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Bookish Question of the Week

There is an increasing trend amongst publishers to introduce a debut author by providing a free e-novella linked to the debut novel, prior to the full length novel releasing. Jen Turano and Melissa Jagears come to mind with their free e-novellas, Gentleman of Her Dreams and Love by the Letter, respectively. Lynne Gentry is releasing three novellas to complement her time travel Carthage Chronicles, the first being A Perfect Fit at under a couple of dollars.

Personally, I think it is a brilliant idea – a way to sample a new writer to see if you like their style …

Novel Journey Book Club: An interview with Tosca Lee & giveaway

Last year I selected Tosca Lee’s ISCARIOT for my book club ~ a novel exposing the life, and death, of Judas Iscariot, unveiled by Tosca’s research and imagination.

We had a terrific discussion and finished up with a wonderful Q&A with Tosca which I’m thrilled to share with you now. Just beware, that while you know how this story ends, there are spoilers about some of the details in this book.

The Story

History has called him many things: Thief. Liar. Traitor.

Reviled throughout history and infamous for his suicide, he is the man whose very name is synonymous with …

Cover Reveal & Giveaways: Serena Chase’s The Seahorse Legacy

I fell in love with Serena Chase’s lyrical and exciting stories with the first two tomes in her Eyes of E’veria series so I’m delighted to announce the arrival of book 3, The Seahorse Legacy. I have one word for you who have read her previous books ~ CAZIEN!!! Those of you who haven’t read them, then you must. While you don’t need to have read The Ryn and The Remedy to delight in The Seahorse Legacy, it certainly won’t hurt and you’ll be glad you did!

a Pirate

bound by a centuries-old oath

a Knight

determined …

The Thief by Stephanie Landsem

Synopsis:~

Longinus is a Roman centurion haunted by death and failure. Desperate to escape the accursed Judean province, he accepts a wager. If he can catch the thieves harassing the marketplace before Passover, he’ll earn a transfer away from the troublemaking Jews.

Nissa is a Jewish woman with a sharp tongue and no hope of marriage. Only with the help of Mouse, the best thief in Jerusalem, can she keep her blind brother, Cedron, fed and a roof over their heads.

When a controversial teacher miraculously heals Cedron, Longinus longs to learn more about the mysterious healer. Instead, his journey …

Pop Quiz ~ Beverly Lewis with a giveaway!

Discover more about prolific author

Beverly Lewis

and her Amish novel

The Last Bride

Bethany House

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What was a favourite childhood book of yours?

The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings

Do you remember the title of the first story you ever wrote? What was it about?

“She Shall Have Music” was my first-ever “long” story that demanded attention, and life—77 pages, in pencil and on yellow-lined paper, semi-autobiographical, about a young pianist who must forfeit lessons for a full year to accommodate her family’s lack of money when her mother is hospitalized with terminal cancer. I was just eleven …

The Painted Table by Suzanne Field ~ Tracy’s Take

Publisher’s Synopsis

A beautiful heirloom ingrained with family memory has become a totem of a life Saffee would rather forget—a childhood disrupted by her mother’s mental illness.

Saffee does not want the table. By the time she inherits the object of her mother’s obsession, the surface is thick with haphazard layers of paint, and heavy with unsettling memories.

After a childhood spent watching her mother slide steadily into insanity, painting and re-painting the ancient table, Saffee has come to fear that seeds of psychosis may lie dormant within her. But as an adult with a family of her own, Saffee …