Rose Colored Christmas with Mary Ball

Rose Colored Christmas

Mary L. Ball

Christian novelette, 107 pp

Contemporary romance

Forget-Me-Not Romances, August 2018

About the Book

Young widow Emilee Arnold enjoys her freelance web design, teaching Sunday school Christmas. She’s content until she rescues a pilot from a burning plane and is snowed in with her very own scrooge. 

Gabe King specializes in flying corporate groups. He claims to be an easy-going guy, until Emilee challenges his lifestyle and his heart.

Emilee can’t stop her attraction to Gabe but his dislike for Christmas is the one thing she can’t get passed.

Can Emilee help to make her very own Christmas miracle? 

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Mary, tell us what you love about this book.

I enjoyed plotting the story around Christmas and bringing Gabe back to a place where he can enjoy holidays’ again.

      

Do you prefer novellas to full-length works or vice versa? Why?

Novellas. Life is busy, I just don’t have time to read a 300 page novel. I guess my passion for reading shorter works rubbed off into my writing, I like creating novellas too.

    

What was the easiest aspect of telling this story?

Christmas makes us excited for new possibilities. I enjoyed Emilee’s expectations for the holidays.

    

What did you learn during your research?

A lot about private planes. J

   

What's your favorite Christmas tradition in your family?

I enjoy watching movies where families have a tradition. Our family never had one. Each year seems to present a unique situation, which requires adjustments for us to get together, it’s been hard to carry any customs over to the next year.

  

About the Author

Mary L. Ball is a multi-published Christian author. She lives in North Carolina and enjoys fishing, reading, and ministering in song with her hubby at functions. Her books are about small-town romance, suspense, and mystery, influenced by the grace of Jesus Christ.    

  

Readers can check out her titles at: https://www.amazon.com/Mary-L-Ball/e/B007O97Y0E

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http://www.marylball.com

https://www.facebook.com/gracefulbooks

https://twitter.com/inspires4mary

Hope in My Heart Holiday Stories with Alexis Goring

Hope in My Heart: A Collection of Heartwarming Stories

Alexis A. Goring

About the Book

Hope in My Heart is a collection of short, heartwarming stories with characters in need of hope.

In Love Unexpected, a car crash brings commitment-wary Sebastian and career woman Chandra together. Neither is looking for romance, but those around them see the potential, and Sebastian and Chandra discover that sometimes love shows up unexpectedly.

Christmastime is the setting for the middle story, The Best Gift. Christina desires to lose ten pounds so she can fit into her dress for her sister's wedding. Jordan wishes her mom would stop trying to marry her off. And Joshua hopes to be reunited with his ex-girlfriend but eventually learns that the best gift this Christmas will be the restoration of his relationship with God.

In Peace and Love, three characters living in a metropolitan area are desperately searching. Elle, a starving artist, aspires to become a paid professional. Eric, a divorce attorney, wants to resolve his issues concerning his parents' divorce. Kristine anticipates finding her birth mom before she marries Derek. All characters pray their searches will conclude this holiday season and fill their hearts with peace and love.

Westbow Press

November 2015

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Print $13.95

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A Brief interview with the Author

Alexis, what do you love about this book?

I love that this was my first book, a collection of short stories featuring diverse characters from various backgrounds and cultures with the shared theme of hope.

Introduce us to your most challenging character.

My most challenging character to write in this book was Eric from “Peace and Love” which is the third and final story in this collection. He’s a divorce attorney who even as an adult, is still negatively affected by his parents’ dramatic divorce that took place at Christmastime when he was a child. What’s different is that this Christmas (in the story), Eric realizes that he needs to get over his issues, so he reaches out in hopes of reconciling with his parents.

Eric’s character was challenging to write because I’m not a lawyer and at the time that I wrote this story, it didn’t dawn on me to do story research by reaching out to an attorney in real-life. I was an aspiring author who did not have any books published prior to this one and I honestly didn’t know that research should be part of the story writing process.

However, with God’s grace and my active imagination along with drawing on some of my favorite TV shows and movies that feature lawyers, I was able to get a good handle on my character Eric without reaching out to a real-life attorney for advice about making his scenes believable and true to real-life. I haven’t received any complaints yet about how I portrayed Eric at work in this fictional story, so that makes me happy!

What do you hope readers will tell others when they’re finished with the book?

I hope that readers will tell others that this book warmed their heart and gave them a healthy dose of hope!

What are you reading now?

I just finished reading Deck the Shelves by Toni Shiloh and loved it! It is a novella in a boxed set of books called Comfort & Joy: The Christmas Lights Collection.

What’s next for you?

