There’s a bear
involved, too, but you’ll want to read about that for yourself.
Recommended for the tween set girl, though any reader would enjoy this series.
His author website is timfoxauthor.com.
Book reviews, author interviews, thoughtful commentary with Lisa Lickel and friends
There’s a bear
involved, too, but you’ll want to read about that for yourself.
Recommended for the tween set girl, though any reader would enjoy this series.
His author website is timfoxauthor.com.
Barbara M Britton
Nashville native, Cole Donoven, left his family’s electrical business to write country music. When Cole’s song-writing partner and girlfriend dumps him for a country music star, Cole abandons Nashville to hole up in Whispering Creek and compose one more song. The last thing Cole expects to find in the sleepy small town is a deceased friend, estate squabbles, and a Northern beauty. Will the chaos in Whispering Creek help create a bestselling song for Cole and possibly help him find a life-long collaborator?
Filled with lots of natural angst, a steady measure of faith, and delicious sweet romance, fans of Britton and clean romance will enjoy this loving holiday story.
Uncharted Christmas by Keeley Brooke Keith
Inspirational holiday novella
October 4, 2022 Edenbrooke Press, 58 pp
About the Book
As Dr. Lydia Bradshaw makes her rounds in the village of Good
Springs this Christmas season, each family she visits seems to be blessed in
ways she is not. All the homes are beautifully decorated for the holiday, and
every woman is expecting another baby.
Every
woman but her, that is.
While
the haze from the volcanic ash cloud outside the Land looms on the horizon,
calls for the doctor force Lydia to work around the clock. Torn between
fighting for the home life she craves and the career that defines her, Lydia
needs a Christmas miracle.
Meanwhile,
at Falls Creek…
Philip
Roberts spends his lonely nights in the parsonage next to the humble chapel.
Pastoring the church across from the Land’s only inn means encouraging many a
road-worn traveler to carry on, whatever their journey might be. Philip also
watches the ever-changing rotation of guests for the one person he prays will
stay at Falls Creek forever.
Only
he doesn’t know her name.
When
the Vestal siblings break their journey to Good Springs at the inn for a much
needed respite over Christmas, Philip is fascinated with the demure Lena
Vestal. As he tries to get to know her, she stirs in him more questions than
answers.
Can he discover who this intriguing woman truly is in such a short time, and is she the one he’s been waiting for?
My Review
With so much on her
plate, Dr. Lydia Bradshaw, the first female doctor in the unmapped island Land’s
unofficial capital city of Good Springs, an anomaly of a twenty-first near
future isolated culture stagnated in nineteenth century traditional religious
mores, has fallen into a routine of nearly 24/7 medical care. A strange haze
has entangled the Land for the past few months, and Lydia is certain that murkiness
and unusual weather has peaked worries and unnatural fears in elders and
children alike. She is working herself to an exhausted frenzy yet resents the
help sent by the elders and approved by her husband without even consulting
her. As Christmas approaches, Lydia is hard put to be thankful, especially
after she believes she’s found a new treatment and a new potential hazard to
the Land and no one believes her. A parallel story to Lydia’s takes place at
our favorite inn in Fall Creek hinting at answered prayers for their overseer
pastor’s desire to cure his singleness.
It’s Christmas
blessings all around, with a special reason to rejoice and a new mystery in the
Land Uncharted.
Uncharted Christmas is a lovely quick holiday gem, coming home to the people we’ve come to love in Keeley Brooke Keith’s Uncharted series. Told mostly in the perspectives of Lydia and Philip, readers are drawn into their world.
About the Author
Keely Brooke
Keith writes inspirational frontier-style fiction with a slight Sci-Fi twist,
including The Land
Uncharted (Shelf Unbound
Notable Romance 2015) and Aboard Providence (2017 INSPY Awards Longlist).
Born in St.
Joseph, Missouri, Keely was a tree-climbing, baseball-loving 80s kid. She grew
up in a family who moved often, which fueled her dreams of faraway lands. When
she isn’t writing, Keely enjoys teaching home school lessons and playing bass
guitar. Keely, her husband, and their daughter live on a hilltop south of
Nashville, Tennessee.
Dreambook Press
About the Book
Is the death of a schoolteacher suicide or something more sinister?
