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Don't Let the Wind Catch You--official release date!

It's sunny and it's summer. The wind is quiet. The fall is yet to come. But leaves are slowly beginning to turn and pine trees are dropping needles underfoot. Wind and winter are coming.

It's also the official release date Aaron Paul Lazar's Don't Let the Wind Catch You--and this blog tour give you a chance to try for free giveaways and ebooks. Just click on the blog tour image above, or scroll to the bottom of the page to find out more...

or join the Facebook Event:


Release Day Facebook Event  8/15...

Angels watching over my reading list

I got a lovely little book in the mail last weekend. It's called Angels, written by Alexis York Lumbard, illustrated by Flavia Weedn, and it looks like the perfect gift for small children, or parents and grandparents thereof. With simple text--3 or 4 words to a page--and simple pastel illustrations, with pleasingly quiet non-denominational words and gently multi-cultural images, it's the sort of book a child will treasure as he/she grows up, while parents and guardians treasure the chance to...

Prefering to walk when the world wants to run. Meet author Digonta Bordoloi

Today I'm delighted to welcome author Digonta Bordoloi to my blog. His novel Slow is the story of a boy who preferred to walk, when the world around him was gearing up to run.


About Slow:
Baba is born in a remote corner, sheltered from modern development. His father’s job takes the family from town to town, and with each move, Baba comes to terms with his new life. He spends an idyllic childhood doing things at his own pace, bending the rules whenever he can. And then the unthinkable happens......

Advice from an author who knows how to travel the world: Meet Lydia Crichton

Today I get to welcome Lydia Crichton, author of GRAINS OF TRUTH (Barringer Publishing/May 2013), to my blog. A native Texan, Lydia has traveled all over the world in her twenty-plus year career as a marketing and fundraising expert for nonprofit organizations. A trip to Egypt in 2002 turned into a life-changing odyssey, which led her to discover a passion for telling stories that entertain as they explore complex and controversial social and political issues. She currently lives in Cali...

A child, a baby, a dream, a hope, and more book reviews

I'm writing children's stories about a pre-schooler who plays with his friends in the street, helps his mom sweep the floor, keeps asking if the bread has finished rising yet, stomps grapes when the harvest comes in, and generally has fun. This story's going to be about being kind to strangers. I write the first line: "One day, Jesus was playing with his friends..." And I mentally bow my head at the name of Jesus because I grew up Catholic and that's what we do. Then I wonder if children list...

Which comes first--Faith or Miracles? An interview with author J.D. Winston

 Today I'm delighted to interview J.D. Winston on my blog, author of God Must Be Weeping, released by BoulevarDream in January of this year. So please read on and learn more about a second world war novel where bonds of friendship are tested, faith is challenged, and fears are exposed. Not just a war novel, it's a story of misfits from different social and spiritual backgrounds and how friendship binds them together. It sounds just my sort of thing and I really hope I'll get to read it s...

If I sell one book per month does that make me an author?

The speaker at our local writers' group last Sunday said all authors have to be entrepreneurs, and the author/entrepreneur's life goes in three-month cycles. For weeks you'll be over the moon because your book's been released and it's selling and good reviews are coming in. Then comes that one week when you sell nothing and the world comes crashing down...

She's obviously a much more established author/entrepreneur than I am. If I sell a single book in a week I'm more than overjoyed. And if I...

Paperback Reader

I'm catching up. Honestly I am. And this week I've enjoyed that rare pleasure of reading genuine paperbacks, leaving them lying around the house, one in the bedroom, one on the sofa, one on the chair, then carrying them, then wondering where I left them and where's my pencil so I can take notes about what I'm reading there. Of even greater pleasure is the fact that all five paperback books were so thoroughly enjoyable, so grab a coffee, pull up a chair, and see which ones would catch your fan...

Cover Reveal...

The Five-Minute Bible StoryTM Series is moving into the New Testament, and Bethlehem Baby is listed as "Coming Soon" on the publisher's website. Just go to http://www.capearagopress.com/ and enjoy the celebration fireworks. Then look for today's #OneADayGenesis prescription on Twitter for a free read from book 1 to soothe the kids at bedtime.

Real World... Real People... Real God...
and real five-minute stories (on kindle) to kindle inspiration.

Quick Reads for those long sunny lunch hours

Don't forget the Virtual Ebook Fair's still active on Facebook. Just click on the image to get there.


If you didn't find mine among those excellent snippets and samples, you could click here

http://sheiladeethstudies.blogspot.com/2013/07/3-minutes-4-minutes-5-minutes-more.html
for three stories from the Five-Minute Bible Stories Series (TM).

And then, if you've still got a spare hour or two, why not try these short books, reviewed below:

Jessica, by Laura DeLuca, is a delightfully haunting Hallow...