2016 Summer Sale and Kindle Giveaway

I am excited to have my novel Christmas Vows, the final novel in my Seasons of Faith series, in this July celebration at the discounted price of 99 cents. You earn entries to the Kindle giveaway by visiting the Amazon book page. While you are checking out Christmas Vows, you might want to consider book one of the series, Summer Storms. It is free! Oh and if you don’t need a Kindle, how about $50.00 cash via Paypal.

These Great Books are FREE Today:

And Check these Great Reads for only 99¢ Today:

And The Giveaway:

FIRST PRIZE: (1 WINNER) Your choice of a 7″ Kindle Fire or $50 Cash via Paypal!
SECOND PRIZE: (2 WINNERS) Each will have a choice of 3 of the 99¢ Books listed above!
ENTER TO WIN
Summer 2016 Sale and Giveaway

Join Me for the Lily of the Valley Blog Tour

Happy Cyber Monday! In honor of the biggest internet shopping day of the year, or at least one of them, Faith Blum decided to do a blog tour release of her newest novel, Lily of the Valley. There are two giveaway opportunities and lots of fun interviews and excerpts.

About the Book

Howdy, Teacher! You don’t know me, but my kids talk bout you a lot. I been lookin fer a wife and mother fer a few years and was wonderin iffen we cood meet and get to no each other a bit. I’ll come after skool to git yer answer. Grover Miller

Unruly schoolchildren, three suitors, and too many things to do. When Ruth Brookings rejects one of the suitors, he refuses to accept no for an answer.

To make matters worse, when she prays for guidance, she’s answered with a challenge instead: To encourage her friend to find a wife—whether he wants one or not.

Will she lose her friend just when she needs a friend the most? Will she be able to weather the storms she’s about to face?

Purchase on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016VAJ7EW

Excerpt

The remainder of the school day went by without incident and when the other children were dismissed, Jeremiah pulled out his blank essay paper and started scribbling furiously. Ruth sorted her desk and stacked everything for easy grabbing. Then she read through each essay again, making suggestions and corrections to each.

“Done,” Jeremiah announced five minutes later.

“Bring them both up here, please,” Ruth said without looking up. She finished reading an essay before looking at him and taking the two pieces of paper from him. She scanned the page Jeremiah handed her. After a minute, she handed the essay back to him. “Read it out loud to me, please.”

Jeremiah cleared his throat and opened his mouth. He tilted his head and closed his mouth, staring at the page for a few seconds. “Do you have another piece of paper?”

Ruth bit her cheeks to keep the smile off her face and opened the drawer to her left. She pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to him.

Jeremiah took it and sulked back to his desk, writing more carefully this time.

While he rewrote the essay, Ruth read the note to Grace and smiled. At least he’d taken more time with this. When Jeremiah came back a few minutes later, Ruth handed him the note.

“This is very well done. You can give it to her tomorrow.” Ruth picked up the new essay and read it. “This is much better. Thank you, Jeremiah.” She placed it on her stack and picked up the stack.

About the Author

Faith Blum started writing at an early age. She started even before she could read! She even thought she could write better than Dr. Seuss. (The picture doesn’t show it well, but there are scribblings on the page of Green Eggs and Ham). Now that she’s grown up a little more, she knows she will probably never reach the success of Dr. Seuss, but that doesn’t stop her from trying.
When she isn’t writing, Faith enjoys doing many right-brained activities such as reading, crafting, writing, playing piano, and playing games with her family. One of her dreams is to visit Castle City, Montana someday to see the ghost town she chose for her characters to live in. She currently lives on a hobby farm with her family in Wisconsin.

Free Book

Today is the last day to get Be Thou My Vision (Hymns of the West #2) free! Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NF3QV52

Giveaway

Faith has a Goodreads giveaway going on through November 30th! Be sure to check it out and enter to win one of two signed paperback copies of Lily of the Valley.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Lily of the Valley

by Faith Blum

Giveaway ends November 30, 2015.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/widget/161619 In addition to the Goodreads giveaway, Faith is also giving away all four of her paperback novels to one lucky winner!

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Bloggers involved

November 29:
Writings, Ramblings, and Reflections-Tour introduction
Shanna Hatfield-Book Spotlight

November 30:

Clean Indie Reads
Musings of Inspiration-Author Interview/Book Spotlight
C.K.Rich-Book Spotlight
Singing Librarian Books-Book Review/Author Interview
Writing Dreams-Author Interview/Character Interview/Book Spotlight
Tara Ellis – Wife. Mother, Indie Author and Photographer-Book Spotlight
Christa Reads & Writes-Book Spotlight
Rebekah Lyn Books-Book Spotlight
The Overactive Imagination-Author Interview
Wildflower Acres-Book Review/Spotlight
Jaye L. Knight-Book Spotlight
Zerina Blossom’s Books-Book Review/Spotlight
God’s Peculiar Treasure Rae-Book Spotlight
Tamie Dearen’s Blog-Book Review/Spotlight

A Christmas Banquet~Ino’s Love

27 reading days until Christmas and have we got a treat for you! Marianne Sciucco has a wonderful short for us today, Ino’s Love. It is a story of a mother’s uncondtional love and exemplifies I Corinthians chapter 13.

