Browsed by
Category: Blog

October 2022 – Hope for times like these … giveaway

October 2022 – Hope for times like these … giveaway

Comments 23 comments

How to enter 1. Answer the question – this ensures real people are entering! Please answer the question in the multiple-choice drop-down section within the giveaway app NOT in the comments below the post. 🙂 2. You will then be asked for your FIRST name and email address. 3. CONFIRM YOUR ENTRY!!!! Search for email and confirm entry (check your ‘spam’/’junk’ folders). *** Entrants keep forgetting this step and so don’t see the email telling them they’re a winner. 4. INCREASE…

Read More Read More

BookBub – why bother? For readers and authors

BookBub – why bother? For readers and authors

Comments 3 comments

“BookBub is a book discovery service that was created to help readers find new books and authors. The company features free and discounted ebooks selected by its editorial team, as well as book recommendations, updates from authors, and articles about books.” (Wikipedia) The company is most well-known in the US but it also does promotions for Canada, the UK, and Australia. It is also a book recommendation site (rather than simply a book review site). This means that you can…

Read More Read More

Reviews – the how and where

Reviews – the how and where

Comments 7 comments

I have previously written a post on the ‘why’ of reviews. If you are convinced enough to want to help your favourite author in this way, sometimes it is still not enough. Many first-time reviewers need to be guided through the process. Below I will list the main sites that would help me personally. You DO NOT have to do all of them. If you are reviewing in multiple places, then you can just copy and paste the same review…

Read More Read More

Easter 2022 – multi-author giveaway

Easter 2022 – multi-author giveaway

Comments 30 comments

How to enter 1. Answer the question – this ensures real people are entering! Please answer the question in the multiple-choice drop-down section within the giveaway app NOT in the comments below the post. 🙂 2. You will then be asked for your FIRST name and email address. 3. CONFIRM YOUR ENTRY!!!! Search for email and confirm entry (check your ‘spam’/’junk’ folders). *** Entrants keep forgetting this step and so don’t see the email telling them they’re a winner. 4. INCREASE…

Read More Read More

Grace Across the Miles – Grace #6

Grace Across the Miles – Grace #6

Comments 4 comments

Grace Across the Miles – Back cover blurb How can you belong when you don’t know who you are? Gina Reid is surrounded by people getting married or having babies. She’s under pressure to settle down but how can she do that when she doesn’t even know where she came from? Since the startling revelation that she was adopted, it’s felt like there is something missing. But fear has kept her from searching for her biological parents. What if learning…

Read More Read More

Top reads 2021

Top reads 2021

Comments 2 comments

2021 is the fifth year that I’ve kept a file on my top Christian reads for the year. You can follow my reviews on Goodreads or BookBub. I found it difficult to choose ten fiction books this year and so will (as I’ve done in the past) add in some non-fiction. These books aren’t listed in any particular order. 1. The Silk Merchant of Sychar (Cindy Williams) I love Biblical fiction if it is Biblically accurate and takes us into…

Read More Read More

Verborgen Genade (Dutch translation)

Verborgen Genade (Dutch translation)

Comments 0 Comment

Mensen stellen ons teleur, maar wat als God ons ook teleurstelt? Bij fysiotherapeute Esther MacDonald gaat alles voor de wind. Ze verwacht ook niet anders, want haar vader, de voorganger van megakerk Victory, heeft als motto; “Volg Jezus en wees gezegend!” Op haar achtentwintigste stort haar leven in. Iedereen stelt haar gerust, God zal het ten goede keren. Maar wat als dat niet gebeurt? Heeft ze God beledigd? Heeft ze te weinig geloof? Welke prijs moet ze betalen voor het…

Read More Read More

October 2021 giveaway

October 2021 giveaway

Comments 51 comments

How to enter 1. Answer the question – this ensures real people are entering! The question needs to be answered in the multiple choice drop-down section within the giveaway app NOT in the comments below the post. 🙂 2. Then you’ll be prompted for FIRST name and email  3. Search for email and confirm entry (check your ‘spam’/’junk’ folders). *** Entrants keep forgetting this step and so don’t see the email telling them they’re a winner. 4. THEN you’ll be…

Read More Read More

Announcing audiobooks

Announcing audiobooks

Comments 2 comments

Books can be read in print or as an ebook or even large print, but there are also those who love to listen to their books. Early recordings In 2018, I embarked on the steep learning curve that is learning how to narrate an ebook and also do all the technical side of recording and editing. I am grateful for a friend who loaned me the equipment and helped me with the technical side while making sure I could do…

Read More Read More

Background to the prologue

Background to the prologue

Comments 0 Comment

Prologues – do you love them or hate them? All five of my novels have had a prologue and each has had a different purpose. Prologues for book 1-2 The prologue for the first novel, Grace in Strange Disguise, was designed to throw you in the action and then go back in time leading you towards the emotional impact of the prologue (which happened at the 1/4 point). The prologue for my second novel, Grace in the Shadows was designed…

Read More Read More