Picture A Perfect Christmas movie

Thank you for having me here. It’s been an exciting month. The Hallmark Movie adaption of my book A Family Under the Christmas Tree was released on November 9^th and retitled to Picture A Perfect Christmas, which was a smashing success!  And will be playing several more times through the season, check your local listing for times. 

The actors, screenwriter and everyone involved deserve credit for how wonderful the movie turned out. Back when my agent asked me if I wanted to write a Christmas story featuring a dog I never dreamed this would be the end result.  

At the time my mother was declining rapidly and passed soon after I started writing this story. I usually write romantic suspense novels for Love Inspired Suspense so this was a change for me and I needed the outlet to pour all of my angst in to. 

When we went to contract, my agent posted in Publisher Marketplace that we’d sold this story and a production company contacted her with the request to read the book once it was finished. Once the book was done, we sent off a copy. Months later, my agent informed me the production company wanted to adapt the book into a screenplay. I was a bit nervous how it would be handled. I am so pleased with the way the producer and screenwriter kept the gist of the story and toned down the angst while keeping the heartwarming romance amid the celebration of Christmas.

From beginning to end this has been a pleasurable experience.  Everyone at the production company was so nice and my visit to the set for one day was truly a blast. The cast and crew were very welcoming.

Watching the magic happen was something I’ll not soon forget. 

Terri Reed

Terri Reed’s romance and romantic suspense novels have appeared on Publisher’s Weekly top twenty-five, Nielsen’s Bookscan top hundred, Amazon Bestseller and featured in USA Today.

Her books have been finalists in Romance Writers of America RITA contest, National Readers’ Choice Award, Inspirational Reader’s Choice Award and finalists three times in American Christian Fiction Writers The Carol Award contest.

Contact Terri @ P.O. Box 19555 Portland, OR 97224

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Romantic Suspense Author, Terri Reed

Thank you ladies for hosting me today, it’s such an honor to be here. I write romantic suspense and romance novels from a Christian worldview for publication by Christian publishers. What that means is-- the books I write are infused with my Christian faith, but I work hard not to let my stories become preachy or overly doctrinal so that the books will appeal to a broad range of readers.

My books are sweet in the context of sexuality, however, there is sexual tension and attraction but the emotions of the characters are the priority. Falling in love is more about the character traits of the other person rather than their physical prowess. My stories are free of vulgar language, and in my romantic suspense stories I try to keep the violence as non-graphic as possible while still keeping the edge of suspense and action sharp.

I started out writing Christian historical romances. My first ever published story was a novella for Barbour Publishing as part of the Romance on the Rails collection, set in 1800’s California on train running from the Sierra Nevada mountains to San Francisco.  It was such a fun story to write because I was able to infuse my hometown and home state into the story. However, I had little kids at the time and found researching historical facts (this was before the Internet) was problematic.

After this story, I wrote a contemporary book also set in my hometown in my home state. That book eventually sold to Harlequin’s Love Inspired line. My second book for Love Inspired had a touch of suspense and I found I enjoyed incorporating the action and tension of a mystery into my stories. This book also finaled in Romance Writers of America’s RITA contest (the Oscars of the Romance world).

I wrote five Love Inspired romances before switching to Love Inspired Suspense. My thirty-sixth  book with the Love Inspired lines came out in April. 

Protect and Serve is book one of the Rookie K-9 Unit continuity from Love Inspired Suspense.

I have two more books coming out this fall. A Love Inspired Suspense titled Identity Unknown

And from Howard Books titled A Family Under the Christmas Tree. 

I’m working on three stories now for the 2017 Love Inspired Suspense continuity series. I don’t have titles or covers for these yet but I’m enjoying the stories. This is another K-9 Unit only this time with FBI agents rather than police officers.

Aubrey

So many of the books I write have dogs in them. Are you a dog lover or a cat person?

We have a new puppy in our house. Miss Aubrey, an Australian Shepherd.