Endorser Spotlight: Carrie Schmidt, ReadingisMySuperPower.org
I first met avid reader and blogger, Carrie Schmidt, online about 5 years ago and she has always been so encouraging of my work! She has cheered on so many authors, including me, by posting her reviews, hosting interviews, and sharing book giveaways on her fantastic blog ReadingisMySuperpower.org. Today, I am thrilled to share Carrie Schmidt’s endorsement for my upcoming Regency Romance from Kregel Publications, To Catch a Coronet! I squealed when I read what she had to say!
Carrie Schmidt is an avid reader, book reviewer, story addict, KissingBooks fan, book boyfriend collector, and cool aunt. She also loves Jesus and THE Story a whole lot. Carrie started the popular blog ReadingIsMySuperPower.org in 2015 and since then has had the honor of co-founding the Christian Fiction Readers’ Retreat and JustRead Publicity Tours. In addition to these endeavors, she is a regular contributor to Seekerville and has written for magazines such as RT Book Reviews and Christian Market. Carrie now lives in Georgia with her husband, though her roots range from East Tennessee to Central Kentucky and northern Illinois. You can connect with Carrie on ReadingIsMySuperPower.org, Facebook @meezcarriereads or @meezcarriewrites, and everywhere else social at @meezcarrie.
What Carrie says about To Catch a Coronet
“An endearingly unorthodox heroine and a dashingly secretive hero provide the perfect recipe for a delicious romance seasoned with smart wit, swoony kisses, and surprising twists. Muriel and Erik had my heart and my allegiance from their adorable meet-cute to the sweet epilogue—and all the intrigue in between. Grace Hitchcock’s first foray into the Regency era is a smashing success, and I look forward to what the rest of the series has to offer!”
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A fun Q& A from Carrie Schmidt’s amazing bookish website, ReadingisMySuperPower.org
why blog?
Carrie: Considering that my first word was “book”, it was pretty much a given that I would be a voracious reader. Though my tastes have broadened from Nancy Drew, Little House, and The Secret Garden to include a bevy of marvelous genres and authors, I still love to read. Talking about these beloved books seemed like a natural extension of my superpower, and thus a blog was born.
what can you expect from the ReadingisMySuperPower.org blog?
Carrie: Books reviewed honestly and from the heart, written out of my love for stories and my knowledge of what makes good fiction. Interviews with some of my favorite authors. Giveaways of some of my favorite books. Top Ten Tuesdays. First Line Fridays. Gushing over my latest book boyfriends. (Sorry, oh-so-tolerant hubby!)
The highlight of blogging for me is when I am able to introduce you to your next favorite read or a new-to-you author!
what kind of books do you review?
Carrie: My passion is Christian fiction, but I have a handful of go-to authors in the general market and cozy mystery genres as well. I love to laugh. I love books that touch my heart too. I read both historical and contemporary fiction, and I’m always on the outlook for another great kissingbook! If it’s got suspense, all the better. You won’t find much science fiction/fantasy here, other than fairy tales and the occasional nod to Narnia or Harry Potter, though I’m starting to find many more books that I love in this speculative genre. No vampires or werewolves, though.
do you ever do anything besides read?
Carrie: Not willingly. Actually, in my other life, I live in Georgia with my hubby, where we love our church & small group. I’m a hands-on cool aunt to our eight nieces and nephews who live only a few miles from me. (We have two other nephews & a niece who live a day’s drive away, too.) When I’m not blogging here at RimSP, you can find me blogging at Seekerville and coordinating blog & review tours at JustRead Publicity Tours. I also used to review for RT Book Reviews, and I recently co-curated ECPA’s 2022 Art of Writing Conference. Oh yeah… and I wrote a book for authors.
*Note this Q&A is originally published on Carrie’s ReadingisMySuperpower.org
About Carrie Schmidt’s must-have resource for all aspiring authors, Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers
Remember when Dorothy finally reached the Emerald City only to be halted by the Gatekeeper, blocking her hopes of seeing the Great and Powerful Wizard?
The path to publication is like that. Agents, and Editors, and Publishers, oh, my! Each one is a barrier between you and a publishing contract.
But what if you understood what agents, editors, publishers, and readers really want?
If you’re struggling to get past the publishing gatekeepers, this book will give you a behind-the-scenes peek at how to win the heart of each type of publishing professional. In fact, Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers won’t just give you a peek—it will give you a guided tour. In this book, four publishing professionals—an agent, a publisher, an editor, and an influencer—share what it takes to unlock each “gate” within the publishing industry.
Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers is a must-have resource for all aspiring authors, and it offers insights to help multi-published authors as well.
To celebrate all the wonderful endorsements To Catch a Coronet received, I am hosting a giveaway!
