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January 19, 2015
Books Authors Read | Cindy Vincent
Cindy Vincent was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and has lived all around the US and Canada. She holds an M.A.Ed, and is the creator of the Mysteries by Vincent murder mystery party games and the Daisy Diamond Detective Series games for girls. She is also the award-winning author of the Buckley and Bogey Cat Detective Caper books, the Daisy Diamond Detective book series, and the Cats are Part of His Kingdom, Too: 33 Daily Devotions to Understanding God’s Love. She lives with her husband an...
January 15, 2015
The Bucket List
The chapter in Mark Batterson’sThe Circle Maker that I read this morning was about goal setting. Big goal setting. Lifetime goal setting. At this stage of my life, like others before me, I have come to call this my Bucket List, the things I want to accomplish before I die.
Call it what you will, I want to dream BIG dreams for my future, no matter how long or short that time may be. I am not out of places I want to go, things I want to accomplish, adventures I want to experience. And this chapt...
January 12, 2015
Books Authors Read | Deb DeArmond
Deb DeArmond is an expert in the fields of leadership, communication, and relationship and conflict resolution. She owns DeArmond and Associates, dedicated to helping others build successful solutions to the challenges they are facing. Deb is the co-founder of MyPurposeNow.org, a website for Christian women 50+. She is a staff writer for the online magazine, Destiny in Bloom and her writing has been featured at Living Better at 50+, WHOA Magazine, and Dallas Family Magazine.
What was your favo...
January 10, 2015
Persistent Prayer: Prayer Journaling
My word for 2015 is “persistent prayer.” Thus much of my meditation, reading, and personal writing this year will be focused on prayer. I am beginning my days with reading a chapter ofThe Circle Makerby Mark Batterson. I have owned a copy of this book for quite some time, and it moved to the top of my readinglist when a dear sister in Christ (and prayer warrior) named it as one of her favorite books on prayer that she read in 2014. I am finding it wonderful, challenging, and faith-building.
I...
January 8, 2015
Cover Ideas Survey – Can You Help Me Decide?
My work in progress is set during the winter in the mountains of Idaho. Which means snow outside and warm fires inside.
The cover is starting to be worked on, and there are two different ways to go. An outdoor scene in thesnow. Or an indoor scene with a blazing fire in the fireplace.Here are two photos that I got from a stock photo site. These arenot what the publisher is using (to my knowledge). These are for my own inspiration. (If you’d like to see more inspiration for this novel, check out...
Spotlight: Buried by Elizabeth Goddard
BURIED
by Elizabeth Goddard
Nowhere to hide.
Fleeing to Alaska is the only option for Leah Marks after witnessing a murder. Afraid for her life, the legal investigator hopes a remote cabin will be a safe shelter. But the killer has tracked her to Mountain Cove. As he chases her into snow-packed Dead Falls Canyon, an avalanche buries them both. Saved by daring search and rescue specialist Cade Warren, Leah longs to tell him the truth. But how can she, without bringing even more danger into Cade’s...
48 Hour $1.99 Sale for Five of My Books
There is a “flash sale” going on for some Kindle and Nook ebooks, and five of my books are included. Today and tomorrow only, so don’t delay. Follow the links below to the book’s page, then choose either Amazon or Barnes & Noble, depending upon your reading device or retailer of choice.
Heart of Gold|A Promise Kept|Belonging|Betrayal|Beloved
Enjoy!
~robin
January 7, 2015
Book Review: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Title:
All the Light We Cannot See
Author:
Anthony Doerr
Publisher:
Scribner
Release Date:
January 2014
Format:
All
While I dearly love Christian fiction and read a great deal of it and Christian non-fiction as well, I also try to stay abreast of books in the general market.
I don't remember when I first heard about All the Light We Cannot See. It may have been the local newspaper since the author lives in Boise (I've never met him). Anyway, I b...
Spotlight: Once Beyond a Time by Ann Tatlock
ONCE BEYOND A TIME
by Ann Tatlock
After settling into an old house nearly hidden on the side of a mountain, a broken family discovers that their new home is no ordinary place. The family can see and speak with people who have lived there in the past, and with those who will live there in the future. Are these people apparitions or real? Could the house itself be the stuff of mountain lore, a place where all of time is happening at once?
It’s 1968, and Sheldon and Meg Crane have just moved their...
January 5, 2015
The Books Authors Read | Lynne Gentry
Lynne Gentry has written for numerous publications and is a professional acting coach, theater director and playwright with several full-length musicals and a Chicago children’s theater curriculum to her credit. Her love for writing stories was born while growing up on a Kansas dairy farm as she longed for adventure and dreamt of traveling to exotic places. She likes to write stories that launch modern women into ancient adventures, such as Healer of Carthage (2014), which was the first in Th...
