tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57818214872816532172024-03-13T03:52:20.388-07:00Tea and a Good Book ~ Susanne DietzeJoin me in a cup of tea as we chat about books, reading, and writing!Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-66534939160039809182023-01-03T09:39:00.004-08:002023-01-03T09:39:37.095-08:00Where to Find Me!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht9tXCxhETkE8rsrnnqRBknu7550U79jUnNCBAt4OTeO27rHj2n73QT1bB1klsLAIMxFBk-8aHCR0l4epQkAMP_FxtEFMF1IzLsDLAgFMuMYYixnpW8eGO6uRKAAXPcIE-AuDkzNne10IRA4yDM9k83pC76ylxzOzBgszBPYYWzPTDNepPOb1uj2In/s940/Mery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht9tXCxhETkE8rsrnnqRBknu7550U79jUnNCBAt4OTeO27rHj2n73QT1bB1klsLAIMxFBk-8aHCR0l4epQkAMP_FxtEFMF1IzLsDLAgFMuMYYixnpW8eGO6uRKAAXPcIE-AuDkzNne10IRA4yDM9k83pC76ylxzOzBgszBPYYWzPTDNepPOb1uj2In/w502-h421/Mery.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Like many others, I'm on social media more than blogs these days. I find it's far easier to interact with book friends like you! </p><p>If you don't subscribe to my newsletter, check it out! I only post when there's a new release / have a free book / have a prize package to offer. </p><p>Here's the link: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bRldfv" target="_blank">click here</a></p><p>In the meantime, I hope you are well, finding gems of happiness and blessing along your journey! God be with you!</p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-60007836254416803572022-03-03T09:10:00.006-08:002022-03-03T09:10:44.889-08:00Cover Reveal...Five and Dime Christmas<p>Christmas might be over 9 months away, but in just six months, you can start your Christmas reading with this fun collection from Barbour. Releasing September 1, Five and Dime Christmas features stories from Cynthia Hickey, Patty Smith Hall, Christina Lorenzen, and me!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpD4-HAAVbwNDXdH-eBYANnmtvp0mS_QnSDAODKBISCIA_ZxYiSbYc6-YHlX92riyGxknTRru4k2_yuJgOgyqX1FCZQH9DdOqNG1Gt-GMlKX7d7ciEnICiB7FIkBrq1E_Dor2zbvJQvYIHkRy8k2RxuQ46gAMSNLofc6wY9IU7lv6N-TeKQ4MGl8jf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2437" data-original-width="1600" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpD4-HAAVbwNDXdH-eBYANnmtvp0mS_QnSDAODKBISCIA_ZxYiSbYc6-YHlX92riyGxknTRru4k2_yuJgOgyqX1FCZQH9DdOqNG1Gt-GMlKX7d7ciEnICiB7FIkBrq1E_Dor2zbvJQvYIHkRy8k2RxuQ46gAMSNLofc6wY9IU7lv6N-TeKQ4MGl8jf=w258-h393" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Woolworth's Five and Dime is a magical place to work at Christmastime, but will it also be a place to fall in love in 1881? </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Maggie Larson works the lunch counter where she befriends a girl who's lonely father delivers milk each Friday. Hattie Scott learns her favorite customer is Englishman Timothy Branson and a threat to her brother's job. Essie Hensley doesn't need money but welcomes the challenges of working a job where she meets a minister and six little boys who inspire Christmas wishes. A job is the only thing independent orphan Lizzie Miller needs, but she can't pass up an invite to a bookkeeper's family Christmas.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's not quite available for preorder, but<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dime-Christmas-Historical-Novellas/dp/1636093655/" target="_blank"> here's the Amazon link</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-48544467730421912142021-11-30T08:35:00.016-08:002021-11-30T08:35:00.196-08:00Happy Book Birthday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1-PfXuhZ-MtUGIriYlRcRA3-jFhbwvyRohSy2lG8-fhc_yp9zgPKmpzfv6EOFAMF_CSjddNDI-KQxxYToP88dwKsa1yI8UohDewULrHWiVhyphenhyphenot542WRERDB_CmqZ-TEs7Niu09w2zN4Y/s1080/Untitled+design+%25285%2529.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1-PfXuhZ-MtUGIriYlRcRA3-jFhbwvyRohSy2lG8-fhc_yp9zgPKmpzfv6EOFAMF_CSjddNDI-KQxxYToP88dwKsa1yI8UohDewULrHWiVhyphenhyphenot542WRERDB_CmqZ-TEs7Niu09w2zN4Y/s320/Untitled+design+%25285%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a>A Small-Town Christmas Challenge releases today! Wahoo!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's my fifth book with Harlequin, 23rd publication overall. Wow! It's such a celebration for me as I look back on all God has done in my life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here's the scoop on the book:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>When she inherits a beautiful historic house, nurse Leah Dean knows selling it could solve all her problems. But there’s just one catch—she and co-owner Pastor Benton Hunt must cohost the Gingerbread Gala in the home first. As Christmas approaches, Leah and Benton grow closer, and parting with the house—and each other—is not as easy as they thought…</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's available from your favorite online retailer as well as brick and mortar stores like WalMart and Barnes and Noble. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Thanks for celebrating with me!</div>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-66268790444438801802021-11-07T00:00:00.002-07:002021-11-07T00:00:00.206-07:00Celebrate Lit Giveaway!<p> </p><div><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hello Readers!</span></p><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I am so thankful for you and all your support!</span></p><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">To show you how much, I have partnered up with Celebrate Lit Publicity to do an amazing giveaway where you can win a spectacular prize of over 40 books or a $500 Amazon gift card to buy books you love to build up that TBR pile! </span></p><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Look at this amazing selection of books, and it includes my December Love Inspired, A Small-Town Christmas Challenge, which isn't even for sale yet!</span></p><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbtfYs1yJVNm4-2eMyCNZTGzVpjs7t_tVDOe3qKralyKk2G2JxLRcmyfmm6BSQyQOmdshxMTmWJQH71MO7P5GTIiWEiWKHO9XotBa7ZU4tcWQZ5IvyNmbDBFvTcFsZ81dp6FPDVtA5H0/s1024/Thankful+Giveaway+Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="1024" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbtfYs1yJVNm4-2eMyCNZTGzVpjs7t_tVDOe3qKralyKk2G2JxLRcmyfmm6BSQyQOmdshxMTmWJQH71MO7P5GTIiWEiWKHO9XotBa7ZU4tcWQZ5IvyNmbDBFvTcFsZ81dp6FPDVtA5H0/w444-h302/Thankful+Giveaway+Picture+4.png" width="444" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Be sure to enter Celebrate Lit's Thankful for our Readers Giveaway going on now through November 13.</span></p><p class="yiv3228841964MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Enter here: <a href="https://promosimple.com/ps/11e3d/2021-we-are-thankful-for-our-readers">https://promosimple.com/ps/11e3d/2021-we-are-thankful-for-our-readers</a></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-32464855571826269812021-06-10T08:33:00.003-07:002021-06-10T08:33:00.185-07:00Faith Hope & Love Reader's Choice Finalist!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAS8Xs9bq64g7zV-Rfi4RiZFPEYhkZduOLA-GhYdBaceFuw7YaE0lprk5gpvQxXjpgjT-SLbPrfxVLjJzr_4IvUXdZxjVy_DewiqaNE8qG4crdy_JNGUnjDJ8ZCcf97Dy7flOq2-d5gU/s1080/FHl+Reader%2527s+choice+awards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAS8Xs9bq64g7zV-Rfi4RiZFPEYhkZduOLA-GhYdBaceFuw7YaE0lprk5gpvQxXjpgjT-SLbPrfxVLjJzr_4IvUXdZxjVy_DewiqaNE8qG4crdy_JNGUnjDJ8ZCcf97Dy7flOq2-d5gU/w400-h400/FHl+Reader%2527s+choice+awards.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So excited that A Future for His Twins is a FHL-RCA finalist, short contemporary!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This means so much to me, but considering it's the first contemporary story I ever wrote, I'm still in shock. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The other finalists, Jill Lynn and Myra Johnson, are AMAZING authors and I loved their books. If you haven't read their books, I urge you to check them out!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-87930520832302006392021-06-07T08:30:00.009-07:002021-06-07T08:33:02.308-07:00Coming soon...Christmas in July!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhseocI5lpYw0sTbA3Qetxx4hstZfUHlzXapFBU7Wm5DHC4FWjxPZeANx0Jm1JLmGHAH9DHoRQA2cypwILUoSfBtGbRd0v02JkTzZEJrc0otI1GNA0CI-EngqZfrMXZtm-kJ7aaN1IWvZ0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhseocI5lpYw0sTbA3Qetxx4hstZfUHlzXapFBU7Wm5DHC4FWjxPZeANx0Jm1JLmGHAH9DHoRQA2cypwILUoSfBtGbRd0v02JkTzZEJrc0otI1GNA0CI-EngqZfrMXZtm-kJ7aaN1IWvZ0/w400-h400/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The Love Inspired Authors and Readers Group, Christmas in July event is coming to Facebook on Thursday, July 8th, 2021. It's live from 5:30 am EST to 8:30 PM EST, and you can expect:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Giveaways from some of your favorite LI and LIS authors! (not necessarily Christmas books!)</li><li>Fun interactive posts! </li><li>Winners galore!</li></ul><p></p><p>I'm giving away two copies of Seeking Sanctuary at noon, Eastern Time, 9 am Pacific.</p><p>To join the fun, you must have a Facebook account and be a member of the Love Inspired Authors and Readers Group. It's easy to join. Follow <a href=" https://bit.ly/357IX7n" target="_blank">this link</a>. You must answer the membership question, but it's a formality--it's not hard!</p><p>The LI group is so much fun. There are multiple giveaways each week, lots of fun, sharing, and fellowship. All positive and caring posts. </p><p>Hope to see you there!