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Coming mid 2013 from Bethany House

Bethany House’s Summer reads (or winter for me in the Southern Hemisphere!) are here for your inspection! Bethany’s covers are always striking and always high quality even the ones that may not appeal so much to me. Story wise, I’m looking forward to them all but especially can’t wait to read Blood and Bone (Jack’s back in Oz!), Elizabeth Camden’s, Karen’s, Jen’s and Becky’s. And Dee’s final O’Malley story – so hoping it is fabulous 🙂

Cover wise ~ love the different look for Julianna Deering’s (you may know her by another name!), Into the Whirlwind, King and Blood and …

Coming in 2013 from Barbour Books

Here’s a sneak peek at some of Barbour’s 2013 titles and in honour of Aaron McCarver, who faithfully comments on my cover art posts, his December, 2012 release!

If you have visited here long enough you know I adore Ronie’s books and I can assure you, you will fall in love with her gorgeous lab, Talon! MaryLu’s cover is stunning and she writes some great historical romance and Olivia Newport’s debut Amish novel intrigued me so I can’t wait to see how Annie’s story develops in In Plain View.

Your thoughts, likes, must reads?

Camellia by Diane T. …

To Whisper Her Name by Tamera Alexander

Synopsis:~

Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the South, is shunned by proper society and gratefully accepts an invitation from “Aunt” Elizabeth Harding, mistress of Belle Meade Plantation. Expecting to be the Harding’s head housekeeper, Olivia is disillusioned when she learns the real reason Elizabeth’s husband, Confederate General William Giles Harding, agreed to her coming. Not finding the safe haven she expects, Olivia is caught off guard by her feelings for Ridley Adam Cooper, a Southern man who seems anything but a Southern gentleman.

Branded a traitor by some, Ridley Cooper, a Southern son …

A Light in the Window by Julie Lessman

Synopsis:~

One Woman. Two Men.
One stirs her pulse and the other her faith.
But who will win her heart?

Marceline Murphy is a gentle beauty with a well-founded aversion to rogues. But when two of Boston’s most notorious pursue her, she encounters a tug-of-war of the heart she isn’t expecting. Sam O’Rourke is the childhood hero she’s pined for, the brother of her best friend and a member of the large, boisterous family to which she longs to be a part. So when his best friend Patrick O’Connor joins in pursuit of her affections, the choice seems all too …

Character Spotlight ~ Peter Leavell’s Tad with Giveaway

Meet the young hero in debut novelist

Peter Leavell’s

Gideon’s Call

Worthy

The Story

Author Peter Leavell forges an unprecedented tale of tragedy and triumph amid the backdrop of the Civil War through the story of Tad, a very clever slave boy who comes of age as America’s war reaches the sea islands of South Carolina. Tad’s desire to better himself is obstructed by the color of his skin, until Northern soldiers force the evacuation of white plantation owners, setting 10,000 slaves free in a single day. These circumstances seem like a dream, except that the newly freed slaves have …

Getting to know Sibella Giorello

Get to know the woman behind Special Agents Raleigh Harmon & Jack Stephanson

Geology major, Pulitzer Prize nominee, wife mother & more

Sibella Giorello

writing for Thomas Nelson

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What appeals to you most about writing fiction?

Dreaming with my eyes wide open.

I was constantly scolded for staring out the window as a kid. Daydreaming when I should have been “paying attention.” Now I not only stare out the window, but share that waking-dream with other people. It’s a tremendous blessing.

Why Christian fiction?

Probably because secular publishing houses would change Raleigh Harmon. They would want her to “tone …