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The Welcome Wagon by Jamie Adams

Welcome Jamie to the blog. How much of the book is based in real life? The setting of The Welcome Wagon is based on a town not far from where I live. The characters and story line are all a part of my imagination. But I do have twin daughters. They are adults...

A Rose in Winter by Janis Jakes

Welcome Janis to the blog. What makes this book special to you? This book is special to me because it takes two broken people and shows how God breathes new life into what others see as hopeless. It's easy to start thinking something is dead, buried, gone--whether...

A Time for Singing by Carol James

Welcome Carol Tell us about you and your new release! How much of the book is based in real life? The idea for this book sprang from a visit my husband and I made to Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury, MA, where we discovered the Secret Drawer Society. We found...
A Great Calamity has fractured the whole of America

A Great Calamity has fractured the whole of America

A Great Calamity has fractured the whole of America toppling the government and killing millions across the entire nation. From the embers rose The Peaceful Union, with its symbol of the dark phoenix that promises protection and order from the chaos and death outside the city-states.

Charlotte blackburn, is a daughter of this new society that huddles beneath the massive churning steamworks of the electric Tesla Domes.

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Dark heroes, fantastic devices, and unbreakable love

Dark heroes, fantastic devices, and unbreakable love

Charlotte, on the run from the shadowy Order of the Sword and Scroll with the mysterious spy, Ashton Wells, flees via air ship to the floating settlement of Outer City.

The last frontier of the broken world of the Blackburn Chronicles, the sky territory is home to outlaws and pioneers. Lawmen keep the peace at the bustling ports where every kind of fantastic air ship and hodge-podge dirigible brings those who seek their fortune.

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Guest Post: How Leprosy and a Servant Girl became Providence

Teaching elementary chapel from kindergarten through fifth grade—all at one time—was a joy for me. I had thirty minutes to sing, pray, and teach stories from the Bible. One particular series studied young people in the Bible who did great things. I dramatized David versus Goliath, Gideon and his glow stick bearing army (the Israelites had torches but those aren’t school approved) and a servant girl in the Book of II Kings who bravely spoke up about a prophet in Israel who could heal

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