</p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-43131048147095814712021-05-06T09:50:00.006-07:002021-05-06T09:51:38.402-07:00Seeking Sanctuary is out...plus a recipe!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTtxQKZdHy4Iyrg7Hc4wpri_vGAoEaqSgn8EQYiGGAkMjZRgHDVrNx_MhXDmSfJPLPWyC8nQGVYOc52U2KYwf4MjDtkkkfOHRgO0MB9QI4GPPKpbOvKSTI3kDMHEUKS0skZ4KzAhKQA9s/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="254" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTtxQKZdHy4Iyrg7Hc4wpri_vGAoEaqSgn8EQYiGGAkMjZRgHDVrNx_MhXDmSfJPLPWyC8nQGVYOc52U2KYwf4MjDtkkkfOHRgO0MB9QI4GPPKpbOvKSTI3kDMHEUKS0skZ4KzAhKQA9s/w254-h400/image.png" width="254" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Seeking Sanctuary is out in the world! Wahoo! I'm so excited!<p></p><p>It's the story of Paige, a single mom-to-be trying to figure out her next steps, and bookstore manager Kellan, her brother's army buddy, who's carrying a secret burden.</p><p>I had so much fun writing this book. I was able to incorporate:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>a bookstore</li><li>matchmaking octogenarians</li><li>sparkly shoes</li><li>preschoolers</li><li>Iceland poppies</li><li>pickles</li><li>my tuna salad recipe</li></ul><div>In case you're curious about my tuna salad recipe, I don't have anything down to exact measurements. It's one of those things I just do, taste, and adapt accordingly. But if you want to try tuna salad like I make (and the characters eat), here's what I do:</div><div><br /></div><div>1-2 cans of tuna packed in water, drained</div><div>mayonnaise, to taste</div><div>a squeeze or two of lemon juice</div><div>sweet pickle relish</div><div>chopped onion, red preferred but white okay</div><div>a stalk or two of chopped celery</div><div>dry dill weed to taste</div><div><br /></div><div>There you go! Easy peasy! We have a debate over the pickle relish--my husband and mom far prefer dill pickles to sweet pickles. </div><div><br /></div><div>Where do you fall on the debate?</div><p></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-38953481607636970402021-04-03T23:00:00.001-07:002021-04-03T23:00:00.289-07:00Happy Easter!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQknZ-WM0MlQIdFnN-DSFGadLq2Y3wjcxCkKOx75hY2gVVcPB7ITrxM1mOl8UNwCynYMVrp5xgy-M4KLJb66TILLrjxNM28vMp6ChyphenhyphenJK3WbERqQ1BwwLZ1qqnGIcGv5cZjUP_VTdMVhDI/s630/happy+easter+chickie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="540" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQknZ-WM0MlQIdFnN-DSFGadLq2Y3wjcxCkKOx75hY2gVVcPB7ITrxM1mOl8UNwCynYMVrp5xgy-M4KLJb66TILLrjxNM28vMp6ChyphenhyphenJK3WbERqQ1BwwLZ1qqnGIcGv5cZjUP_VTdMVhDI/w375-h438/happy+easter+chickie.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-23546609732775812492021-03-31T09:00:00.003-07:002021-03-31T09:00:26.727-07:00Holy Week<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMvssPaYXvMs4QmQZ5Y4ZhbmYZRN09keHVCZ6THMBQl-8gj4idq1ko4Nwt8u3nwwYziZtUfRzFDq4ynYt7s3ahuh0BUpVXDFY4kRdsxSLp4bQyLrV_-X-k9iB0qG99eEeqn9MaoK-bRA/s1754/Good+Friday+again.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="1754" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMvssPaYXvMs4QmQZ5Y4ZhbmYZRN09keHVCZ6THMBQl-8gj4idq1ko4Nwt8u3nwwYziZtUfRzFDq4ynYt7s3ahuh0BUpVXDFY4kRdsxSLp4bQyLrV_-X-k9iB0qG99eEeqn9MaoK-bRA/w400-h283/Good+Friday+again.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-18509252260293037562021-01-14T08:56:00.052-08:002021-01-14T08:56:00.933-08:00Cover Reveal and Happy News<p>If you've had the chance to read <i>A Future For His Twins</i>, you'll know it's the first in a new Love Inspired series called Widow's Peak Creek. Today, I'm so excited to share the cover for the second book in the series, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Sanctuary-Widows-Peak-Creek/dp/133548888X">Seeking Sanctuary!</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSzDcCmrGWzSIQMi9O_tTpFWO9ooUcU2pd1s-FhsU7yFJOujvfx-7NfAf1fYyebNm-fj_bpdhOLbdy6tDS0NV3IFwaOS4KV3gDcefXPUmQSyihehS1rUtxMy1CNYO9-oNVmMorOrRf1o/s2048/9781335488886.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1294" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguSzDcCmrGWzSIQMi9O_tTpFWO9ooUcU2pd1s-FhsU7yFJOujvfx-7NfAf1fYyebNm-fj_bpdhOLbdy6tDS0NV3IFwaOS4KV3gDcefXPUmQSyihehS1rUtxMy1CNYO9-oNVmMorOrRf1o/w251-h397/9781335488886.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><p>It's about Paige, a mom-to-be who finds herself in need of a place to regroup, and what better haven than peaceful Widow's Peak Creek? Her great aunt lives in the retirement village, and Kellan, her deceased brother's old army buddy, runs the bookstore. Maybe he can help her find a job until she can figure out what she should do next.</p><p>But when their relatives start a matchmaking campaign, Kellan is forced to grapple with a secret that could change everything.</p><p>Every story I write has bits and pieces of me in it: characters' experiences or struggles, details, likes and dislikes... I had a blast setting a story in a bookstore of my own invention, one that smelled like books and wood, with creaky floors and a charming children's section upstairs, where the coffee is always hot for guests.</p><p>It was also fun to include Tom, Faith, Nora and Logan from <i>A Future from His Twins</i>. What a joy to see what happens in their lives after the final page of their book!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcwl1yqNwniN2K5ZiBLQlg_53go4cR63Auwx55a8xNKmHSCYIuBDqC8i6lNrLAVWtYW_WXmSj2PrqpDAOEIDRqOTuY0cpMIR3nwibmLf3uckFjJOYbnRuQACqErGi4cKKvchftHbJ0L0/s650/Design+E_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="57" data-original-width="650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcwl1yqNwniN2K5ZiBLQlg_53go4cR63Auwx55a8xNKmHSCYIuBDqC8i6lNrLAVWtYW_WXmSj2PrqpDAOEIDRqOTuY0cpMIR3nwibmLf3uckFjJOYbnRuQACqErGi4cKKvchftHbJ0L0/s320/Design+E_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>In other happy news, I'm thrilled to announce there will be three more Widow's Peak Creek books coming in 2021 and 2022. Including a Christmas story featuring Benton, who you'll meet in <i>Seeking Sanctuary.</i> I am so excited to write this book and continue the stories of Widow's Peak Creek!</p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-70908541223203889952021-01-07T08:55:00.010-08:002021-01-07T08:55:52.561-08:00A Future For His Twins Giveaway!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslO204aK3wJA9JGBAkqAIH18U9nJOJFzcKdEkXPFEvlLbvgokXKR8WqqAhgYjOav4QURE-3MW4wEE72AemvTnZrefPSwLvoA8WZkHyz_Od7uLtJrbe2AAEjA0Rs8UySI2Xkjm0OL696o/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1302" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslO204aK3wJA9JGBAkqAIH18U9nJOJFzcKdEkXPFEvlLbvgokXKR8WqqAhgYjOav4QURE-3MW4wEE72AemvTnZrefPSwLvoA8WZkHyz_Od7uLtJrbe2AAEjA0Rs8UySI2Xkjm0OL696o/w204-h320/image.png" width="204" /></a></div><br />A Future for His Twins is out in the world, and to celebrate, I'm offering a copy of the book and some other bookish prizes in conjunction with a <a href="https://justreadtours.com/2021/01/06/welcome-to-the-a-future-for-his-twins-takeover-tour-giveaway/" target="_blank">JustReads tour!</a><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; text-align: center;">(1) winner will receive a book tote, green spring scarf, scrubby for bath or dishes from CA-made BZBeeMon, a copy of </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato; text-align: center;">A Future for His Twins</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; text-align: center;"> and Susanne Dietze bookmarks.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIF3r4m3AaX8S-Qv4pg0GzYQpuIKS-5MmhbeP1JiL177lUEpU2sh-jgLVom7yaOZj88gqjYujPIPR0oFslfJ2cvVMGhJbAgluVo2g6V1L2HQYNbtJx42h_LIx0bg2V1ZcNU1ytjuRFS8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIF3r4m3AaX8S-Qv4pg0GzYQpuIKS-5MmhbeP1JiL177lUEpU2sh-jgLVom7yaOZj88gqjYujPIPR0oFslfJ2cvVMGhJbAgluVo2g6V1L2HQYNbtJx42h_LIx0bg2V1ZcNU1ytjuRFS8/" width="240" /></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The giveaway ends January 13, 2021. To enter using Rafflecopter,<a href="https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/9898dcd742/?"> click here!</a></span></div><p></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-40543556402448332522020-12-22T15:27:00.006-08:002020-12-22T15:27:51.135-08:00Merry Christmas!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcBIv-U845AMRpUDpwLGoYrdF8ayF-NEAxvYGPjV7Il5Fl19l8xMPa6WfHF2BJgG6H9DPPnKmehqixaEIaXCFOd2VMuSWeBy-5pwHGJty_JxLb7Z2hO7DIuYUZg_HeaIXXfpooRu_RkA/s940/Thanks+be+to+God+for+His+unpseakable+gift%2521+2+Cor.+9_15.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcBIv-U845AMRpUDpwLGoYrdF8ayF-NEAxvYGPjV7Il5Fl19l8xMPa6WfHF2BJgG6H9DPPnKmehqixaEIaXCFOd2VMuSWeBy-5pwHGJty_JxLb7Z2hO7DIuYUZg_HeaIXXfpooRu_RkA/w400-h335/Thanks+be+to+God+for+His+unpseakable+gift%2521+2+Cor.+9_15.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Looking forward to a bright New Year! May the Lord bless you and keep you.</p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-86090226148714376802020-12-04T10:53:00.000-08:002020-12-04T10:53:08.175-08:00"My Vocation is Love"<p>...so said St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun who is also known as "The Little Flower."