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Spring Fever book promo/giveaway: day #6 with author Dawn Ford

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SPRING FEVER continues today with Author DAWN FORD

Dawn Ford, is an award winning author. She is a young adult fiction writer who looks beyond the lies we tell ourselves to reveal the truths we cannot face. Her debut novel, Knee-high Lies, is available on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Dawn lives nestled in the Loess Hills in Iowa with her husband, youngest son, and a wonder beagle. She works with Splickety Publishing Group in her spare time, and is often caught daydreaming about plots for new stories.

A bit about KNEE-HIGH LIES: What happens when the lies you tell grow so high you can’t see the truth?

To the outside world Avery Denton’s life looks happy, normal even. But it isn’t. Not even close. She believes nothing can make it worse. When her mother skips town with their banker, the small-town gossips focus on her.

Jaxson Stewart, Avery’s neighbor and friend, has had a crush on her for years. She makes his heart race, which is dangerous for a boy with a heart condition. Unlike their community, he refuses to hold her mother’s actions against her.

Avery’s summer heats up when Jaxson kisses her under a star lit sky. The rest of her life boils over, though, when Avery becomes the target of revenge, her alcoholic father’s anger escalates, and long-hidden family secrets come to light.

Can Avery find strength in the truth? Or will she continue to struggle through knee-high lies?

~Dawn is currently working on a second book in the Knee-high series, and has just finished writing a middle grade twisted fairy tale novel. If you’d like to keep up with news about Dawn’s books, sign up for her newsletter at http://dawnfordauthor.com.

Don’t forget to come back each day for more chances to win in the Spring Fling Promotion.

*Today’s secret word is persimmon.

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Barbara

Barbara is an award winning author, wife, mom, and soon to be grandmother. She enjoys weekend motorcycle trips, spending time with family and friends, and catching up on all the books and movies she misses when she’s busy writing.

Spring Fever book promo/giveaway: Day 5 with author Joy DeKok!

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Whether Joy is writing fiction or non, she writes from the heart. She lives with her husband Jon just outside of Pine Island MN on thirty-five acres of field and forest with their dogs Sophie and Tucker. When she’s not writing or reading, she’s roaming their land taking nature photos.

Here’s a little bit about Joy’s books:

Rain Dance:

What happens when a Christian woman facing a childless future and a woman seeking an abortion are waiting to see the same doctor? And what if after that “chance” encounter they are unable to forget each other?

Between the Lies:

Everything was going just fine for Olivia Morgan. Until the dead guy in the elevator, her lover’s dismissal of her, the loss of her dream job, and an FBI agent who is looking into the past she’s worked so hard to hide. What’s a woman to do when she’s suddenly un-kept, a murder suspect, and has her own personal stalker?

Olivia uses her artistic talent to remember and reveal what she knows. Will it save or convict her?

De’ ‘Ja Brewed:

Things are getting nasty in Nice, MN. Who really killed Judge Justice twenty-five years ago? Was the right person convicted? When things don’t add up and Vanessa starts to get weird messages, The Mississippi Queens, five life-long friends, set out to figure out who is behind the ominous messages and why. Can The Queens celebrate the fourth of July, help their princess plan a wedding, and protect one of their own from possible danger?

To learn more about these books and the others Joy has written, visit her website at: http://joydekok.com/books/

If you’d like to receive updates from Joy, you can sign up on her page at: http://joydekok.com/contact-joy/
~For another chance to win, the secret word of the day is: Brewed~
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Barbara

Barbara is an award winning author, wife, mom, and soon to be grandmother. She enjoys weekend motorcycle trips, spending time with family and friends, and catching up on all the books and movies she misses when she’s busy writing.

Spring Fever giveaway: Day 4 with author Johnnie Alexander!

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Johnnie Alexander imagines heart-tugging stories in multiple genres. Her award-winning debut novel, Where Treasure Hides, is a CBA bestseller which has been translated into Dutch and Norwegian. She’s also the author of the popular Misty Willow Series: Where She Belongs, When Hope Arrives, and What Hope Remembers. Since talking about writing is so much fun, Johnnie hosts Novelists Unwind, which features videotaped interviews with inspirational authors. Sharing Johnnie’s vagabond life are Griff, her happy-go-lucky collie, and Rugby, her raccoon-treeing papillon. Connect with her on her website or on her Facebook Author Page.

 

Where She Belongs (Misty Willow Series #1) / Purchase Link: http://bit.ly/WSBPage

Shelby Kincaid is ready to move on from her grief. With high hopes for the future, she longs to purchase her family’s ancestral homestead so she can raise her young daughters in the only place she ever truly belonged. She plans to transform the abandoned house into the perfect home of her memories. But she’ll have her work cut out for her.

