Janet Sketchley's Blog: Tenacity, page 5
November 25, 2024
Review: Knight Brew, by Heather Day Gilbert
Knight Brew, by Heather Day Gilbert (WoodHaven Press, 2024)
The annual Renaissance Faire is on, and Macy Hatfield and her brother, Bo, are onsite in full costume, running a booth for the Barks & Beans Caf��. She���s a Viking, and he���s a kilt-wearing Scot.
The fairground hosts knights, fairies, and all kinds of mediaeval characters. Macy���s looking forward to taking in the attractions with her boyfriend, Titan���until they witness a fatal jousting match.
The dead ���knight��� had...
November 15, 2024
New Releases in Christian Fiction (November 2024)
More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website
Matchmaking the Cowboy by Emily Conrad — What���s a little covert matchmaking between friends? (Contemporary Romance, Independently Published [ACFW QIP]
The Daze Before Christmas by Laurie Germaine — She fled her old life for a new one. Trouble is, she can���t remember why she ran–and now God is prompting her to return. (Contemporary Romance, Independent...
November 8, 2024
Review: God Has a Name, by John Mark Comer
, by John Mark Comer (Zondervan, 2017)
Why is it important to know that God has a name other than ���God���? That He revealed His name to Moses and to the people He had chosen?
Lots of people talk about God��� with lots of variations on who they think He is. So His name, as revealed in the Bible, tells us who we���re talking about. So to quote the prologue, ���The question at the heart of this book [is]: Who is God?��� And the answer is important, because the prologue al...
November 1, 2024
Review: A Collection of Lies, by Connie Berry
A Collection of Lies, by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane Books, 2024)
An antique dress, purportedly worn by a murderess in years past. Some simple historical research in wintry Devon. What could possibly go wrong?
American antiques expert Kate Hamilton and her new husband, English Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, chose to spend part of their honeymoon attempting to authenticate a bloodstained old dress for a village museum���s crime exhibit.
Their last mystery nearly killed them��� and ...
October 25, 2024
Setting as Character (Guest Post)
We’ve all read books where the setting has a personality all its own. Not only does it provide the perfect backdrop to the story; it is a living, breathing character in its own right.
In September, my husband and I spent three weeks exploring Scotland, Iceland, and Ireland with our eldest son and his wife. (They live not far from Glasgow.)
As you can see from the pictures below, our surroundings came alive and could easily become characters i...
October 18, 2024
The Making of an Ordinary Saint, by Nathan Foster
The Making of an Ordinary Saint, by Nathan Foster (Baker Books, 2014)
If you���re looking for an instructional book on practicing the spiritual disciplines, this isn���t it. But if you���re looking for a memoir of an ordinary layperson trying to get closer to his God and grow in his faith, The Making of an Ordinary Saint is a good choice.
It���s a candid look at one man���s search to follow the spiritual practices modelled by Jesus and in so doing to lose the frustration that seems to...
October 11, 2024
New Releases in Christian Fiction (October 2024)
More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website
General Contemporary:
I���ll Be Home by Darlene L. Turner, by Sara Davison, Helena Smrcek, Melanie Stevenson — With chaos and confusion all around them, can they find their way home this Christmas? The people in these four stories are all searching for something���an escaped convict, a job promotion from a love interest, connection to a lost parent, answers across time. Christmas...
October 4, 2024
Review: The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder, by C.L. Miller
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder, by C.L. Miller (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Twenty years ago, tragedy and betrayal wrenched Freya Lockwood out of the career she loved: hunting stolen antiques and restoring them to their rightful owners. Now, when her estranged mentor dies and the police see nothing suspicious, Freya accepts her aunt’s plea to investigate. Not for the dead man’s sake but for Aunt Carole, who loved them both.
Returning to the English village where Aunt Carole raised he...
Review: The Antique Hunter���s Guide to Murder, by C.L. Miller
The Antique Hunter���s Guide to Murder, by C.L. Miller (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Twenty years ago, tragedy and betrayal wrenched Freya Lockwood out of the career she loved: hunting stolen antiques and restoring them to their rightful owners. Now, when her estranged mentor dies and the police see nothing suspicious, Freya accepts her aunt���s plea to investigate. Not for the dead man���s sake but for Aunt Carole, who loved them both.
Returning to the English village where Aunt Carole rai...
October 1, 2024
Deadly Burden: Winner of a Word Award
Deadly Burden won a Word Award!
These annual awards, sponsored by Canada���s The Word Guild, recognize ���unpublished work as well as work published in 2023 for both Christian and general market audiences. Entrants from across Canada received awards in over 40 genres and categories.��� [From the official press release, found here: https://thewordguild.com/media/]
Each of my other novels have been shortlisted for the awards, which I count as validation in its own right. But this win is ...