</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaJ8MZC-2Wpgub4X03NNgz-1kIC8Jp3UKrnPta9U19xEc590MNyabM0AUuGolQYoAQ1RRZSD0oRSvj0eroY_9EO4UiVat62sIL5HCJA4Drwd4m39hFWmAzawLrPw0gLjkArR13XjMMnIY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="267" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaJ8MZC-2Wpgub4X03NNgz-1kIC8Jp3UKrnPta9U19xEc590MNyabM0AUuGolQYoAQ1RRZSD0oRSvj0eroY_9EO4UiVat62sIL5HCJA4Drwd4m39hFWmAzawLrPw0gLjkArR13XjMMnIY/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Years ago when I learned about her, my life changed. Her existence on earth was short and small, in that she was not famous or revered. She was devoted to Jesus and lived out that love in a fellowship of fellow nuns that was not necessarily as harmonious or life-giving as it sounds. Living in a fellowship with other human beings isn't without conflict, of course.</p><p>She was often cold and hungry. She suffered terribly before dying.</p><p>But God used her writings and her love for Him and others to inspire, comfort, and bless millions around the world.</p><p>In these difficult days of Covid-19, which for me have included high anxiety and at times even anger, the Lord has been drawing me back to Thérèse. To her reminder that "the world's thy ship, not thy home." </p><p>To the call for my vocation to love. Not to judge or be righteously upset at others' judgment, not to be vexed or resent others' vexations, but to love. </p><p>I haven't been doing very well with that, I confess. This season of Covid has revealed ugliness in our society, in our hearts, in our world. People say things from behind the safety of a keyboard or a phone screen that they wouldn't say to another person's face. I'm not saying that sometimes lines shouldn't be drawn in the sand: the Lord shows us that it is sometimes necessary to cut off, cast away, tear down and rebuild.</p><p>But I've seen lines drawn that do nothing but drive others away from the Gospel, and I confess I've been saddened and angry.</p><p>These are strange days indeed, but God's call hasn't changed. To follow His commandments. To serve Him and others. To do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with Him. To love.</p><p>I'm thankful for the example of Thérèse, and for the Lord using her to give me the gentle nudge to seek Him and live in His love first and foremost.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Draw me, we will run...To ask to be drawn is to will intimate union with the object which holds the heart captive. If fire and iron were gifted with reason, and that the latter said to the fire: "Draw me," would not this prove that it desired to become identified with the fire even so far as to share its substance? Well, that is exactly my prayer. I beg of Jesus to draw me into the flames of His Love, to unite me so closely to Himself that He may live and act in me. I feel that the more the fire of love inflames my heart, the more I shall say: "Draw me," the more also will the souls who draw near to mine run swiftly in the fragrant odors of the Well-Beloved.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">Story of A Soul, Chapter XI</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-79645349461171113142020-10-01T11:45:00.004-07:002020-10-01T11:45:32.276-07:00For Writers: Get to Know Your Characters<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666c70; font-family: Lato; font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwO3AqbIVvJA2PNKBfF7VtSzuThajwoqBziJMAXyS8gj_da8SmwikGysqEBdb1k7k4j9pIua0tI56Ms6nOVN4sG1SoTaMbxHFyZmeJ92PxWApcUzrZelXjumZU5P9QVm3_yHe8F6e5ZvM/s1080/Get+to+Know+Your+Characters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwO3AqbIVvJA2PNKBfF7VtSzuThajwoqBziJMAXyS8gj_da8SmwikGysqEBdb1k7k4j9pIua0tI56Ms6nOVN4sG1SoTaMbxHFyZmeJ92PxWApcUzrZelXjumZU5P9QVm3_yHe8F6e5ZvM/s320/Get+to+Know+Your+Characters.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Today's post is for writers, rather than readers.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Lately, I've received a lot of questions about <b>how I sketch out characters</b>. Online, you can find a lot of character questionnaires to help get to know the imaginary friends who live in our heads. My version is below.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666c70; font-family: Lato; font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Before you start, though, I suggest you answer three essential questions about your main character(s): what does he or she want? Why do they want it? What is stopping them?</span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666c70; font-family: Lato; font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Right there, you've answered your character's primary <b>GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict</b>. Each main character should start the story wanting something, for a particular reason that is rooted in the core of their being (perhaps related to their core wound), but has a problem getting it. And in a romance, the hero and heroine's goals <b>often clash</b>.</span><div><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVQizPI8hr_8sFyHu_jPL4w58LE_kynxNNVd-ufXLNifIOJDjrTGXdPZO35ZkTOleQ8Wr3qn5rG87KMYr4PcPWQN5Nkia1xbAfWko-XuYgtRKl0ajDVRtXjtBfuz1a5nysNwBkasSEw4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="179" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVQizPI8hr_8sFyHu_jPL4w58LE_kynxNNVd-ufXLNifIOJDjrTGXdPZO35ZkTOleQ8Wr3qn5rG87KMYr4PcPWQN5Nkia1xbAfWko-XuYgtRKl0ajDVRtXjtBfuz1a5nysNwBkasSEw4/" width="152" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">For example, in <i>A Future For His Twins</i>, the hero Tom and heroine Faith both want to rent the same historic property. Both have good reasons. </span></span><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Neither is a </span></span><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato; font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">villain. But they can't both get what they want. </span><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato; font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Someone is going to win, and someone is going to lose...but when Tom's twins get involved, Tom and Faith's original goals evolve, with greater stakes.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Let me know if you give this a try!</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666c70; font-family: Lato;"><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><b>Character Basics:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Full Name:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Birthday and age:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Profession:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Parents’ names:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Siblings’ names, ages:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Eye, hair color, height:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Best physical feature:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Worst feature:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Perfume/cologne:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Pets:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Clothing style:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Favorite place to be alone:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Hobbies:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Favorite food:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Temperament:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><b>Digging Deeper:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Goal at beginning of story:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Why do they want it (motivation):</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">What’s stopping it (conflict):</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">External Conflict with Hero/heroine:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Core wound:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Core need:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Lie they believe (I’m not worthy of/don’t believe in love because…):</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Deepest, secret dream:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Biggest flaw:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Best part of personality:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Came to faith when/how:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;">Who most influenced character and when:</span></div><div style="font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></div></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #666c70; font-family: Lato; font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #666c70; font-family: Lato; font-size: 20px; word-spacing: 0.2px;"><br /></span></div></div>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-32341982303458332052020-09-04T10:35:00.001-07:002020-09-04T10:35:09.020-07:00Love's Pure Light Giveaway<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><img height="360" src="https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118739955_10223048341101242_6123569734416253210_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=mAa9Ji4uC9IAX8cND90&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=cc739b7a88e5edb81cf259da4e338c68&oe=5F77E0A3" width="459" /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">To celebrate the release of Love's Pure Light: A Christmas Novella Collection, we're giving away a prize basket to one lucky reader! The winner will receive a Willow Tree 6-piece Nativity, a $30 Amazon gift card, and a paperback copy of Love's Pure Light--a total value of $135!