Small-Town Christian Romance Author Julie Arduini
Weaving faith, family, and chocolate in stories that feel like home
I’ve felt the nudge to do this for awhile but the timing always felt off. Honestly, I’m in the middle of cranking out a few thousand words a week with my new series, and that takes time. But this is important. I try in my writing and appearances to model the life of a Christ…
In a culture that bombards women with “thinspiration” messages and pressure to “do it all” while wearing the mask of perfection, women are left feeling alone and overwhelmed. How can they stop comparing themselves to others? How can they live out who they really are? Lee Wolfe Blum offers stories from everyday women who have…
I’ve been doing this a few years, post-birthday, sharing where I am, how far I’ve come, and where I hope to go. I have to say, 47 is weird. It’s a stone’s throw to 50, and wow, that’s an age I never gave a lot of thought to as a college student. That seems like…
I’ve been working on a side project to help readers with the wait for ENGAGED and try something unique. I created a devotional, a set of readings meant to encourage readers as they surrender the very areas I write about in my Surrendering Time series. Finding Freedom Through Surrender is a journey through surrendering fear,…
My eBooks are FREE Friday and Saturday! There are writing moments I ask why. Why am I writing when life is pulling me so many directions? Why write if the words are hard to come by? Why write when it is so lonely? Why write if it feels like no one knows or seems to…
It was a story I never meant to write, and I struggled every word. When I finally felt I had a decent plot together and tackled it, I came up thirty thousand words short. Yep. Thirty. Thousand. Words. Even after I finished, something still felt off. Not wrong, just off. Once I started pressing in,…