Welcome back to Release Week for These Simple Gifts. My sweet husband has always been an adventurer. Until we married, I’d never traveled outside the United States, hiked anywhere worth mentioning, or truly challenged myself physically. Over the last seventeen-plus years, he’s kept me on my toes. I had been running for only a couple of months when we started …
With Christmas just around the corner, wouldn’t you love to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card? Stick around this week, as I celebrate the release of my Bedford County Christmas novella, These Simple Gifts. Each day, I’ll share videos and posts along with an entry for your chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card (below). My family will be joining …
About the Book Book: Dog Days of Summer Author: Kathleen Y’Barbo Genre: Christian/Mystery/Romance Fiction Release date: October, 2022 Trina Potter, Nashville country music star, buys a ranch near her hometown in Brenham, Texas, to help her niece open a rescue facility for dogs. Her presence in town stirs up some old high school rivalries—and romance. Finding property to buy is …
“You seem to have lost all your joy.” My husband’s words sliced my heart in two, and tears immediately burned at the back of my eyes and fisted in my throat. It was early in the morning, and I had just (again) grumbled about how we spent more time working than playing, and it felt as if we’d been disconnected …
I’ve been writing a lot about the possibility of starting a podcast, not completely committing for fear it would be too big a challenge for me. Well, I’m committed now! The first episode of Between the Lines: of Contemporary Christian Fiction launched on October 6th. There have been a few glitches (and a huge learning curve) along the way, but …
If you’re looking for an original Christmas story, you need look no further than Tabitha Bouldin’s Steampunk novella, The King’s Promise in Keeping Christmas, Volume II. The King’s Promise (by Tabitha Bouldin): In a world of airships and kings, a prince makes a promise that tears him away from his love. An ordinary baker’s daughter finds herself caught in the middle …
Escape to Greenway? Escape into the humor of a Chautona Christmas novella, and you won’t be disappointed. We all know that a character wishing to ditch Christmas in a story about Christmas will be sadly disappointed. Or will she? Read her story in Keeping Christmas, Volume II and find out! Escape to Greenaway (by Chautona Havig): She just wanted …
One of the pleasures of reading fiction (aside from getting lost in the story) is the chance to explore worlds and/or careers of which I’m unfamiliar. In Stacy Simmons novella, Christmas in the Cotswolds in Keeping Christmas, Volume II she gives us a glimpse into both. I’ve never been to the Cotswolds, nor have I read books in this setting. And a …
How can we not think of fairy tale princesses when a story setting is a castle? I’m excited to read Melissa Wardwell’s Christmas at Curwood’s Castle in Keeping Christmas, Volume II to see how she weaves a modern-day Cinderella moment into a contemporary novella. Christmas at Curwood’s Castle (by Melissa Wardwell): A Christmas party at Curwood Castle should have been …
When I think of modern-day castles, I think of Hearst Castle or The Biltmore. Grand palaces that are beyond what we peons could ever imagine living in. Susan K. Beatty writes of just such a castle in her novella A Castle for Christmas in Keeping Christmas, Volume II. A Castle for Christmas (by Susan K. Beatty): Sadie Foster abhors wealth. …
