Sad Second Try--A Texan's Honor

True to my word, I gave Shelly Gray a second try by reading her book A Texan's Honor. Although she had a great premise and no sagging middle, I'm sad to say I will never be reading her novels again. In her efforts to make her outlaws realistic, she chose vocabulary that I don't repeat. She also inserted a teaching not backed by Scripture. When I reached that point, I skimmed the last of the book and deleted it from my kindle.

ACFW Conference 2012

This past week I got to spend a wonderful time with other writers at the 2012 ACFW Conference in Dallas, Texas. I met some amazing people and was overwhelmed with the plethora of valuable information poured my direction. There were so many highlights to my trip that I couldn't go into them all, but I've posted some of the pictures I took on my facebook page--http://www.facebook.com/booksbybarnes--in case you'd like to take a look-see. The one I've included here is one I took with one of my favorite authors, Mary Connealy. She writes romantic comedy with cowboys and is a very sweet lady. You can't go wrong in reading one of her books. :)

A Tailor-Made Bride--Made for You

A Tailor-Made Bride is actually Karen Witemeyer's debut novel. Although, I didn't realize this until today. This is high-grade quality Christian Fiction. Hannah and J.T.'s story is very entertaining with no sagging middle whatsoever. They are constantly clashing or confusing each other in someway or another--which isn't so surprising when you realize she's a dressmaker who enjoys beauty in all things and he's a liveryman who despises vanity of any sort.

I started reading this one evening and made myself put it down around midnight . . . then I finished it the next morning. :)