FEATURED BOOK:  Sabotaged Christmas

AUTHOR:  Carole Brown

PUBLISHER:  Story and Logic

GENRE:  Romantic Mystery 

SERIES OR STAND ALONE: series, Book 1

TARGET AGE:  teens to elderly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my case, I've loved mysteries and suspenses since a child. Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Jupiter, his friends and their secret junk yard clubhouse, The airplane Stewardess Mysteries, Trixie Belden and so many more.

 

 

There was even a time when I wanted to be a detective. That eventually faded out when I figured out I was too much of a coward to be a detective. I much preferred reading about them than to live that life. Face to face with serious, scary events was not up my alley.

 

 

But my fear of being a real-life detective didn't deter my love for reading suspense or mysteries.

 

 

As a child and then into my teens I wrote. In high school, one of my best friends and I wrote melodramatic and romantic poetry. At adulthood, I was busy with living, college, church...and then I fell in love. We married, went into ministry, had two sons and traveled. Life was adventurous and gave me lots of memories and ideas for later on.

 

 

One day later on came to an end. I knew if I was ever going to write, it was time! I plunged in. Research gave me a Christian group called American Christian Writers, and I joined up. I was invited into a critique group. I wrote, was critiqued, and revised over and over again. 

 

 

That first full-length novel I wrote was Catch Me If You Can. I used one of our niece's names for the protagonist, used a grandson's name for the primary male name, used a mouse as a pet—at first—but changed it to a Savannah cat later on. Editors loved it, but the timing wasn't right.

 

 

Through 2020 I didn't get much writing done, but when 2021 came around, inspiration hit, and I made a huge decision. It was time to release Catch Me If You Can. 

 

 

Thankfully, I'd already had several recent releases even before Catch Me If You Can! Sabotaged Christmas was one of the very first books that was released. It was the first book in the Appleton, WV series. Now, several years later, seven of the Appleton books have been printed, with another one coming in the near future. 

 

 

Two of my recent works are Sabotaged Christmas, a stand alone novel. and Believe in Christmas, a collection of four delightfu stories set during the Christmas season. 

 

Blurb for Sabatoged Christmas

Toni DeLuca, the Italian owner of DeLuca Construction, finds herself confronted with doubts about her father and his possible deceptions—all because of the mysterious pink notes she's been receiving.

Relations with Perrin Douglas who has a troubling history—but the first man in years who's interested her—is building to a peak. Yet Perrin's own personal problems and his doubts about women and God, keep getting in the way.

Gossip, a Spanish proposal, an inheritance, and a sabotaged construction business may ruin Christmas for Toni's employees as well as her own happiness.

Will a mysterious person succeed in pulling off the biggest scam Appleton, West Virginia has ever seen? And will this culprit destroy Toni's last chance at happiness with the man of her dreams?

 

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The other one is Believe in Christmas—a collection of four delightful stories set during the Christmas season. Here’s a peak at what’s inside:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A newspaper reporter is called in to find the culprit stealing the town's Christmas Trees

 

 

 

 

 

Thankfully, I cling to the scripture from the KJV, Isaiah 51:16: I have put my words in thy mouth. It's a strengthening verse that keeps me writing.

 

If you're a reader, then you know how much you enjoy reading books by authors that you love. I sincerely hope you give these two books of mine a chance to win your love of my books too! Happy reading! 

 

 

Besides being a member and active participant of many writing groups, Carole Brown enjoys mentoring beginning writers. An author of fourteen fiction books and two novellas in an anthology, she loves to weave suspense and tough topics into her books, along with a touch of romance and whimsy, and is always on the lookout for outstanding titles and catchy ideas.

An award-winning, best-selling author, she has a degree in Religious Education and an Associate in Computer, along with other course degrees. She has a special love for animals—especially dogs, elephants and horses (which is sometimes found in her books—a love for flowers and plants, traveling and her husband who is her best go-to person for grounding her in her writing. 

She and her husband reside in SE Ohio but have ministered and counseled nationally and internationally. Together, they enjoy their grandsons, traveling, gardening, good food, the simple life, and did she mention their grandsons? 

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FEATURED BOOK:   New Star

AUTHOR:  Lana Christian

PUBLISHER:  Scrivenings Press

GENRE:  Biblical Fiction

SERIES OR STAND ALONE:  Series

TARGET AGE:  18−90

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“You’re doing what?”

 

 

A relative gasped in disbelief as I told her I was moving cross-country. Driving—alone—to seek treatment for late-stage Lyme disease.

 

 

“There’s no way this can succeed.”

 

 

Humanly speaking, she was right. I was desperately ill. Newly divorced after thirty-three years of marriage. Financially on sinking sand. How could I navigate a 2,200-mile drive, move where I knew no one, earn a living, and hope that a doctor I’d never talked to could help me after four others had failed? The risks were great. The chances of success were slim.

 

 

That was ten years ago.

 

 

While still weathering the aftershocks of those life quakes, God nudged me to write a story about what happened to the Wise Men.

 

 

By then, I was sixty-one.

 

 

I didn’t even know what biblical fiction was.

 

 

Talk about another endeavor with slim chance of success. The publishing industry is challenging enough, but that goes double for breaking into the biblical fiction niche.

 

 

I’d already had a lengthy writing career—in health care. Did that count for anything?

 

 

Here’s the thing: God didn’t need me to be young or able-bodied to start a new chapter of my life as a faith-based author. He simply needed me to trust Him and be faithful to Him.

 

 

He gave me Isaiah 64:3-4 as encouragement. I jotted this paraphrase: 

 

 

I printed that as big as I could and taped it on my bedroom door so I would see it all the time. (It’s still on my door.)

 

 

Isaiah 64:3-4 reads like this in the Berean Standard Bible: 

 

 

I revisited those verses countless times, claiming and trusting that God would do what I couldn’t anticipate or imagine. I wasn’t always patient in my prayers. But whether I was asking for protection and provision, inspiration and guidance, or courage and perseverance, I continued to pray that God would do exactly what He said He would. Something awesome I couldn’t expect. 

 

 

Because the Great I AM is the Great I CAN.

 

 

It took seven years to get from initial inspiration to a four-book contract with a wonderful traditional publisher.

 

 

I wonder if the Wise Men had Isaiah’s words to encourage them. To follow their convictions, they bucked their culture, government, and official religion. Humanly speaking, they risked everything—with little to no chance of succeeding in their quest.

 

 

It really is true that if God brings you to it, He will see you through it.

 

 

 

 

 

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