Janet Sketchley's Blog: Tenacity, page 17
July 5, 2022
Review: Boughs of Folly, by Sandra Orchard
Boughs of Folly, by Sandra Orchard (Annie���s Fiction, 2022)
After 20 years away from her Georgia hometown, Jillian Green is back: living with her grandmother and great aunt in an antebellum mansion and slowly improving her baking skills at her grandmother���s Chocolate Shoppe bakery.
Christmas is approaching and she���s excited to decorate the mansion for the upcoming Merry Mansions tour. When one of the decorating team is found dead on the grounds, Jillian���s great aunt cries murder...
June 28, 2022
99-cent Ebook Sale: Unknown Enemy
Buy link: https://www.books2read.com/unknownenemyCome to the Green Dory Inn for the mysteries, stay for the characters.
Book 1, Unknown Enemy, is 99 cents for Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Apple, and Google Play until July 5. Great time to discover a new-to-you Christian fiction series set in beautiful Nova Scotia!
Buy your copy here: https://www.books2read.com/unknownenemy
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June 24, 2022
Chasing Inspiration (Guest Post)
Image by Mango Matter from PixabayChasing Inspirationby Steph Beth NickelI wrote over 40K words of my first YA speculative fiction novel during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2020. And then . . .
True confession time . . .
I left it so long that I wanted to go back and read it from the beginning, making minor changes and getting my momentum back.
But that didn���t happen. At least not until June of this year.
In just three days, I read the 44K+ words, tweaked...
June 21, 2022
Review: Crossed by Death, by A.C.F. Bookens
Crossed by Death, by A.C.F. Bookens (Andilit, 2021)
Paisley Sutton���s historical writing career went out the window when she became a single mom of a toddler too active to allow the necessary research time. Now she provides for herself and two-year-old Sawyer by salvaging vintage items from abandoned buildings and reselling them online.
Exploring a long-closed rural gas station was not supposed to end with her finding a dead body. Nor was meeting the town sheriff supposed to unfold i...
June 14, 2022
Review: Gossip and Grace, by Janice L. Dick
Gossip and Grace, by Janice L. Dick (Tansy & Thistle Press, 2022)
When you mess up in a small town, everybody knows it. Which is why 19-year-old Sol Wuppertal does not want to return to Happenstance when he gets out of prison. No matter his claims of innocence���all the townsfolk will remember is that he hung around with bad characters and has done time.
Readers of the Happenstance Chronicles series will recognize Sol���s large, energetic family: his dad owns the general store. Other f...
June 7, 2022
New Releases in Christian Fiction (June 2022)
More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the��ACFW Fiction Finder website.
Contemporary Romance:
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A Time for Singing by Carol James — Charlee Bennett is running from her past. Once deserted by her musician ex-fianc��, she’s vowed to avoid anything that reminds her of the pain of his betrayal. Chance Jackson is starting over. Hoping to redeem the mistakes of his earlier life, he wants to become th...
May 27, 2022
Conquering Overestimation (Guest Post)
Have you ever overestimated how much you could get done in a day? Do you perpetually add more things to your To Do List than is reasonable? Do you find yourself discouraged at the end of the day���or thinking, ���Oh, well! Maybe tomorrow will be different���?
Yes?
Me, too!
Below are six ideas that help me���if I remember to implement them. (Note: I work from home and have a lot of flexibility in my schedule. Hopefully, even if you hav...
May 24, 2022
Review: Cold Drip, by Heather Day Gilbert (Barks & Beans 6)
Cold Drip, by Heather Day Gilbert (WoodHaven Press, 2022)
A tour of the local caverns with her visiting boyfriend plunges Macy Hatfield into another mystery when a young woman falls over a cliff during a suspicious power outage.
I���m always happy to return to the West Virginia-set Barks and Beans Caf�� for a vicarious dose of tasty treats and canine company. And as the series continues, I appreciate how some of the secondary characters are included in aspects of the mysteries. It let...
May 17, 2022
“By the Book” blog
Are you familiar with the By the Book blog? I had the chance to do an interview there last week — why not pop by and check out Beckie’s and my conversation? We talked about when I first started writing, early encouragers, why mystery/suspense, and what I hope readers will take away from my books. Here’s the link: Author, Author! — Janet Sketchley.
While you’re there, look around at the reviews, interviews, and more. If you’re on Facebook, you can not only follow By the Book there, you can pa...
April 29, 2022
The Season of Promise (Guest Post)
Baby Robins (photo credit: Steph Beth Nickel)The Season of Promiseby Steph Beth NickelBirdsongs. Budding trees. Flowers opening to the sun.
Signs of promise and new life are all around us here in the Northern Hemisphere. (In the Southern Hemisphere, my favourite season has begun.)
Regardless of the season, we have the opportunity to experience God���s promises each and every day.
Will we experience the fulfilment of His promises in our time and in the way we���d choose for o...
