tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10764452030895788482024-03-05T01:39:55.387-06:00Caryl McAdooI love writing historical Christian romances in my Texas Romance family saga series set in 1800s. Bathed in prayer, the stories speak of love, mercy, and grace. Thrilled to be a hybrid author, published traditionally (Howard Books, a div. of Simon & Schuster) and independently. My motto is "Praying my Story gives God glory!" I pray the favor of the Lord goes before each of you, and that my stories bring you to a closer walk with Him! Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-42349326963719756182016-07-23T10:23:00.002-05:002016-07-23T10:23:38.211-05:00How to Become You favorite Author's #1 FanThis was posted by a sister-friend, <a href="http://tonishiloh.weebly.com/blog/my-thoughts-how-to-become-your-favorite-authors-1-fan" target="_blank">Toni Shiloh at her Blog Site</a> . I always enjoy her posts. You should check her site out. In the meantime, enjoy this!<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #626262;">Happy Saturday!! Today I thought I would share a fun post that came to me in the middle of the night. So read on and remember it it's all in fun. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #626262;"><strong>#1. Stalk Them on Social Media</strong><br /><br />Ever wonder why your favorite author has so many social media sites? The better for you to stalk them with, my dear. I mean seriously, why else would they share their websites, facebook author pages, Instagram links, and all the others? It's because they want you to find them. And can you really be considered their favorite fan when you only follow their website?!</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #626262;">#2. Read all their books</span></strong><span style="color: #626262;">Okay, this one is common sense. If you haven't read every single last book, then how are they your favorite author? Better yet, how are you their number one fan? I'm talking about going all the way back to the first novel that even they may be hiding on their bookshelf. And, if you want to get a leg up on your competitors, review them. Sure, authors say even a one line review helps, but remember you're shooting for #1 fan! At least leave a paragraph informing the ignorant public of their writing powers and why their books need to be #1 in their TBR pile. Enough said!</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #626262;">#3. Promote their latest book</span></strong><span style="color: #626262;">You know that newsletter you signed up for because of step #1? Yeah, that thing gives you early access to their pre-orders as well as sharable links. So what are you waiting for? Share the links! You've already opened social media accounts wherever your favorite author is so use that platform and shout to the world that your favorite author has a new book coming soon. It's the whole squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease ploy. Your friends, if they're smart enough to like the same author, will at least pre-order/buy the book to get you out of their newsfeed. Plus, your favorite author will see all of your hard work. Mission accomplished.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #626262;">#4. Ask Your Local Library to Stock Their Works</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #626262;">Some reader don't know they can "Suggest a Title" to their local library. *Gasp* How do you expect to earn #1 Fan title if you aren't asking your local library (and every one you legally have a library card to) to carry their works? It takes but a hot minute to log on and suggest their title. Be sure to share a pic of you doing so and tag your local author and request all your friends to do the same on all of your social media sites!<br />P.S: some libraries now let you leave reviews. Score!</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #626262;">#5. Book Signings</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #626262;">While you're lamenting the fact that a book signing isn't near you, other fans are selling books (not by their favorite author, of course), collecting bottle cans, and working their road trip skills to go see their favorite author. Now is not the time to wimp out. Besides, if you don't go, what will your favorite author do without their #1 fan? They'll probably be shoved to the back of the book store where no one can see them and find out how awesome their books truly are. Way to go.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #626262;">#6. Write to Them</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #626262;">I'm not talking about cutting out magazines with gloves on and mailing them a letter. We're #1 fans, not crazy. However, authors love getting mail telling them how great and inspiring their novel was to you. Hello, that's why there's a contact form on at least one social media site. Some even give you their information in the "Dear Reader" letter in their books. Yet, you let fear and a lack of a stamp prevent you from gushing about your favorite author. For shame. Go old school, pull out a pen and paper and send them a letter stat. You never know how often they'll pull that back out on the days where doubt and insecurity has created a writer's block.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #626262;"><strong>Your turn.</strong> Am I missing any steps? What have you done to prove you're the #1 Fan?!</span></div>
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Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-67169300195728725832016-05-06T14:41:00.000-05:002016-05-06T14:41:40.803-05:00History Repeats in New Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Have you noticed how history repeats itself? In the world...in your families?<br />
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It sure has in mine, and it does in the Texas Romance series. And whatever situation is being repeated can come from something good or bad. Good from the examples children grow up with. They've been trained--through watching their parents--to respond to a situation with God and His Word as the determining factor.<br />
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Or, as Scripture speaks of how sins of the fathers are visited to the children up to the fourth generations, they respond to the temptation in the same way their ancestors responded, repeating the same mistakes, the same bad choices.<br />
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In <i>At Liberty to Love</i>, book seven in the family saga Texas Romance series, the heroine finds herself in exactly the same situation as her mother and responds in much the same way, denying herself and her heart because of what the Good Book says.<br />
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I recently had a wonderful Party on Facebook, hosted by Celebrate.Lit, to reveal this cover of <i>At Liberty to Love</i> which debuts May 27th, a little over four weeks away! If you missed it, feast your eyes then go to Amazon where it's available to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Love-Texas-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B01EQC60E2" target="_blank">Pre-Order NOW</a>! :) <br /><br />You could say it's a mature Christian romance as the heroine is in her forties. She finds herself alone after the Civil War and puredee stubbornness claims the life of her husband, but widowhood isn't completely new to her. The lady grew up with one--her mother, and she watched and saw how best to act through the example her mama lived, surely never dreaming she'd find herself there.<br />
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One difference is their age. The former only nineteen when she lost her husband, and the latter forty-one. The mother believes she'll marry again, and the daughter, just can't see that happening. Another big difference is that the first is pregnant when her husband passes and finds herself the sole caregiver of her orphaned nephew. This widow in <i>At Liberty to Love</i> is barren and alone, so she makes a decision to find and adopt a child to share her life.<br />
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It's Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-11510726142417360492016-01-07T07:56:00.000-06:002016-01-07T09:02:49.095-06:00The Saga Continues<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an addition to the Texas Romance family saga series that I've been so excited to finish and get out to my readers. So many told me how they'd fallen in love with four-year-old Charley in HEARTS STOLEN, book two set in 1844. In JUST KIN, the year is 1861, Charley is twenty-one and leaving for war in the first chapter.<br />
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Lacey Rose, born in that same story (HEARTS STOLEN), cannot stand for him to go without knowing of her love. A sweet kiss, her mother's embarassment, the family's reaction, and a letter Charley sends work together to drive her to run away.<br />
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Just as runaways today get themselves into all sorts of bad places, the same proved true through the 1860s. After the lady of the house receives a cryptic message, a deathbed order relieves Charley from duty long enough to find for her.<br />
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God gave me a new song to go along with this book (He started it for Abraham and Sarah's Biblical fiction Children of Eber, and it works, too, as a love song to Him from me :) "<i><b>I Couldn't Love You More"</b></i><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody">♫♪*`•. I couldn't love You more •*♪¨*I breathe You in and out •♪♫*`•. You came into my life ♪♫•*¨♪ and taught me what love's about. ♪♫.•*♪ I couldn't love You more!*•.¸ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ¸♫♪*`•. Your heartbeat is my song!!•.¸.• </span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">✿I've loved You since forever </span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Sylfaen","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Sylfaen;">ღ</span>(̆̃̃ڿڰۣ</span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">✿</span>♫♪* every day and all day long.`º°¨•.¸For so long I was alone •*♪♫•!♪ never knowing love's sweet bliss ♫¸•*♪ then You came and rescued me ♫♪*`sealed me with Your holy kiss!•♪♫*`•. My thoughts are now of You •*♪¨*♥ •♪♫ every moment of my life ♪♫¸¸.•*♪ I will always love You true *•.¸ as Your bride and as Your wife. ♫♪*`!♪♫•*♥*•.¸ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ♫♪ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> May wanted to slap that man or worse. Hadn’t he got word about the girl running off? Everybody else in the valley had! “Any ideas?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “How about we write that husband of yours and tell him to send us Levi Baylor and Wallace Rusk? They’ll have our little runaway tracked and back safe in no time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She snorted at her brother’s lame attempt at a joke. If anyone was coming home it would be Henry. He should’ve never gone in the first place. He’d served his time fighting for Texas, and the Rangers could take plenty good care of themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> If he hadn’t insisted on going, he could’ve kept Houston and Bart home, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Any real ideas?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “I upped the reward.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She nodded. Not that they’d paid any out, but if the war wasn’t over soon, she might have to start digging up the gold her dearest had hid all over the ranch. “Anything else?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Not really. If she don’t want to be found…then…” He shrugged again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Before she could say more, her baby burst into the room. “Supper’s ready, and Aunt Jewel needs you to come help her, Uncle Chester.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Oh, she does? Since I’m so busy in here talking with your mother, how about you handle my part? You’re getting so big and all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Charlotte grinned. “I’m not that big, and you’re only saying that to try and trick me.” She looked at her mother. “He keeps forgetting how smart I am.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Yes, he does, little darling of mine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Hey little miss, how about helping an old uncle up, then I’ll assist your mama up, so we can wobble into the kitchen together.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Grasping both his hands, she leaned all the way back, and he made a show of struggling to his feet in a cloud of giggles. “Why you’re so old, Uncle, you might just die before you get all the way in there to the table. But it’ll be alright.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He put his hands on his hips. “Alright! Alright? What would make you say such a thing, young lady? Wouldn’t you miss me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Oh, for certain, I truly would, but if you was dead, then I could get your helping of the blackberry cobbler! Don’t you see?” Charlotte giggled more and turned. “You see, don’t you, Mama? You’d let me have it, too. Wouldn’t you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Scooping his niece into his arms, he lifted her high over his head, tickling her ribs. “That’s a terrible thing to say, little girl. You want my cobbler, huh?” May loved the way Chester teased with her precious daughter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She took so much pleasure in her baby girl but worried for her, too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Lord knew of late, concern veiled any true joy in the Buckmeyer home."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I have followed this historical romance series from the beginning and they just keep getting better. Lacey Rose loves Charley and is devastated when he leaves to fight for Texas with the Confederate army. Charley doesn't realize Lacey Rose is in love with him but is both surprised and pleased with the goodbye kiss she gives him. After Charley sends a hurtful letter trying to discourage her from waiting for him, Lacey Rose runs away and ends up in all kinds of trouble. Charley also stirs up some trouble of his own when he begins looking for her. Don't miss out on this book. I loved it!" --Louise Koiner, Texas beta reader<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-66871093319691920972015-10-01T09:26:00.000-05:002015-10-01T12:13:28.858-05:00Danger, a Big Dog, and Bombs! Oh. my!<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span class="messagebody">♥</span><span class="uistorymessage">♪♫¸•*</span>♪ <b>I may never march in the infantry, ride in the Cavalry, Shoot the artillery! </b><span class="messagebody">♥</span><span class="uistorymessage">♪♫¸•*</span>♪<b> I may never zoom passed the enemy, but I'm in the King's army! </b><span class="uistorymessage">*</span>♥♪<span class="uistorymessage">*•.♫♪ *</span><span class="messagebody">Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ</span>♥</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">I'm reminded of this song I used to sing in Sunday School, but sing "I'm on The King's Highway"!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Debut Days never get old! October 1, 2015 brings a new series and book number ten that I've released in 2015; available in print or eBook formats!</span></b><br />
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<b>The King's Highway is book one of a new trilogy --Days of Dread--by Christian author Caryl McAdoo. Classified as a mid-grade dystopia, it's written to bolster the faith of young believers that in all circumstances, God is with them and watching over them and will keep, guide and provide for them through the terrible days such as the world has never known.</b></span><br />
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<b>This is a story of survival. It's...well here, rather than me telling you, let me share a review or four :)</b></span><br />
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King’s Highway is a C. S. Lewis-type story, using symbolisms of the Bible. I
loved the book! Loved the characters’ personalities! It held my interest, and I
didn’t want to proof, just to read for enjoyment. It has just enough building
to the climaxes with their adventure along the King’s Highway, with added depth
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dear Caryl!! Thank you so much for sending me a copy of The King's
Highway! As you know I devour books and
I can't remember when I have enjoyed reading one as much as this one. If I really like a book, I can read it in a
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this book twice in two days. I couldn't quit reading. It has to be right up there with my all-time
favorite books. If anyone is thinking
they won't read this book because it is labeled mid-grade, I would encourage
them to reconsider. You will miss a
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who is reading age from the mid grades to senior citizens (that's me) will love
this book. The characters in the book are delightful. I was right in the story with them following
them all the way from their home in Irving to Red River County, anticipating
every danger. A fun, fun book!!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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begins with a normal morning for three school age children. As their mother
leaves for work and they get ready to head off to school, the unthinkable
happens throwing their world into a tailspin like a jumbo jet falling from the
sky. Assisted by a dog and an old man, the three siblings seek safety with
relatives in the country. As their two week journey takes them through
experiences no children should encounter, they begin to wonder if they will
make it to their destination. After recent events, is there no safe place left
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Trilogy fits the mid-grade classification in that the chief characters are
mid-grade children. It is so much more than a dystopian story since it fits so
well into the quest genre. Just as C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia” are
much more children’s novels in that they are dearly loved and read by adults
worldwide, even so “The King’s Highway” takes the adult reader hostage and
keeps them enthralled to the very end, a point when they will want more story. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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that the critical eye of this reviewer found not one typo or mistake. For sure,
every detail in the world Caryl McAdoo depicts fits perfectly with the
projected future environment after another world war. It is to be dearly hoped
that the author isn’t being prophetic in the scenario depicted in this book.
