Tuesday, December 17, 2013

CrossReads Book Blast with Becca Fisher's Amish Christmas Boxed Set

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Amish Christmas Boxed Set By Becca Fisher

About the Book

Four different Amish Christmas stories, plus one bonus novella by Best Selling Amish author, Becca Fisher:
The Christmas Surprise
Joshua Zook and Sadie Miller have been dancing around their feelings for months. But just as Joshua works up the nerve to admit how much he cares for Sadie, he realizes that he may be too late to win Sadie's heart.
The Christmas Miracle
William Bieler just wants a simple Amish Christmas. But with a newborn child at home, nothing is simple. When William's wife falls ill however, it will take a miracle to save Christmas at the Bieler house.
The Christmas Performance
Emma Bieler is chosen to do a solo at the school holiday pageant. But a case of crippling stage fright strikes her just before she's about to go onstage. What happens next will change Emma's life forever.
The Christmas Gift
When Amish widow Hannah King remarries, her daughters do not take well to their new step father. But as the holidays approach, it's make or break time to bring peace back into Hannah's house. Bonus novella: Clara Bieler's Amish Christmas
 
becca fisher

Becca Fisher I'm Becca Fisher and I write sweet Amish romances featuring simple people with complex love lives. I'm devout in my faith, relish time with my family, and seek to bring joy to as many lives as possible. I would love to have you as a reader. God bless. If you would like to be the first to know about my new books, join my mailing list here http://eepurl.com/s3WIT Everyone that signs up for my mailing list will receive a Free copy of my "Complete Amish Romance Boxed Set."
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Enter to Win one of two prizes: A $50 Amazon Gift Card or a Nook 7" tablet!

Enter below to enter a $50 Amazon gift card, sponsored by author Becca Fisher! a Rafflecopter giveaway This book blast is hosted by Crossreads. We would like to send out a special THANK YOU to all of the CrossReads book blast bloggers!

Winner of The German Girl

 

 
 
Thank you to Carole Brown, author of the amazing book The Redemption of Caralynn Hayman,
 
winner of
 
for her loving comments on the recent excerpt tour of
The Potawatomi Boy.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Holiday Extravaganza recap



For a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card, between December 1 and December 16, 2013, enter the John 3:16 Marketing Network Rafflecopter drawing at: http://bit.ly/Christian_Books
 
To recap, the books and authors were featured during this special holiday promotion at these links:
 
 
 
 
 
Green Leaf, The Potowatomi Boy (Amazon purchase link)
 
 
 
 
For another last chance to visit and comment on The Potawatomi Boy Excerpt Tour, here's the list. Comment to win a copy of The German Girl.
 
Kim Payne: 1, http://bit.ly/1bU0nTc
Kara Howell: 1, http://bit.ly/1dhTLfD
Kara Howell: 2, Dec 6 - http://bit.ly/1cwRsDW
Lorilyn Roberts: 3, December 4 http://bit.ly/1bj4BiK
Emma Right: 4, December 5 http://bit.ly/1bJtme5
Carol A. Brown: 5, December 7 http://bit.ly/18RbY4k
Janis Cox : 6, December 16  http://wp.me/p2yfqH-1ag
 
 
And a very big thank you to these lovely folks who hosted me these past weeks:
 
Anne Evans, My Mommy the Writer blog: http://annegarboczievans.blogspot.com/
Kimberely Payne, December 8th on Books for Book Lovers blog at http://www.kimpayne.wordpress.com
 

 
Today, December 16, is the last day to enter and win...and a very happy holiday season to you all.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Special Holiday Book Tour with Lorilyn Roberts and Prize Drawing


For a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card, between December 1 and December 16, 2013, enter the John 3:16 Marketing Network Rafflecopter drawing at: http://bit.ly/Christian_Books
 
 
Five Favorites with Lorilyn Roberts, author of The Donkey and the King, a children's picture book.
 
