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CFBA Blog Tour of Cool, Calm & Adjusted by Kristin Billerbeck

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is posting about Calm, Cool, and Adjusted by Kristin Billerbeck

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kristin Billerbeck was born in Redwood City, California. She went to San Jose State University and majored in Advertising, then worked at the Fairmont Hotel in PR, a small ad agency as an account exec, and then,she was thrust into the exciting world of shopping mall marketing. She got married, had four kids, and started writing romance novels until she found her passion: Chick Lit.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Calm, Cool, and Adjusted is the third book in the Spa Girls …

Interview with Amy Wallace

Welcome to Amy Wallace, author of Ransomed Dreams and fellow CFBA blogger to Relz Reviewz………….

Rel: Thanks Amy for joining me! Please share some of your writing/publishing journey with us

Amy: I began my writing journey oddly enough. In searching for good stories to share with my girls one Christmas, I came across some grown-up novels. Devouring my first taste of fiction since my college years, I’d then hand the books to my husband and tell him how I’d change them. After about seven, my husband handed a book back and said to write my own. I shook my …

Blog Tour of Scoop by Rene Gutteridge and Interview

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is posting about Scoop by Rene Gutteridge

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Rene Gutteridge is the author of several novels, including Ghost Writer (Bethany House Publishers), Troubled Waters (Bethany House), The Boo Series (WaterBrook Press) and the Storm Series, (Tyndale House Publishers. She has released three novels in 2006: Storm Surge (Tyndale) My Life as a Doormat (WestBow Press, Women of Faith)Occupational Hazards Book #1: Scoop (WaterBrook Press).

She has also been published over thirty times as a playwright, best known for her Christian comedy sketches. She studied screenwriting under a Mass Communications degree, graduating …

Maggie by Charles Martin

www.charlesmartinbooks.com

4 1/2 stars

Maggie continues the poignant journey of Dylan and Maggie Styles introduced in Charles Martin’s excellent debut novel The Dead Don’t Dance . Martin did not intend to write a sequel when he completed The Dead Don’t Dance but his readers will be grateful he changed his mind!

Maggie has awoken from the coma into which she fell after the traumatic labour that ended in the stillbirth of her firstborn son. Dylan, forever grateful for her restoration believes, “All the world was right.”. As with all tragedy those it strikes are permanently changed and life never returns …

The Dead Don’t Dance by Charles Martin

www.charlesmartinbooks.com

4 1/2 stars

The Dead Don’t Dance was Charles Martin’s debut novel and it clearly stamped Charles as an author to watch. Charles’ books have become a “must read” for this reviewer!

The Dead Don’t Dance weaves the heartrending tale of Dylan and Maggie Styles, a young couple seeking to make ends meet on their South Carolina farm, while eagerly anticipating the birth of their first child. Their joy is stripped away with the stillbirth of their son, the physical and emotional trauma leaving Maggie in a coma, and Dylan distraught and self-destructive. As the doctors hold out little …

Revealed by Tamera Alexander

www.tameraalexander.com

4 stars

Revealed is the second book in Tamera Alexander’s Fountain Creek Chronicles and readers will be pleased to know that Tamera has written another powerful story of two broken people seeking redemption from their past. This is the story of Annabelle Grayson and Matthew Taylor, pivotal characters in Tamera’s first book, Rekindled.

After the death of her husband, Annabelle chooses to follow his dream and travel to Idaho and the land he had claimed. She wants to start afresh and locate her young friend, Sadie who has disappeared. Annabelle advertises for a trail guide to accompany her …