AJ Sullivan never wanted the homestead. Inherited as a punishment from his grandfather, it has sat empty for fifteen years and fallen into ruin. He’s glad to finally unload it. But a clean break isn’t possible when he can’t get the young widow Shelby off his mind.

Welcome to Misty Willow, a place that will have as great a hold over the reader as it does over its inhabitants.

The Misty Willow story continues in When Love Arrives and What Hope Remembers.

*Sign up for Johnnie’s newsletter on her website and receive the first chapter to Where She Belongs.

~For another chance to win, today’s Secret Word is: imagine~

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~Author Joy DeKok is tomorrow’s featured author in the Spring Fever Giveaway! Visit this link for more chances to win! HERE

 

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Barbara

Barbara is an award winning author, wife, mom, and soon to be grandmother. She enjoys weekend motorcycle trips, spending time with family and friends, and catching up on all the books and movies she misses when she’s busy writing.

 

Spring Fever giveaway: Day 3 with author Lindsey P. Brackett

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Welcome to Day 3 of the Spring Fever book promo and Giveaway!

Lindsey P. Brackett writes southern fiction and cooks big family meals, but she complains about the dishes. Her debut novel, Still Waters, released in 2017. Someday she hopes to balance motherhood and writing full-time. Until then, she’s just very grateful for her public school system.

Connect with Lindsey online:

Facebook Author Page

Lindsey’s Instagram

Author Website

Still Waters blurb:  

Cora Anne graduated from college with a plan that didn’t involve her grandmother’s ramshackle beach cottage or Tennessee Watson, a local builder dedicated to the preservation of Edisto Island—and her heart.

Paperback:

https://www.amazon.com/Still-Waters-Lindsey-Brackett/dp/1946016233/ref

Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/Still-Waters-Lindsey-Brackett-ebook/dp/B0749S8WDW/ref

 

Coming soon to newsletter subscribers—A Lowcountry Setting, recipes inspired by Still Waters.

Edisto Beach is our family place—My mother grew up spending summers there, I grew up spending summers there, and now my children experience it. For more about Edisto and its history visit ExploreEdisto.com.

~Lindsey is currently working on the next book and a novella for release later this year.

*Fun fact from Lindsey—Currently I’m a community “star” in Dancing with the Stars for Hope, our annual fundraiser for Circle of Hope, a domestic violence shelter. You can vote for my team, Plot Twist, at www.dancingwiththestarsforhope.com/vote –every $1 vote goes to charity and helps us win the People’s Choice award. My partner is my friend Jeremy and we’re using our theater backgrounds to create an epic number sure to please. The performance will be showcased on March 17!

For an extra chance to win, secret word of the day is: Edisto

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~Be sure and check back tomorrow for more chances to win with author Johnnie Alexander!~

The link to all 10 days of authors and ways to enter> HERE

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Barbara

Barbara is an award winning author, wife, mom, and soon to be grandmother. She enjoys weekend motorcycle trips, spending time with family and friends, and catching up on all the books and movies she misses when she’s busy writing.

Spring Fever Giveaway: Day 2 with author Brenda S Anderson!

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Welcome to Day 2 of the 2018 Spring Fever Book Promotion!

Thanks to Barbara Ellen Brink for kicking off the event yesterday! And over the next nine days you’ll discover nine additional contemporary authors who will take you on adventures that will carry you through the rest of the winter. So curl up next to the fireplace with a blanket, a nice warm cup of hot cocoa, and a book!

Today we’re spotlighting Brenda S. Anderson. Brenda writes gritty and authentic, life-affirming fiction. She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers, and is Past-President of the ACFW Minnesota chapter, MN-NICE, the 2016 ACFW Chapter of the Year. When not reading or writing, she enjoys music, theater, roller coasters, and baseball (Go Twins!), and she loves watching movies with her family. She resides in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area with her husband of 30 years, their three children, and one sassy cat.

Brenda is excited to tell the world about her next book project with The Potter’s House Books! In the Fall of 2017, Brenda was invited to join six other authors to tell stories of Hope, Redemption, and Second Chances. Long Way Home, coming out on May 8, is Brenda’s first book in the Potter’s House Series. You can find more information here: http://pottershousebooks.com/. For those who’ve read Brenda’s Coming Home Series, you’ll be reunited with a bunch of old friends! A short story bridging the Coming Home Series with Brenda’s Potter’s House stories will be coming out soon!