QUESTION:  Favorite city you have visited?
LORILYN:  Jerusalem. I will never forget approaching the city and seeing a modern street sign that said “Jerusalem.”  Tears welled up in my eyes, but the lack of sleep made my eyes burn so much I had to quit crying. The juxtaposition of a modern sign with an ancient city seemed anachronistic. I couldn’t believe I was there.

QUESTION:  Favorite food?
LORILYN:   Chocolate – in any form except ice cream.

QUESTION:  Favorite authors?
LORILYN:  Randy Alcorn, C.S. Lewis, and Max Lucado

QUESTION:  Favorite book you’ve read in the last three months?
LORILYN:  On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King

QUESTION:  Favorite historical person?
LORILYN:  Corrie Ten Boom

~*~*~*~*

 


About the Book:
 
The Kindle version of  The Donkey and the King is all new and updated. The artwork has been rescanned from the original drawings, and the text can be resized for young readers. Click on the artwork on each page, and enlarge the drawing to look for the hidden word “good.” The Donkey and the King will entertain young ones and help them to become lifelong lovers of books and reading, all while teaching them about Jesus and redemption.







Be sure and pick up your Kindle version of The Donkey and the King for 99 cents at http://bit.ly/Donkey_Kindle



 

About the Author:
 
Lorilyn graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Alabama in 1991. Her studies included spending two weeks in Israel at the start of the Gulf War and touring England, Australia, New Zealand, and several countries in Europe. She later attended the Institute of Children’s Literature and earned her Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Perelandra College.

Lorilyn has two daughters whom she adopted from Nepal and Vietnam as a single mother. She homeschooled both of them, the older one through high school, and believes that the hope of the United States may rest on the conservative values homeschooling families instill in their offspring.

“If we fail to teach our children how to live out their Christian faith practically, we will have lost an opportunity to impact the world for good. It only takes one generation to forget the past. As JRR Tolkien said, ‘There is some good in this world and it’s worth fighting for.’”

To learn more about Lorilyn, you can visit her website  and blog.

You can follow her on twitter and Facebook.
 
 
 
 
 


Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Support Operation All the Way Home with a great book, Room Four


AJ Knauss returns with a special request to support
Operation All the Way Home.
I introduced AJ and her book Room Four at Wisconsin Author Review. Read the post.

 Recently she sent this request:

Hi Lisa,

I have partnered with Operation All the Way Home to donate all my book proceeds until the end of my current army tour to their organization.  OATH is a group of high school students who are building an accessible home for SPC Jerral Hancock. On his birthday, he became paralyzed, burned and lost his left arm in Iraq.  He has two young kids and an indomitable spirit.

As a physician I know too well that the acute trauma care we provide is only a small part, the long road after is everything.  kids and Mr. Hancock are truly inspiring.

They are over halfway there in fundraising and I think they could get there so quickly if word spread.

Thank you again for your support of Wisconsin authors!

MAJ Anne Johnson MD
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

author of ROOM FOUR, AJ Knauss
 
 

 
Mission Statement
    OATH is a grass-roots, community effort created and organized by the Pride of the Nation students of Lancaster High School.  
    The mission of Operation All The Way Home (OATH) is to assist veterans of the United States Armed Forces with the acquisition of housing, both permanent and transitional. OATH also assists veterans with other needs as they relate to assimilating into civilian life after completion of their service.
    OATH's current mission is to raise funds and break ground for construction of a new home for wounded warrior, Jerral Hancock, within one year. Committed to working from June 1, 2013 to June 1, 2014, the students have enlisted for a one-year "tour of duty" to make this happen.  



About the book:

It's just after Christmas and Alan Fries, hapless accountant, wonders why nurses with antler hats are hovering over him. He endures a three day coma stuck with only Jerry for company, an 87-year-old crank who died in the same room earlier but is waiting for someone to sign the death certificate. Jerry and Alan becomes dead flies on the wall of an aging Chicago hospital and observe the staff...the doctor who leaves his sperm sample in the work fridge, the veteran nurse putting the kibosh on an intern's crush, the holiday hamfork injuries and the various nutcases who file through the ER doors. When they uncover a billing scandal and the truth about the corrupt CEO who is bankrupting the hospital they get to work. But can they put the proof in front of the eyes of the living in time? Can they save the hospital before driving each other crazy? Will Alan get resuscitated and start the bucket list he never had? A grouchy, laugh-out-loud, heartwarming tale of how tough love shines through the crustiest exterior.

