Kellie VanHorn

Thrilled to share that 4 more edge of your seat, swoony Love Inspired Suspense books w/ National Park settings are heading your way! I couldn't be more excited to keep working with my fantastic editor Katie Gowrie. 🙌🎉 Huge thanks to my agent @HerringAli & CP @candidkerry!

Calling all Christian fiction readers in the Springfield, MO area! There's a book signing coming up on Saturday Sept. 6. Come see me and 20+ other authors! 📚🤩

@vanhorn_kellie Girl, same. I don’t have them on for X or FB.

I just giggled my way through my amazing CP’s helpful & insightful comments on my latest story—so good and so funny, @vanhorn_kellie ❤️

@MKeenerWrites @tandtclark Congratulations, Michelle!! That's amazing to see your years of hard work in print and available to help others with their research. So proud of you, my friend! 💕

Book release day!! 🎉🎉🎉 So happy to see this version of my research out in the wild. Many thanks to @tandtclark for their partnership!!

@HerringAli She's going to love it!

@vanhorn_kellie Yes I think my brain has been kind of paused with worry about her housing. Such a relief & housing is so expensive at UGA this also helps alleviate the financial part while allowing her to have that true “college” experience her twin brother got freshman year while she went local

Praise the Lord! My daughter got a dorm at UGA as a transfer! God is good! 👐 🙏 This is so incredibly hard and rare to get! Praise praise!!

@HerringAli Yes, we have to get up there!! I visited ages ago when I was a kid but haven't been back since.

@vanhorn_kellie Kellie I absolutely was thinking about you and your family—that you all would love it there!

We just returned from what was the most amazing vacation in the Canadian Rockies and Banff National Park. Truly awe-inspiring.

@candidkerry Happy Mother's Day!!! 💐🩷

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there—the heart of the family. ❤️ What a privilege and blessing to raise tiny humans into adult humans who love God and care about others. 🙏🏼❤️

@HerringAli SAME. Track meets, softball games, college kid moving back in, band & orchestra concerts, AP testing, teacher appreciation, spring yard work, grad parties... we are drowning in stuff up here. It's all good stuff, but how am I supposed to write?? 😵‍💫

I have so many client books & things to read, but the boy child is now moved out of his dorm, the girl twin has got her transcripts in for her transfer pathway to UGA, the junior in HS girl is finished with the HARD AP test, now just get through grad season & maybe I'll catch up!

@candidkerry @LoveInspiredBks Woohoo, you got it done!!! 🙌🎉 Now go relax!

Sent my 7th romantic suspense off my editor at @LoveInspiredBks 🥹🎉😴 Sooo grateful for my amazingly helpful CP @vanhorn_kellie 🤩🤗

@candidkerry ❤️❤️❤️

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY!!!! 🙌🎉 Now everybody go grab your copy of this fantastic story!

@candidkerry @LoveInspiredBks So excited for you!!! ❤️

Hunted in the Forest is officially out in the world! 🥳 I can't believe this is my FIFTH book with @LoveInspiredBks 😍 It's a reunion romantic suspense set in beautiful Allegheny National Forest in NW Pennsylvania. Big hugs to my incredibly smart, kind & helpful CP, @vanhorn_kellie and to my faithful, encouraging agent, @HerringAli 🥰 And to God, who put these voices and characters in my head and provided the strength to never give up. shorturl.at/Vr5JG

I'm rereading my opening chapters for my next LIS book in preparation to jump back into drafting, and you guys, it's so good. You're going to love this one! Now I just need to finish writing it... 🤪

@HerringAli I made that mistake one time with my Irish breakfast tea and never again. 🤢 Now it goes into a smoothie if I really want it lol

I put protein powder in my coffee this morning in an attempt to get more protein. Do not recommend. I'd rather eat the powder dry than desecrate my coffee again. I get it, some of you don't mind. I applaud you. I'm going to go stir it in some milk or yogurt & hope for the best!

Just hanging out at the homeschool co-op working on my cheery little story about a serial killer while my kid is in class. We mystery/ thriller writers never quite fit in... 🤣

Check out this fantastic list of Christian fiction books set in national parks! 👇👇👇

@MeganGrant333 I print out my ms & read the whole thing straight thru, then make big picture notes on what's working & what isn't. Then I brainstorm solutions & go back through writing in my changes. Sometimes I cross out/ move scenes & write in new ones. Then type everything back in.

Alright, I need your insight. I finished the first draft of my fantasy novel (93K words, currently) and I'm doing the first round of edits. I am VERY overwhelmed. I've read all the more generic advice. "Start with the big picture. Go scene by scene." This isn't helping me (yet). Do you have a specific process you follow that you'd be willing to share? Or any concrete tips?