Marianne, share with us why you chose to write a Christmas story.

Christmas is a special time for me, a time to celebrate all that is good about the human heart, the human spirit. It’s all about the birth of Christ, who came to us to teach us how to be close to God and live together peacefully. But we seem to have lost our way where Christmas is concerned. For too many, December 25th is just an excuse for a commercial free-for-all. Don’t get me wrong, gifts are a wonderful thing, but sometimes we’re so wrapped up in the trimmings of the holiday we forget about the people at the center of it: our family and our loved ones. I wrote Ino’s Love to demonstrate the spirit of Christmas, of putting people first, of caring for and loving others even when they’re not family. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Ino’s Love is the perfect length to enjoy while waiting on an appointment or in the school pick up line.

Available as a Kindle book for $.99, and free on Kindle Unlimited.
Also in audiobook on Amazon for $3.46, on Audible and iTunes for $3.95.

The Blurb

Elderly Ino awaits a visit from her loving but absent son to celebrate Christmas, preparing his favorite meal in spite of her health concerns and disabilities. When he disappoints her she shares his gifts and dinner with her devoted and trustworthy home health aide Ruby. Sometimes the people who love us best are not family.

About Marianne

Marianne Sciucco is not a nurse who writes but a writer who happens to be a nurse. A lover of words and books, she dreamed of becoming an author when she grew up but became a nurse to avoid poverty. She later brought her two passions together and writes about the intricate lives of people struggling with health and family issues. Her debut novel “Blue Hydrangeas,” an Alzheimer’s love story, is a Kindle bestseller, IndieReader Approved, a BookWorks featured book, a Library Journal Self-e Selection, a 5-star Readers Favorite, and winner of IndieReCon’s Best Indie Novel Award, 2014. She also has two short stories available on Kindle, “Ino’s Love” and “Collection.” Marianne is currently working on a YA novel, “Swim Season,” about the new girl on the team who challenges a longstanding school record, to be released in 2015. A dedicated Swim Mom for ten years, you can find her during swim season at one of many Skyline Conference swim meets cheering for her daughter and her team. A native Bostonian, Marianne lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, and when not writing works as a campus nurse at a community college. She loves books, the beach, and craft beer, and especially enjoys the three of them together.

Marianne would enjoy hearing from you. Here are some links to connect.

Website

http://mariannesciucco.blogspot.com/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/marianne.sciucco.1

Twitter

https://twitter.com/MarianneSciucco

Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18002405-blue-hydrangeas?from_search=true

Google+

https://plus.google.com/+MarianneSciucco/posts

I have a new release!

Christmas Vows

It is the final book in my Seasons of Faith series. For the entire month of November I am offering it for 99 cents.

You might want to pick up Summer Storms, book 1 of the series too. It is FREE until December 1, 2015

A Christmas Banquet~ Holiday Heros, Book 1

35 days until Christmas

Plenty of time for more Christmas tales and today we have a novella to snack on.

Holiday Heros, Book 1: Michael

by Nese Ellyson

I have to know, Nese, what inspired you to write a Christmas novel?

Nese: My inspiration for this book was really a desire to write a series of holiday books with the Hero’s saving the Holiday’s and the three men all having names of the Arch angel. So Michael is book 1, Gabriel is book 2, and the Luc is book 3. They are all intended to be short novella’s to become one book in the end. The holidays can be such a rough time for people and if a story can bring a little hope and joy then I feel as a writer we have given someone a gift with the lasting power to entertain and maybe inspire.

Clara is hard pressed to bring some holiday cheer to her orphaned niece and nephews while still struggling with the loss of her sister. She gets a burst of hope from an unlikely visitor and his dog on a wintry night. With his help, the children are able to embrace the holidays. For Clara, Michael is like an answer to prayer. And for Michael, Clara and the children are the best holiday gift he’s ever had.

You can pick up your copy of

Holiday Heros, Book1: Michael

Amazon

About the author

Nese Ellyson lives in a small town in rural Ohio with her own Prince Charming, two boys, and a cat they rescued. She’s an avid fan of romance, particularly when it has a suspense element. She’s always brimming with ideas and loves getting her thoughts down on paper. The day Denise released her first novel, Escape to Sanctuary, an inspirational romantic suspense, was one of the most exciting days of her life.

Nese is a bit of a Mrs. Fix It, and enjoys doing repairs and renovations on her family home. She enjoys art and her paintings have been in several art shows. She feels she has the greatest job of all, working for her Christian ministry as an artist and designer.

Coming up next week, author Marianne Sciucco.

Take a peak at her novels on Amazon

I have a new release!

Christmas Vows

The final book in my Seasons of Faith series

On sale for 99 cents