</span></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">To enter: click here: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/3b7783451/?fbclid=IwAR0IyYWN1VOQXBRnUjAR8Zin2zP2lj9NfKKZG00X2FR8jPP0oHix4m15RB4" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/3b7783451/?</a></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This giveaway is not affiliated with Amazon, Facebook, or Instagram. We're sorry, but due to high shipping costs, this giveaway is only open to U.S. residents.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">About Love's Pure Light:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Four stories follow a treasured family nativity set through four generations of the Shepherd family.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>While Shepherds Watch Are Keeping</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> by Susanne Dietze</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>Massachusetts, 1899</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This Christmas, Pastor Seth Shepherd has little to offer his flock of congregants in their time of need until Jessalyn Grant, a mysterious newcomer, comes to his aid.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>The Wise Guy and the Star</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> by Shannon McNear</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>Charleston, South Carolina, to Kansas City, Missouri, 1919</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">While journeying by train, Stella Shepherd befriends war veteran Nat Wise. She helps him find renewed faith in God, but could he also be the answer to the wanderings of her own heart?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>On Angel Wings by </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Janine Rosche</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>Kansas City, Missouri, 1945</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Elodie Wise plans a fundraising ball with the help of her friend Benjamin Gabriel. But can she look past the swanky Hollywood headliner to see the man who truly loves her?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>Making Room at the Inn</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> by Deborah Raney</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Present Day</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Benjie Gabriel thinks the chef’s position she’s just taken at an award-winning bed and breakfast is temporary—just a stepping stone. The B&B’s owner, Trevor Keye, thinks the same. Will five months be long enough for them to figure out that what they’ve each been longing for, praying for, is right beneath their noses?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://www.amazon.com/Loves-Pure-Light-Heirloom-Generations/dp/1643526189/?fbclid=IwAR0hsAtUrMOAZ7XSk5NouleRb30yJ72pfFkz_ifU4u9prHVuIowX9YY6rC0" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Loves-Pure-Light-Heirloom-Generations/dp/1643526189/</a></span>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-63636310891280534602020-07-14T10:22:00.002-07:002020-07-14T10:22:49.334-07:00A Short Word of Encouragement<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="blei1" data-offset-key="7jotc-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7jotc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="7jotc-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7jotc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you need encouragement today, I pray you remember that God is holding you in His hands--hands that are gentle yet mighty. Hands that reached out for you, hands that rescued you, hands that bear your name on the palms (Isaiah 49:16). </span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="blei1" data-offset-key="1lgfb-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p526x296/107672057_1289204221249764_4440062754530307656_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=aUrppCy1tAYAX8BRYC8&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&_nc_tp=6&oh=5f6e8777590774d02637e1354cad9c9b&oe=5F3445DD" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image may contain: flower and plant" border="0" height="400" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p526x296/107672057_1289204221249764_4440062754530307656_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=aUrppCy1tAYAX8BRYC8&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&_nc_tp=6&oh=5f6e8777590774d02637e1354cad9c9b&oe=5F3445DD" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1lgfb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="1lgfb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="blei1" data-offset-key="91hog-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="91hog-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="91hog-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">God is here. With us. Now. And He's not going anywhere.</span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="91hog-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="91hog-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="91hog-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="91hog-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm taking a short break from social media as I work to meet a deadline (Kellan and Paige's story!), but my hope is to also take some time to be still and focus on God. The past few months have been difficult for all of us, heartbreaking in many ways. I have been discouraged, sad, and anxious at times, especially in the face of a lack of unity, but I know is that God is at work in our hearts and lives and in the world He created. I am encouraged even as I am discouraged. I am comforted even as I am sad. I am hopeful even as I have been anxious. I am grateful, and one of the things I am grateful for is you. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="blei1" data-offset-key="6p5gp-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6p5gp-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="6p5gp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="blei1" data-offset-key="cceej-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cceej-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">
<span data-offset-key="cceej-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">In my little break, I plan to take some time to truly seek Him and rest in His majesty. I pray you are well and stay safe. See you soon!</span></div>
</div>
Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-83341170671468920892020-07-11T10:28:00.002-07:002020-07-11T10:32:45.171-07:0099 Cent Sale! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzFjTbxqetayt0hDTXy7JNzIAySE_cnP-9rT832UQu8PO9U4i4Z7SDyh0ytrAqysHIwgpswhAQKSYrGNaT5oQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<br />
Hurry! Limited time only on Kindle! Just eleven cents per story. Click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Heiress-Brides-Collection-Struggle-ebook/dp/B01MU5O25Q/">here!</a><br />
<br />
Includes my story<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i>In for a Penny</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1894 – Philadelphia, PA</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Banking heiress Penelope Beale is pushed by her status-conscious parents to marry a lofty English lord, but she’s drawn instead to a lowly art historian who shares her passion for service—Emmett Retford, the lord’s younger brother.</span></span>Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-34742673345056225532020-06-12T10:32:00.002-07:002020-06-12T10:32:21.923-07:00What are you Reading During Quarantine?Any day of the week, I love escaping into a good bit of fiction. During these days of social distancing and isolation?<br />
<br />
I'm like Cookie Monster, but with books.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/2836/10174117234_b263cd11f2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cookie Monster Avatar | Nonprofit Organizations | Flickr" border="0" height="200" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/2836/10174117234_b263cd11f2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
Then again, maybe I'm like that with cookies, too. But I digress.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s1600/Extras_dividerbar.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="1600" height="17" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s320/Extras_dividerbar.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Here's what I'm reading right now:</b><br />
<br />
<span id="goog_45691846"></span><span id="goog_45691847"></span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="53828509. sy475 " src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1591312255l/53828509._SY475_.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Case-Beleaguered-Bride-Parkers-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B088PG6BXN/">Amazon</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