Here’s looking forward to the next book “The Sixth Trumpet” due out hopefully
before the Lord returns. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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copy and am under no obligation to provide a positive review. –Cassandra Wessel, multi-published author and
avid reader</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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loved the story! The Kings Highway is an extraordinary view of how one teen
reacts when placed with the responsibility of caring for his siblings as all chaos
breaks lose in his town. Airplanes have fallen out of the sky and all
electrical usage is no longer available. Jackson is left with no other choice
than to travel with his siblings from their apartment to the grandparents’
house over 100 miles away. Jackson, questions his beliefs due to the events
that take place. Loved the storyline! The book will keep you intrigued up until
the last page and excited for the next book to come out. This series is unique, creative and well
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watched him disappear then turned his attention to Al. “So, what’s your story?
You a pampered rich kid or what?”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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guy ducked his head then lifted one shoulder in a rather half hearted gesture.
“Others might enlist me into such a category during earlier times, but any
pampering or wealth unquestionably vanished five days ago with the EMP.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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almost choked, coughing and gagging. “The what? Are you saying that you know
what happened?”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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ma’am, certainly. In my estimation, an EMP is the only logical explanation as
to why everything electronic ceased to function at precisely the same time.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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held his head back, mouth wide, ketchup packet open and hanging over his pie
hole. “What’s empty got to do with anything?” He then squeezed the whole packet
of red condiment, and it dropped in globs between his lips. He then tossed in a
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put on quite a superior I-can’t-believe-you-didn’t-get-it expression. “Cooper,
E-M-P. You know. It’s Starfish Prime all over again.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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back, McKenzie gave him one of those stop-being-a-smart-alec looks Jackson knew
so well. “Good grief, lighten up, Einstein. He’s only nine! Now how about you
tell us exactly what you’re talking about. Except this time, leave out the
riddles and sea creatures. What do those initials stand for?”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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They’re an acronym for Electromagnetic Pulse. Someone must have set off a
nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere, probably somewhere over Kansas—at
least that’s the logical place. I can only presume the outage extends coast to
coast. Nothing else makes sense.”</b></span><br />
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HIGHWAY. The prolific, bestselling novelist loves singing new songs the Lord
gives her and painting. In 2008, her high school sweetheart-husband Ron moved her
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grandsugars life’s biggest blessings believing all good things come from God.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Award winning, bestselling author Caryl McAdoo currently writes four series: the historical Christian ‘Texas Romance’; a contemporary ‘Red River Romance’; The Generations, her Biblical fiction and a mid-grade The King’s Highway. The prolific novelist loves singing new songs the Lord gives her and painting. In 2008, she and her high school sweetheart-husband Ron moved from the DFW area—home for fifty+ years—to the woods of Red River County. Caryl counts four children and sixteen grandsugars life’s biggest blessings believing all good things come from God. Praying her story gives God glory, she hopes each one will also minister His love, mercy, and grace to its readers. Caryl and Ron live in Clarksville, the county seat, in the far northeast corner of the Lone Star State with two grandsons, Christian and Benjamen.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Charity Meeks Lowdermilk is a proud native of southwest
Arkansas where she currently resides with her husband and three sons. An Honors Scholar Graduate, she graduated
Summa Cum Laude from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, with
a degree in nursing in 1996. She completed her master's degree in nursing
science in 2014 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little
Rock. When she's not traipsing around old house places looking for heritage
flowers, she enjoys uncovering quirky Southern history.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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mom dies and he is sent to live with relatives he hardly remembers in Moon
Valley, Arkansas—far away from his beloved little sister, Jade. And just when a
pocket watch from his long lost grandfather comforts him, he finds a newspaper
article in his missing cousin's bedroom that reveals the sleepy little town's
secret, a mysterious light that roams up and down the abandoned railroad
tracks. When a local boy leads Riley to the light, they become passengers on an
orphan train in nineteen eleven, speeding to an unsure fate under the direction
of a wicked children's agent. Then Riley finds evidence of his cousin's
disappearance into this world. Vowing to find him, Riley and his new friends
face many challenges, including wrestling alligators and outwitting charmed
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diamonds! So does his older brother,
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to explore—crunchy dog food, mooing cows, and gooey mud are far more
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DiAne Gates </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> DiAne leads two edit groups for North Texas Christian Writers—LifeSavers for adults, and the award winning teen group, The PageMasters. She facilitates GriefShare, an international support ministry for those who’ve lost loved ones.Wife, mother, and grandmother, whose passion is to share those hard life lessons God taught her. Lessons that will leap from the page into your heart and play out in family relationships.</span></div>
Links: <a href="http://dianegates.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">DiAne Gates</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/diane.gates.125" target="_blank">FaceBook Author Page</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roped-DiAne-Gates-ebook/dp/B0147NL6KS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441083450&sr=1-1&keywords=roped+diAne+Gates&pebp=1441083454474&perid=012ACDTSS8K63MQBVE1B" target="_blank"> Her Book</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thirteen-year-old Crissy Crosby chases a dream to live up to her parents’ rodeo legacy. But the rodeo championship is two months away and problems beyond her ability to solve stack and teeter like a game of Tumbling-Towers. Meanwhile rival Jodie Lea and her father, Ed Fairgate, contrive to swipe the silver buckles from Crissy’s grasp any way they can. Prejudice, anger, and dark secrets simmer in a pot of family feuds destined to boil over in a tragic nightmare at the rodeo. Will Crissy develop courage and faith to overcome the consequences of her temper? Will her dreams of buckles and titles become reality? Or will the character-building adversities of her life quash her dreams forever? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #272727; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> One word describes what Speaker, Author and Leadership Coach, Greg
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Better Results.<br />
Better Profitability.<br />
Better Morale.<br />
Better Leadership.<br />
Better Lives.<br />
Greg's programs and books are a collection of personally witnessed lessons, tools and opportunities that led to “Better” through 30+ years of leadership, Human Resources and Leadership Coaching.<br />
He shares this journey to “Better” in four different manners;<br />
1. A program at your next meeting or conference mapping out strategies to get “Better” in Leadership and Life.<br />
2. True stories of success, failure and what led to each in his book, “The Power Of Better.”<br />
3. Discreet but powerful Leadership and Life lessons in the fictional series, “50 Days Of Hay – A Life Changing Summer.”<br />
4. Humorous, but thought provoking lessons from “Mr. HR With A Guitar” as part of his programs.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you love rural America, farming, ranching or the country way of life, you will enjoy "50 Days Of Hay." Below is a short description of what to expect;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My mother had reached her wit's end. She had exhausted every tool known to her and three counselors. It was the summer of 1999 and I was 16 years old. I remember the hatred I had for my mother when she told me I would be spending the summer at my grandparent's farm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I said, "I'm not going." This resulted in a suitcase of my clothes on the front porch. I was told to get in the car, or get out. I remember her exact words, "I love you too much to watch you destroy your life. If you want to continue down this path, do it in someone else's home, not mine. I can't bear to watch. Get in the car or get out."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Tonight, 16 years later, I am at that ranch as we prepare to bury the most influential man of my life, my Papaw Joe. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I prepare for the toughest eulogy of my life, I am reading through the journals of a grandmother and grandfather that had unconditional love for a disrespectful, out of control, angry, broken young man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> As I thumb through their version of that summer, I think back to my memories of each day. It was indeed the most developmental, attitude changing, heart softening period of my life. I invite you to join me on this journey though the journals of what I call "The 50 Days Of Hay."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Born in Louisiana but raised in Arkansas, Jaiemz is
very fond of his southern roots.</span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> In his spare time,
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reading, writing, and the occasional movie. Some of his favorite authors
include Ted Dekker, James Patterson, Tim Lahaye, and Jerry B. Jenkens. Aside
from writing, he also serves as assistant pastor and college professor, both of
which he says allows him to share his passion of literature and philosophy. </span><span class="textexposedshow" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Having earned a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and
Religion, he continues to study the spiritual arts and shares his knowledge
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visiting the local ice-cream shops with his wife Krystal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">J.L. Sapphire is the pen name & alter-ego of Joyce L. Thomas, a self-published author and the founder of Lady Virgo Publications. She was born and raised in Prescott, Arkansas, and currently lives in Nashville with her husband and two children. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">In 2014 she wrote her first book, and after spending many long hours on Google learning about ways to self-publish it, she released her first novella, My Secret Life: Confessions of a Housewife, where it reached #2 in the the Amazon Best Sellers in its category. Her novel, Two Can Play That Game, was published on June 27, 2014 and spent 3 consecutive days at #1 in the Amazon Best Sellers for Contemporary Urban Fiction. Writing is Joyce's version of Calgon--by locking herself in her room, she gets away from everything and everybody (at least for a little while) and loses herself in the lives of the characters she creates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In John's words, “When the Savings and Loan industry melted away like a lump of sugar in hot coffee, I knew it was time to develop a third career.” He became a freelance computer instructor, user-developer, consultant, writer and Community College instructor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello I am Kacy Hart, I am twenty seven. I have a wonderful little family including my two daughters ages nine and seven. I was born and raised in Arkansas. I have always loved to read and always had a creative imagination, so becoming a writer just seemed like the next step in my life. I love to write it lets me live in a world were anything can happen and it be completely normal. My family loves that I have become a writer. I love the out that writing gives, had a bad day at work no problem go home and take it out on a character in the book. I find it relaxing, and it gives me joy to be able to entertain others. I plan to release books for years to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nancy Smith Gibson has been a voracious reader from an early age, but didn't start writing until she had an empty nest--if you can call it empty when she shares it with three rescue dogs and two rescue cats.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Her professional years were spent as a "number please" and long distance telephone operator and supervisor, (in Arkadelphia) a census supervisor for various government surveys, and in real estate sales. For some years she also produced crafts for sales at arts and crafts fairs. The people she met and situations she encountered provide rich fodder for stories.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> She likes to read and write 'quirky' stories with unusual characters, as evidenced in her short stories published in Elements of Time, Elements of Dimension, Rocking Chair and Afternoon Tales, and Elements of Life, as well as online</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Penny grew up loving to read, and everyone always claimed that she always had her nose stuck in a book. True. Her small town Illinois librarian let her check out four books at a time, so she'd check them out, read a book a day and take them back then get four more. Back then, books were simply called novels; topics weren't designated by genre. She read everything Emilie Loring wrote several times over, and also Grace Livingston Hill (possibly the first Christian romance writer, Frank G. Slaughter, who actually wrote historical romance, Jan Westcott, and many others. Years later and an almost sale to Little Brown and Co., she finally joined a writers group in Shreveport, LA in the late 70s and started actually studying the craft. Her first sale came in 1983, to Silhouette, Intimate Moments imprint. Since then, she's sold 40 books to Harlequin, Silhouette, Steeple Hill, and Harper Paperbacks. Her stories have won or been nominated for several industry awards, including a RITA nomination, 1991 Reader's Choice Award, Story Teller of the year, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times. My titles have also made many best seller lists including USA Today's. Penny currently writes for Harlequin Love Inspired Historical and just signed a three-book contract with Kensington for her Lilly Long Mystery series, about a Shakespearean actress who becomes a Pinkerton Agent. Book one, AN UNTIMELY FROST released in August, 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meg Thomerson needs assistance getting back on her feet—even if it comes from the man who made her a widow. Ace Allen didn't intend to kill her husband, he only wanted to protect the town from the man's rage. Now Ace is keeping Meg's business and farm running while she heals, both physically and emotionally. But is he helping her out of charity—or because of something more? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Half Native American, Ace struggles to find his place in the world. He keeps himself isolated from the community, but sweet Meg begins to penetrate his defenses. At first, he simply wanted to make amends to her. Now, if she'll let him, he could become the loving husband she deserves…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Terrell polite is from Ashdown, Arkansas and is married to his wife of five years Mia Polite. Terrell and Mia also have two beautiful children Arianna and Elisha polite. Terrell surrendered his life to the Lord at the age of 16 and he accepted the calling on his life to preach the gospel at the age of 17. Terrell also have been blessed to do missionary work in Matamoros, Mexico and Arlington, Texas and he also has traveled in Arkansas do prison ministry. Terrell is a faithful man of God that loves sharing his faith in the Lord. Terrell is currently a minister and youth pastor at spirit and life fellowship in Ashdown, Arkansas, Terrell is also a graduate from teen mania honor academy located in Dallas, Texas. If their is any man enjoys laughing and blessing others, look no further than Terrell polite.