About Tamera

Tamera Alexander is a USA Today bestselling novelist and one of today's most popular authors of inspirational historical romance and women’s contemporary fiction, including A Million Little Choices, Rekindled, and Within My Heart. While being Gram Tam is her current favorite role, she’ll never turn down a stroll through an old cemetery or browsing through antique shops.

Her works have been awarded numerous industry-leading honors—among them the Christy Award, the RITA Award, the Carol Award, Library Journal's top honors—and have earned the distinction of Publisher's Weekly Starred Reviews.

In 2020 she was inducted into the Christy Award Hall of Fame which recognizes authors for their legacy and contribution to Christian fiction. Her deeply drawn characters and thought-provoking plots have earned her devoted readers worldwide.

Tamera and her husband love living in Nashville, Tennessee, and treasure the time spent with their grown children and grandchildren. They live a short distance from the Southern mansions that serve as the backdrop for many of her critically-acclaimed novels.

Tamera views her writing as a way to grow closer to the Lord Jesus Christ—and her deepest desire is that those who read her novels will take steps closer to Him as well.

P.S. People often ask how Tamera's name is pronounced. It's Tamera like "camera" with a T. But Tammy is just fine, too.

What inspired Tamera to write novels?

Tamera was inspired to become a writer by her mother-in-law Claudette who gave her a book that Tamera took one look at and thought, "Mmmm...not interested." (So much for 'Don't judge a book by its cover!') But being a Southern gal, Tamera thanked her sweet mother-in-law profusely, then shelved the book for a later date.

A few weeks passed, and Tamera got a phone call one afternoon. Claudette had died very suddenly of a brain aneurysm at age 58. In the following months, Tamera happened upon that little book again, the one Claudette had given her. But this time, she sat down and read it cover-to-cover—and her long-ago-tucked-away love of writing was given new life!

The book? Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke.

Tamera writes her novels at home in Tennessee and treasures being a writer. But mostly, she cherishes her connections with people—both real and imagined.

She hopes readers who pick up one of her novels will be swept away into another time and place, that they'll fall in love with the characters and gain insights into the history of the setting and people of yesteryear.

But most of all, when a reader turns that final page in one of her novels, she prays they will have taken a step closer to Christ. Because she believes that having a relationship with Him is the most important decision you'll ever make in this life—and the next.

A personal note from Tamera . . .

I grew up reading anything and everything I could, so it was a natural step when my interest eventually turned to writing.

To date, I've written sixteen novels and two novellas, which includes my 2023 release A Million Little Choices, my first contemporary (dual timeline novel), which received enthusiastic support from both the market and my readers—and I’m so thankful.

A Million Little Choices is a story I’d wanted to write for a long time. Fifteen years, in fact, and I was over the moon when Jerry Jenkins (my editor on that project) called on behalf of Focus on the Family and invited me to be part of a new adult fiction line. God’s timing is always perfect. Even if it feels slow for us at times.

My first fifteen novels consist of Southern historical fiction/romances set in Civil War and post-Civil War Nashville, and also in the wild grandeur of the Colorado Rocky Mountains where we lived for over seventeen years. Then the sixteenth novel, A Million Little Choices, has Atlanta (my childhood stomping ground) as its main backdrop.

At the heart of each of my books is a male and female protagonist at crucial turning points in their lives. As each story unfolds in my writing, I take the couple's journey with them and hope you'll enjoy taking each of these journeys too.

I live in Nashville, Tennessee, with my husband—not far from the antebellum mansions I write about—and with Murphy and Bailey, our two rambunctious but precious Australian Terriers. Our children and grandchildren live close by which makes life pretty perfect.

All the mansions I write about—Historic Carnton, Belmont Mansion, and Belle Meade Plantation—are current day house museums that welcome patrons, so I encourage you to grab your friends and book club buddies and head to Nashville for a visit. Who knows... We just might cross paths there. I hope so.

Every blessing in Christ,

Tamera