Category: Second Chance Romance

A New Sinclair Island Romance, Christian fiction, Christian inspirational Fiction, Contemporary Christian Fiction, Second Chance Romance, Transformational Christian Fiction, Women's Contemporary Romance

“Dinny’s Challenge” becomes a #1 Best Seller!

Hilary Walker

As a Christian author, I thank God for each gift of success.

“Dinny’s Challenge” became a #1 Best Seller for a glorious while and I knew took screen shots of its exalted status immediately!

Creating the book was an interesting exercise in humility, as you can see from my post, “Dinny’s Challenge:” A Fresh Start. It taught me not to take criticism personally, but to see it as a helpful aid to improvement.

My critiquing circle’s good judgment made the book successful, and I am eternally grateful to them.

Readers tell me my books bring back happy horse memories from their childhood, and one was even encouraged to get on a horse again, after reading about the equine adventures of my heroes and heroines!

Such feedback is enormously rewarding and encourages me to continue writing.

I’m now working on “Friday’s Folly,” Book 3 in The Sinclair Island Romance series.

P.S. If you would like to join my Launch Team and receive Advance Review Copies (ARCs) of my new books, please comment below. I’d love to welcome you aboard!

Over 50s Romance Fiction, Second Chance Romance, Women's Contemporary Romance

“Dinny’s Challenge”: a Fresh Start

Hilary Walker

It’s been interesting to discover that an author friend of mine, who is way more successful than me, is having the same trouble with her current novel as I am. We both suffer from a difficulty to move on from the hero in our previous book to the next one.

Grant didn’t own a horse in the first version. He’s quite a bit older than Fulton in ‘Saving Prophecy’ and his only sport was golf. I hadn’t realized how boring he was until I decided to make him the owner of a beautiful grey gelding. After all, the horses make the book, don’t they?

Dinny’s Challenge is proving a real challenge!

That immediately gave him a snazzier car, an interesting extra hobby, and he is also a member of the volunteer emergency services on the island. I shan’t say which one, but no, he’s not a fireman.

Which brought me to Dinny, who needed spicing up, too. She was under her husband’s thumb for many years, but broke out of her shell after his death. I wasn’t conveying that, apart from having her fulfill her lifelong dream of buying a horse. Now she’s up to all sorts of things, and I’m having a hard time keeping up with her!

Wish me luck as I follow the tricky romance between the two of them.

Christian romance, Contemporary Christian Fiction, Equestrian fiction, Over 50s Romance Fiction, Second Chance Romance, Uplifting Fiction

Writing the New Sinclair Island Romance

Hilary Walker

Dinny’s Challenge

The second book in the Sinclair Island Romance series is underway!

Mock-Up Cover of Dinny's Challenge
This is not the final cover – but a grey horse is involved in the story!

This time my hero and heroine are in their 50s.

As has frequently been pointed out, romance novels tend to focus on the young, as if love were somehow the exclusive province of those who haven’t yet reached middle age.

Happily there is a growing fiction genre that embraces the romantic adventures of older persons, and I’m pleased to add my body of work to it. 🙂

Unlike my previous two novels, the title character in ‘Dinny’s Challenge’ is not the horse but the heroine. But don’t worry – equines still feature big time!

Another departure from my usual format is that the novel is written from two points of view – the POV of the hero and that of the heroine.

Dinny Dumont has been widowed for four years at the opening of the book and is about to have her decades long beliefs challenged.

The cause of this upheaval is an act of cowardice she committed thirty-four years ago which is now coming home to roost.

She’s invited to attend the wedding of her friend Emma to the handsome Fulton on Sinclair Island, little knowing that she’s about to run into the man she wronged …

Needless to say, sparks fly and emotions are high!

But I must  get back to the manuscript and figure out how the story ends. 😉

I’ll talk to you again soon.

God bless,

Hilary