Adele Gossling is adjusting well to small-town life after the hustle and bustle of San Francisco. Despite her progressive ideas about women and her unladylike business acumen, even Arrojo’s most prominent citizens are beginning to accept her. Provided she sticks with the business of fountain pens and letter paper and stays out of crime investigation, that is…
But that’s just what she can’t do when Millie
Gibb, the new teacher at the local girl’s school, is found dead and everybody
in town assumes the homely, unmarried spinster committed suicide. After all,
what enemies could a harmless, middle-aged woman have?
Adele and her clairvoyant friend Nin intend to find out. But can they prove Millie’s death was foul play based on a cigar stub, a letter fragment, and a cigarette lighter before the case is closed for good?
You’ll love this turn-of-the-century whodunit where a sassy and smart New Woman gives the police a run for their money!
My Review
Adele Gossling hasn’t
had much time to rest after her former neighbor and potential friend was found
dead in her yard. After a strange encounter with local teacher Miss Gibb at the
post office one morning, during which her impatience and the postmaster’s
cantankerousness moods clash, Adele has reason to feel concern as Miss Gibb is
soon dead in her boarding house room.
Adele’s brother Jackson is now a member of Arrojo’s small police force, but he’s still nursing some misgivings about this brave new century and independent women. A woman who isn’t a homemaker and mother must be unfulfilled in life, and therefore unhappy, and maybe unhappy enough to end her own misery. Lacking definitive proof of foul play. Miss Gibb’s case is put to rest. Adele isn’t sure about that, and with the urging of one of the boarding house residents eagerly sets out to learn the truth of the matter.
Adele and her friend Nin connive their way onto the scene of the crime as well as into the evidence files and begin to unravel a cruel and twisted murder mystery that can’t be ignored.
About the Author
As soon as Tam May started writing when she was fourteen, writing became her voice. She writes engaging, fun-to-solve historical cozy mysteries. Her mysteries empower readers with detailed plots and a sense of “justice is done” at the end. Her fiction is set in and around the San Francisco Bay Area because she adores sourdough bread, Ghirardelli chocolate, and the area’s rich history. Find more at http://www.tammayauthor.com
Write Now Literary is pleased to be organizing a two-week book tour and $25.00 Amazon Gift Card for The Birthday Gift: Book 1 by Betty Collier. The book tour will run August 15-26, 2022.
ISBN: 978-1638718451
Genre: inspirational Christian fiction
Betty Collier describes herself as a nurse by profession, author by passion, and storyteller by the grace of God. She is a 5x bestselling, 4x award-winning inspirational Christian author. She writes with a purpose, and that is to bring honor and glory to God.
Her first book series, "Living Inside the Testimony" is a collection of inspirational nonfiction stories. Betty showcases her gift of storytelling by engulfing her readers from the very beginning and captivating their attention throughout the emotional journeys.
In her second book series, "The Birthday Gift", Betty displays her creative storytelling in a surprisingly extraordinary way with her fictional work. She continues to inspire while lifting the words right off the pages to bring her characters to life. Readers will find themselves hoping for the best and dreaming about the characters as if they were members of their own family.
Betty also co-authored 2 anthologies with visionary author, Paulette Harper. Both are Amazon #1 bestsellers, "For Such a Time as This" and "The Breaking Point." They feature incredible and inspirational stories from 20 different men and women from all across America.
Betty’s fictional work in The Birthday Gift Book Series is included in the John 3:16 Global Placement Mission as commissioned by founder, Terry Gurley. She uses her talent to introduce readers to the greatest gift ever given to mankind. While taking them on intriguing tales of heartbreak and hope, Betty intricately weaves together stories leaving readers in suspense until the very end. What they have in common is they all beautifully deliver the gospel message found in John 3:16.
On a personal note, Betty has been married since 1986 to William Collier, the absolute love of her life, after first meeting him in middle school. They are the proud parents of two sons and a daughter-in-love, all of whom reside in Shelby County, TN.
An unexpected knock on the door derails a birthday celebration as Mrs. Williams recalls the mysterious events that prevented her beloved husband from flying back home with their daughter's priceless, life-changing gift he discovered at a flea market in the Middle East. In the opening scene, she learns in a most dramatic fashion that the absolute love of her life was murdered while in route to Los Angeles. Her faith and fortitude are unimaginably tested, but Mrs. Williams ultimately realizes that she possesses the greatest gift inside of her.
