HEAVEN’S MOST WANTED WOMAN by Janet Chester Bly In an interview on a woman’s TV show, I found myself in one of those free-for-all Russian roulette situations. I had no idea what topics or themes the hostess would ask beforehand. I prayed I’d provide wonderful words of wisdom and quick insight. Finally, she ended with, […]
Living on the Spiritual Western Frontier A lot of people in our country think the Western frontier fully settled in the nineteenth century. But that’s not true in places like the old logging town of Winchester, Idaho. Regions like that still remain vast, unpopulated, very pragmatic and independent, sometimes dangerous, and always a bit wild. […]
Novel Release Lillian’s Legacy by Carmen Peone Novel release Lillian’s Legacy features Lillian Gardner, a healer in using natural medicines. She considers herself the black sheep of her family. In an attempt to prove her value, she sets off into the wilds of Eastern Washington and Indian Territory. Her companion is Doctor Mali Maddox, an […]
I needed to know as many 1991 facts as possible that might impact my newest fiction series characters in small and big ways. My newest novel, Beneath A Campderown Elm, Book 3, happens in both fictional and real towns on the Idaho high mountain Camas Prairie in the summer of 1991. So, I studied the […]
Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing, Cowboy Christmas Western Novel by Award-Winning Author Stephen Bly, Book 1 The Stuart Brannon Series. Limited time Holiday discount now available! Excerpt from Christmas western story, Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing: “About midnight, the baby came. Lisa had been in horrible pain until then. Cleaned things up a […]
Maybe it’s a kidnapping. Or it could be a spy network. Or an international drug ring. Nothing makes sense to fourteen-year-old Crystal Blake and her friend, Megan. They’ve been camping and traveling from California with Crystal’s author father on a research trip and find themselves chased by the cavalry, stopped by a stagecoach, and searching […]
Book Tour Launch Down Squash Blossom Road, Book 2, Trails of Reba Cahill Finally, the book tour with the completion of the story. Down Squash Blossom Road took much longer than I expected. Some projects are that way. But I kept plodding and with perseverance and God’s help am so grateful to finally get it done! I’m sure cowgirl Reba […]
Two different attempts at finding reality in the Old West legends by National Geographic and Bill O’Reilly Is The Old West legends reference by National Geographic, or Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies, written more for a popular audience only? Or can a serious researcher find value too? Do either of them get it right? Entertaining, […]
WELCOME! CAN Scavenger Hunt on Stop #23 Janet Chester Bly blog! CAN SCAVENGER HUNT is now CLOSED! Grand Prize winner of 26 books was Mary McClellan of Kernersville, NC. A big congrats to Mary! Catch us on this CAN Scavenger Hunt beginning at July 17th, 12:01 a.m. CAN Scavenger Hunt participants must go through all 26 […]
Anne Perry Mysteries in a Victorian Garage A budding writer friend and I first encountered bestselling Anne Perry mysteries on an autumn day at a garage sale in southern California. Research and classic books had been advertised and we had to take a peek. We drove up a culdesac filled with blooming chrysanthemums to an old Victorian […]
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