I’m writing my answers to these questions in November 2018, which is about five years after my first book (Hope in My Heart: A Collection of Heartwarming Stories) was published. So what was “next” for me back in the year 2013, was actually my second book A Second Chance that, after a few re-writes, was published in January 2017.

       About the Author

Alexis A. Goring is a passionate writer with a degree in Print Journalism and an MFA in Creative Writing. She loves the art of storytelling and hopes that her stories will connect readers with the enduring, forever love of Jesus Christ.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorAlexisAGoring/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PennedbyAlex

Website: https://alexisagoring.jimdo.com

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7260528.Alexis_A_Goring

“God is Love” blog: http://capturingtheidea.blogspot.com

Prepare for your Christmas list with short fiction from Victoria Minks

Wind Chimes: Christmas Story Collection

Victoria Minks

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Anthology of Christmastime short stories

Christmas is a day of forgiveness, love, God, and family, no matter where you live or when you lived. These stories will take you somewhere long ago, and yet much like today.

With a touch of humor and a family-loving gentleness, these stories carry all the hope of Christmas. 


The Wind Chimes-- Still bitter over a hurtful mistake a year ago, Martin Roebuck meets the despised doctor on Christmas Eve.

The Two Runaways-- Lost while running away from home, Albert Russell is taken in by an old man, who seems to also have past grievances.

On the Fourth Floor-- Though living on the same floor, George Nolan and Christin Rimmers overlook each other-- until a common challenge brings them together the night before Christmas Eve.

The Spinster-- Wanting to avoid Christmas loneliness, Milly Lambert finds herself in the cabin of an old woman who holds a wise secret.

The Broken Man-- Criminal Arch Fisher attempts to take advantage of a kindly old settler in the woods, but things go miserably awry.

Winifred's Adventure-- Elderly couple Amias and Winifred Hambly--eager for an uncommon life--discover a dying mother the day before Christmas.

My review:

I learned of this young author through a review opportunity for her second book titled Jonas and Olivia http://livingourfaithoutloud.blogspot.com/2016/07/new-fiction-from-victoria-minks.html. Minks has a lovely sense of story and fluid, mature writing style which can only grow better the more she practices and grows her craft. I love short stories and enjoyed each of the six Minks put together for a historical Christmas anthology. The stories take place in America and England.

The stories are described well. Each is layered in motivation and ethics, with a sense of moral minority under skirting each theme. Even though the author will continue to advance in mechanics, I was awed by the character development in each little bite of story, the natural dialog and her ability to set place and time. Well done. Enjoy this book and watch for more work from this author.

About the Author:

Victoria Minks was born in Oklahoma but moved to Japan as a missionary kid at age 3. Since then, she has enjoyed the life of a foreigner in four different locations in Japan and has traveled all across America twice with her family.

She was saved at age 5 and is surrendered to doing whatever God wants her to do in her life. She is excited about the future, looking forward to see what God will do. 

An avid bookworm ever since she can remember, she has cultivated a desire for telling stories since a young age, and still has hordes of old manuscripts from her first 15 years of life that she's too embarrassed to show anybody but too sentimental to throw out. 

When she was 16 she began the first novel she decided was going to get published, whatever the cost. Since then she has written multiple more books, all in various stages of the process to publication. A self-taught Jack-of-all-trades, she takes pleasure in learning how to web design, format books, create book covers, edit, market, budget, and finance everything. 

Homeschooled by her mum, she enjoys anything involving history, literature, language, or art.

This is the Christmas Gift You've Been Waiting For

I wasn't biased before I was asked to help work on it. I loved it from the moment the concept was born. I loved it when I started reading a proof copy with typos. I adored the gorgeous, perfectly designed interior.

You will too.
Have someone hard to gift this season of giving? Need a lift yourself? A half-hour getaway every once in a while? Stories from the poignant to bust a gut laughing, everyone will enjoy this book

Try this: Christmas Campfire Companion.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Iowan small press, Port Yonder Press, is pleased to announce the release of the

CHRISTMAS CAMPFIRE COMPANION.

Join 14 of today’s top western authors in this definitive collection. Stories by L. J. Washburn, Troy D. Smith, Frank Roderus, Tim Champlin, Larry D. Sweazy, Robert Vaughan, Douglas Hirt, Dusty Richards, Kerry Newcomb, Matthew P. Mayo, Robert Randisi, Rod Miller, James Reasoner, and Terry Burns in this heartwarming collection of Christmas stories in a western setting. Beautifully illustrated. Rated PG for some language.

Edited by Chila Woychik, managing editor at Port Yonder Press, Shellsburg, Iowa. 319-436-3015.

The Christmas Campfire Companion

ISBN: 9781935600084 (Softcover, $12.95)

ISBN: 9781935600107 (Trade Cloth $15.95)