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http://www.theswordandspirit.blogspot.com

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Celebrating the release of Heart's Safe Passage. discussion of the characters, excerpts from the book, other fun stuff and prizes each day.http://www.theswordandspirit.blogspot.com/

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I’m sure to people who aren't writers, the whole idea of creating a story world must sound kind of crazy. How would one even begin such an undertaking? And why on earth a place so far away in time and location as Medieval England? So I thought today, it might be fun to share with you how I landed on this unusual backdrop for my debut novel. My first consideration as I chose the setting for my

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Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly.About two years ago I chose the above quote as the

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“Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour

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In which I have a novella along with Pamela Griffin, Gina Welborn, and Jennifer Taylor.http://www.lenanelsondooley.blogspot.com

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Tangelo is the orange tabby. Chili Pepper is the flame point Siamese. They have some Persian in there, too, with all that lovely fur. And they have as much pur as they do fur. What sweet, loving beings they are!

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First of all, you had a 1 in 15 chance of winning, since I cut my own name out of the pool.Second, the numbers of the winners were chosen by a random number generator. No one related to me was involved in the selection or winner's circle.Third, if either winner does not contact me for her particular book by 11:59 on January 8, 2012, I will draw a new name for that particular selection with that

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Since the previous contest was through The Bookclub Network and none of the participants here won a copy of one of my books, I am going to expand the contest and give away a copy each of Lady in the Mist and Highland Crossings to celebrate the coming of a new year, new books being released for me, and new writing opportunities.Lady in the Mist is the first Midwife book. Heart's Safe Passage

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Rarely do I give books away, but today I'm giving away three--2 copies of Highland Crossings in which I have a novella, and a copy of the first Midwife book Lady in the Mist. http://ning.it/vqrxZ7

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But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.2 Thessalonians 3:3 NASVI’m not one to blame my difficult times on “The Evil One”. I firmly believe in evil and know that he does come after us from time to time. This year, however, has shown me both sides of the coin of life and faith.Most of it I’m not free to share, as it’s not really my story to tell. Suffice

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Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.James 1:2-4 NIVFor the past two and a half years, except for one month, we have lived in South Texas. Never in my life have I lived somewhere going

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This month, we focus on thankfulness far more than we focus on it the rest of the year. Yes, Thanksgiving is a reminder, when we can be thankful for spandex (SP) and elastic and all those wonderful inventions that make eating too much possible without bursting buttons and seams.Yet something I have learned in the past eleven months is something I have always known, and has been hammered home to

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A new month and a new life.These past few weeks have been quite a rollercoaster ride. I love rollercoasters, and not nonstop ones. This is just insane. I will spare any readers who have stuck with me all the details, and suffice it to say that, in the past six weeks, I have moved three times, mourned the sudden and unexpected death of my father-in-law, and traveled over 3,000 miles.Now my

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Novel Rocket: Beyond Jane Austin: The Real Regency Romance: Award-winning author Laurie Alice Eakes has wanted to be a writer since knowing what one was. Her first book won the National Readers Choice...Dear Blogger,Put the following line where you want to have the "read more" sign in your blog (ideally after paragraph 1 or 2 of your text). (If you don't see the command line with the exclamation

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As I am in the middle of moving, I again have a guest blogger for today's devotional.A Cheerful Heart“A cheerful heart is good medicine…”Proverbs 17:22She needed cheering up. My neighbor was in the midst of debilitating cancer treatment. All she asked was that I come see her for just a few minutes. I had a million things to do, but I couldn’t ignore her plea.I sat down and let her take the lead

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She surged to her feet and began to run.A barrage of shots followed. Not one gunman. At least two. No one could reload quickly enough to fire with so little space between. Shooting at Christien or Lydia or both.Who? Who? Who? Lydia's breath sounded like the question, wheezing through her throat. She normally walked a great deal. She never ran. Ladies didn't run.She ran now, feet skimming the road

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If you are thinking of calling someone, even sending an e-mail, do it now. This is not so much a devotional as an admonition.My father-in-law died suddenly. He was only sixty-one, way too young. None of us saw it coming. He was just gone. That phone call we always said we would make to him tomorrow never got made because he had no more tomorrows.

