Small-Town Christian Romance Author Julie Arduini
Weaving faith, family, and chocolate in stories that feel like home
1. How long have you been writing? I’ve always enjoyed writing my thoughts and for years kept them mostly private. I began collecting and keeping my writing when I was in college in the early seventies. The first time I shared openly was when I self-published a book of poetry in 1997. Before that I…
Trumpet Tuesday: Rayne’s Redemption By Linda Shenton Matchett Twins run in my family, and I always wondered if my husband and I’d had children whether twins would have made an appearance. Instead, my sister was the sibling in our generation blessed with twins, beautiful fraternal twin girls. While thinking about my next story, my nieces…
Behind the Story: Lainey of the Door Islands How did Lainey come to be? I live in lovely Door County, a jewel of a peninsula in northeastern Wisconsin. We are surrounded by a few islands embracing lighthouses full of history along with shipwrecks, many that can still be seen in the beautiful waters of Lake…
Use the Fodder from Life Experiences to Craft Great Stories There was a story or two from my high school literature classes in which the author gave a voice to a main or minor character with mental health issues. Think autism or an adult with the mind of a child. Each one brilliantly written. Great…
The idea for Together For Good started forming before I finished A Powerful Voice. She appeared in that story as Gloria’s friend. As a contrast to Gloria’s character, Laney was good-natured and optimistic, though she was no stranger to loss. Readers might’ve picked up on hints of a story behind Laney’s romantic interests, which birthed…
The idea behind Northern Protector The idea for Northern Protector took a lot of thought processing. I knew when I wrote the first book, Northern Deception, that the second book would be about the police officer who was mauled by the polar bear and whoever he fell in love with but I had zero ideas…