s also very suitable for teen readers.

Where Robert got this idea I believe was based on my brief discussion with him of one of Diana Gabaldon’s books which I had read years before (when I had more time!). He had never seen a time-travel or ghost movie nor read a book of that subject but somehow his amazing imagination brings us this wonderful content.

It just goes to show that when you’re a writer you shouldn’t put yourself into a box and not think you are incapable of something, you just never know. My husband says his books write themselves and he just lets it happen with amazing results. When you start in later life, you need all the help you can get!

I am having so much fun co-writing with my husband and although we don’t do it together, we seem to have worked out the perfect methodology in our 10-year publishing/writing career. Can’t believe it will be ten years in December. So much has happened, so much has been achieved AND so much joy has been brought to people’s lives – we hear about it everyday. Somehow that makes all the effort worthwhile.

If you haven’t tried one of our books and are curious, check out our website links in the green list at right or here You won’t find them in your bookstore unless you live near Victoria, BC but we ship our books all over the world. Fans say our books make great gifts for any age and our books are so well made by our printer (Friesens) we never hear that they have fallen apart and, trust me, they are read and reread. They are totally family friendly and are used in schools and by homeschoolers.

Now, I’ve gotta get back to work, I have a book to finish for Christmas
Thanks for visiting … see you next time.