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Vanessa has created a fine one-stop research site for Regency lovers. What makes this one different is her focus on the Christian Regency romance.www.christianregency.com

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From Chapter 25, pages 288-290She was running away again, yet Lydia couldn't face another minute in London amidst the suspicions and apprehensions, the disappointments and the failures. She needed clean and sweet air, long walks and open moors."It isn't possible," she'd told Christien in the drawing room. "There is some explanation."She repeated the words to herself again and again throughout the

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An author named Cheryl Wyatt said this in an e-mail post a few years ago. She considered her writing an act of worship. At the time, without a contract and with a number of other issues on my mind, I had no idea what she was talking about. Even after the Lord blessed me with several contracts and the opportunity to write full-time, I didn’t fully understand until this past August.Family crises

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This is an amazing resource--The web site for American Heritage Magazine.http://www.americanheritage.comYou can find thousands of articles from every era of American history beginning with the colonial period, to the twentieth century without expensive research site subscriptions. You can find links to museums and online pictures of thousands of artifacts without getting sore feet.I spent two

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October 1, 2011 is a special day for me. That is the release date of my first Regency novel for the inspirational market, thanks to my publisher, Baker/Revell.In build-up to the release date, I will be putting up excerpts from random places in the novel. they will stay up for two weeks before I take them down.This first one is from Chapter Six.Every nerve ending tense, she approached de Meuse.

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Today, Norma Thurston Holtman shares a devotional I think particularly appropriate in these dangerous and uncertain times. I hope those of you who read here are blessed as I was by reading this.“And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him…And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood…Then the Lord shut him in…But God remembered Noah…”

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Beginning next Tuesday, September 13, 2011, I will be posting some short excerpts from my upcoming books. First we will have some from A Necessary Deception, then I will move to other upcoming works.Also in the coming weeks, a few guests will be popping in with devotionals and historical tidbits from all areas of history.

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On September 2, 1752, England finally adopted the Gregorian Calendar. This had been around in most other countries at various stages, since the 1500s, as decreed by Pope Gregory XIII. England, being a Protestant country, was reluctant to switch, politics some may wish to look into.Essentially, the Gregorian Calendar is the one with which we are familiar, the one that runs on a 400 schedule of

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Yesterday, the UPS man brought my first author copy of A Necessary Deception. Seven years ago, I was told I could never sell a Regency in the CBA.Do not believe in never.

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This is a poem I ran across while researchiing on Google Books. I cannot find the author, and it accompanied a hair-raising tale of derring-do while this balloonist was crossing the Irish sea from Ireland to England around 1810. I shamelessly use a similar situation for my heroin in my as yet unnamed second Regency for Revell out next year. I also apologize for this post being two days late.

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When I moved into this house two years ago, I noticed a trellis near the side door that leads from my bedroom to the patio. Upon this trellis climbed a dried-up, dead looking plant I considered tearing down. Since I am only renting, however, our assignment here being temporary, I left it alone. The next year, when we received lots of rain from a couple of tropical storms, the plant produced a

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Just when you think you have heard just about everything a specific era has to offer, someone points out a new detail of which one has never heard. this is one of those amazing details. I haven't delved more deeply into this blog, and it promises to have more gems if this is only a sampling. http://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/

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Four stars from Romantic Times "The first in Eakes’ Daughters of Bainbridge House series, this is a great Regency-era novel with characters who may not be who people think they are." Patsy Glans

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Risky Business Note: This article first appeared on the Seekerville blog http://www.seekerville.blogspot.com in March, 2011. I am reprinting it here because it even more my testimony now than it was when I wrote it in March. Little did I know then that I was going to end up on a ride of tested faith and yet amazing growth and miracles over the next several months. I am reprinting this now

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