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Bookish Question of the Week

So, reader friends, my dear blogger friend and writer, Rachel McMillan, has inspired me for this week’s bookish question, from a Facebook discussion she had while editing her own manuscript as she wanted to avoid pitfalls. We talk a lot about what we love about stories, cover art, and genres here but for a bit of fun today I want to hear about what things bother you when reading a novel. What pulls you out of a story. Just as we all have certain likes, no doubt we have different dislikes!

Here’s a few of mine (which I’ve realised …

Lisa T Bergren’s Remnants Launch Tour ~ Stop #6: Meet Ronan (with giveaway)

Lisa Bergren’s books and I go WAY back, yep, like the ’90s way back 😉 I have read, and actually own every fiction title Lisa has published so I can say with some authority that she keeps getting better and better! Lisa’s foray into YA novels has been fantastic with the addicting River of Time series and now a dystopian adventure, beginning with REMNANTS: Season of Wonder. I’ve had the privilege to read an early copy of REMNANTS and you are in for a real treat ~ it’s fabulous! I’ll be raving in a review soon!

THE SYNOPSIS

THEIR …

Cover Art Reveal & Excerpt: Ronie Kendig’s HAWK

Heads up, readers! HAWK is in the house 😉

As Ronie Kendig’s RAPTOR 6 gears up for release next month – the first in her new Quiet Professionals series – here is the cover art for the second action packed instalment, HAWK, featuring the hot headed Brian Bledsoe showing his softer side! Following on from Raptor 6, with a Special Forces veteran as the cover model, HAWK’s cover model is an Air Force veteran. So good, right?

You are going to LOVE this story, dear friends, with all you expect from a Rapid-Fire Fiction novel and THEN SOME, Ronie plunges …

Character Spotlight ~ Regina Jennings’ Anne & Nick with a giveaway

Meet a “wild” woman and a charmer in

Regina Jennings’

historical romance

Caught in the Middle

Bethany House

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The Story

She Wants the Freedom of the Open Plains.
He Wants the Prestige of a Successful Career.
Neither is Ready for What Comes Instead.

The train to Garber, Texas, is supposed to bring life’s next victory to Nicholas Lovelace. Instead, it gets held up by robbers who are thwarted by the last person Nick ever expected–Anne Tillerton from back home in Prairie Lea.

Anne’s been hiding away as a buffalo hunter. She’s only in town to find their runaway cook, …

Dancing with Fireflies by Denise Hunter

Synopsis:~

Jade returns home to Chapel Springs after years of protecting her fragile heart. Then along comes Daniel, making her long to dance again.

Creative and complicated, Jade McKinley felt like a weed in a rose garden growing up in Chapel Springs. When she left, she thought she’d never look back. But now, pregnant, alone, and broke, she has no other choice but to return.

The mayor of Chapel Springs, Daniel Dawson, has been an honorary member of the McKinley family for years. While his own home life was almost non-existent, Daniel fit right into the boisterous McKinley family. He’s …

Novel Journey Book Club: A discussion with Jolina Petersheim

My book club’s February selection was The Outcast, Jolina Petersheim’s retelling of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic, The Scarlet Letter.

Jolina’s novel provided plenty of hot topics to discuss as we mused over the amazing fact that this brilliant story was a debut novel. Jolina graciously answered our many and varied questions which I’m delighted to share with you below.

The Story

Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content living apart from mainstream society until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and …