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Jennie Samuel

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Born

The United States

Website

http://www.beyondthepondbook.com

Genre

Christian, Children's, Fantasy

Member Since

December 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/JennieSamuel

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The inspiration to write Beyond The Pond came from actual events and visitors to my own backyard pond. When my first grandson was born, I wanted to pass along the secrets of Pinecone Pond to him. After all, I already had most of my characters -- I just gave them voices on a page.

I wanted to incorporate a Christian message into the story, so the gospel is discussed between several of the characters, including one who has been around since The Beginning.

My background comes from 25 years of writing detailed insurance investigation reports based on interviews with claimants, insureds and witnesses about their car accidents, work injuries or home burglaries. I finally decided to take the "frog leap" from writing fact to fiction in Beyond the P ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 23 ratings · 12 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Beyond The Pond 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Murdoch's Landing by Jennie Samuel (Goodreads Author), Diogo Lando (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Beyond The Pond

Can you keep a secret?

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Published on January 27, 2013 00:58 • Tags: animal-characters, children-s-book, christian-author, christian-book-for-kids, christian-childrens-book, family-story, fiction-fantasy

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Series by Jennie Samuel

Beyond the Pond (2 books)
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Diogo Lando (Illustrator)

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“Follow the Light!”
― Jennie Samuel

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“Trust, But Verify...Ronald Reagan”
― Ronald Reagan, Quotations from President Ron

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“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

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“Follow the Light!”
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This is a group of Christians or people who are willing to review books from authors or writers from many different genres of Christian literature (MA This is a group of Christians or people who are willing to review books from authors or writers from many different genres of Christian literature (MAINLY, NEW AUTHORS AND STRUGGLING AUTHORS WHO NEED EXPOSURE ) If you are willing to review a book for a struggling or up and coming author please join the group. “AUTHORS” post your work on the book shelf, (Please don’t post any books, unless you are the author of that book) and want a review done of your work “AND” you are willing to send the willing reviewer a free copy of your book to be reviewed. After you post your book, leave a comment in the discussion board with info about yourself, so that the willing reviewer who has interest in reviewing your book can contact you, letting you know that they are interested and willing to review your book……. "WILLING" reviewers, please place your review here on Goodreads . “AUTHORS” Don’t worry if you get more than one person willing to review your work; that's a plus! The more exposure you get the better for your book, especially if you get good reviews. This will be up to you “the author” about how many reviewers you decide to send your book to. This is good for reviewers too; they can get overloaded with books and the work becomes tedious, so this way even a reviewer can limit how many books they are willing to review. I encourage authors and reviewers to join this group, because there are authors who also review. “AUTHORS” UNFORTUNATELY, even though you place your book on the bookshelf and post info about your book in the discussion board, does not guarantee you will get someone to review your work; all you can do is display your works here, and ask if anyone is willing to review your book. Every so often, I will send out a message to all the members, informing them of authors who are interested in a book review, so potential reviewers can look on the bookshelf and in the discussion board, to see if there are any books that they are willing to review. Let’s have fun! Thank You and God Bless. ...more

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