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SNEAK PEEK: NO EYE CAN SEE by Jane Kirkpatrick

January 31, 2012

Facing challenges and loss, a community of extraordinary women fight to overcome the pain of the past – and embrace the future.

Read the first chapter of No Eye Can See.

When blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a group of women who have survived tragedy on the Oregon Trail, she sets her mind on doing for herself all that must be done. Though she cannot see, she rejects offers of assistance, unwittingly risking her children’s safety – and her own.

Her companions blindly falter as well, held hostage by their own pasts. As Suzanne attempts to control her life in Shasta City, Ruth defends against past errors, failing to see how she limits love. Meanwhile, Mazy’s vision seems [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: Where Lilacs Still Bloom by Jane Kirkpatrick

December 9, 2011

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through. 

Click here to download the first chapter of Where Lilacs Still Bloom now.

Hulga Klager’s life-long passion for beauty and knowledge becomes the story of how the generosity of sharing one’s gifts transforms the lives of family, a community, and far beyond.

Click here to download the first chapter of Where Lilacs Still Bloom now.

NEWS: Susan Meissner On Being A Military Wife Now And In The Civil War

October 20, 2011

Susan Meissner, award-winning author of The Shape of Mercy and, most recently, A Sound Among the Trees, was interviewed on 10/19/2011 by radio host Susie Larson on “Live the Promise.”  Listen HERE as Susan discusses her book as well as her experiences as a military spouse and a pastor’s wife.  Susan’s husband is currently deployed as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force Reserves, and in A Sound Among the Trees she used the story of one character to explore what it might have been like to be a soldier’s wife during the Civil War.

NEWS: Tips for Writers from Susan Meissner on Novel Rocket

October 12, 2011

Get writing tips from “great word artist” Susan Meissner, author of the contemporary/historical novel A Sound Among the Trees, by following the link at the bottom of this post.

Ane Mulligan, editor of Novel Rocket, a website that helps up and coming authors promote their books and hone their craft, says: “Masterfully drawn by great word artist Susan Meissner, A Sound Among the Trees is an intriguing and complex story, delving into relationships and traditions… Novel Journey and I give A Sound Among the Trees a high recommendation.”  Read the rest of Ane’s review here.

Read Susan’s article on Novel Rocket and learn how to “Make Your Setting A Character”

NEWS: Susan Meissner Guest Blog Featured on eHarmony.com

October 4, 2011

Susan Meissner, author of the novel A Sound Among the Trees (released October 4, 2011), wrote a guest blog post for the eHarmony relationship blog, entitled “Not All Baggage Is Bad.”  

In the book, Marielle Bishop, who has watched all her friends marry and begin families, has at last found love online. She leaves the Arizona desert to marry a Virginia widower, joining him and his two children —and his first wife’s grandmother— in an ancestral family home where it seems like ghosts are everywhere, real and imagined.  As Marielle struggles to fit into her new role as wife and stepmother, unsettled by the strange sense of sorrow she feels inside Holly Oak’s walls, she must uncover the truth about Susannah, and reconcile her belief that it is [ … ]

SNEAK PEEK: A SOUND AMONG THE TREES by Susan Meissner

April 13, 2011

Read the first chapter of A Sound Among the Trees.

A house stuck in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss.

As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion, looking for a pardon but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.

SNEAK PEEK: A Promise for Breanna by Al Lacy

March 26, 2011

Follows the adventures of certified medical nurse Breanna Baylor.

Click here to download chapter one of A Promise for Breanna.

Suspense, danger, romance, and spiritual truth each play a part in this compelling story that draws readers into the life of an angel of mercy in the post-Civil War West.

Click here to download chapter one of A Promise for Breanna.