This Book Excellence Award-Winning Book is an exceptionally thought-provoking and intriguing tale that takes the reader on an emotional journey of profound heartbreak to surprising hope for the future. Although a catastrophic loss occurs, one comes away with a great sense of hopefulness in this increasingly violent world. The author intricately weaves this story together leaving readers in suspense until the very end. Be uplifted and inspired as you discover your own faith while experiencing the gift of a lifetime so cleverly embedded within the pages of this book.
The next thing I remember hearing is “Code Blue.” It was now pitch-black outside my ICU window at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. I don’t know what happened on that beautiful sunny morning after I opened my front door for the police officer. He was standing there in the last ray of sunshine I would see for quite some time. I guess I could look at the police report or medical records, but what’s the point. I really don’t want to be reminded of the single most horrific day in my entire life. What happened? Why was the police officer talking in slow motion?
Bill had been in Israel for thirty-three days. It was time for him to come back home. I had been expecting a phone call from him during his layover at Heathrow. Instead of Bill’s much anticipated call, I got that abominable knock at my front door!
Then I heard it again. “Code Blue.”
Everything went black. As I reflect on that disastrous day, everything was already black. My world had gone dark and void.
From what I’ve been told, I woke up the following morning with no recollection of the previous day. Apparently, those words my ears had refused to allow my mind to process were no less true just because I refused to hear them, let alone accept them.
My heart was broken. I was broken. Life as I once knew it no longer existed. There was no reason to go to the airport. Bill never boarded his connecting flight in London. The only thing at the airport now was his luggage, and there certainly wasn’t any reason for me to go claim that. Well, no reason that I knew of at the time.
Angel of the L Train, by Penelope Marzec
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of the L Train:
About Angel of the L Train:
Thea Ahern
desperately needs a job, so when she lands a job at LetSlip, a New York
City gossip magazine, she takes it even though it will mean hiding her
heritage. When she helps a man who is attacked on the subway, she’s hailed as
the Angel of the L Train, and people notice her striking resemblance to a once
famous actress. This sparks a renewed interest in Paris Hulette and her
whereabouts. What happened to the award-winning actress after her husband shot
her? And is Thea Ahern really the actress's daughter?
Thea’s coworker, John, understands what it means to hide from your past, and so
he shields Thea from the ensuing media frenzy. She falls for him, and he falls
for her, but LetSlip’s CEO orders John to investigate Thea. Now he has
to choose between protecting Thea or losing his job.
When LetSlip’s CEO is murdered while John is in the building, John is
thrust into the public spotlight along with Thea, and his past is revealed. Can
Thea ever trust him again? And can he ever be forgiven for what he’s done?
A Brief
Interview with Penelope
What do you love about your new book? I love the message of forgiveness in this book. The heroine in Angel of the L Train assumes the hero cannot be absolved for what he has done. Even the hero does not feel he is worthy of mercy. But none of us are truly worthy and yet the Lord does grant forgiveness. He gave his life for us. We are not supposed to judge others. That is up to the Lord, who loves us all. There is hope and there is forgiveness.
Tell us about the most interesting thing you learned while researching. I went off on a tangent and researched what it takes to be an entertainer in the New York City subway. This was not important information for the story, but I wanted to know because there are entertainers everywhere in the subway system. Some have auditioned and applied for permits. Some have not. I learned you do not need a permit to entertain in the subway system. However, you must abide by all the Transit Authority’s many rules, which include not using an amplifier, not impeding the movement of passengers, and most of all not entertaining inside the subway car.
I have seen all sorts of entertainment in the subway—including groups who entertained inside the subway car. Evidently, they get away with it most of the time.
What's the background story no one knows about your heroine? The heroine’s mother was a well-known, award-winning actress who vanished from the public eye after the heroine was born. The heroine grew up in a small town in the New Jersey Pine Barrens where no one ever suspected her mother’s former fame. The heroine never knew her father and her mother forbid her to even say his name. Still, the heroine had a happy childhood until her mother became gravely ill.
What are you reading now? I’m trying to read as many books published by Pelican Book Group as I can, but I am very far behind in my goal because there are so many books! At the moment, I am reading A Second Chance for Grace, by Karen Malley. I just finished How to Charm a Beekeeper’s Heart, by Candice Patterson. All the books are wonderful. I’m having so much fun.