The best way to learn about updates and book releases is to sign up for Brenda’s enewsletter (http://brendaandersonbooks.com/subscribe/). She’s even giving away a free ebook of Risking Love, a Where the Heart Is Romance #1, just for signing up!

During this ten-day celebration, you can pick up an ecopy of Capturing Beauty, book #2 in Brenda’s Where the Heart Is series, for only $2.99. That’s a savings of $2.00 off regular price! Purchase here: https://books2read.com/CapturingBeauty.

Here’s the back-cover blurb for Capturing Beauty:

He’s a nature photographer returning to make amends.

She’s a camera-shy naturalist seeking privacy.

Their love for a boy brings them together,

But the camera could drive them apart.

Photographer Haven Carlysle is a changed man. Six years earlier, he had run from his tragedy-filled life in Duluth. Now he’s back in town to capture the North Shore’s beauty … and to recapture the love of his son. But that means making amends with his ex-girlfriend too. When camera-leery Callie Beaumont steps in to bridge the relationship between Haven and his former family, he’s wary, but she’s his only hope.

Callie Beaumont is surrounded by beauty. Her parents are local news celebrities. Her sister is a model. And Callie is … Ordinary. All her life, Callie has longed to work outdoors soaking up God-breathed beauty, and the opportunity is finally on the horizon. But being the liaison between the handsome photographer and his son has thrown her dreams, and her heart, into chaos.

Can Haven capture her heart when she won’t let him capture her image? And will his poor choices cost Callie her dream job and him the love of his son?

Connect with Brenda:

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For an additional chance to enter and win, the secret word for today is Lilac.

Be sure to check in tomorrow as we meet Lindsey Brackett!

All ten days of authors and ways to enter> HERE

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Barbara

 

Barbara is an award winning author, wife, mom, and soon to be grandmother. She enjoys weekend motorcycle trips, spending time with family and friends, and catching up on all the books and movies she misses when she’s busy writing.

Spring Fever Book promo/kindleFire Giveaway! Day #1

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10 days of Spring Fever is coming your way!

Discover great deals on books for the next 10 days! Stories of redemption and grace, romance and mystery, and much more! Stories that will take your mind off the bitter cold and long, dark days of winter until the thaw has begun and spring has really sprung!

With 10 Christian fiction authors involved, you have 10 chances to win awesome prizes!

First up on the Spring Fever docket is ME: Barbara Ellen Brink! If you love mystery or suspense with a touch of romance, you’ll want to pick up today’s deals:

 

Here is a little about Barbara’s two book deals:

Running Home is free at Amazon thru March 2nd (reg price 3.99)

In Running Home, Ivy’s husband disappears in a cloud of suspicion and leaves her and the children to pick up the pieces of their lives and move on without him. Back in her hometown she dreams that everything will be better. She can start over and hopefully not make the same mistakes she made in the past.

But her philandering husband left her with more than bills to pay and children to raise. He left her in a world of trouble. The FBI thinks she knows something and the bad guys think she has something.

When her husband is found murdered, special agent Samson Sinclair is assigned to keep an eye on her. He’s willing to take a bullet for her, but can she trust him with her heart?

Ivy’s attempt to assemble the broken pieces of her life is proving harder than she anticipated. Will her husband’s secrets push her over the edge or into the arms of grace?

Split Sense is a Christian thriller that interweaves the lives of two families, twins separated at birth, and two different but unbelievable gifts that each child discovers which impacts their lives and others in startling ways.

Connect with Barbara online:

Facebook

Twitter

Bookbub Author Page

Author webpage

Split Sense is on sale for .99¢ at all online stores thru March 5th (reg. price 4.99)

The 3rd book in the Second Chances series will be (fingers crossed) coming soon! Barbara’s first grandbaby is due to arrive in a couple of weeks, so she won’t make any set-in-stone promises, but visit her webpage and/or sign up for her newsletter for all the newest updates!

*Sign up for Barbara’s newsletter on her webpage and also get a free copy of Entangled!

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~For another chance to win, the secret word of the day is… blatherskite.~

Be sure to check in tomorrow for the giveaway as we meet author Brenda S. Anderson! A link to all the authors and all the ways to enter for the next 10 days> HERE 

 

Barbara Ellen Brink is an award-winning author of action-packed mysteries brimming with suspense and interweaved with a thread of romance. She grew up on a small fruit farm in Washington State, but now lives in the mean “burbs” of Minnesota. In her spare time, she likes to take her motorcycle for a spin, hang out with friends, or go hiking with her husband and their spoiled dog.

She is currently working on the 4th book in her Double Barrel Mysteries series and the 3rd in her Christian romantic suspense series, Second Chances.