Pictures of fans, friends, and life as an author...

Stacy Julian (endorser of Sisters, Ink) and I at Memory Trends in Las Vegas

This is at the International Christian Retail Show - signing copies of Sisters, Ink for Christian bookstore owners

Another International Christian Retail Show Pic. I didn't realize until I was done that I was being broadcast live to the entire trade show floor!

(l to r) David Webb (B&H Publishing Group); Deonne Beron (Baker/Revell); me, Jamie Carie (novelist); Karen Ball (Senior Editor, B&H); Julie Guinn (Publicist, B&H) at Book Expo America, where I signed copies for bookstore workers

The giveaway at Book Expo America - Notepads covered in Sisters, Ink colors and a drawing to win the kit to make that Scrapbooking-on-the-Wall project.

The B&H Publishing Team that helped make my series a success! In red is fellow B&H author Leanna Ellis. LeAnna and I were at B&H headquarters in Nashville to talk with the sales force about our novels. Such fun!

Two scrapbook store owners from Arizona (I won't name y'all) whom I met at Memory Trends in Las Vegas. We had an incredible time getting to know each other and going to see The Blue Man Group.

Yep, I said, "The Blue Man Group."

I was at Memory Trends because of this lovely lady, Tasra Dawson, creator and founder of REAL WOMEN SCRAP. Tasra asked me to sign copies of Sisters, Ink in her booth at the show and film an episode for her podcast show. I was thrilled to take part!

A giant group of us authors came together at the Manchester Public Library to meet and greet with book lovers.

I'm several months pregnant in this photo (little Ella is inside!) of a group of Sisters, Ink ladies cropping at Blue Ridge, NC.

These ladies from the Humboldt, TN library are wonderful! I've spoken to their reading groups several times and enjoyed every minute.

Nora St. Laurent is an amazing, dedicated lover of stories. She manages several book clubs in the Atlanta area and was kind enough to invite me to speak to a couple of them.

This is one of Nora St. Laurent's reading clubs in Atlanta that meets regularly in a LifeWay store.

Another fun Nora book club!

My sweetie and I dressed up for The Christy Awards, given for excellence in Christian fiction.

Dear friend and fellow novelist Austin Boyd, at The Christy Awards, where he was (rightly!) given a Christy for his book, The Evidence.

The lady who got me in the "book biz" back in 2001, Eva Marie Everson. This is one classy, gifted individual.

What a difference a year makes! I'm very pregnant here, standing beside award-winning (and former Mrs. Nebraska!) novelist and dear friend Tosca Lee, author of Demon: A Memoir and Havah: The Story of Eve.

Signing copies at my alma mater, the University of Tennessee at Martin. I received my BA in public relations and political science there in 2000.

At a church crop in Mayfield, Kentucky where I was asked to keynote. I LOVE talking with scrappers!

Whenever I'm in NYC, Broadway proves to tempting to resist. Pictured here are David Webb and Karen Ball, part of the B&H Team that made Sisters, Ink possible. We caught Les Mis while we were in NYC for Book Expo America.