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Five Reasons Why: Ending My Co-Dependency on Writing
Throughout my tenure as a novelist, I’ve often described my love affair with writing as co-dependent. With the exception that as an author I committed my unconditional love and devotion to a craft and not a person, the decision to become a novelist often felt like I’d...
Book Review: “All the Bright Places” by Jennifer Niven
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town...
Facelift Number Two is Now Available on Amazon!
I finally completed my rewrite of the Holly book and it's FINALLY for sale on Amazon! The story about how fate will carry us where we need to go whether we are willing passengers or not. A year and a half after being jilted not once, but twice by the only woman he’s...
Publishers Weekly Reviewed With No Regrets
I'm SO excited to announce that BookLife by Publishers Weekly reviewed With No Regrets! Here's what they had to say: Listing heavily toward the women’s fiction side of the romance genre, Ford deftly portrays 40-year-old Finley Harrison’s gradual recovery from the...
Getting A Facelift
My very first novel, The Woman He Married, has gotten a much-needed facelift! New cover, new blurb, and most important, new content. For the last year and a half, off and on, I've been rewriting and reworking, cutting and redoing, trying to mold this story into what...
Reader’s Choice Book Cover Winner!
I'm very excited to announce that With No Regrets won the New LDS Fiction Reader's Choice for best cover! Not to sound ungrateful, but I'd really like to win something, anything, for the content. But hey, for now, this is fun too. ...
Multi-Author Promotion
It's time for another HUGE multi-author promotion! We've gathered a robust collection of books for you to choose from, all of which are rated PG13 and below. There's something here for everyone--we even have some non-fiction! Listed alphabetically by the author's...
2015 Storymaker’s Midwest Conference
This month I'll be presenting at my first writer's conference! And have to admit, I'm a bit nervous. I'm teaching a breakout season on plotting, which is definitely my favorite part of the writing process. Below is the outline and talking notes for my class....
Summer Trek To Free Books!
I'm really excited to be participating in this month's summer reading trek. If you are interested in playing and winning free books you could win a copy of With No Regrets among other great titles. Click on the button below to find out how. These are the books...
A Bitter-Sweet Moment as the Last Book in the Ripple Romance Series Has Arrived
It's been a fun few months with one heartwarming novella after another until we've arrive here at the end with Immersed. Lisette Pannebaker speaks five languages and has a brilliant business plan—personal language immersion. Clients can hire her to shadow them and...
Multi-Author Promotion
It's time for another HUGE multi-author promotion! We've gathered a robust...
Summer Trek To Free Books!
I'm really excited to be participating in this month's summer reading trek....
A Bitter-Sweet Moment as the Last Book in the Ripple Romance Series Has Arrived
It's been a fun few months with one heartwarming novella after another...
A Ripple Effect Romance, Book Five, Is Now Available!!
If you've been following this series then you need to grab a copy of the...
A Ripple Effect Romance Book Four, Lost & Found, is Here!
I'm Very Pleased to Announce the Release of the Next Novella in the Ripple...
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