After enduring an unexpected test to her sleuthing skills in Edinburgh, American Heather Munro looks forward to attending a restful family wedding in County Cork, Ireland. But delight turns to dilemma when the bride’s ex-fiancé shows up pleading for a second chance…then dies under mysterious circumstances.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Heather’s travel itinerary didn’t include snooping through family secrets or being caught up in international politics, but she can’t stand by when a rush to judgment derails the upcoming nuptials and points the blame at an innocent man. An outsider in the stunning harbor town of Cobh, her determined search for answers is thwarted at every turn. But Heather has never been one to give up, and she’ll do all she can to get the wedding back on track and the murderer behind bars before he or she strikes again. Even at the risk of her own life.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Inspired by the famous Girl Detective, the members of the Olentangy Heights Girls' Detective Society, affectionately known as the Nosy Parkers, spent their formative years studying criminology, codes, and capers. Opportunities to practice their unique skills were thin in their little corner of post-war suburbia, so they eventually grew up to pursue more sensible careers. Yet mysteries seem to follow them wherever they go.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s1600/Extras_dividerbar.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="1600" height="17" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s320/Extras_dividerbar.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="https://d188rgcu4zozwl.cloudfront.net/content/B083S2SBVB/resources/1650796134" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="249" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Love-Faith-Fortune-ebook/dp/B083S2SBVB/">Amazon</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div>
I, Holiday Brown, have it all. A platinum record. Multi-million dollar home in Manhattan that I share with my two best friends. Life is looking fantastic until my roommate’s brother decides to bunk in our guestroom while his house gets renovated.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
W. Emmett Bell has always been the bane of my existence. He’s annoying, stubborn, a know it all, and just might be the most gorgeous man I’ve ever laid eyes on. But I refuse to fall for him. But when his sister’s threatened by a stalker, dynamics change. His unwavering faith isn’t quite as self-righteous as I’d always thought, and maybe he has a good side I’ve overlooked all these years.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Or maybe it’s all too much trouble.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The Trouble With Love is the first book in the Christian Chick Lit series: Faith & Fortune.<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s1600/Extras_dividerbar.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="1600" height="17" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s320/Extras_dividerbar.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="https://d188rgcu4zozwl.cloudfront.net/content/B07YX5KFJY/resources/56442580" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="252" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YX5KFJY?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_3&storeType=ebooks">Amazon</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div>
Asking for forgiveness is the hardest part…</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
She once trusted him with her heart…but will she ever trust him with the truth?</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
With only two weeks to renovate her family’s Colorado B and B, struggling single mom Addie Ricci can’t turn away help. Especially not when it’s her handsome high school sweetheart, Evan Hawke, who’s offering to pitch in. As they repair the B and B, Addie and Evan also begin rebuilding their relationship…until a secret from their past threatens to bring it all crashing down.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s1600/Extras_dividerbar.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="1600" height="17" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbsNhfDhhm01UsnIvZzTfSE7ahGBeswZibwqbJ6-fZemqgrGCEjj5crC4ecsvPW5X_5leNwYkZy8tJ6ZX2D6BxuGBaPsRdMhGbRvhgMI9rr9lHSsu12LluTNjaLwOQ6NCqg43R69ZkTo/s320/Extras_dividerbar.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
What are you reading this week?</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-27509777341379246252020-04-19T09:10:00.001-07:002020-04-19T14:42:46.307-07:00Am I Wasting Quarantine?This weekend I read an article on the Dayspring website ("Don't Waste Your Quarantine" by Ryan Perkins). It's excellent--read it <a href="https://www.dayspring.com/articles/dont-waste-your-quarantine?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEBNANN20200419Don%27tWasteYourQuarantineArticles&utm_term=DaySpring%20Newsletter%20%2B%20Daily%20Devotion%20List">here</a>--and it's a strong reminder to be more of a Mary than a Martha in this time of isolation, to spend time with the Lord and draw closer to Him.<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Bible Open To Psalm 118" height="230" src="https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/60000/velka/bible-open-to-psalm-118-1378400894gXP.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=53426&picture=bible-open-to-psalm-118">Public Domain</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
I had a lot of ideas about how I would spend this time of isolation with my family. In fact, I wrote a blog post about my intentions. I would pray, write letters, clean out my office, indulge in self care, get creative with meals, do crafts, and so forth. And yes, spend more time with the Lord.<br />
<br />
In other words, I'd decided not to waste my quarantine.<br />
<br />
It's now been a full month since my kids came home, and almost that long since my state went into "Stay at home" mode. I have prayed, I have written a few letters, I have cooked weird meals using what I have in the cupboard, and I have written a book proposal which was turned in on time. A few times, I've sat in the sun to read and absorb Vitamin D. I've cleaned some things, but--<br />
<br />
My home office and closet are still cluttered messes.<br />
<br />
I haven't done all that much self-care. Or a single craft project (unless you count trying to make no-sew masks).<br />
<br />
And most of all, I have not spent the amount of time with the Lord I've wanted to. Needed to.<br />
<br />
The reason for this is as simple as it is complicated: life is messy. Quarantine has created a host of new activities, sources of stress, and distractions that have altered the way we function around here.<br />
<br />
Maybe you can relate to one or more of these changes/challenges:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Difficulty sleeping</li>
<li>Adjustment/clutter due to four people working at home</li>
<li>Kids experiencing stress, grief, and struggle. Graduation and the celebrations surrounding it? Not happening. Job interviews, plans with friends, rites of passage, expectations, relationships? Truncated abruptly. Each of my kids handles these things differently. <b>How do we help our kids right now? </b>This is not a simple, one-paragraph answer. It takes a lot of prayer, time, hope, and support.</li>
<li>Increased planning, creativity, and energy when it comes to food shopping for our family as well as for extended family</li>
<li>Rationing certain foods</li>
<li>Loneliness</li>
<li>A cycle of discouragement, since I feel like there's a very big shoe about to drop. I'm not sure what that shoe looks like: is it my family getting sick? Is it someone I know dying? And then I sometimes go through guilt/self-condemnation for my fears: <b>I should be trusting God more</b>.</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul>
</ul>
<div>
Can you relate to any of these? How are you coping?</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
I am not a model for coping like a champ, obviously, but one thing I tell my kids is t<b>his life we are living is not normal</b>.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Some people react to <b>grief</b>--which is what we're all feeling, to some degree--by being active, busy, and in constant motion. Others require more rest and are<b> exhausted</b> by the need to heal.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
We do not need to have all the answers right now. God is with us, before us, beside us, and around us. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Another thing we're trying to do? Look for blessings. It's not easy to find these on the news feeds of our phones, but the world is still blossoming and God is still at work in many, many ways.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
In closing, here are a few blessings in my life:</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>Our neighbor's <b>newborn baby</b>. We visited with him--keeping proper social distance--on the porch yesterday! Little hiccups, little toes, little fingers, big wide eyes. </li>
<li><b>Zoom</b>. It's not the same as being together in person but it's better than nothing! I'm proud of my parents for learning how to do it and getting together with a group of friends once a week!</li>
<li>Everyone sewing masks for strangers! Every <b>act of kindness</b> and love I hear of! Every word of encouragement I hear on the radio, TV, or in a song!</li>
<li><b>Time with my kids</b>.</li>
<li>Birdsong, flowers blooming, blue sky. <b>God's creation</b> is beautiful.</li>
<li>The resources we have to <b>engage with the Lord</b>. Books! Internet! Other's words of encouragement!</li>
</ul>
<div>
Thanks for bearing with me, if you read this far. I'm praying for you in this odd, scary time.</div>
