Sondra Kraak

Trails of Love and Grace

Bios, Interviews, and Reviews

Bio

Sondra Kraak (pronounced croc, like the shoe) is a part-time writer, full-time Jesus follower. A native of Washington State, she now lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where she serves as the Worship Coordinator at her church. She and her Michigan-born husband, Nate, have two children–a daughter in college and a son in high school. Sondra fails miserably at social media and Jane Austen trivia, but she’s a champion sports fan (yah, hockey!), and has recently had success making sourdough bread (miracles do happen). Don’t ask her to drink eggnog (or kiss her husband after he does), but she’ll happily consume most teas and coffee, so long as it’s decaf (otherwise her heart races and she gets chatty). Her current to-do list includes training for a backpacking trip and folding laundry that’s been left in the dryer for two days. But first, just one more chapter.

Sondra originally started writing historical romance and has a published series with seven titles and a stand alone. But after life got serious (her husband battled cancer and they lost their home in Hurricane Helene), she needed a change, something lighter. Her first rom-com, Where the Wild Hearts Are, is set to release in April 2026, and kicks off a series set in the same fictional mountain town in Washington State as her historical books. You can expect the same banter, wit, tension, and chemistry (without the spice), just with heroines who drive cars and wear jeans.

Interviews and Reviews

One Plus One Equals Trouble

Two Ways Home

Three Words and a Kiss

Four Dreams of You

Such a Hope

 

Guest Posts

Reading Fiction In Him, Reading is My SuperPower (October 20, 2017): . . . I’m thinking of Paul’s words, “In him we live and move and have our being.” And read our fiction. Do you read your fiction in him? When Jesus gets under your skin, you don’t look the same. You don’t think the same. You don’t watch movies the same. You don’t read fiction the same. So how are you reading fiction? And I don’t mean by the fire with a cup of coffee or in the bathtub with your tea. Although—yes to both those ways. Read more.

The Best Reason to Go Indie, Reading is My SuperPower (May 16, 2017): . . .a few months later, the miracle happened. After an author friend shared her experience going indie, and I in turn shared with my husband, he began to research about the world of indie (thank you Joanna Penn at The Creative Penn for such great information). And then he said to me, in a moment when the heavens opened and birds sang, “I think you should consider going indie.” Read more.

Kiss or Miss, Reading is My SuperPower (December 18, 2016): Y’all know how much I love KissingBooks. So when author Sondra Kraak and I were talking about ideas for her guest post today – and when she suggested the kiss or almost-kiss concept – I immediately pronounced that the perfect topic for this blog! A chance to read some of the best KissingBook kisses/almost-kisses? YES PLEASE!* Read more.

Pistols and Petticoats (January 27, 2017): Some places sow themselves into your memory. They must be cherished. Revisited, even if only in the imagination. And if those places have been sown into the fertile loam of a writer’s imagination, they must be written about. Plain, Washington, is such a place for me. Read more.

For the Joy of Banter, reviewer Sarah Ruut’s blog (June 24, 2016): Banter. That ping-pong, witty dialogue we avid readers of Christian fiction LOVE to see in a romance. In fact, it’s on the top of my list for choosing authors and books. I can’t make it through a story—reading or writing—without some good repartee. Read more.