Prism's Birthday Blog Hop

I am so happy to be celebrating this birthday!

Paula Mowery, Kathy Rouser, Teena Stewart, and yours truly, joined the Prism family when our forthcoming book, Brave New Century, was contracted. The book releases in November, and we're very excited about the project, and our delightful cover.

Because this book is not yet available, I'm giving away an electronic copy of another of my books, Healing Grace, to the tenth person to comment here today about his or her favorite birthday memory.

Please enjoy the following cookie recipe, and don't foget to sign up for the bigger Prism prize, and visit the other bloggers for more chances at the big drawing!

White Chocolate Chunk Cranberry Nut Cookies

sift: 3 1/4 cup flour (can make a blend of whole wheat flour and oatmeal and white flour if desired), 1 tsp. baking soda and 1/2 tsp. baking powder
set aside

cream: 1 cup margarine, 3/4 cup brown sugar and 3/4 cup white sugar, 1 tsp vanilla
stir in: 2 eggs, beaten

fold in dry ingredients and beat; stir in 1 cup craisins, 3/4 cup white chocolate chunks, 1 cup chopped nuts - walnuts or pecans or your choice

drop by spoonful on baking sheet and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes, just browned. They will puff and fall - remove from sheet and cool

makes 3-4 dozen, depending on size

Enjoy!


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Touring with my friend Elaine Marie Cooper

About The Promise of Deer Run: America’s war for freedom from England has been over for seven years, but the wounds of that conflict still haunt the minds and hearts of the residents of Deer Run. Young American veteran Nathaniel Stearns has withdrawn to a life of isolation as he awaits his father who never returned from the war. A near-tragedy in the woods brings Nathaniel face-to-face with nineteen-year-old Sarah Thomsen, someone he had long admired but he assumed had eyes for another. This chance encounter opens a crack into the door of his heart as mutual affection quickly blooms. But slander and lies soon mar the budding romance, rendering both Sarah and Nathaniel wounded and untrusting as their faith in both their God and each other is shattered. Set in 1790, this book continues the story of the Thomsen and Lowe families as they struggle to survive in the aftermath of the war that birthed the United States.

The Promise of Deer Run
ISBN: 9781462037964
Softcover: $16.95 ISBN: 9781462037971
Hardcover: $26.95 ISBN: 1462037968
E-book: $9.99 Released: August 16, 2011

In book one, The Road to Deer Run and now in the sequel, The Promise of Deer Run, I made every effort to stay true to the colonial times. Descriptions of food, homes, clothing, farming, worship practices, medical care, etc. are the result of extensive research. It has been a personally inspiring experience to write these novels. While the times have changed since the 18th century, the same struggles of their day are our own. Forgiveness, fear, pain, illness, despair, the pain of having a family member at war, the death of a loved one—these are all the battles we contend with in the 21st century. But we also share faith, laughter, love, the excitement of that first kiss, the wonder of looking at a newborn. These are the same joys that we share with our ancestors who are so much a part of who we are. Their journeys are interwoven with our own.

Leave a comment with your e-mail here by November 18 to be entered into a drawing for the following: Winner announced November 21, 2011.

Grand Prize (Retail Value: $297.38) Contains: • Basket • $25 Starbucks gift card • Spode Christmas teapot • Spode Christmas mugs • Yankee candle • Hardbound copy The Road to Deer Run • Hardbound copy The Promise of Deer Run • Bath and Body Paris Amour scent

ON THURSDAY, COME BACK TO READ THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY AND SEE THE TRAILER.