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Brandy Heineman

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BRANDY HEINEMAN is a book hoarder, cat herder, and Christian author of romantic mysteries. She fuels her day job in marketing and life as a novelist with endless cups of tea. Her perfect Saturday entails either curling up with a book or deep diving in genealogy databases. Brandy was a 2014 finalist in the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) Genesis Contest. Her latest novel, Like Honey for the Bones, is a split-time story with Scandinavian influences. Brandy lives in Metro Atlanta with her husband, Michael. Visit her online at https://brandyheineman.com. ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 254 ratings · 144 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Last to Know 3.87 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whispers in the Branches really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like Honey for the Bones 4.11 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Pepper Heart 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Brandy rated a book it was amazing Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Bumping my rating for Touch Not the Cat up to five stars because I've listened to it three times now. This one gave me a book hangover like you just wouldn't believe. ...more
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Bumping my rating for Touch Not the Cat up to five stars because I've listened to it three times now. This one gave me a book hangover like you just wouldn't believe. ...more
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“When a Southern woman offers you a homecooked meal, you're only rude if you refuse. That goes for seconds and thirds too, by the way." -Ruby Watts”
― Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches

tags: food, southern-women

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“The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the left and riding a right-pointing arrow into the future. Ruby didn't believe that. The future twisted uncertain, a shapeless dream, but the past - the past was set. It cast evidence behind it, photos and letters and bones, piling up in hidden places, waiting for the chance to spill out. An avalanche. A burial. The past consumed the future, always.”
― Brandy Heineman

tags: past-and-future, trying-to-outrunning-problems, uncertain

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“I didn't realize. I wasn't trying to rewrite history.

You couldn't if you wanted to. It already happened. It don't matter if anyone remembers it or not. He paused. Abbs, you're tryin' to find hope in the past, but the world and its lusts are passing away. Hope belongs to the future. -Abby Wells and Will Laughlin”
― Brandy Heineman, Whispers in the Branches

tags: future-inspirational, hope-and-healing, past-and-gone, present-moment-living

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Brandy’s Quotes

“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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Follow us on: Facebook Pinterest Keeping romance, history, humor, mystery, love, intrigue, and passion interesting, fun, and clean for all Christians ...more

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A meeting place for those who love contemporary Christian fiction.

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A group for people who love to read, discuss, share, and sometimes win all types of Christian fiction. Created and hosted by Emilie from Thinking Thou ...more

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This group is for people who love Christian Fiction whether it is Romance, Suspense, Historical, or any other genre that is CF. We can discuss Christ ...more

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This group is a place for Christian bloggers to share their blogs, giveaways, etc. Everyone is welcome to join (you don't have to have a blog). Plea ...more

Willing To Review Christian Group — 701 members — last activity Dec 29, 2025 10:03AM
This is a group of Christians or people who are willing to review books from authors or writers from many different genres of Christian literature (MA This is a group of Christians or people who are willing to review books from authors or writers from many different genres of Christian literature (MAINLY, NEW AUTHORS AND STRUGGLING AUTHORS WHO NEED EXPOSURE ) If you are willing to review a book for a struggling or up and coming author please join the group. “AUTHORS” post your work on the book shelf, (Please don’t post any books, unless you are the author of that book) and want a review done of your work “AND” you are willing to send the willing reviewer a free copy of your book to be reviewed. After you post your book, leave a comment in the discussion board with info about yourself, so that the willing reviewer who has interest in reviewing your book can contact you, letting you know that they are interested and willing to review your book……. "WILLING" reviewers, please place your review here on Goodreads . “AUTHORS” Don’t worry if you get more than one person willing to review your work; that's a plus! The more exposure you get the better for your book, especially if you get good reviews. This will be up to you “the author” about how many reviewers you decide to send your book to. This is good for reviewers too; they can get overloaded with books and the work becomes tedious, so this way even a reviewer can limit how many books they are willing to review. I encourage authors and reviewers to join this group, because there are authors who also review. “AUTHORS” UNFORTUNATELY, even though you place your book on the bookshelf and post info about your book in the discussion board, does not guarantee you will get someone to review your work; all you can do is display your works here, and ask if anyone is willing to review your book. Every so often, I will send out a message to all the members, informing them of authors who are interested in a book review, so potential reviewers can look on the bookshelf and in the discussion board, to see if there are any books that they are willing to review. Let’s have fun! Thank You and God Bless. ...more

Forget-Me-Not Authors — 44 members — last activity May 03, 2020 11:10PM
Good Clean Stories and Great Romance!

Split Time Fiction That Travels — 196 members — last activity Apr 29, 2025 05:10PM
Welcome!! Here we’ll talk ALL things (clean) split time/time slip fiction whether Christian Fiction or General Market. So grab a novel, a cup of coffe ...more

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