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So the three girls, Gwendolyn, eighteen, Cecelia, seventeen, and Bonnie, twelve going on twenty--make a pact. They promise to abide by Daddy's rules and whatever he says. A noble treaty, right?</b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But when suitors start calling, it becomes very hard to keep their word to each other. He's so strict, and his rules are worse than ridiculous! And worst of all, the one person who could help them, who wielded any influence over him, who should understand better than anyone and be on the righteous side of the females...isn't! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The young man from California who came to build Daddy a steam engine for the sawmill seemed to be interested, but still, h</span></b><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">er heart almost broke watching Clay ride off. They'd been good friends forever, and none of the Briggs boys were hard on the eyes. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And then--would miracles never cease?--a new man showed up at the Buckmeyer door, one she didn't know, but handsome enough...older than Clay...a bit of a dandy all dressed to the hilt. Perhaps her Daddy had been wise all along.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Cecelia Carol knew the minute she saw him and set about making him love her and realize she was the sister for him, but he kept paying her older sister all the attention...the only one old enough to court at all according to their pigheaded father!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Daydreams and night dreams only confirm to CeCe that he's the one, but she has almost a whole year to wait before Daddy will even allow him to ask to court her. By then, he'd surely chose her sister or be gone back home, and she'd probably never see him again.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Nope, she had to do something. Something drastic to make him see. She schemed and plotted and birthed a plan to get him alone so she could talk with him. Make her love understand that she was worth waiting for. Then Daddy made his plans to be gone overnight with the timber man. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> While her big sisters spent their time planning and crying and trying to talk Mama May into helping them, Bonnie filled her piggy bank serving as a chaperon because they weren't allowed to ever be alone with any of the three handsome young men who all of a sudden practically lived at her home.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But it wasn't long at all before she figured out that one of them--the best one by far--was sweet on her. After all, when her ungrateful sisters spoke in a mean tone just because she asked a pertinent question, he took up for her. He'd even winked at her. He must love her! Would daddy ever even think about lowering his courting age to where she could be available to her soulmate, her one true love for life?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Texas Romances started only eighteen months with book one, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DPM7UYY" target="_blank">VOW UNBROKEN</a>. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012EBN35G" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART</span></a><span style="color: #38761d;"> is book five in the series and the fourth title I've published as an Indie (independent author--without a publishing company). My first, book two, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAXGAZI" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HEARTS STOLEN</span></a><span style="color: #38761d;"> debuted in September a year ago, followed by </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">book three <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RASZWEY" target="_blank">HOPE REBORN</a> and book 4 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VXUYIAE" target="_blank">SINS OF THE MOTHERS</a></span></b><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">; that's four in one year's time. <br /> Plans are to debut book eight THE BEDWARMER'S SON in September 2016 with book six JUST KIN--that I wrote 'The End' on yesterday--in January and in May, </span></b><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">AT LIBERTY TO LOVE also in 2016.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Reports are already coming in that<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012EBN35G" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: blue;">DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART</span></a><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"> i</span>s the best yet out of the series. That is so exciting to hear, because each one of these stories is quite different from the last, and I always wonder how readers will react.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As many reviewers have said, they don't have to be read in order as each book is a stand alone story, but... you'll enjoy them even more if you've read the previous stories. I want to thank you for supporting me--purchasing my books and telling your friends--for reading the Texas Romance series, and for reviewing, sharing, commenting and liking Facebook posts. You ought to pick up The Generations Biblical fiction volumes and the c</span></b><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ontemporary </span></b><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Red River Romances, too. You're sure to fall in love with those characters, too.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Love and blessings, y'all!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CarylMcAdoo.author" target="_blank">LIKE my Facebook page</a>, please :) I'm heading to a benchmark--1,000 likes!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.carylmcadoo.com/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">VISIT my Website</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Caryl-McAdoo/e/B00E963CFG/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">FOLLOW my Amazon Page</span></a><br /><span style="color: #38761d;">One free book for every ten comments! I'd love to hear from you! More blessings!</span></span></b>Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-30227951560988317222015-07-05T09:08:00.002-05:002015-07-06T10:08:32.703-05:00Plethora of Players ~ Mary C. Findley<div class="MsoNormal">
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Mystery from author Mary C. Findley. </b><b>Welcome, Mister Bradley. We’re here to talk about this
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<i><b>I’m a third generation
schoolteacher. I’m a science teacher, twenty-five years old, and live with my dad and my sister. It’s a very small town.</b></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">You watch out for the kids as the buses come in. What about that stranger in a strange car?</span></b><br />
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<i><b>That was Mis'ess Talia
Ramin, the new English teacher. She got the parking lots mixed up. Seeing her
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<i><b>Grant money from the
Bible as Literature class would help fix up the school. But there was no way I
was going on that trip during Spring Break..<o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<i><b>Because I intend on going to
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Certain parents think you’re ignoring their concerns about
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<i><b>We are doing our best
to give their kids a safe, healthy school and a good, complete education.
You can’t please everyone.<o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">The next phase of the Bible Repository Project must have
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<i><b>It really scared us.
The Men in Black came to take everybody’s Bibles, notes, and memory cards.<o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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were crazy, to keep working after what happened. This quest means a lot to
Talia and her aunt and uncle. We got some mysteries to solve together</i>.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Our viewers are dying to hear about the mysterious ancient
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<i><b>I can’t get into
specifics about what we did or exactly what we found over there. People still need protection. But I will say that I wasn’t the one who found the most important artifact, or
made it work, really. It will take a lot of study and work to understand the secrets we helped discover.</b></i></div>
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<b><i>The Bible says there’s
going to come a time when people will be searching everywhere for the Word of
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Author Bio: Wife of a crazy smart man, mother of three kind of grownups, traveling the US and Canada in a tractor-trailer. Best-selling historical fiction author of the Benny and the Bank Robber Adventure series, Send a White Rose, and Chasing the Texas Wind. <br /><br />Mary also writes for Mid-grade, and these highly-rated nonfiction and homeschool titles also available:<br />
1) Praise for Benny and the Bank Robber: "Looked like a kids book. It really surprised me with a lot of interesting twists and being deeply spiritual."<br />
2) Doctor Dad: "Real life situations, mystery and suspense along with a little comedy keep you wanting to keep on reading. SUPERB!"<br />
3) The Oregon Sentinel: "This has been an excellent series. As a family, we have thoroughly enjoyed "meeting" Benny and his family and going along with him on his adventures which have been truly amazing."<br />
4) Antidisestablishmentarianism: "This book will give you all the ammunition you need to get yourself straightened out and those you know and love. I recommend you get it and read it."<br />
5) The Baron's Ring: "disability should not hinder you from accomplishing the things you want or desire to do in life and that we must always trust, believe and depend on God."<br />
6) Hope and the Knight of the Black Lion: "Findley is one of those authors who stands a head above the rest in her effort to achieve perfection."<br />
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Mary's "tough but you need it" <a href="http://elkjerkyforthesoul.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">BLOG</a> is <a href="http://elkjerkyforthesoul.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Elk Jerky for the Soul </a><br />
Visit Mary on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Elkjerkyforthesoul" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ElkJerkyfortheSoul" target="_blank">YouTube</a>! </div>
Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-60942435182227854832015-06-26T14:25:00.000-05:002015-06-26T14:32:07.010-05:00Plethora of Players Summer Book Tour ~ Shawn Lamb <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 21.3333339691162px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">What a first week this has been on our Summer Tour where you, our readers will meet a Plethora of Players in the novels of Shawn Lamb, Mary C. Findley, Pam Funke, and myself, Caryl McAdoo!</span></b></span></div>
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“The Great Battle”. Tensions are running high. We hope to get some answers from
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the brilliant gold of Kell's, then the rich mahogany of Dagar's, and now yours. Such
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<i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, thank
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interviews, Kell and Dagar both referred to you, although in decidedly
different tones. Kell spoke in favor while Dagar ... well, </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333339691162px;">Lieutenant</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, not so much.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other Trio Leaders are not happy with me following the captain’s orders. They
need to understand, nothing will stop me from learning the truth. Kell sent me
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Why and where it will lead is the question? What used to be unthinkable just a
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Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-53439469638554250542015-06-20T12:32:00.000-05:002015-06-20T16:55:40.711-05:00I Love The Craft of Writing <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdFAfV30JiWnStUARwJgzIfFlzfMCNdr8a0RDVYby31uOeClUOhe08QBCTKeD6PwIA6usn_EEAFQD2aq7M8d690tYtblFSPG2QXXAgvWnus4mpZLQ1TRmlbiVVrgw_9ExmWOfrgqzTlY/s1600/SnS22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdFAfV30JiWnStUARwJgzIfFlzfMCNdr8a0RDVYby31uOeClUOhe08QBCTKeD6PwIA6usn_EEAFQD2aq7M8d690tYtblFSPG2QXXAgvWnus4mpZLQ1TRmlbiVVrgw_9ExmWOfrgqzTlY/s320/SnS22.jpg" width="228" /></a><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I've been thinking about this book for a long time. I've contributed to online writing magazines and published regular columns in some, besides guesting on many writers' blogs. </span></b><br />
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written in a conversational tone and I've been told that makes the tools of this craft easier to
understand. I've included lots of examples, too. Some of the chapter names are Hooks, Point of
View, Characterization, and Dialogue, and there’s an </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">emphases</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> throughout of using an active voice rather than passive. </span></span></b></span><br />
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Jethro Risen, one of the gold miners Mary Rachel has sold merchandise to in San Francisco is at a plain sawboard Methodist church speaking with Brother Paul. Jethro only recently got saved.<br />
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“Sins of the fathers, have you heard about that?”<br />
“I guess not, what are you talking about?”<br />
The old man held a finger up and hurried to the altar. He returned with a Bible, flipped pages until he found his spot, and read. “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.”<br />
“Who’s them?”<br />
He looked up. “Talking about other gods here, telling His children not to bow to them.” He continued. “For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”<br />
“So I get punished for my father’s sins? That doesn’t seem right. Is that what it means?”<br />
“No, not exactly. God is telling the children of Israel how things work. You plant corn, that’s what you harvest—corn. Reap what you sow. Same with bowing down to other gods. The second commandment is not to have any other gods. When you put something—anything—ahead of God, you don’t get blessed.”<br />
“So I’m doomed to repeat the sins of my father?”<br />
“No, you accepted the Lord’s salvation. Not under the curse anymore. You don’t hate Him anymore, do you?”<br />
“No, sir. Don’t know that I hated Him before.”<br />
“There’s no gray with God, son. You love Him or hate Him. But Christ became a curse so that we will be blessed. Still, the devil has a right to visit our parents’ sins on us.” The old man smiled. “In reality, that’s a blessing.”<br />
“What? How so?”<br />
“Well, the child sees how the parents mishandled their situations and sinned against God. From witnessing their iniquities, younger generations learn from the elders’ mistakes. They’ve seen the bad outcome.”<br />
“I think I see.”<br />
“Yes, sir. So when the devil comes around with the same temptations, they can make different choices. Overcome.”<br /><br /><a href="http://carylmcadoo.com/" target="_blank">More On This New Novel</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Hallelujah! <a href="http://tinyurl.com/SinsMothers" target="_blank">SINS OF THE MOTHERS</a> is here! Book Four in the historical Christian Texas Romance series! The first story of the next generation!</span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">♫♪*`•. I’m just so excited.•*♪¨*about what the Lord is doing!•♪♫*`•. I’m just so excited Lord!! ♪♫•*¨♪ for what I know♪♫¸¸.•*♪ He will do!!*•.¸ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ¸♫♪*`•. I’m just so excited!!•.¸.• ✿And He is delighted ღ(̆̃̃ڿڰۣ✿♫♪*with my anticipation`º°¨•.¸of what I know He will do. .•*♪♫•!♪♫¸•*♪ And I get to be a part ♫♪*`of what the Lord is doing!•♪♫*`•. I get to be a part!!.•*♪¨*♥ •♪♫ of what I know♪♫¸¸.•*♪ He will do!!*•.¸ I get to be a part ♫♪*`!♪♫•*♥¨and He has a good plan!♪*•.¸ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ♫♪*`•. He’s called me for His purpose!.•*♪¨* ♫♪*`•. I have a role to play!!♪♫•*¨♪ </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">This is a "New Song" the Lord gave me and I AM EXCITED to be sure! :)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Henry and Sue's oldest daughter together, Mary Rachel is only seventeen. <span style="text-indent: 0.3in;">Propelled
by blind first love, she defies her father and elopes with Caleb
Wheeler.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b> He whisks her away to California while her daddy is off to Europe. In the gold rush days of 1851 San Francisco, the newlyweds partner with his cousin John in
his dry goods business.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b> Unbeknownst to the young bride, her new husband sends
his kissing cousin Lanelle ahead. He wants his love and his new wife’s money, too. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b> Betrayal and murder drive Mary, soon a young mother, to the depths of despair.
