BLOGWORDS – Thursday 5 February 2026 – CHAT THURSDAY – VICTORINE

BLOGWORDS – Thursday 5 February 2026 – CHAT THURSDAY – VICTORINE

CHAT THURSDAY – VICTORINE

 

Please give a warm feathered welcome to author and friend, Victorine Lieske.

rem: Hullo Victorine, and welcome. Tell us three random things about yourself.

VICTORINE:  Hello! Three random things? Okay, here goes: I love to crochet, I listen to mostly Kpop music, and I once was a telemarketer. (Don’t hate me for that last one.)

 

rem:  Yeah, I did a short stint as a telemarketer! What is your favorite quotation and why?

VICTORINE:  My favorite quote is from Jeffrey R. Holland. “It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines.” I love that quote because it gives me hope and joy.

 

rem:  Several years ago, I wrote a poem, There is Nowhere, that says that very thing.  When reading, what makes or breaks a story for you? Your fiction pet peeve?  

VICTORINE:  I love stories with delicious tension and heartbreaking romance. But I don’t read spicy, so I’ll put down a book if the scenes get spicy. Or too much swearing. I can handle a little, but too much and I’ll put the book down.

 

rem:  Same here. What are you reading right now? 

VICTORINE:  Fake Dating My Best Friend by Leah Blair.

 

rem:  Tell us a little about your writing journey.

VICTORINE:  I started writing when I hurt my back and had to rest. I wrote my first novel in a week. (But it was terrible, haha. I didn’t know how to write.) Luckily I found critique circle, (an online critique website) and started uploading chapters. That’s how I got started!

 

rem:  Love how God turned took that accident and turned it into your writing career! What genre(s) do you write and why?

VICTORINE:  I write clean romantic comedy and clean paranormal YA romance.

 

rem:  I see a theme here. Tell us a little about your latest book? What is your current project?

VICTORINE:  I’m just finishing up the last book in my Willow Shade Island series titled When a Man Loves a Woman. It’s about a famous child actor who has grown up and now can’t get any roles. The female lead is a woman trying to win a scholarship to culinary school, so he hires her to cook for him so she can practice. I’m done with the book and just editing it now. I’m starting a new series soon about a writer who gets sucked into her own romance novel.

 

rem:  Can’t go wrong with a chef—there will always be good food around. But they can be a bit temperamental.  What is YOUR favorite part about the book or why do you love this book? Why should we read it?

VICTORINE:  I love that he falls first, and hires her just so he can spend more time with her. He’s a cinnamon roll kind of hero, and she’s prickly because she’s been burned in the past. I love watching him break down her walls.

 

rem:  A good cinnamon roll will do that! I was once mock-proposed to over my cinnamon rolls. What is one take-away from your book(s) that you hope readers identify with? 

VICTORINE:  I like to write about redemption and forgiveness, of others and oneself. I hope readers identify with this, and can be a little more forgiving of themselves after reading my books.

 

rem:  That’s such an important lesson for us all. One more and then we’ll close. Do you have a life Scripture?

VICTORINE: Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

 

rem:  Oh, yes, His ways are definitely not our ways! Anything you’d like to add?

VICTORINE:  If your dream is to become a writer, don’t give up. Keep writing. Keep going. Don’t quit before the miracle. Your first book might not take off. It might be your second, or your fifth, or your sixteenth. Keep going. You don’t know when something you publish will resonate with readers.

rem:  I love that, Victorine. And I might add, if you got the “writer bug” in you, you won’t be happy unless you’re writing! (took me decades to learn that!) Thanks again for chatting with us on my blog today!

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Victorine self-published her first book, Not What She Seems, in April of 2010. In March of 2011, Not What She Seems began its 6 week run on The New York Times best selling eBook list. By May 2011 she had sold over 100,000 copies. Victorine's first romantic comedy novel hit the USA Today Bestselling books list in January 2015.

Victorine and her husband live in Nebraska with their four children and two cats. She loves all things romance and watches While You Were Sleeping about once every six months. When she’s not writing, she’s designing book covers for authors or making something with her extensive yarn collection.

Victorine and her husband have raised their four children in Nebraska. Victorine also does graphic design work in the publishing industry.

 

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