Janina Grey

I can never be idle. When I'm idle, I'm usually napping. I have a difficult time giving myself permission to just "be." That includes watching television or movies, or curling up in a comfy chair with a good FICTION book. I can sit on my porch and be idle, but that is dependent on the… Continue reading Balancing Life With a Little Bit of Fun

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Now available in print and digital! Every now and then I google my romance novels, TEN BUCKS AND A WISH and LOVE IN THE FOREST by Janina Grey to see what pops up. Today I learned that my books can be found at not only Soul Mate Publishing and Amazon, but also at: Barnes and… Continue reading LOVE IN THE FOREST available in print, KU, and digital!

Present and Past Collide when we took our Little Guy down to Tennessee for a family visit. This summer I took my husband, David, home to meet my kin and to see where I spent a good part of my youth: Deer Lodge, Tennessee. The last time I'd been home was for my Papa's funeral… Continue reading Carry me home to see my kin…

This.....became this... ...in just a few short days. I had no warning. The view that soothed my heart and healed my anxieties whenever the world became too much for me was gone, just like that. I allowed this loss of control, this loss of beauty to break me. I shut myself off from the outside… Continue reading More Life Lessons

A tribute to my Mother in Law, Lauretta Ruth Babcock Phillips. I love creating Powerpoint presentations for my day job. It's fun. The biggest problem I have is keeping my word count down. (Oops, hello? Writer.) But I have to tell you, I've spent the last week agonizing over the at first seemingly unsurmountable and… Continue reading Getting to Know You

Stop on by JUNE 10 at: https://vickibatman.blogspot.com/2021/06/handbag-and-book-guest-author-janina.htmlRemember, the link won't be live 'til June 10!Thank you, Vicki, for allowing me to Guest Blog in promotion of my latest release, LOVE IN THE FOREST! I had always wondered what the appeal of guest blogging was. I didn't understand it. It intimidated me. But then I read… Continue reading Hooked on Guest Blogging

I'm at a loss for adjectives to describe this past week. So many great things happened on so many levels. And the best part about it all was that the greatness is continuing. My second romance novel with Soul Mate Publishing, LOVE IN THE FOREST, was released on June 2. To celebrate, we offered my… Continue reading My Wild Week

Free Download 'til Sunday June 6 My publisher, Deborah Gilbert- Soul Mate Publishing- made TEN BUCKS AND A WISH a free download from June 4 to June 6. I promoted it everywhere I could. At one point, Facebook threatened me because they said I was in possible violation of their Spam Rules. But the work… Continue reading TEN BUCKS AND A WISH

available at amazon.com LOVE IN THE FOREST is now available in ebook form from amazon.com! WOW!!! The idea for this story was born from a Tarot card reading while on a writer's retreat at Thistle Dew. I was in my room, had just finished the last of my "Release Day" posts for TEN BUCKS AND… Continue reading LOVE IN THE FOREST IS AVAILABLE!