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January 20, 2017
$0.99 This Weekend Only!
He is a poor small-town musician on track toward a successful career as a concert violinist.
She is a twenty-something billionaire heiress who shows up and derails his entire life.
Or does he derail hers?
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From USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson come these Seaside Chapel novels, blending flavors of inspirational women���s fiction with contemporary Christian romance to celebrate the grace of God and hope in Jesus Christ.��
SHARE WITH ME is set in the beach town of St. Simon���s Island, Georgia, where history is all around and the future is a moment away. In SHARE WITH ME, enjoy the story of violinist Ivan McMillan and violin collector Brinley Brooks, and savor the music of the orchestra���
The special discount ends on Sunday (January 22), and the price will go back to $5.99.
Thank you readers, for your support! Happy reading!
SHARE WITH ME is the #1 bestseller on several lists, including Christian Women���s Fiction:
SHARE WITH ME is #1 in Contemporary Christian Romance. Wonderful company to keep there.
January 18, 2017
Seaside Chapel Book 2
When Share with Me (Seaside Chapel Book 1) was published in the summer of 2015, little did I know that it would take almost two years for Step with Me (Seaside Chapel Book 2) to be released. I don���t rush art, and there is a time for everything, including when Emmeline���s and Sebastian���s story would be told. This is the time.
Of course, for those who aren���t on my mailing list (never too late to sign up, right?), you might not know that in between Seaside Chapel books 1 and 2, I published 9 other books in the Savannah Sweethearts and Vacation Sweethearts collections. And I contributed books to seven multi-author anthology boxed sets. Whew. So it wasn���t like I was just staring out the window watching the grass grow.
Step with Me takes place after Share with Me ends, and following this novel, there will be a third book in the Seaside Chapel series. I can���t wait to finish writing Sing with Me (Seaside Chapel Book 3), and I hope you will enjoy reading that novel too when it is released. I hope it will be this year, but don���t quote me on that. Haha.
January 17, 2017
Peace, Be Still...
This month���s novel is REACH FOR ME (Vacation Sweethearts Book 2). You can read the book description HERE. In the valleys of their lives, two people run into each other on top of the Great Smoky Mountains one fine season...
The scripture focus of the REACH FOR ME novel is God���s peace. We can be still before God because if we belong to Him, then He Himself is our peace. You can find these two verses at the back of the novel on the�����Farewell from Keenan and Phoebe��� page:
And he arose, and rebuked��the wind,
and said unto the sea, Peace, be still.
And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And he said unto them,
Why are ye so fearful?
How is it that ye have no faith?
���Mark 4:39-40
Be still, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted in the earth.
���Psalm 46:10
For a short period of time����� until the series is completed����� this novel will be available in Kindle Unlimited on Amazon. That means it���s currently Amazon exclusive.
For readers who usually shop outside Amazon, hang in there. As soon as Book 4 is done (two more books to go), the entire Vacation Sweethearts series will be available outside Amazon as well as on Amazon.
January 16, 2017
Romans 8:28
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose��� (Romans 8:28).
Day 5: No Dishwasher
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose��� (Romans 8:28).
Agatha Christie has been known to have said that she did a lot of ���writing��� while doing dishes. Well, I have done some plotting over the years when I loaded the dishwasher. While waiting for my new dishwasher to arrive ��� this week, please! ��� I���ve had a lot of thinking time while doing the dishes by hand.
I think focusing on God and His lovingkindness is a win-win!
Joyfully,
Jan
January 13, 2017
Isaiah 16:12
"Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us��� (Isaiah 26:12).
Day 2: No Dishwasher
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time��� (1 Peter 5:6).
God is sovereign. I have a big advertisement going out next week and I'm kept humble because my dishwasher broke yesterday and the new one won't be delivered until the day of my advertisement runs. Thus, I have a double countdown.
This little speed bump is to glorify GOD.
How cool is that? Doing dishes everyday to glorify God. Good opportunity!
Joyfully,
Jan
January 12, 2017
Verses of the Day
"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up��� (James 4:10).
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time��� (1 Peter 5:6).
"Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble��� (1 Peter 5:5).
"Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering��� (Colossians 3:12).
January 10, 2017
A Time to Write
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ��� (Philippians 1:6).
From time to time my author friends and I discuss productivity. I remember when my son was little, I wrote very little because there was simply no time. Diaper duty took all day LOL.
I do believe there is a time for everything. Even the Israelites back in the days had to stay in the desert for a while before they entered the promised land because, among other things, God was purifying them from Egypt. So when I wasn't writing for a while, I realized that I was supposed to spend more time with God and in the end, that shaped my writing more than anything else. It was interesting how God puts pieces of our steps together for us.
One thing that kept me plotting and outlining even when I was unable to get full books written ��� when my son was little ��� was when an author friend told me about the "seasons of life." I had to take it in stride. The good news is that after plotting and outlining for years I have a boatload of books now I can churn out. No need to sit somewhere to think out a plot. Got one for every book I want to write. :-)
January 7, 2017
More to Come...
Here they are, the first two novels in the Seaside Chapel series. More to come after Book 2 is released on April 5, 2017. Stay tuned!
Click on the above image to get to the series page on Amazon.