But she can't go home, and hates the one man who loves her enough to cover her sins and deliver her
out of the horrible pit she’s dug for herself.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b> Or does she?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b> From frontier Texas to the raw bone boomtown of the west coast, then all the way to genteel New York, Mary travels to find
redemption for the sins of her mothers. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>This is the one everyone's been waiting for, and all the early buzz says it's the best yet!It's different from the first three in that I venture to the Golden State where I was born in 1950--right at one hundred years after Mary Rachel Buckmeyer was there--except I was not born in the city by the bay, but a little south in Long Beach. And Debut Day for <a href="http://tinyurl.com/SinsMothers" target="_blank">SINS OF THE MOTHER</a>, May 3rd, just happens to be my sixty-fifth birthday, too :)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b> </b></span></span><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> What an exciting that must have been for my young heroine, but she could never imagine how many things could and would go wrong for her. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Here's what some of my early readers are saying about <a href="http://tinyurl.com/SinsMothers" target="_blank">SINS OF THE MOTHERS</a> > </span></b><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">REVIEWS:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>I've
often wondered if the past can repeat itself in a person's life and Mary Rachel
Buckmeyer gave me my answer. Love, betrayal, despair, the sweet faith of
little children, and the perseverance of a miner. These all made for a
wonderful story of what life was like in San Francisco during the gold rush of
the 1850's. When I finished the last page of Mary's story, I smiled and
thought... I loved this story! But... There had better be another book coming
because I want more of these Buckmeyer's! I'd recommend this story to anyone
who enjoys reading a good Christian, historical fiction of the 1800's.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b> --Deanna Stevens, Nebraska
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Sins of the Mother. Caryl McAdoo does it again with what I
think is the best book yet in this series. The characters are so real and have
a heap of real issues on their plates from page one. Pick it up and you won't
be able to put it down.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>With everyone on the porch for the clan’s sendoff, Mary Rachel decided for sure and for certain and could wait no longer. She took a deep breath and hugged his neck. “Daddy, I’m sorry. I really am, but I can’t go. No, I mean I’m not going. I can’t leave. I won’t.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>He leaned back and stared at her for too long a minute, his face suddenly stone cold. “What did you just say?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>She grimaced; steam rose to her cheeks. He softened just like he always had when her mother turned on him. Saying it aloud made it all the more real, strengthened her resolve. “I cannot be gone for seven months. I thought for a while maybe I could, but I can’t, Daddy.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Her new mother stepped close. “But Mary Rachel, why? It’s the trip of a lifetime. I promise you’ll adore Europe.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“It’s just Mary now, please. No Rachel. That’s what Caleb calls me.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>His voice lowered to almost a whisper, he slipped some of the steel back on. “So. This is about that boy.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“He’s a man, Daddy, and you know it. We love each other.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“If he loves you, baby, then he’ll wait. It’s only seven months. He should be thrilled you have this opportunity to travel Europe.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“Well, I’ve made my decision, and I’m not going.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“We’ve booked your passage.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“I know, and I’m sorry. I should have told you sooner, but I knew you wouldn’t be happy about my decision.” She looked off at the tree line, hating the disappointment in his eyes. But that was a coward’s way, so she faced him again. “Like I said, I thought I could. Anyway, let Bonnie take my place.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>From somewhere, her youngest sister burst into the middle. “Can I, Daddy? Please take me! I’ll be good. Mama, tell him how good I’ll be.” She turned those doe eyes on him. “Pleeeease.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Six miles, north by northwest as the turkey vultures soar from Clarksville, Texas, the very reason Mary stayed home, rode his best mule as he skidded the black walnut saw log back to his cabin. Caleb looked behind. “Slow, girl, almost there.” </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>He nudged the animal a bit further, the timber only feet from his makeshift hoist. Two more steps, then he eased Harley Sue to a stop. He hopped down then rubbed the old girl’s near ear. “You sure are a good mule.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>The distant rattle of trace chains turned him east, for a minute he stared, then she waved. “Well, look here what the cat drug in.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>He unhooked the skid and led Harley Sue to the barn’s corral; got back before Lanelle had the brake set on her wagon. “She go?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“Nope.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>He nodded. “You sure? Saw it with your own eyes?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“Yep, he took the three younger girls, but not the princess.” She stood and threw him a smirk. “Help me down.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“Sure.” He stepped toward her with his arms held out, she fell into them. He caught her then twirled her around as she wrapped hers around his neck. He set her feet to the ground then stepped back a bit. Business first. “Anyone see you turn on my road?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“No, but what difference would it make? I’m only bringing supplies for my kin.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“True, you get it all?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>“A pound of salt pork, two ounces of salt, and a pound of coffee, but you best get yourself to town. Old man Hobbs wants a word with you. Wasn’t too happy when I told him to put it on your bill ‘stead of Pappy’s.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Caleb nodded toward his wagon. “I should have this lumber loaded by Saturday. I’ll see to him on my way to Jefferson.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>She shrugged then turned and moseyed toward the cabin. “That last batch any better?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Heading the opposite direction to the well, he soon went to cranking; retrieved the jug, pulled the cork, and sipped a taste. When he didn’t follow, she looked around then trotted to him grinning. He extended his home brew. “You tell me.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Always a sight to behold, she accepted the jug without an ounce of pretension. Licked her lips then took a short pull and wiped her mouth. “Boogers, Caleb.” She grinned then got herself a real drink. “Woo! I’d say that may be the best you’ve cooked yet.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>He took the jug back and sipped a few gulps more. Burned good all the way down. Replacing the cork, he nodded toward the cabin. “You got time?”</b></span><br />
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Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-32262148138124168162015-04-12T22:18:00.000-05:002015-04-12T22:15:55.005-05:00SING a NEW SONG!<span style="color: #38761d;">Here's a novel I am excited to release! It's full of new songs the Lord gifted to me, well, some of the lyrics at least, but I hope to have links for my YouTube channel where I can post videos with my songs so readers can hear them!Won;t that be fun?</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">SING A NEW SONG</span></b>,<span style="color: #38761d;"> book two of the Red River Romance series, is a stand alone contemporary, Christian, romance set in Northeast Texas. It's hero happens to be named after a great-great-great-great-grandfather of HEARTS STOLEN fame (Book Two of my historical Texas Romance series)!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">In <b>SING A NEW SONG,</b> the untimely death of her father tears Mary Esther Robbins’ heart open and separates her from her grade school best friend, Samuel Levi Baylor. During their twenty years apart, she fulfills her life’s dream of penning new songs and singing God’s praise with a Christian band, while he tends his growing cattle herd and shares the Good News at every opportunity.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> The Lord brings her home then throws them back together when Samuel agrees to help Mary Esther move and remodel her childhood home. The two decades lost vanish, and their time together convinces both the other is their soul mate.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> But misunderstanding and fear keeps them from expressing their true love. Though jealousy rears its ugly head, can love and commitment hold the two together? And while they’re both committed to ministering the Gospel together, can they do it as husband and wife?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Here, let me give you an EXCERPT so you can taste and see for yourself! :)</b></span><br />
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Mary Esther waved her key card then turned around and extended her hand. He took it and pulled her toward him, leaned in. The desire to close her eyes and surrender, let him kiss her, washed over her like a sweet summer rain. She should pull away, but instead, at the last heartbeat, turned her cheek instead.<br />
He smelled of summer pomegranates carried on ocean breezes, crisp and clean, though he’d been on the go with her all day. His lips brushed her burning skin. He kissed her then moved on to her ear. “I don’t want to leave. Can I come in?”<br />
She pushed him back and smiled. “No, you may not. But you can write me. I love long letters.”<br />
“How about I call instead? Where’s the band headed next?”<br />
“Atlanta.”<br />
He nodded then seemed to study her shoes a moment. When he looked back up, a troubled expression wrinkled his forehead. Staring into her eyes, he reached up and tapped the tip of her nose. “There’s something I need to tell you before you go.”<br />
“Okay. What is it?”<br />
“I’m, uh…” He grimaced, showing his perfect teeth clenched, then offered her a weak smile. “See? Uh, I’m married. Well, separated. I mean she’s gone, left me. No one’s –”<br />
“You’re married?”<br />
“Legally, yes—for now—and you’re beautiful.”<br />
She pushed him back hard. The urge to slap his face burned her hand as though she had, but a long time ago, she learned not to go around hitting guys. “Married? What was the last week all about, you jerk? Get away from me, Richard. Go home. I cannot believe you… You… You’re nothing but a…”<br />
The only words that came to mind weren’t worth speaking. She shook her head to make them go away. “Mercy, man, you’re an associate pastor. And you’d be an adulterer, too?”<br />
