I hope you enjoy Tillie and her pet sidekicks in this fun cozy Chapter 1 I stood in the middle of the room, my hands on my ample hips, gazing around the shop and surveying the results of all my hard work. I tried blowing away an errant blonde curl that had fallen out of […]
Marriage isn't easy. It's one of the hardest things to do successfully. I'm on my second one, and you'd think I'd be better at it this time around. Ha! That's not at all true. While I am older and wiser this time around marriage still isn’t easy by any means. In some ways, it’s actually […]
Chapter 1 “Mom, I’m so excited,” Ashley said, jumping up and down in the hotel room. “Thank you so much for letting me miss school today so we could get here early. I can’t believe I’m going to meet Cassie Cannon. She’s totally my idol.” The smile on Ashley’s face made it completely worth the […]
If you want a full-time author career, you have to hold yourself accountable to your writing goals. If you publish traditionally, you will have an editor who will give you milestones you need to meet. When you’re a self-published author, you need to set your own milestones. Now it’s usually easier to meet deadlines set […]
How to create a writing routine? There are some days when the last thing I want to do is write. I’m not in the mood I don’t have any ideas, I’m tired, there’s a new series on Netflix. The list of excuses is endless. But I don’t have a choice. Writing is my job, so […]
We all get to that place in our life, whether personal or professional, where we feel stuck. That things aren’t moving in the direction we want, or it's not fast enough. Maybe things aren’t making sense anymore. You wake up one day and dread doing something when the day before you felt it was fun. […]
My name is Laina Turner, and under that name I write romance with mature characters. I write cozy mysteries set in small towns under the name L.C Turner.
