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J.M. Kirkley is an Artisan Book Reviews Book Excellence Award Winner and a faith-based grief and trauma counselor. Her debut novel, A Writing Upon the Sand, was awarded Best Christian Historical Romance in 2024.

By trade, she's a storykeeper, listening to clients tell of loss, faith, and reslience. By night, she researches and writes historical fiction with emotional depth, merging page-turning true historical events with inspiring faith and clean romance.

For two decades she researched the Galveston 1900 Storm, which remains the deadliest natural disaster in US history. Combining painstaking research with clinical experience, she brought authenticity to a Texas historical tragedy and explored healing and coming to peace with the past in wa ...more

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“Like all things counterfeit, attraction proved a heady assault. It twisted me inside out, wringing the very life from all objectivity….Beware of the lure of counterfeit treasure, for it can rob you of what is most priceless.”
― J.M. Kirkley, A Writing Upon the Sand

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“For with God, nothiing was ever wasted.”
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“Only fools and those desperate for peace returned to the place that spawned their nightmares.”
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“Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

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“We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.”
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“Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.”
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“As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.”
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“Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?