He recoiled, as though the reality of how he’d been acting the last week cut him just as the cock’s crows had cut Peter. A horror filled his eyes. He shook his head no and opened his mouth, but no words came out. He backed a step away then turned hurried down the hotel’s hall throwing a lame “Sorry, I…” over his shoulder.<br />
“Dear, Lord, my God. How could I have thought he might be the one I’ve been looking for, praying for?”<br />
Her heart pounded. The desire to run after him and slap some smarts into him faded. He turned the corner; she pushed her door open, stepped inside, then hugged it resting her forehead on its edge. It hit her. If that guy wasn’t the one, maybe there wasn’t a man out there for her.<br />
It seemed no one ever saw the real her. Either they loved her voice, her songs, or the way she sang, maybe the way she looked or walked or blah blah blah.<br />
She shut the door and flung herself across the bed. It wasn’t fair. Tears welled and overflowed wetting the white duvet.<br />
She grabbed the towel she’d wrapped her wet hair in that morning and pulled it under her face. Wouldn’t do to get mascara all over the cover. The tears kept coming with no end in sight.<br />
The enormity of what she’d been thinking. That such an idiot could have been husband material! How could she? Didn’t she have any discernment at all? Was she so caught up in romance and concerned she’d never find Mister Right that she lost sight of character? Hadn’t she prayed? She searched her memory, but it didn’t register her asking God if Richard was the one.<br />
Married, indeed!<br />
She screamed into the towel, bawling like an idiot. Why, why, why couldn’t she see it? She flipped to her back and stared suddenly silent at the ceiling. The stillness rang in her ears. Her breath caught. She swallowed. Then it hit her, she wasn’t in love with the man. She barely knew him. The inference she’d never know love broke her heart. That caused all the tears.<br />
But didn’t God promise the desires of her heart? She loved the idea of love, of belonging to one man, sharing his life… children. If that was not to be, what had she saved herself for? Wait a minute. That wasn’t the Lord. She saved herself in obedience to God. If she never found a man, if God never sent a Mister Right into her life, she would still remain chaste.<br />
For Him, no one else, the least she could do after what He did for her. Besides His sweet salvation, He’d given her music, new songs, and a decent voice. As long as she could offer praise and worship, extol His Holy name, as long as He invited her into His throne room… Sleep finally found her, and then she was twelve again.<br />
She stared at his casket, hated that they kept it closed, but understood the decision. Mama explained that he’d been mangled so badly. She wiped her cheeks. Praise God, at least he was in Heaven. “Someday, Daddy, we’ll all be together again.”<br />
A hand slipped over hers. She looked down, studied the stubby fingers intertwining with her own, then followed the arm up to Samuel Baylor’s face.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">And here's what others are saying (REVIEW):</span></b><br />
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Sing A New Song is a delightful breath of Christian air. McAdoo writes in such an eloquent way bringing her audience always nearer to God. She opens her readers’ minds to fresh ways of viewing Christian life and all it has to offer.<br />
The characters are lovable and react to one another in humorous ways. The romantic tale is just as lovely as always demonstrating Christian virtues we all be best to remember. The story was illuminating in how it shares the Gospel in such a beautiful way.<br />
The words from Samuel’s sermons as well as the gorgeous lyrics of Mary Esther’s songs fill our hearts with new found worship for Our Lord. Truly an inspiring tale. It is Christian fiction in its best; recounting a romantic love story while bringing its readers closer to God. A treasure for sure.<br />
-- Christine Barber, Canadian author of BROKEN TO PIECES<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So if you aren't a regular here, let me share a little about myself. I'm so thrilled to be a Christian author and excited over writing three series at this time: my historical Christian ‘Texas Romances’; the contemporary ‘Red River Romances’; and ‘The Generations’, my Biblical fiction.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> Glad no one makes me choose between writing and singing, I love sharing the new songs the Lord gives me. And I enjoy painting, though I'm no <a href="http://www.artfelt.com/" target="_blank">Judy Downs Levine</a>! (She's the amazingly gifted artist who paints the covers for The Generations series! You owe it to yourself to go see her work, and she has prints for sale!)</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> In 2008, my high school sweetheart-husband Ron and I moved from the DFW area—home for fifty-five years—to the woods of Red River County. I birthed four children and now have fifteen grandsugars who I count life’s biggest blessings. All good things come from God. Praying my story gives God glory, I hopes each one will also minister His love, mercy, and grace to its readers. We live with two grandsons, five dogs, and a varying number of barn cats in Clarksville, the county seat, in the far northeast corner of the Lone Star State.</span><br />
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in the small UFO that landed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. He had several
paperback books on the subject and the event. I brought into the story my
personal experiences as an elementary school teacher to convey to children the
messages of acceptance and friendship that they so badly need</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.5in;"></a><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.5in;">. </span><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.5in;">People tell me my stories "ring true," and I think
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Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0Denton, TX, USA33.214240192441892 -97.12791681289672933.213409692441893 -97.129177312896729 33.215070692441891 -97.126656312896728tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-26539202338253120152015-03-27T10:32:00.003-05:002015-03-27T10:32:38.772-05:00Christian Fiction Friday - SING!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;">It's almost here! And I can hardly wait! Hurry APRIL!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14pt;">The untimely death of her father shatters
Mary Esther Robbins’ heart, and her mom moves, separating the twelve-year-old
and her best friend. Samuel Baylor writes her without one response in twenty
years. She sings God’s praise; he tends cows and shares the Good News. Then the
Lord brings her home… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14pt;">He throws them back together when Samuel
agrees to help Mary Esther move and remodel her childhood home. The two decades
lost vanish, and their time together convinces both the other is the true soul
mate. But fear and misunderstanding keeps them from expressing their true love.
Though jealousy rears its ugly head, can love and commitment hold the two
together? And while they’re both dedicated to ministering the Gospel together, can they do it as husband and
wife?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.3in;">A Sneak Peek :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">How could she? Didn’t she have any discernment at all?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Was she so caught up in romance and concerned she’d never find Mister Right that she lost sight of character? Hadn’t she prayed? She searched her memory, but it didn’t register that she ever asked God if Richard was the one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">She screamed into the towel, bawling like an idiot. Why, why, why couldn’t she see it? She flipped to her back and stared, suddenly silent, at the ceiling. The stillness rang in her ears. Her breath caught. She swallowed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Then it hit her, she wasn’t in love with the man. She barely knew him. The inference she’d never know love is what broke her heart. What caused all the tears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">But didn’t God promise the desires of her heart?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">She loved the idea of love, of belonging to one man, sharing his life… children. If that was not to be, what had she saved herself for? Wait a minute. That wasn’t the Lord. She saved herself in obedience to God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">If she never found a man, if God never sent a Mister Right into her life, she would still remain chaste. For Him, no one else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The least she could do after what He had done for her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Besides His sweet salvation, He’d given her music, new songs, and a decent voice. As long as she could offer praise and worship, extol His Holy name, as long as He invited her into His throne room.…</span></span></div>
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Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-78638368485042382932015-03-21T13:54:00.002-05:002015-03-21T16:16:20.987-05:00Christian Fiction Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Happy to join in my first Christian Fiction Friday!</span></b></div>
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A NEW SONG, book 2 in the Red River Romance series; debuts April, 2015 </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">The untimely death of her father shatters
Mary Esther Robbins’ heart and separates her from her grade school best friend,
Samuel Levi Baylor. During their twenty years apart, she fulfills her life’s
dream of penning new songs and singing God’s praise with a Christian band,
while he tends his growing cattle herd and shares the Good News at every opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The twelve-year-old
boy who drove that same truck to her daddy’s funeral stood over six feet tall,
a full grown man decked out in jeans, blue long-sleeved work shirt, and scuffed
boots, but she’d know him anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He gawked. “It is,
isn’t it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yes, it’s me. How in
the world have you been, Samuel? How’d you know I was in town?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well, I’ll be.
Blessed. I’ve been blessed, but I didn’t have any idea. None. What are you
doing here? Slumming?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She refused to take
the bait. “I’ll have you to know I’m moving back. Just now I was trying decide
if the old girl is worth fixing up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Really? What? You’re
not singing anymore?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Of course, I am. No
way will I ever stop singing, you goof, but I can sing in Clarksville same as
in Dallas. I quit the band though. I’m sick of the road. If you could call it
that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He nodded and looked
around. “So what do you think?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That he didn’t offer
to give her a hello hug was just wrong, but she didn’t say anything about it.
“I don’t know, but what about you? Are you married? How’s your grandfather?
