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April Showers Bring May BOOKS!

Hello lovely readers,

We’re hoping that April showers will bring May flowers, and maybe more books! With that in mind I’ve partnered with Celebrate Lit for a giveaway just for you!

Here’s a chance to build up that spring TBR pile to read on your porch, on a picnic, or in your other cozy reading spot. Enter as much as you’d like 4/15 through 4/21 by midnight.

 https://promosimple.com/ps/29ac1/2024-april-showers

You could win 25 Christian books or the grand prize of a $500 Amazon card to buy more books. *My gift is Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling.

Monday Scripture Meditations

What things cause you to strive? My irritant is not reaching my goals.

How do you handle strife in your life? I want to know.

Monday Scripture Meditations

Love always does whatever is best.

C.S. Lewis wisely wrote, “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.”

“Day and night alike belong to You; You made the starlight and the sun. All nature is within Your hands;You make the summer and the winter too.” Psalm 74:16-17 (TLB)

Whatever it looks like within the variations of the seasons, God is always at work.

#Godisatwork #waitforGod #Godsearcheshearts

Muldoon’s Fiction and Facts

This is Orla Muldoon, Mick’s younger sister of two. There are six children, and two others deceased in this large family. Orla insisted she wants her own story, Book 2 launching in 2025. What happened to her face? You’ll find out in 2025.

I’m writing and researching it now, and boy does she have a lot to say about her life and what she wants. We catch up with her story when she is 15-years old. I’d love to tell more of her childhood in her book but there isn’t enough time or pages allowed in historical fiction.

In Muldoon’s Misfortunes, launching in July of 2024, Orla’s determined wish for a radically different life is the catalyst for influencing half her siblings into extreme relocation. They risk everything by leaving Ireland to venture across the Atlantic in 1866. Secretly, all the Muldoons desired hope, and I can give it to the brave ones.

Monday Scripture Meditations

I get confused about how to deal with obstacles. Are they put there to stop me from moving forward in faith, or are they to turn me onto another path?

What if I make a misjudgment? Will my calling or goal be destroyed?

Romans 11:29 (AMPC) “For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call].”

One More Day to Enter!

Reminder for all you avid readers: March 24th is the last day to enter the Hop Into Spring giveaway, by midnight!

My eBook, Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: A Novella, is the prelude to my Those Resilient Muldoons series. Here’s a link to Draft2Digital for all readers other than Kindle or Apple Books. You can see my book in the image, middle of 2nd row.

I hope one of you wins!

Muldoon’s Fiction and Facts

Shawna McGann is Mick’s love interest in Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: a Novella, a self-published prelude to Book 1 which is launching in July of 2024.

This portion of Mick Muldoon’s life is after he emigrates from County Kerry, Ireland beginning in 1867, and includes the years he lived in Minnesota up to 1874. Mick finally found a place where his hopes for a better life could be fulfilled.

The Irish were a prolific emigration population but not a popular one. There were many in America who intensely disliked the Irish Catholics, and didn’t understand the horrific poverty and famine they had escaped. They might not take part in the active persecution, or malicious slander but unfair beliefs about the Irish people persisted for many years. As in modern times, emigrant groups tended to join those who understood their experiences, backgrounds, or class distinctions.

Hop Into Spring Giveaway!

It’s time for another multi-author book giveaway through my generous publisher, Celebrate Lit Publishing.

You can enter the Hop Into Spring multi-author giveaway as many times as you’d like from 3/18 through midnight 3/24! The first prize is 35 books, and the grand prize is a $500 Amazon gift card to spend on anything.

Whether you win—which I pray so, or don’t, I hope you find some new-to-you authors to connect with and enjoy their books. Happy discovering!

Muldoon’s Fiction and Facts

About the Irish Muldoon family book series: Those Resilient Muldoons. Book 1 launches in July 2024.

Ed Muldoon is Mick’s older brother who appears in the prelude novella currently published: Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling, and in Book 1 and 2 of 3. He’s intense, bitter, and his siblings call him a bully. His humor isn’t funny.

The best thing he’s ever done is rescue Mick from the New York City tenement slums and return him to farming in rural Minnesota. Ed is a gambler, not a farmer, but he tries his best to make restitution for his treatment of Mick. Until there’s nothing he can do.

Monday Scripture Meditations

Does anyone think we can live in this world without being wounded? I think there’s no way to escape them. How should we process what hurts us?

Spend time with God and pray.

Psalm 147:3 (ESV) “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”