Thanks to all of you for your wonderful e-mails about PATCHWORK FAMILY! If you haven’t visited my site lately, you might not know: that book won the Best Inspirational Fiction/Romance Book of 2005 award from Romance Reviews Today! I’m particularly pleased about this because I didn’t submit my book for consideration--they chose it from all the Inspie romances they reviewed last year! This was a special honor, indeed.

Those of you who sent me your mailing addresses will soon be receiving bookmarks/postcards for JOURNEY TO LOVE... those of you who would like those goodies, let me know! And if you’d like an autographed copy of that book, $8 will make it yours (includes postage). Drop me a note at cmhubbard@earthlink.net--or through my website message box-- and I’ll drop it in the mail!

Want a sneak peak? Visit me at CharlotteHubbard.com and click to read the first chapter! You’ll see it takes up right where PATCHWORK FAMILY left off--and that Christine is in top form as the snippy, exasperating 16-year-old you remember! She was a challenge to write as an inspiring, uplifting heroine, but her mission has always been to go after her wayward mama: she lives up to that...and learns some tough lessons along the way. I think she grows up fast, but well. It’s all you can ask of a teenager in love!

Right now? I’ve almost finished the main draft of #3 for this series, Billy’s book. Titles come and go, but right now we’re calling it ANGEL’S EMBRACE and it’s due out in April, ‘07.

Thanks again for your nice e-mails and your support for my series. Happy reading--and let me know what you think of Christine’s story!