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Meet Carol award winning author Melanie Dobson

and her learn about her 2012 novels.

Enjoy getting to know Melanie!

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What appeals to you most about writing fiction?

I love to research history and then create stories that emerge from the facts in the past. When I write historical fiction, I get to immerse myself in a different era and ask “what if….” The wondering “what if” is my favourite part of fiction writing.

Why Christian fiction?

Stories are a powerful way to communicate God’s love, beauty, and truth. When I write, I feel like I experience just a bit …

Character Spotlight ~ Kelly Irvin’s David Plank & Josiah Shirack

Meet two of Kelly Irvin’s favourite leading men in

A Heart Made New

Harvest House

The Story

In the second novel of Kelly Irvin’s Bliss Creek Amish series, readers will be delighted to return to a town and a family they’ve already come to love.

Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who’s struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her.

When a homeless young woman named Charisma and her two-year-old daughter, Gracie, show up …

When A Heart Stops by Lynette Eason

Synopsis:~

Spunky and outgoing, nothing much bothers medical examiner Serena Hopkins–except for the thought of falling in love again. But when a serial killer is picking off her former classmates, Serena’s life becomes intertwined with her old high school crush, FBI agent Dominic Allen.

Is the secret she’s keeping putting her next on the killer’s hit list? Can she trust Dominic with the truth before it’s too late?

My take:~

Lynette Eason returns with her second Deadly Reunions novel focusing on Serena Hopkins, the medical examiner introduced to readers in When the Smoke Clears. The mystery flows from the …

With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin

When the opportunity arises to train as a flight nurse, Lieutenant Mellie Blake grasps hold of the opportunity, keen to forge a new path despite obstacles to the venture by entrenched military conservatism.Relishing the chance to use her nursing skills where they are most needed, Mellie realises she must overcome her own inadequacies when it comes to working as a team and making friends with her fellow nurses. Her exotic heritage and childhood in the Philippino jungle has not prepared her for the social mores of American culture and the impact of childhood torment for being different that has followed …

Character Spotlight ~ Carolyn Zane’s Abigail & Justin with giveaway

Meet a hair stylist and a construction worker

in Carolyn Zane’s

Beyond the Storm

Abingdon Press

The Story

After a tornado rips through her town, store owner Abigail comes across a piece of fabric from a wedding dress among the devastation. Abigail is moved to start collecting other swatches of fabric she finds – her neighbor’s kitchen curtains, a man’s necktie, a dog’s bed – which she stashes in shopping bags. As she pursues her seemingly absurd quest, horrible realities spark the question, “What kind of a God would allow such tragedy?”

As she struggles to reconcile her right to …

Character Spotlight ~ Anita Higman’s Franny Martin

Meet farm girl Franny Martin in

Anita Higman’s

A Merry Little Christmas

Summerside Press

The Story

Franny Martin is an Oklahoma farm girl who’s preparing to spend the holidays alone…again. Then Charlie Landau shows up one day, all wealth and polish, and offers to buy Franny’s farm. Franny has no money to speak of, but she is clever and spirited, and she’s more than happy to sell the farm and move to the city.

As Sinatra croons from the radio and Christmas descends upon her charming farm, Franny teaches Charlie the curious and sometimes comical ways of country life. In …