The Wild Lavender Bookshop by Jodi Thomas
THE WILD LAVENDER BOOKSHOP is my second book in the Someday Valley series, which is a spinoff of my Honey Creek series. I loved writing this book first of all because I love bookstores. When I wrote about the bookshop, it was fun to describe the people I see in bookstores and libraries everyday. And… Read More
Friends and Fans Become Family
Being a writer is a very lonely job. We work hundreds of hours to produce a book with nobody to talk to. But it’s all worth it when a fan comes up and says they love your book. Some of my fans have become friends for life. I love it when they blog about my… Read More
HOW DO I GET MY IDEAS FOR WRITING?
My readers are always asking where I get my ideas for books, so I wanted to share about my latest short story called “The Secret Wish” in THE WISHING QUILT. A few years ago, I was traveling into Kansas when it started raining. I pulled off the highway onto a one-block downtown area and watched… Read More
Sunday at the Sunflower Inn is Available Now!
When I started writing the fourth Honey Creek book, I wanted to write a story of how people fall in love at different ages. My professor at Texas Tech once said, “No matter how young a couple is, Love is Love. Puppy love is true love.” I had such fun writing couples as they grew into… Read More
How do writers create a world for readers to step into?
When I started writing DINNER ON PRIMROSE HILL I did what I always do in my mind. I build a plot much like a carpenter builds a house. I begin with the foundation, the facts, the time period, the weather, the location, the history. How do writers create a world for readers to step into? For… Read More
JODI THOMAS RETURNS TO HONEY CREEK IN ANOTHER FEEL GOOD NOVEL
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas, comes Picnic in Someday Valley, the next novel in her romantic, heartwarming contemporary series set in Honey Creek, Texas—a little town nestled in the rolling hills bordering the Brazos River, where family bonds and legends run deep, and friendship and love (and gossip!) are… Read More
Our Christmas Bell
The last ornament to go on every Christmas tree I put up—the Christmas bell. Let me take you back many years. I had graduated from Texas Tech in May and by the end of August was teaching my first year in Amarillo, Texas. My husband of less than a year was in the army at… Read More
MY FAVORITE SEASON
Fall is always my favorite season. I love the colors and the cool days. Now, in this time of silence with no one to talk to and nowhere to go, I love the fall even more. I spend my days in fiction both writing and reading and to my surprise I’ve become more creative. I… Read More
PEOPLE ARE RARELY WHAT THEY SEEM
When I began to write BREAKFAST AT THE HONEY CREEK CAFE, I wanted to look deeper into people. As many of you know, I don’t make up my characters. I meet them in my mind. When I’m all alone in my office it’s very much like a character walks in, sits down and begins to… Read More
A Texas Kind of Christmas
After thirty years, and fifty books from historicals to mainstream women’s fiction, I got a call on the first day of 2019. Two friends called and asked me to write an anthology about an early hotel in Dallas called the St. Nicholas. I jumped, loving the idea. What fun, early Texas, a hotel that’s name… Read More
Christmas in Winter Valley by Jodi Thomas
When I was writing CHRISTMAS IN WINTER VALLEY, I wanted to tell the story of a love story that ended before it was time. Two people pulled apart. Two people whose story ended long before it should have. Both still carry the pain of the break up over a love that never died. CHRISTMAS IN… Read More
The Little Teashop on Main
One cold day in March I walked through the sunroom where my granddaughters often play. I stopped as the real world touched my writing world. There the girls were, wearing their hand-me-down ladies hats and gloves having tea and cookies. The tea cups might have been full of juice and the cookies were raided from… Read More