Y’all still living in English?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;"><u>Pre-Release Review</u>: </span>A delightful breath of Christian air. McAdoo writes in such an eloquent way bringing her audience always nearer to God. She opens her readers’ minds to fresh ways of viewing Christian life and all it has to offer. The characters are loveable and humorous. The romantic tale is as lovely, demonstrating Christian virtues. The story was illuminating in how it shares the Gospel through Samuel’s sermons and the lyrics of Mary Esther’s songs. Fills our hearts with worship. Truly inspiring; Christian fiction in its best! A treasure for sure.<br />
--Christine Barber, Canadian author of Broken to Pieces<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Then the Deluge Comes, Volume 2 </b>of the new Biblical fiction series<b>, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>The Generations,</b> is my sixteenth published title and a story you won't want to miss. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">With the firstborns of eight generations gathered around his death bed, Adam and his beloved Eve pass from this earth and are taken to Paradise where they are reunited with many loved ones including their son Abel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The parallel storylines, one on the earth and the other in Paradise where the kindly old cherub Namrel helps the Almighty's men adjust to new life there.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuL1W4SO4YWzOtL1wEx6b9A4029Xe2GhnUUjQgojZz-7G7iuopy_I4pWeD03Tn7BL7uvYldO4paa3LEFC3XrvdllXt62CgjukkKsBQICvy6XmP1d7O5zE9bK_ZqqyQ1L4RhIZnnZKHn_A/s1600/A_Little_Lower_Than__Cover_for_Kindle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuL1W4SO4YWzOtL1wEx6b9A4029Xe2GhnUUjQgojZz-7G7iuopy_I4pWeD03Tn7BL7uvYldO4paa3LEFC3XrvdllXt62CgjukkKsBQICvy6XmP1d7O5zE9bK_ZqqyQ1L4RhIZnnZKHn_A/s1600/A_Little_Lower_Than__Cover_for_Kindle.jpg" height="320" width="207" /></a><span style="color: #38761d;">Isn't the cover amazing? The gifted artist of this original artwork is Judy Downs Levine of Arizona. The gracious lady offers lovely, frameable prints of each of The Generations titles at her <a href="http://www.artfelt.com/" target="_blank">WEBSITE</a> as well her her other outstanding pieces. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">Words of gratitude cannot express how thankful I am God gave Judy to me, an unthinkable blessing to me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">WHY do we think that Noah built the ark alone, or with only his sons? Yes, Enoch had gone, but Lamech, Noah's father joined his fathers only five years before the gargantuan project was complete, and his father, Methuselah lived right up until one week before the deluge came. That's what his name means, you know...when I die, then the deluge comes. Of course they helped Noah, prayed for him, strengthened him, supported him. They gathered supplies, much like we know King David did for his son. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So here's the Jacket copy or synopsis. Reviewers write synopses every day, authors hate them--at least every author I've ever met. Boiling your story down down down to a couple of paragraphs. But we do it, we just do it! Like this: Obedience assures the preservation of life. By Adam’s death, evil overtakes the sons of Cain filling the earth with lasciviousness and violence. God declares He will not contend forever with man. But, Noah, the only one of the tenth generation to walk perfect before the Lord, hears His word.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>MAKE THEE AN ARK OF GOPHER WOOD; ROOMS SHALT THOU MAKE IN THE ARK, AND SHALT PITCH IT WITHIN AND WITHOUT WITH PITCH</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> With the help of his father Lamech, and Grandfather Methuselah—whose name foretells when the deluge will come—Noah and his three sons embark on the massive task of building the giant boat with no idea why except that God said.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">Evil, too, heard the word of the Lord. Lucifer and his angels war in the second heaven to steal, kill, and utterly destroy the earth’s inhabitants. With each child passed through the fire, their battle songs grow stronger, but the Lord works in mysterious ways.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>And I'd like to give you a little taste, excerpt:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"> [The flesh of earth’s first man has just died after nine hundred thirty years of living. His soul and spirit descend now to Paradise.]</span><br />
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Downward, Adam floated. Eve’s arms wrapped tight around him, but seemed so much stronger now. He held her firmly. Winged men surrounded him slowing his decent, and his wife snuggled in closer, covering her scar in his side like she had so many times in the past. Blue sky, greenery, and flowers…just as he’d seen in the vision.<br />
Then it all vanished, and he found himself back in Eden. The Great I Am Himself, bent down on one knee and scooped a handful of clay.<br />
The Father’s heart swelled with love as he fashioned his man. Tears welled as Adam witnessed his own creation and knew Abba’s overwhelming, everlasting love. What a wonderful gift, being allowed to see such a marvel. Then the first time he successfully climbed onto Lion’s back and raced through the garden with his hands flung high into the air. He laughed aloud. What fun!<br />
How he had missed his old friend, yet so many years passed without thinking of him in the valley. Hadn’t realized how lonely he was without his Lion and all the rest to run and romp with. And now, he’d see Him again and be able to thank Him for His great sacrifice, repent for his sin that had separated him from the best friend he’d ever known.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Here's what some are saying about THEN THE DELUGE COMES: </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>I loved Then the Deluge Comes! Great job! Well worth the read! Terrific, terrific, terrific. Great story!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><b> --Leah Jones, reader, Morrow, Arkansas</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Then The Deluge Comes by Caryl McAdoo is beautifully written. This novel concentrates on the story of Noah, leading up to the flood. She takes nothing away from the biblical story, but enhances it. The characters are fully developed, becoming more three dimensional than in the Bible.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b> As with book one, not only does the reader see the earthly version of the story, but there are glimpses of the heavenly one too. This helps to remind the reader that all of life is a spiritual battle against the forces of darkness. One must always be ready and wearing the full armour of God.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b> Then The Deluge Comes can actually help to understand the original Bible story. Parts of the Old Testament that can be confusing, are made much clearer. There is so much beauty in Caryl McAdoo's retelling of the traditional story that the reader just revels in the language. It will leave you feeling calm and peaceful, and you will be glad that you picked it up.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b> --Julia Wilson, teacher and reader, United Kingdom</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Anyone who enjoys reading Biblical fiction will love “Then The Deluge Comes”. Caryl McAdoo’s brilliant imagination combined with her determination to stay with biblical truth makes the characters come alive. I am looking forward to the next book in the Generation Series.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> --Louise Koiner</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Author Bio: </b>Simon & Schuster, Christian hybrid author, Caryl McAdoo is currently writing three series: her historical Christian Texas Romances; the contemporary Red River Romances; and The Generations,her Biblical fiction. The novelist loves singing new songs the Lord gives her, and she paints. In 2008, she and her high school sweetheart-husband Ron moved from the DFW area—home for fifty-five years—to the woods of Red River County. Caryl counts four children and fourteen grandsugars life’s biggest blessings believing all good things come from God. Praying her story gives God glory, she hopes each one will also minister His love, mercy, and grace to its readers. Caryl and Ron live in Clarksville, the county seat, in the far northeast corner of the Lone Star State.</span><br />
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<br />Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-81582164569911917662015-01-28T16:52:00.000-06:002015-01-28T17:01:06.010-06:00FAITH is a Gift! February 2 Debut!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>A GIFT in more ways that one!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b> I'm so excited about this new contemporary Christian Red River Romances series! I started writing it and April's release Sing a New Song as novellas, but they both went well over 40,000 words. Still aren't my normal 300+ page historical novels though, so be forewarned.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b> And this title in e'book format is my gift to all those subscribed to my newsletter <a href="http://carylmcadoo.com/sign-up-to-the-caryler/" target="_blank">THE CARYLER! </a> That's right, can you believe it? I'm thanking my subscribers with a free book every quarter! SING A NEW SONG is the second quarter's offering, and ACQUIRING A WIFE in August for the third quarter! </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b> I wrote each in one month and really enjoyed the characters! The Preacher' Faith is set in Red River County. There are two little Baptist churches north of Clarksville, one named Hopewell and another named New Hope, so I made a fictitious New Hope Baptist Church for the book. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b> But the Rio Verde Mexican restaurant and the Italian Bistro, Rehkoph's and the shops mentioned are all in it, and I think that's so much fun! You may recognize a few names from around town if you live in Clarksville or from the historical novels you've read from the old timers in the Red River County of my Texas Romance series. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b> Poor Faith, her daddy's dying, and he so wants to see her married and settled before he goes. He hopes to walk her down the aisle. And to appease him, she promises to marry if a guy meeting her qualifications asks. Dumb-dee-dumb-dumb! :)</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;"><i>Here's what this story is about:</i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Can</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the orphaned preacher and the heartbroken rodeo
queen navigate </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the path to </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">true love</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> with a lie and an ex-beau blocking their way?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #783f04;"> </span></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">L</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">earning of Faith Johnson’s rash promise to her
father, New Hope Baptist’s interim preacher Asa Davidson shows up to apply for
the position—of husband. The cowgirl was only trying to give her dying father
hope promis</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">ing to</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;"> marry the first thirty-something</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">-</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">year</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">-</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">old Christian virgin to ask.</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;"> Who’d </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">ever dream one </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">existed
</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">in all of Texas, much less
Red River County</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">? B</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">ut sure enough, one comes a’courting the very
next day thanks to the Lord and Daddy’s baby sister, loud mouth Aunt Iris.
Faith’s appalled, but a promise is a promise. She only needs to figure a way
out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Originally, Asa sees matrimony as a career move</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. He</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> hop</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">es</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> a godly, local wife will seal the deal for a
permanent call</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">T</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">hen asked right out</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> about that very thing</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, he lies.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sparks fly when her
past love and the preacher meet up, but as the days pass, she finds herself
admiring the man and his relationship to God more and more. He’s a hard worker
and wonderful, fun companion. Maybe she could learn to love him.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But what if New Hope doesn’t call him?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She loves it right where she’s at.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Plus what about her dying father? And there’s that untruth
between them….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #783f04;">And to make things even harder, her ex comes to
Christ through it all!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My town! I'm so glad God led us to Clarksville, seat of Red River County!</td></tr>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Opening excerpt from The Preacher's Faith:</span></i></span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">A black sedan rolled across the main entrance
cattle guard. Faith sat a little taller in the saddle. Shame it wasn’t a new
truck pulling a full Featherlight horse trailer, but hey, any new business
would be a Godsend. Instead of coming to the barn though, the car stayed right
and went up to the house. New nurse, maybe?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Whatever. The gelding needed at least another
fifteen minutes. She worked him hard—several times around with a right front
lead, turn around the other way on a left lead, backed him one complete lap—then
took him into the wash stall. She’d never known a horse who loved baths better
than the beautiful paint, and so intelligent, almost too smart for his
britches. Definitely one she wouldn’t mind calling her own. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Halfway to having him brushed out, the barn’s
man-door opened.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Miss Johnson?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">She looked over the gelding’s back. The form of
a man stood in the doorway silhouetted by the late afternoon sun. Tall with
broad shoulders, he filled the opening. She couldn’t see if he looked like
money or not, but hey, even poor guys needed their horses trained. “Yessiree,
that’d be me. How can I help you?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“I came about the position.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“You’ve come to the wrong place. I’m not
hiring.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">The guy stepped in and closed the door, his
face still dark and indistinguishable. “That isn’t what your aunt Iris said.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Bless Auntie’s heart, I don’t know what she’s
thinking, but she’s just wrong. I’m not hiring. Sorry you came all this way for
nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Her eyes started adjusting, and the man, maybe
a few years older than her, came into view. A sort of good-looking type in a
townie kind of way, but… “Maybe you need to come tell her yourself, Miss
Johnson.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Oh no, the place was a wreck. Faith needed to
get in the house and stop the old dear. “Auntie’s here?” The perfectionist
would have herself a heart attack for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Yes, ma’am. She rode out with me.” A sly grin
etched the man’s face.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Dear Lord, what was going on? She didn’t have
time for this. Faith grabbed another brush and tossed it to him. “Here, make
yourself useful.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Sure. What do I do?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Brush that side.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">She moved the soft bristles a bit faster. Why,
oh why, hadn’t she taken a little time and cleaned up this morning? A mental
walk-through horrified her all the more. The armload of dirty laundry on the
window bench in the living room. She’d been on the way to the utility room when
her daddy needed help.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">She didn’t even want to think about the
kitchen’s condition.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">And how long had it been since she swept? The
dirty baseboards with webs and dog hair and who knew what else… And oh no, she
left all her papers scattered all the way around her swivel rocker from looking
at the bills and trying to figure out exactly how she was going to get them all
paid. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Bless God! Just what she needed. Why this
person brought her house-crazy-keeping aunt all the way up to Negley,
especially unannounced, proved more than a little irritating. This is a test,
this is only a test, she assured herself.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Brush only in the direction his hair grows.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Yes, ma’am.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">She worked down each leg to the hooves with her
mind racing a minute mile for the reason her daddy’s sister might have told
this fellow there was a job opening. She’d love some help if she could afford
it, but… In not quite half the regular time, the gelding rested in his stall,
hayed, grained, and happy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Sliding the paint’s door closed, she practiced
what she wanted to say then latched the stall and faced the intruder. “Okay
look, I don’t know who you are, but hey, I’d appreciate the truth. Why are you
here? Really.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Sorry, ma’am.” He extended his hand. “Name’s
Asa Davidson.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Closing the couple of steps between them, she
one-shaked the offering then nodded toward the door. “How is it you know Aunt
Iris anyway?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Met her at church. I’m the new interim pastor
out at New Hope Baptist.” He stepped out into the late afternoon sun. Better
looking than she first thought, but dear Lord, the man really needed to get
himself a pair of Wranglers and some boots. Slacks and loafers would not do,
leastwise not in these parts. He stuck out like a newborn white Charolais calf.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">She walked beside him toward the house. “So,
exactly what is this job Auntie is talking about? Did she tell you?” She looked
over and grinned. “I’m already saved, a blood-bought, Bible-thumping child of
the King.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“That makes you a princess.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Yessiree, bless God. So if you’re not here to
share the Good News, Pastor, what was it she told you I needed?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“A husband.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">She stopped in her tracks, practically
paralyzed. Tried to swallow, but couldn’t. He took two steps more then turned
back, smiling.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">“Yes, ma’am. Miss Iris said you told your
father yesterday that you’d marry if an eligible bachelor asked you.” He
shrugged. “So what do you think?”</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Great Story! Hope there’s a sequel. I love to
see the artful dodger as a part of it, maybe a reunion? And he could find his
mother. Just love curling up in an afghan and cup of cappuccino and reading
Caryl’s books!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Preacher's
Faith, as with all Caryl McAdoo's novels, is full of good scriptural advice.