</div>
Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-15476731518717525322020-03-20T14:40:00.003-07:002020-03-20T14:40:32.520-07:00Hidden in the Shadow of His Wings<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="Image may contain: flower and text" height="335" src="https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/90710733_1190775811092606_3344275340137594880_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=g6sctlWLOOgAX9xFeL0&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=3f77ea94068411f42dcf14238e447046&oe=5E98EE55" width="400" /></div>
<br />
I'm sheltering with our kids at home now--as sheltered as we can be, anyway. Today I'm praying for the world, for those close to my heart, and for love to grow and diminish the spread of fear and the virus.<br />
<br />
God bless and keep you, dear ones. He loves you and He hears you. Sending you virtual hugs (the only kind allowed in these days of social distancing!).Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-4023301882740104722020-03-16T09:34:00.001-07:002020-03-16T09:34:14.301-07:00Ten Things to do While Stuck at Home<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red;">Ten Things</span></h2>
<br />
I haven't shared a list of Ten Things in a while, but as we face the upcoming days of working from home/isolation/quarantine due to the global spread of COVID-19, I thought I'd challenge myself to come up with ten things I would be doing, other than writing, while I'm at home.<br />
<br />
Will you try any of these? What are your plans for non-working time spent at home?<br />
<br />
<br />
<ol>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Clean up the home office office</b></span>. After writing three novellas and a novel in somewhat-rapid succession, I have neglected a lot of housework. The office has become a family dumping ground for bills, crafts, and things we don't know what to do with, not to mention all of my writing-related stuff. And by stuff, I mean STUFF. This room needs help!</li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Journal about my experiences</b></span> during these unprecedented times. I've asked my kids to do this, too. Journaling helps us process our feelings as we record our experiences. These records may also be of benefit to future generations. My son is a budding historian, so he knows how valuable these types of documents can be. Someday he'll be telling his students about what life was like during this period of history!</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">READ</span></b>. Of course! I have a huge TBR pile. I can't wait to dive in!</li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Make a craft.</b></span> I never have as much time as I wish to do little creative projects. Right now I want to make ribbon angel ornaments for Christmas. Please be aware my angels are not very good. This is not an exaggeration. I am not being humble. But they're fun to make.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Play a board game, do a puzzle</span></b>--something fun and engaging with the people who are homebound with you!</li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>Check in with neighbors, especially elderly/vulnerable ones</b></span>. Do they need food? Toilet paper? Is there anything I can give them or do for them?</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Write letters</span>.</b> I owe my real, snail mail letters to my aunt, my penpal, and a few others. I should probably write notes to others. I love getting real snail mail, and my mailbox gets lonely!</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Binge Watch a show</span></b> I've been wanting to see, but haven't yet had time.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Exercise</span></b>--by walking around my neighborhood (or house, if weather is inclement, as it's looking to be today. I just took a 20 minute walk through the house while I talked to my mom on the phone.).</li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">Cook using what I find in my cupboards</span></b>. Our last trip to the market didn't end up with us getting everything on my list. I still have food in the pantry, though, so it's time to get creative. I just found a half cup of quinoa. I cooked it, added parsley, chives, and basil from my yard, as well as tomatoes, oil and vinegar. I wish I had feta cheese to go into it, but oh well. It'll be a nice lunch!</li>
<li>I know this list says Ten Things, but how can I leave off prayer? I am going to curl into a cozy <b><span style="color: red;">chair, read Scripture, meditate on the Lord, and pray</span></b>. The list of requests is huge, relating to coronavirus alone. There are so many ramifications, and like most everyone else, I am worried about my kids, my parents, our families, the people I know who are sick but haven't been tested for coronavirus, the economic hardships this is causing, etc etc etc. Thanks be to God that He is in control and He is with us!</li>
</ol>
<div>
What about you? What are you doing at home?</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-28140201690020553502020-02-13T10:14:00.005-08:002020-02-13T10:14:53.669-08:00Valentine's Sale!<img alt="Image" height="320" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQnJS46U4AA9fx_?format=jpg&name=small" width="640" /><br />
<br />
Not sure how long the sale will last, but it's currently less than fifty cents per story on Kindle!Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-27854999509276588052020-01-01T15:45:00.002-08:002020-01-01T15:45:50.553-08:00ACFW New Releases, January 2020A new year, and a new crop of books out this month!<br />
<br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;">More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">ACFW Fiction Finder website</a>.</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Contemporary Romance:</span></b></span></center>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;" /><a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7166" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7166/7166_125_200.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7166" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A Rancher to Trust</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1287" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Laurel Blount</a> — After learning his ex-wife isn’t so ex after all, rebel turned rancher Dan Whitlock is determined to prove he’s a changed man…but Bailey Quinn is just as set on finally ending their marriage. When tragedy makes Dan the guardian of little orphaned twins, he and Bailey are drawn back together. But can she forgive the past and open her heart to the family she’s always wanted? (Contemporary Romance from Love Inspired (Harlequin))</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7290" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7290/7290_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7290" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Star Rising</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1193" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Janet W. Ferguson</a> — Star Youngblood tries to protect her employer, Mrs. Priscilla Kelly, from the woman’s neglectful son, an aspiring flight instructor who has issues with religion, but finds her own heart is at the greatest risk. (Contemporary Romanc, Independently Published)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7377" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7377/7377_125_200.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7377" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A Promise to Keep</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1837" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Melony Teague</a> — Savannah, a widowed research librarian, goes to her twenty year class reunion and gets reacquainted with Michael, a former troublemaker who is now a professional technical rescuer. Before the night is over, a pact between these two old friends will lead them on an adventure into uncharted emotional territory where Michael must confront his past regrets and find the courage to reveal the truth. But can Savannah fly from her sheltered nest and risk her heart on a real-life hero? (Contemporary Romance from Anaiah Press)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">General Contemporary:</span></b></span></center>