ISBN: 978-1477572436
$11.95 Print
$3.79 E-book

Connect with AJ:
Amazon Author Page
Website


 

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Book launch with $200 prize drawing - Martin Roth and Brother Half Angel



Welcome Martin Roth to our special Book Promotion
 
For a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card, between December 1 and December 16, 2013, enter the John 3:16 Marketing Network Rafflecopter drawing at: http://bit.ly/Christian_Books




About the Book:Brother Half Angel is the leader of a secret new church military order, dedicated to helping Christians under attack around the world. In this book, the first in the Brother Half Angel series, he is dispatched urgently to China, where an underground seminary is under siege from fanatical sword-wielding members of a local cult who still pay homage to the bloodthirsty extremists who tried to expel all foreigners from China in the nineteenth century.




Buy here.

About the Author:

Martin Roth is a veteran journalist and foreign correspondent whose reports from Asia have appeared in leading publications around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and The Guardian. He is the author of many books. His Brother Half Angel international thrillers focus on the persecuted church. They feature Brother Half Angel, an abrasive former military man who heads a clandestine new military order that is dedicated to fighting for the rights of persecuted Christians around the world. He lives in Australia with his Korean wife and three sons.

5 Favs with Martin:

Favorite city you’ve visited – Tokyo. I lived there for 17 years, and wouldn’t have stayed if I didn’t love the place. They say that when you visit Rome or Paris you feel like you’re living in the past, when you visit New York you feel like you’re living in the present and when you visit Tokyo you feel like you’re living in the future. It’s true.

Favorite food – just about anything Japanese, unless it’s still wriggling (which in Japan it occasionally is).

Favorite authors – I write thrillers and I love reading them. Raymond Chandler, who wrote “The Big Sleep” and “Farewell My Lovely” is the master. I read and re-read him, wondering how he manages to create all that atmosphere.

Favorite book you’ve read in the last three months – a Scottish friend has just left Australia (where I live) and has moved with his family back to the UK. Before he went he gave me his collection of Ian Rankin detective mysteries, and I’m reading the series now. They’re great – excellent writing, marvelous characters and a gritty, very atmospheric Edinburgh locale. 

Favorite historical person (fiction or non) - as a strong Christian I should probably answer that it is Jesus. But I have just started some intensive reading of the Old Testament, so right now my favorite historical person is that passionate man of God - and man of action - David.



Monday, December 9, 2013

Avon Calling! with Cindy Duvel

I'd like to introduce my cousin Cindy Duvel
who is an Avon Representative.
If you still need some gifts for the holidays,
I recommend Avon from Cindy.
Tom Duvel
Cindy, and her number one fan, my cousin Tom.
 

Lisa:  How did you get started, Cindy?

Cindy: This March I will be selling AVON for 5 years. In 2008 I was unemployed I heard about selling AVON. I gave it a try and AVON is so much fun.

Lisa: Tell us about selling Avon, Cindy.

Cindy: I know what my customers like. I tell the when the specials come. I always give them the best deal. Here are some specials for Dec. 6- through Dec. 17th.


Kissing Mickey & Minnie mug $14.99 807-570
Disney sweet smooth watch $24.99 094-418,
Mickey kisses Minnie tote bag $19.99 115-558
Betty Boop wine glass $16.99 122-580
Sweet Odyssey cologne spray $7.00 979=734
Secrets toilet spray $10.00 125-282
Iron man spray $16.50 011=076

Lisa: How does it work?

Cindy: Here is my website. www.youravon.com/cduvel I will receive credit when they use my website. 
You will need to use your credit card.

Thanks so much! Cindy

Lisa: You're welcome, and Merry Christmas!