The title is a play on words...does 'faith' refer to a personal faith or the
person Faith or both? Have a read and decide for yourself. …a quick and easy
read, and just right for a cold winter's day - your heart will be warmed by
this delightful little story.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>This was my first book to read by Caryl McAdoo and I
absolutely loved it. I will be reading more. I love the way she prays that her
story gives God Glory and dedicates The Preacher’s Faith to Him and His
Kingdom. You will find the two main characters, Faith and Asa, talk back and
forth discussing scriptures. [It’s] a good clean book to read. I was drawn into
this story right from the start. I loved this book and can’t wait for book two<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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released by six publishers, (Simon & Schuster’s Howard Books being one), I am excited about my first contemporary Red River Romance </b></span><b style="color: #38761d;">The Preacher’s Faith</b><b style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0in;"> set in Red River County. I love being hybrid, too. That means I'm traditionally published (Howard, Roman and Littlefield, and Thorndike Press) and now also Independently (Indie) published. I also edit, paint,
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blessings believing all good things come from God. Praying her story gives God
glory, I hope my books also minister His love, mercy, and grace to all
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 24px;">Welcome! How exciting to introduce to you:</span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 24px;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 18pt;">HOPE REBORN</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 18pt;">, book three of the historical Christian Texas Romance series! </span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; font-size: 18pt; text-indent: 0in;">What an amazing ride God has me on!</span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody">♫♪*`•. I'm going to sing.•*♪¨*sing•♪♫
SING!!♪♫•*¨♪ I'm going to shout.♪♫¸¸.•*♪ Shout!*•.¸ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ¸SHOUT!.•*º° I'm
gonna sing!•.¸.•</span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">✿</span>ڿڰۣ</span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Sylfaen","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Sylfaen;">ღ</span> I'm goonna shout!</span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "Sylfaen","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Sylfaen;">ღ</span>(̆̃̃ڿڰۣ</span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">✿</span>♫♪*PRAISE THE LORD!`º°¨•.¸When those gates are open
wide¸•.¸.•*♪♫• I'm gonna sit by Jesus' side!♪♫¸•*♪ I'm gonna sing♫♪*`•. I'm
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Rangers would offer great inspiration as a love interest for her new heroine and sets out to the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> "</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.3in;">Her two-room suite on the third deck practically took
her breath away, much fancier than her own bedroom and the parlor back home.
Dinner, served almost as she boarded, tasted divine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">After putting away the rest of her things, he placed
her valise on the writing table, took out the manuscript, ink well and quill
pen. “Anything else, ma’am?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, please. I need another forty thousand words.
Have any idea where I might pick some up?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“May I suggest the same place you obtained all the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh Chester, Chester, Chester. I was afraid you might
say something completely and dreadfully useless like that. Why can’t you ever
tell me what I want to hear?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He grinned, bowed, then backed out like a real butler,
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Where’s your room?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He stopped at her door. “Directly across the hall.
Supper’s at eight, ma’am. A warning bell will sound.” He bowed his head. “You
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She curled her lip. “Work, work, work. You’re such a
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No way could she write that fast, much less think of
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She’d have them marry, say I do, and be done with the
lot of them. Too bad the contract she’d signed clearly spelled out one hundred
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She slipped out of her skirt and bustle then plopped
into the chair. It didn’t even swivel, and the seat cushion wasn’t soft enough,
and…now who was being whiny? She smiled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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created at least a tad like her? She hefted her hiney to the back of the seat
cushion and straightened the blank pages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She stared at the last page she’d worked on, reread
it, and picked up the pen. She carefully opened the ink well then tickled her
chin with the feather. The tickle never failed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">An idea emerged, and she dipped the quill in the
offending black liquid. Soon flowing phrases filled the page. Like soldiers
marching to a sure death, the letters formed their lines and hurried to their
boring demise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the supper bell rang and set her loose from the chains of her imagined dungeon.
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ma’am.” Then bent her wrist and extended her hand to the gentleman on her left.
“Hello, May Meriwether, sir. Good evening.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one. (I read this book in almost one sitting. I quit reading around 2/3 one
morning and resumed later in the day after I got caught up on sleep.) These
Texas Romance/Christian Romantic Historical Western Adventures are certainly
full of all of the aspects of each genre individually and meshed into a
wonderful story that is very unique and unforgettable. </span></div>
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books and A Texas Romance series is full of mystery, suspense, twist, turns,
forgiveness, redemption and love. </span>The story kept me captivated. The dialogue is
entertaining and heartwarming. The story does have a
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Reborn is the third in a series. It is not necessary to read the first two but
it is helpful to get the background.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">I
loved the characters in this book, and I thought it was so much fun that Ms.
McAdoo put her novels in as though they were written by May. (Hint: If you
haven't read Lady Luck's A Loser and plan to, you might want to read it first.)</span>
This was a great story and I can't wait until the next one comes out. -- </span></b></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Susan Johnson, reader in Odessa, Texas </span></b><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></b></div>
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Simon & Schuster author Caryl McAdoo is excited about her newest historical
Christian Texas Romance series HOPE REBORN (1850 / Jan. 9, 2015), book three
after VOW UNBROKEN (1832 / March 2014) and book two HEARTS STOLEN
(1844 / September, 2014). The novelist also edits, paints, and writes new songs.
In 2008, she and her high school sweetheart-husband Ron moved from the DFW
area—home for fifty-five years—to the woods of Red River County. Caryl counts
four children and fourteen grandsugars life’s biggest blessings believing all
good things come from God. Praying her story gives God glory, she hopes they
books will also minister His love, mercy, and grace to all their readers. Caryl
and Ron live in Clarksville, the county seat, in the far northeast corner of
the Lone Star State. </span></div>
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Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076445203089578848.post-27933188556096606182015-01-04T16:23:00.001-06:002015-01-04T16:33:56.402-06:00TSUNAMI Then and Now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">H<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">ow blessed is India that Bishop Leo Michael and his writing wife Holly have this story to tell? If not the whole country, at least those poor souls who lived on the south seashore of India who experienced and survived the devastation of the worst tsunami of our lifetimes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">It happened on December 26, 2004. The pictures they showed on the news will forever be in my memory. Until that time, I'd never heard a tsunami. I'm uncertain why, but India's TSUNAMI 2004 made the news world-wide. And the Michaels almost immediately started a fund-raiser in Northern Arkansas that quickly went coast to coast and the generosity of Americans shone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This new book T<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">sunami 2004, Still Wading Through Waves of Hope is a work of love from these two servants of God.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">It tells two true stories, a decade apart, tied together by the Michaels' Christian works of charity to those affected by the natural disaster in India. They went in January, 2005, within two weeks of the gigantic wave's annihilation of life as the simple fisherfolk knew it.</span></span><br />
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<strong>The Children, survivors of tsunami:</strong></div>
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Tsunami orphaned so many little ones, and besides helping the adults, the Michaels turned the love of Christ toward these little ones and in 2005, set up certificates of deposit for those who lost one or both of their parents in the storm. The CDs were set up to mature in ten years.</div>
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The children all got a new shirt and shorts and were required to go to the bank. A very grown-up thing for them to do.</div>
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In TSUNAMI 2004, Still Wading Through Waves of Hope, author Holly Michael writes about that first trip. The people they met, the love they extended and devastation and despair they encountered first hand.</div>
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The book that you won't be able to put down is filled with heart wrenching photographs from the trip in 2205 as well as the journey in 2014 to go back for the tenth anniversary of the natural disaster. Fishing was the livelihood of so many, yet some of the men refused to fish in the waters that swallowed their loved ones. To the right, the smoldering piles are bodies burning, thousands of lives were lost. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And God made a way for them to return in 2014, just before the tenth anniversary of the tsunami and see those children they met a decade ago, and make sure they received their monies if they </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">chose to cash them in. You'll be right there on the beaches a decade later and see how things have changed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Holly also interviews the children, now ten years older and starting their lives with a little help from their matured certificates of deposit. They remember that day and share their survival stories and the obstacles they still face.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After the shock of loss that fateful day, the children needed places to sleep, food. Many surviving fathers abandoned their family leaving the older siblings to care for the younger.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">While it is a story that will touch your heart, the courage and brave stamina of the stories speak of determination to overcome what life offered. It reminds me of a verse: In the world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for He has overcome the world. God's presence was with the Michaels there on the beautiful tropical beaches, recovered in 2014, though life there will never be the same carefree existence for those survivors of tsunami 2004. You will not want to miss this book!</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The orphans a decade later, Some traveled for hours to see the Michaels again.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Holly Michael also has a novel that you'll definitely want to read if you haven't already. Crooked Lines is available in print or digital formats. She artistically weaves two stories, two souls in two cultures, together for a you-can't-put-it-down novel. A sequel is planned to release in 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And be watching in the Spring for Harvest House's publishing FIRST AND GOAL: What football taught me about life, a wonderful devotional written with Jake, her NFL football playing son. I had the privilege of being a beta reader and can truthfully say you will not need to be a fan of the game to thoroughly enjoy the book! And you'll learn a few things, too!</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS spent ten days as #1 in its category at Amazon. I'm grateful and overwhelmed by the wonderful reviews its received! Deanna Stevens in Beatrice, Nebraska said, </span>"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Adam and Eve tempted.. Seduced by evil, Cain kills Abel.. Caryl McAdoo gives her spin on this captivating story in Genesis on the fall of Adam and what would follow. I did enjoy reading the story Caryl tells us of Eve's betrayal, Cains murder of his brother Abel after his sacrifice isn't accepted, Angels and the Wonders of Heaven.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"> ...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">I recommend this book to anyone who would like to read a new and different insight to the story of Adam and Eve."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And Debbie Gomes wrote</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I read and loved A LITTLE LOWER THAN ANGELS by Caryl Lawrence McAdoo. It was truly an amazing book. I loved everything about this book. I have never read a biblical fiction and really never thought I would enjoy it, So I am very happy I read this book. I can't say how much this book touched my heart. I wa very emotional and crying throughout the whole story. I loved her notes at the end of the book. This is a 5 star book and 10 hanky's at least."</span></b><br />
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417715165346_139417" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22em;">Former Clash Contestant </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22em;">Patricia Bradley</b><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417715165346_139416" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.22em;"> is in the spotlight today! A popular romantic suspense author from Mississippi, her latest book "A Promise to Protect" released this fall and garnered high praise from readers. It's the second book in her Logan Point series, with the third releasing next summer.</span><br />
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<i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417715165346_139424" style="line-height: 1.22em;">In a steamy small town riddled with broken promises, one woman’s secret could change everything.</i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyqZtSGOoJGvSHh3X_95Fi_vtyYdJcAoCRN0FoePnlELqv7ZuhvqZR4NYD22ry6jQGOe8Ky4PrpJS_4fNAdP_B8nwGmq-W3Y_ArEVdK5GGtvtP8YdweziSmLftUHzYwPcS1jo4BC4HEQk/s1600/A+Promise+to+Protect.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; float: left; line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;"></i></a><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417715165346_139381" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Acting Sheriff Ben Logan hasn’t heard from Leigh Somerall in a very long time, but it doesn’t mean he can get her—or their whirlwind romance of ten years ago—out of his head. When she calls out of the blue, it is with a strange request to protect her brother, Tony. But all too soon, Ben is charged with a different task—protecting Leigh from the people after her brother. With Leigh doing everything in her power to avoid Ben, it’s no easy task. And the secret she is keeping just may change their lives forever.</i><div style="line-height: 1.22em;">
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“Patricia Bradley definitely has a knack for creating mysteries that are tough to get to the bottom of. A Promise to Protect proves once again that Patricia Bradley has a knack for writing intriguing, complex mysteries that are difficult to solve. Fans of her first novel won’t be disappointed, and hopefully this book will endear some new readers to her as well.”</div>
