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January 18, 2025

Spotlight Saturday: Author Interview with C.C. Urie

C.C. Urie is a Multi-Genre Christian Author who lives in Michigan. Her whole world revolves around her family, and her favorite time of year is when the leaves start to change. She’s always had a love for reading and enjoys sharing her stories with others. Her true calling in life is using her books to help spread the Good Word and show others how God has changed her life for the better.

Happy Saturday, Reader Room! Please help me welcome C.C. Urie to the blog. I know you’re going to en...

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Published on January 18, 2025 00:00

January 7, 2023

Spotlight Saturday: Author Interview with Sharee Stover

Award-winning, Publisher’s Weekly Best-Selling author, Sharee Stover, transplanted from Colorado to the Midwest where she lives her happily-ever-after with her real-life-hero husband and the youngest of their three wonderful children. A self-proclaimed word nerd, she loves the power of the written word to ignite, transform, and restore. She writes Christian romantic suspense combining heart-racing, nail-biting suspense, and the delight of falling in love all in one. Sharee also enjoys reading...

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Published on January 07, 2023 00:00

May 1, 2022

Recommended Read: A Crumby Way to Die (A KC Crumb Mystery #3)

A Crumby Way to Die (A KC Crumb Mystery # 3)A Crumby Way to Die by Georgiana Daniels

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


KC and the gang are back in this delightful new installment of Georgiana Daniels’ A KC Crumb Mystery series. The story starts with KC enjoying small-town life in Beaver Bluff when her ex-boyfriend, man-bun-wearing James, shows up. He seems intent on wooing back KC, just as she’s equally focused on other goals, including jumpstarting her social media marketing business, flirting with police officer, Antonio Hamson, and solving a new ...

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Published on May 01, 2022 10:30

March 19, 2022

Saturday Spotlight: Author Interview with Margie Wood

Margie Wood’s heart is to help others find their way to forgiveness. She infuses this passion into her fiction novels, where her characters live imperfect lives and experience God’s truth and freedom.

In 2019, Margie published her first novel, The Second Story Window: The Rose Haven Journals, Book 1. Other publishing credits include devotionals in Gary Chapman’s Love is a Verb, as well as Mark Littleton’s God Still
Meets Needs (both under the name Margie Christenson). She actively participate...

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Published on March 19, 2022 01:00

December 18, 2021

Saturday Spotlight: Author Interview with April Kidwell

April Kidwell crafts small-town romances rich in history and faith to strengthen the heart and reassure women of God’s enduring love.

Formally a teacher and youth minister, she retired from mainstream work to write full-time. When not writing, she’s on the lookout for the most romantic spots and best eateries in the Pacific Northwest. A native Oregonian—with roots traceable to pre-statehood—her happy place is at home on the high desert with family.

Her first novella, Next Christmas, rele...

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Published on December 18, 2021 14:19

December 4, 2021

Saturday Spotlight: Author Interview with Ann Brodeur

Happy weekend to everyone in the Reader Room! Today, the amazing Ann Brodeur joins me on the blog to talk about her life and work. Keep reading to find out more:

ANN BRODEUR is an award-winning novelist who writes inspirational and contemporary romances
offering sweet hope and happy endings.
When she’s not reading, writing, chasing after her kids or enjoying long chats with her husband, Ann can
be found drinking coffee. That’s been reheated several times throughout the day. She aspires to d...
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Published on December 04, 2021 06:08

November 20, 2021

Spotlight Saturday: Author Interview with Susan Tuttle

Happy Saturday, Readers! I’m back with another author interview, and this one is with Susan Tuttle. Susan was a delight to get to know, and she’s an amazing writer as well. Read on to find out more about Susan and her work:

ACFW Carol Award finalist, Susan L. Tuttle lives in the Mitten State where
she’s a mom of three and happily married to her best friend. Between still
homeschooling her youngest and leading the women’s ministry at church, she
finds time to write stories filled with inspiratio...
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Published on November 20, 2021 05:22

October 16, 2021

Saturday Spotlight: Author Interview with Jennifer Chastain

Happy Saturday, Readers! I’m excited to feature author, Jennifer Chastain, on the blog today! I know you’ll enjoy getting to know Jennifer, and bonus: there’s a fantastic giveaway listed at the end of the post, so keep reading to find out all the details. Please help me welcome Jennifer to the blog!

Jennifer Chastain is a member of ACFW, ACFW-NC, and My Book Therapy/Novel
Academy. Several of her other stories were finalists in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Foundations contest and she was al...

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Published on October 16, 2021 06:06

October 1, 2021