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7133" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7133/7133_250_400.jpeg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7133" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A Long Time Comin</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1768" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Robin W. Pearson</a> — To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she’s dying doesn’t mean she can’t keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they’d best take it up with Jesus. There’s no room in Granny B’s house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice’s doorstep anyway, burdened with her own secret baggage. Determined to help her Granny B mend fences with her far-flung brood, Evelyn turns her grandmother’s heart and home inside out. Evelyn’s meddling uncovers a tucked-away box of old letters, forcing the two women to wrestle with their past and present pain as they confront the truth Beatrice has worked a lifetime to hide. (General Contemporary from Tyndale House)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Historical Romance:</span></b></span></center>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;" /><a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7376" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7376/7376_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7376" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Freedom in the Mountain Wind</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/875" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Misty M. Beller</a> — A young woman faces overwhelming odds to make her father’s dream come true before he dies of lung cancer, but paddling upriver through fierce rapids and fighting hungry grizzlies to follow the Lewis and Clark trail isn’t what terrifies her the most. Beaver Tail endured more than he can stand from the women in his Blackfoot camp, but the last disaster gave him the final shove he needed to join this band of brothers searching for one of their group who’s gone missing. The last thing he expected was to find a white woman and her sick father stranded at the base of a massive waterfall. His plan is to help them carry their oversize canoe and supplies, then leave them to their strange mission. Yet, the more he learns about the pair, the more he realizes his life is about to be derailed—again. (Historical Romance, Independently Published)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7357" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7357/7357_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7357" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Uncharted Promises</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/902" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Keely Brooke Keith</a> — Sybil Roberts uses the warmth of delicious meals to lift the spirits of road-weary travelers at The Inn at Falls Creek. Her life at the inn would be perfect if she could just get her brothers and mother to move back home. And if she could see Isaac Owens again. He visited the inn once when he interviewed for the farm manager job, and she’s dreamed of his return to Falls Creek ever since. Isaac Owens knows how to run a farm. His family might not have faith in him, but if he succeeds at Falls Creek, he’ll prove them wrong. He arrives at the inn thinking the job is his, but the inn’s senile owner offered the position to another man too. Isaac must spend the winter competing if he wants to win the job… and Sybil’s heart. It will take more than warm meals on cold nights for Sybil and Isaac to find love while working at the isolated inn. (Historical Romance from Edenbrooke Press)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7322" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7322/7322_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7322" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Forever Hidden</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1579" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kimberley Woodhouse</a>, <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/51" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tracie Peterson</a> — Sybil Roberts uses the warmth of delicious meals to lift the spirits of road-weary travelers at The Inn at Falls Creek. Her life at the inn would be perfect if she could just get her brothers and mother to move back home. And if she could see Isaac Owens again. He visited the inn once when he interviewed for the farm manager job, and she’s dreamed of his return to Falls Creek ever since. Isaac Owens knows how to run a farm. His family might not have faith in him, but if he succeeds at Falls Creek, he’ll prove them wrong. He arrives at the inn thinking the job is his, but the inn’s senile owner offered the position to another man too. Isaac must spend the winter competing if he wants to win the job… and Sybil’s heart. It will take more than warm meals on cold nights for Sybil and Isaac to find love while working at the isolated inn. (Historical Romance from Bethany House [Baker])</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7018" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="http://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7018/7018_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7018" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Gray Chamber</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1356" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Grace Hitchcock</a> — On Blackwell Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving. With her late father’s fortune under her uncle’s care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society’s demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the women’s lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. Do any of Edyth’s friends care that she disappeared? At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyth’s plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self? (Historical Romance from Barbour Publishing)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Romantic Suspense:</span></b></span></center>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;" /><a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7350" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7350/7350_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7350" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Secret Mountain Hideout</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/421" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Terri Reed</a> — Staying hidden has kept her alive… But now she’s been found. A remote Colorado mountain town and a fake identity have been Ashley Willis’s safe haven since fleeing after she witnessed a murder—but now the killer has found her trail. Desperate and terrified, she’s prepared to run again…but Deputy Sheriff Chase Fredrick won’t let her. With the lawman by her side, can she face danger head-on…and live long enough to bring a murderer to justice? (Romantic Suspense from Love Inspired [Harlequin])</span></div>
Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-78072690854408734882019-12-23T08:44:00.005-08:002019-12-23T08:44:38.676-08:00Merry Christmas!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="258" src="https://olddesignshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/OldDesignShop_ChristmasBlessingsPC.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">May the Lord bless and keep you this Christmas as you contemplate His coming to dwell among us!</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Merry Christmas!</span></div>
Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781821487281653217.post-68467973235075560642019-12-02T13:33:00.001-08:002019-12-02T13:33:27.159-08:00ACFW New Releases December 2019<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;">More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">ACFW Fiction Finder website</a>.</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Contemporary Romance:</span></b></span></center>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;" /><a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7143" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7143/7143_125_200.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7143" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Stranded for the Holidays</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/702" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lisa Carter</a> — Running away led her right where she belonged. A new mom for Christmas? She’s everything they’ve wished for. Runaway bride AnnaBeth Cummings needs shelter for the holidays when a blizzard leaves her stranded, and rancher Jonas Stone’s happy to help. But his son’s been wishing for a mommy for Christmas, and town matchmakers are convinced Annabeth and Jonas are perfect for each other. As the storm clears, city girl AnnaBeth will have to decide: does her heart now belong in the country? (Contemporary Romance from Love Inspired [Harlequin])</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7007" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7007/7007_250_400.png" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7007" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Dating Charade</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1738" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Melissa Ferguson</a> — After a knockout first date where Cassie Everson and Jett Bentley claim to not want kids, both come home to find three children dropped in their laps. . . each. While struggling to keep their heads above the parental waters, and without wanting to break up their relationship, they decide to do the mature thing: hide the kids from each other while sorting it all out. What could go wrong? (Contemporary Romance from HarperCollins Christian Publishing)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7358" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7358/7358_125_200.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7358" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Home for Christmas</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1046" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Candee Fick</a> — After an embarrassing failure, a prodigal retreats to a secluded cabin in backwoods Missouri where he encounters an intriguing young woman and an old guitar. When the message in the music touches his heart, will he make it home in time for Christmas? (Contemporary Romance, Independently Published)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7332" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7332/7332_125_200.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7332" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Getting Out of the Comfort Zone: Ayanna</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1831" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Barbara James</a> — While interning as a hospital chaplain, a young military officer falls for an EMT who is an antiwar activist. (Contemporary Romance, Independently Published)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Children’s:</span></b></span></center>
