Jan Thompson

USA Today Bestselling Author

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If you haven’t preordered WAIT FOR ME…

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Readers, we’re seven days away from the release of my next novel in the Vacation Sweethearts series. A broken family boards a cruise ship to bury the past and sail to new beginnings. The waters of their lives are choppy, but will God deliver them to safe harbor?

Wait for Me has a bit of romance, a bit of suspense, and a whole lot of love. Read this romantic women’s fiction on September 24, 2019!

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And today both Books 2 and 3 made the Christian Romantic Suspense top 100 chart on Amazon! Thank you, readers!

Waiting for WAIT FOR ME!

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A divorced single dad must take his ex-wife and their five-year-old son on a happy Alaskan cruise. What could possibly happen in this contemporary Christian romance with a side of suspense?

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Here it is, readers! All 402 pages of Wait for Me, ready to go. Have you preordered this $4.99 novel at the rock-bottom price of $0.99 through launch week? Don’t miss out. After the book is released, it might not be at that price again for a while.

Wait for Me (Vacation Sweethearts Book 3) will be released on September 24, 2019.

 

While you wait for WAIT FOR ME…

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While you wait for Wait for Me, why not read the novel preceding it, Reach for Me?

At a remote mountaintop retreat, an optimistic triple amputee British Special Forces veteran meets a pessimistic American girl in the valleys of their lives. One has so much taken away from him, and yet he thrives. The other has so much to lose, and yet she crawls into her cave. At the mountain retreat where they both find themselves, will God meet them where they are and show them what life can be?

Reach for Me (Vacation Sweethearts Book 2)
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A couple of characters from Reach for Me appear again in the next book in the same series, Wait for Me, another romance with suspense novel. I can’t help writing suspense into my romance books, and romance into my suspense books.

Wait for Me (Vacation Sweethearts Book 3)
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Happy reading!

First Drafts! (Blog Post at InspyRomance)

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How do authors write the first drafts of their novels?

Today I’m blogging over at InspyRomance.com about writing the first draft of a novel. I asked several authors how they produce their first drafts, and here are their thoughts:

InspyRomance Blog: inspyromance.com/first-drafts

I’m old school and write long hand on paper to begin with for all my books. I outline on paper and write the first drafts on paper. One of the hazards of writing first drafts on paper is getting paper cuts! Sigh. However, I am recycling old paper that we didn’t finish using in grade school, so I am finding use for them. Once I am finished with the outline and draft, I then type them all in on my laptop, revising as I go. Once I’m on my laptop, I don’t go back to paper unless I need to rewrite an entire scene. When I am done with my book on my laptop, it’s ready for my copyeditor and proofreader.

I did that too for my latest novel, Wait for Me, which I outlined and drafted on paper back in 2016. It sat in my bookshelf for two-and-a-half years, including throughout the sabbatical I took in 2018. In 2019, I finally got around to the final revisions and edits. It’s on preorder for only $0.99.

Wait for Me is the story of a single dad, Logan, who made a promise to take his son on a cruise in Alaska as his fifth birthday gift. The only catch is that the boy wants his mother on vacation with them. Logan and Marie have been divorced for three years, and there is just no way he wants to relive their failed marriage. Then again, it’s only for seven days. What could possibly happen in seven days? Certainly not being surrounded by mortal danger? No, of course not.

As you can tell, Wait for Me is one of my romance-with-suspense books (I also write suspense and thrillers, by the way). If you like romance with a side of suspense, here you go: