by Kristie Booker | Jun 24, 2026 | Blog, Blooming Into Life Recipes, Recipes
A Recipe From Blooming Into Life There’s a moment in Blooming Into Life when Mary Ann watches her niece and granddaughters frost cupcakes for the Criss Creek Fourth of July celebration, and realizes the recipe isn’t really about cupcakes at all. It’s about everyone...
by Kristie Booker | Jun 24, 2026 | Blog, Blooming Into Life Recipes
There’s a moment in Blooming Into Life when I knew Colleen’s story needed something soft to land on. She’s deep into a detox diet, all green juices and rigid rules, and the page felt a little cold. What it needed was warmth — the kind that rises out...
by Kristie Booker | Jun 23, 2026 | Blog, Summer in the Moon Garden
There’s a particular kind of comfort in small-town women’s fiction. The familiar faces on Main Street, the porches where people actually sit and talk, the way a whole community shows up when one of their own is struggling. These are stories about second...
by Kristie Booker | Jun 22, 2026 | Blog, Blooming Into Life Recipes, Summer in the Moon Garden Recipes
There’s a jar of strawberry jam that keeps finding its way into my fiction. Readers of Blooming Into Life may remember it making an appearance there. In Summer in the Moon Garden, Danny brings a jar to Kat — made by his mother Rose and his Aunt Mary Ann...
by Kristie Booker | Jun 6, 2026 | Blog, Summer in the Moon Garden
Readers often ask about the inspiration behind my stories. Sometimes it’s a place. Sometimes it’s a character who appears out of nowhere. And sometimes, it’s a song. The song that inspired Summer in the Moon Garden was LANCO’s “Greatest...