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7348" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7348/7348_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7348" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Battle In The Valley</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1833" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Susanne Blumer</a> — The church bell tower transports Chip, Caroline and Billy back thousands of years to an ancient battlefield. There they meet a young shepherd destined to be king and a giant warrior bent on his destruction. Will the children survive the upcoming fight and make it back to Palmetto Island in one piece? (Middle-grade from Sutton Avenue Press)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Historical:</span></b></span></center>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;" /><a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7359" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7359/7359_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7359" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hope Unchained</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1316" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Carol Ashby</a> — When a former legionary and a gladiator are hired to escort a young woman on her quest to rescue her brother and sister from slavery, more chains are broken by forgiveness and love than any of them thought possible. (Historical from Cerrillo Press)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Historical Romance:</span></b></span></center>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;" /><a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7266" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7266/7266_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7266" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Major’s Daughter</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/587" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Regina Jennings</a> — In a western land run, an adventurous socialite stakes a claim on an orphaned outlaw’s chosen land, so he decides to stake a claim on her heart. (Historical Romance from Bethany House [Baker])</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7321" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7321/7321_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7321" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sew In Love</a></i> by Debby Lee, <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1799" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jacquolyn McMurray</a>, <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1690" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Darlene Panzera</a>, and <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1579" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Kimberley Woodhouse</a> — When four women put needle and thread to fabric, will their sewing lead to love? In <i>Hearts Sewn with Love</i>, during the California gold rush, a beautiful seamstress finds her heart torn between the men who want to marry her and the one fortune hunter who won’t. In <i>Woven Hearts</i>, a shirtwaist factory fire survivor struggles to provide for her family despite the disastrous misguided intentions of the handsome union organizer who tries to help. In <i>A Language of Love</i>, a milliner with thick Irish accent and a renowned baseball player with speech impediment meet at the office of a language teacher. But the issues with their backgrounds that first brought them together will also drive them apart. In <i>Tailored Sweethearts</i>, a parachute seamstress struggles with her faith in desperate circumstances. A fighter pilot teaches her to hope in her darkest hours. (Historical Romance from Barbour Publishing)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7294" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="http://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7294/7294_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7294" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Rebel Bride</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/757" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Shannon McNear</a> — During the clash between Union and Confederacy, quiet Tennessean Pearl MacFarlane is compelled to nurse both Rebel and Yankee wounded who seek refuge at her family’s farm. She is determined to remain unmoved by the Yankee cause—until she faces the silent struggle of Union soldier Joshua Wheeler, a recent amputee. The MacFarlane family fits no stereotype Joshua believed in; still he is desperate to regain his footing—as a soldier, as a man, as a Christian—in the aftermath of his debilitating injury. He will use his time behind enemy lines to gather useful intelligence for the Union—if the courageous Rebel woman will stay out of the line of danger. (Historical Romance from Barbour Publishing)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Romantic Suspense:</span></b></span></center>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;" /><a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7334" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7334/7334_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a></span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7334" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Silent Night Suspect</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/1543" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sharee Stover</a> — Suspected of a crime she knows she didn’t commit… All she wants for Christmas is to remember. Blood on her blouse. A gun in her hand. A cartel leader’s dead body in front of her. Widow Asia Stratton can’t remember what happened—just that she’s been framed. The only way to prove her innocence is to work with her ex-sweetheart, Nebraska state trooper Slade Jackson. But can they clear her name before this Christmas turns even deadlier? (Romantic Suspense from Love Inspired [Harlequin])</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Speculative:</span></b></span></center>
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7191" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignright size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7191/7191_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7191" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Brand of Light</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/133" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ronie Kendig</a> — After a catastrophic explosion, Kersei Dragoumis awakens in a derelict shuttle, alone, injured, and ignorant of the forbidden technology that has swept her into a nightmare. The brand she’s borne since childhood burns mysteriously, but the pain is nothing to that when she learns her family is dead and she is accused of their murders. Across the quadrants, Marco Dusan responds to the call of a holy order-not to join them, but to seek a bounty. Gifted-or cursed-with abilities that mark him a Kynigos, a tracker sworn to bring interplanetary fugitives to justice, Marco discovers this particular bounty has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with prophecy. One that involves the hunter as much as the hunted. (Speculative from Enclave Publishing)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<center style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Thriller/Suspense:</span></b></span></center>
<a href="https://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7343" style="background-color: white; color: #bb7318; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-full" height="122" src="https://www.fictionfinder.com/uploads/book_images/7343/7343_250_400.jpg" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="80" /></a><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/book/detail/7343" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Laynie Portland, Renegade Spy</a></i> by <a href="http://www.fictionfinder.com/author/detail/883" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #bb7318; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0012px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Vikki Kestell</a> — Laynie must fight to earn her place on the task force—even as unfolding events expose a looming danger. Wolfe’s task force has a leak . . . one that threatens them all. (Suspense, Independently Published)</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0012px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br /></div>
Susanne Dietzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09710634601407161821noreply@blogger.com0