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March 20, 2015
Historical Novelist Christine Lindsay
Christine Lindsay’s tag line is “Giving hope and strengthening faith,” which she does through richly-written historical fiction and a contemporary romance novella, Londonderry Dreaming. Her most recent release is Veiled at Midnight, a novel filled with historical drama and with timeless human struggles. Read on…
Janet: Welcome, Christine, and thanks for taking time to join us. Your book Captured by Moonlight was the 2014 winner of Canada’s The Word Guild Award for historical. Did you enter y...
March 18, 2015
Receiving Like a Child
I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.
Luke 18:17, NLT*
Have you watched a child receive a gift lately?
If this is an emotionally healthy child, raised with love and care, there’s no doubting, no hanging back. (How many of us as adults stop and ask, “Are you sure?” or say “You shouldn’t have.”)
The child’s eyes light up. If she’s young enough, she likely squeals or bounces up and down. Older, learning the restraint that snares m...
March 15, 2015
Book Giveaway: Clean Indie Reads
The Clean Indie Reads group is giving away over 40ebooks! One winner gets them all, and will be well-stocked for reading for the next little while 
You can enter at each stop on this blog hop, and the more times you fill out the form, the more chances you’ll have.
My contribution to the Grand Prize is a copy of my Christian romantic suspense novel,Secrets and Lies.
Carol Daniels thinks she out-ran her enemies, until a detective arrives at her door with a warning from her convict brother. Mi...
March 13, 2015
Suspense Author Amy C. Blake
Amy C. Blake joins us today to talk about her newest novel, Whitewashed. Amy is a pastor’s wife, writer, and homeschooling mother of four. She writes juvenile fantasy and new adult suspense.
Janet: Welcome, Amy, and thanks for taking time to join us. Your novels feature homeschooled characters, although they’re written for everyone. I think it’s a great way for people outside the homeschooling movement to find out what it’s like. Would you tell us a bit about Whitewashed?
Amy: Thanks for host...
March 11, 2015
Squandering the Inheritance
All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!
Luke 15:29-30, NLT*
Can’t you hear the bitterness in the older brother’s voice as he accuses his father? (If you’re unfamiliar with the story of the prodigal son, you can read it here: Luk...
March 9, 2015
Review: Legion: Skin Deep, by Brandon Sanderson
Legion: Skin Deep, by Brandon Sanderson (Dragonsteel Entertainment, 2014)
This is the second Legion novella, and I’m really enjoying the series. It’s an intriguing concept: what if an everyday-boring-normal guy is actually brilliant, but only because of his mental illness?
Doctors can’t quite label Stephen Leeds’ condition, but they think it’s a form of schizophrenia. Steve sees a host of imaginary characters called aspects. Each one is an aspect of his own personality, and each one is “unhinge...
March 6, 2015
Interview: Suspense Author Bethany Macmanus
Author Bethany Macmanus
Bethany Macmanuslives in Houston with her husband, daughter, and son. After practicing as an RN for five years, Bethany left the nursing field to pursue a writing passion the Lord planted in her heart when she was a child. Nancy Drew mysteries were her guilty pleasure during those early years, so she naturally gravitates her pen toward the things that go bump in the night, and most of her plots have a psychological spin.
She’s allergic to cheese, Sulfa drugs, and people...
March 4, 2015
Saying Thank You
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!”
Luke 17:15, NLT*
Ten lepers – contagious, shunned and ritually unclean – had called to Jesus from a respectful distance, begging to be healed. Their faith must have been strong, because Jesus didn’t invite them nearer, touch them, or tell them to do anything particular to be healed (like wash in a specific place – see John 9:7).
He simply told them to go and present themselves to the priests. That was the st...
March 2, 2015
Review: Anna Finch and the Hired Gun, by Kathleen Y’Barbo
Anna Finch and the Hired Gun, by Kathleen Y’Barbo (WaterBrook Press, 2010)
In 1885 Denver, Anna Finch is the youngest of five daughters, and the only one unmarried. She’s far more interested in being a journalist, but her wealthy father would be horrified if a member of his family was known to be employed. He’s frequently horrified anyway by her less-than-decorous behaviour.
When Mr. Finch discovers she’s been out on horseback alone again, disguised as a boy no less, he issues an ultimatum. Ann...
February 27, 2015
Perspective from the Other Side of the Hill
Guest post by Steph Beth Nickel
Many of you may not think of 53 as “the other side of the hill,” and I’m not saying that I’m ready to throw a blanket over my legs, take up knitting, and sit in my rocking chair until the Lord calls me home. Far from it!
However, I’m not 20 anymore . . . or 30 or 40. And that’s okay.
And while I do believe we can make the most of the second half of life by eating well, getting adequate physical activity, and refusing to sit back and leave “the real work” to the ne...
