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Carrie Schmidt

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Carrie Schmidt is an avid reader, book reviewer, story addict, KissingBooks fan, book boyfriend collector, and cool aunt. She also loves Jesus and THE Story a whole lot. Carrie started the popular blog ReadingIsMySuperPower.org in 2015 and since then has had the honor of co-founding the Christian Fiction Readers' Retreat and JustRead Publicity Tours. In addition to these endeavors, she has written for magazines such as RT Book Reviews and Christian Market, and she co-wrote the book Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers. Carrie now lives in Georgia with her husband, though her roots range from East Tennessee to Central Kentucky and northern Illinois. ...more

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Carrie Schmidt There came a time when no one wrote any new books. Despite her TBR backlog, there then came a time when she ran out of books to read.
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Please join me today in welcoming author Peggy Wirgau to the blog to share what you can expect from her newest historical romance, To Outwit Them All! TO OUTWIT THEM ALL by Peggy Wirgau GENRE: American Revolution Historical Fiction (Christian) PUBLISHER: Iron Stream Media RELEASE DATE: October 14, 2025 PAGES: 362 In the shadow […]
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Kris Bock’s Accidental Detective Mystery series has the kind of humor that’s right up my alley. Kate’s wry narrative routinely mirrors what I would say or think in a similar situation, and the
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