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<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><b style="line-height: 1.22em;">JoJo Sutis on Goodreads says:</b>Wow! Wow! Wow! Once again Patricia Bradley has written another hit! I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this one from the minute I finished the first Logan Point book. I was so excited to get to read more about Ben (a character from book 1). The interaction between the two main characters was awesome…I love when main characters have a past together. This is definitely an edge of your seat thriller, full of secrets and intrigue. I’m thrilled to have found a new fave suspense author…fans of Lynette Eason, Terri Blackstock, and Irene Hannon don’t miss Patricia Bradley!!!”<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><h3 style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Patricia Bradley lives in North Mississippi and is a former abstinence educator and co-author of RISE To Your Dreams, an abstinence curriculum. But her heart is tuned to suspense. Patricia’s romantic suspense books include the Logan Point series—Shadows of the Past and A Promise to Protect—and Matthew’s Choice a Heartwarming romance. Her workshops on writing include an online course with American Christian Fiction Writers and workshops at the Midsouth Christian Writer’s Conference in Collierville, TN. When she’s not writing, she likes to throw mud on a wheel and see what happens.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><h3 style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">
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It's been more than two years since homicide detective Livy Reynolds's cousin disappeared from Logan Point. Unlike most people in her hometown, Livy has never believed that Robyn left voluntarily. When Dallas private investigator Alex Jennings contacts Livy concerning a missing senator's daughter who was last seen in Logan Point, she notices eerie similarities between the two disappearances. But with self-doubt plaguing her and an almost instant dislike of Jennings, Livy is finding this investigation an uphill battle. With her future in law enforcement on the line, can she find a way to work with a man who is her polar opposite?</div>
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Clash of the Titles extends a heartfelt congratulations to author Ruth Reid for her commendable work. We wish God's abundant blessings on her future projects.</div>
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“A Miracle of Hope quickens a reader’s heart in hope that one child’s faith will be miracle enough.” –Alan Daugherty, News-Banner columnist</div>
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Lindie Wyse thinks an arranged marriage is the only way to preserve a future for herself and her unborn child. Josiah Plank is certain he’ll never love again, but he needs someone to care for his deaf eight-year-old daughter, Hannah. The two take on their arrangement tentatively at first but soon realize they are each in for more than they imagined. After a short time, Lindie experiences a breakthrough with Hannah when she recognizes the child’s special gifts, but a risky pregnancy and serious health issues threaten to demolish the foundation Josiah and Lindie are building—and the love that is growing between them.</div>
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Will their marriage survive their struggles, or will their hearts become as cold as the northern winter?</div>
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“A beautifully written love story, A Miracle of Hope is both heartwarming and heartbreaking and features believable, charming characters who are willing to do whatever it takes for love.” 4 stars, RT Book Reviews </div>
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Ruth is a CBA and ECPA best-selling author of the <i style="line-height: 1.22em;">Heaven on Earth</i> and Amish Wonders series. When attending Ferris State University School of Pharmacy in Big Rapids, Michigan, she lived on the outskirts of an Amish community and had several occasions to visit the Amish farms. Her interest grew into love as she saw the beauty in living a simple life. Ruth resides in Florida with her husband and three children. </div>
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“…Ruth’s descriptions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula during the winter are vivid and almost hauntingly beautiful—yet the hardship and “cabin fever” element are very real. But it’s character depth that is this story’s strength…” –Carole Jarvis, Amazon Review</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"><i style="line-height: 1.22em;">Her Christmas Pen Pal</i>, a novella in An Amish Second Christmas collection released October 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">She is currently working on book three of the Amish Wonders Series (untitled at this time; release is planned for 2016). </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.5200004577637px;">Congratulations to clash winner Sharyn Kopf and her book </span><i style="line-height: 1.22em;">Spinstered: The</i><span style="line-height: 19.5200004577637px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 1.22em;">Novel</i><span style="line-height: 19.5200004577637px;">. A touching debut, </span><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415545249289_271418" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Spinstered </i><span style="line-height: 19.5200004577637px;">began as a nonfiction book idea and, through God's design, became a novel that will speak to many women. For those in the Cleveland area, Sharyn will be selling and signing her novel at the Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy Craft Fair in Cuyahoga Falls on Saturday, November 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and she'd love to meet you there!</span></div>
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Three friends. Three stories. Three women trying to figure out how they ended up over 40 and still single.</div>
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Committed to her job and pushing fifty, Catie Delaney has almost given up on her dream of love and marriage. Maybe, she tells herself, she’d be happier just embracing her singleness. Maybe that's been God’s will all along.</div>
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Catie's friends, Jolene and Uli, have their own struggles with men, careers, and family.</div>
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Then into this mix of feminine angst walks Brian Kemper—the latest GWP (Guy With Potential) to join their church’s singles group. But just as something seems about to happen between him and Catie, her world falls apart.</div>
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With their hearts on the line, these three friends search for hope ... and find it in unexpected places.</div>
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I knew I wanted to be a writer when I wrote my first poem at the age of 5. And, for the longest time, that dream meant being a romance novelist. In my 20s, I saw myself becoming the clean, Christian version of Kathleen Turner’s character in Romancing the Stone—enjoying a life of adventure and romance and lots of bestsellers.<br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;">So, what happened?</b><br />
Well, things didn’t turn out the way I imagined. (Do they ever?) On October 15, I turned 51 and, though I suppose I’ve had a few mild adventures, I still dream of true love and being such a popular novelist that even people in the jungles of Columbia have heard of me.<br />
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Then, in my 40s, I realized I needed to write about my single heart and broken dreams. When I started working on Spinstered, it was a nonfiction book about grieving singleness. I took the seven stages of grief—denial, disbelief, bargaining, guilt, anger, depression and hope—and applied them to what I was dealing with as a 40-something single woman.<br />
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A few years later, while at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference, a friend encouraged me to focus on my fiction writing. As a result, Spinstered the Novel was born.<br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;">What are some of your strengths as a writer?</b><br />
Years ago, I had the privilege to work for the in-house radio marketing department at Focus on the Family. I learned I not only love writing scripts and dialog but I’m pretty good at it. I even won a few awards while I was there.<br />
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I’m also passionately committed to making my manuscript as good as I can. Though that can also be a detriment because I’m a bit OCD about it, which means I have a hard time letting something I wrote go until it’s perfect. And it’s never perfect.<br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;">Continuing that thought, what are your weaknesses as a writer?</b><br />
Well, to be honest, I don’t write as much as I should. I think it’s a mixture of fear and laziness. Fear that what I write won’t be any good. And the laziness that comes from letting other things distract me from what I know needs to be done. Like spending too much time on Facebook.<br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;">Why did you decide to self-publish Spinstered?</b><br />
That’s a long, sad story but suffice it to say I went through a disappointing contract experience that did not end with a published book. In the meantime, numerous interactions with singles fed the urgency I felt to get this book to the audience I know is out there.<br />
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My choice was to start over with submitting to agents or editors—a process that can take years—or self-publish. Since the novel had already gone through several rounds of edits, I knew I could have it ready within a week or two. In fact, I was able to make my goal of taking copies to the Labor Day Singles Retreat at Ridgecrest Conference Center near Asheville, NC. I sold several copies there and made some great connections. It also led to my first 5-star review!<br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;">What’s next?</b><br />
First, I plan to finish and self-publish the nonfiction version—Spinstered: Surviving Singleness After 40—in the next few months. In addition, I wrote an unrelated novella titled Cold Read that I hope to have available soon. Finally, I have two sequels to Spinstered the Novel in the works. Book two will be titled Inconceived and I’ll probably name book 3 Altared. Of course, all of that could change. I’m open to whatever God wants to do!<br />
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Spinstered is Sharyn Kopf’s first novel. Over the years, her work has included co-authoring a book about traumatic brain injury, penning scripts for stage, and writing for newspaper as well as Focus on the Family radio.<br />
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Every Friday, Sharyn ponders the over-40 single life at www.girlsnightin40.com, the blog she shares with two other authors. For her day job(s), she works as a literary publicist for Route 1 Manuscripts and teaches high school English at a small Christian school.<br />
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She lives in Bellefontaine, Ohio, just five minutes from her favorite people in the world—her family. You can connect with Sharyn through her blog or on Facebook.</div>
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<b style="color: #38761d;">I met Carol Moncado before my first ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Conference in 2012. I'm sure you can understand why her name first caught my attention. When my married name is mispronounced, it's often mistaken for MacCado, so it sounds almost like hers! :) Welcome to one of my cyberspace corners, my friend!</b><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><b>Thanks, Caryl, it's good to be with you this week.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>And congratulations on your new book! Please share with our readers w</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">hat inspired </span><i>Finding Mr. Write</i>?</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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conversation I had with Casey Herringshaw in the comments on Seekerville one day
in mid-2011. We were planning for our first ACFW conference and debated whether
or not we should stalk Julie Lessman while there.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><b>Well, it turns out we didn’t need
to, but the idea had taken root. The original concept had a much more
Lucy-Ethel tone to it, but I love the way it turned out.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">I'm glad to hear that, and so why Mya Elizabeth Linscott? </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><b>Mya... well, the reason is implied in the book so I won’t spoil it here. I
don’t remember the inspiration for Elizabeth, but likely just looking for
something with an “E” to make it MEL. Linscott comes from my favorite Mary
Connealy hero, Tom Linscott in <i>Sharpshooter
in Petticoats</i>.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>And Dorrie? Where'd she come from? Oh, and you have to tell us about the skin cancer on her poor nose!</b></span><br />
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Dorrie embodies pretty much every author I know, myself included. The
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Hold it! I had no idea EVERYone goes through those awful emotions. Well, I would never cave to fear. I refuse it. Have for years, but I do know insecurity and rejection. Go on, please.</span></b></span></div>
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that transcend writing. Camaraderie. Growth. And I <i>do</i> know of at least one couple who met at a conference and married
later. Her journey mirrors mine in many ways [though not the contest final/win
- or the random conference wedding ;)]. <br />
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As for the skin cancer... as I was working on a round of edits for this book, I
was diagnosed with exactly what she was. Her experience there also very much
mirrors my own - from the nickel-sized crater to the second surgery and the
lasering. And yes - my eyelids were numb at one point ;).</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My husband isn’t a writer, but he’s a lot like Jeremiah in a lot of ways. He’s
incredibly supportive and I couldn’t do this writer thing without him. I don’t
know where the whole “Prince Caspian” thing came from, but came it did. And I
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Many of Dorrie’s writer friends were inspired by my own.<br />
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* Stephanie Jamison morphed out Casey Herringshaw. Her story, <i>Finally Mr. Write, </i>is the second book in
this series and releases November 24, 2014.<br />
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* Anise Taylor came from my dear friend Pepper Basham [who recently signed her
first book contract!!!!] - her story is slated for <i>Grace to Forgive</i>, which takes place in 2018 [why yes, I have some
stories planned that far out ;)]. I have about 1500 words of that story
written, from right smack in the middle, and every time I reread it I cry. I
don’t think I’m a good enough writer to do that story justice just yet so I’m
glad I’ve got a bit of time ;). However, Anise will pop in and out of stories
here and there in the meantime!<br />
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* Julie Harders was initially inspired by Julie Lessman. Her son, Travis
Harders, gets a story in <i>Grace to Save</i>
[which comes right before Anise’s story]. Travis’s daughter’s last name is
Connealy-Harders - names stolen from Mary Connealy and Audra Harders.<br />
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*Gavin Parmigianno is introduced at the CANDID conference. Dorrie and Jeremiah
babysit for Bethany Sheer’s twin daughters. Gavin and Bethany meet in <i>Falling for Mr. Write</i>, book 3 in this
series, slated for release in December 2014. That story was written long before
I realized how well it fit in this series - with just a few tweaks ;).<br />
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* The Watchers blog group is based on the real life Seekerville - who meet
every night of conference in the bar to hang out, encourage, commiserate with,
love on all of the Seekervillagers.<br />
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*The NovelSistas are mentioned as a shout out my very own Jessica Keller
Koschnitzky and Kristy Cambron. They’re both also part of BritCrits - which
includes Jen Cvelbar (writing as Jennifer A. Davids), Joanna Davidson Politano,
and Stacey Zink.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Yes, that's right! Six releases, except I'm planning mine between now and the end of the year.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><b>For starters, I’m
not officially doing NaNoWriMo this year - and I really am mourning that. I
know it seems odd, but that’s how much I love it. </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><b><i>Finding Mr. Write</i> started as my 2011
project, though it’s undergone some fairly major revisions since. <i>Good Enough for a Princess</i> [releases
11/17/2014] was from 2012. <i>Queen of His
Heart</i> [working title; releases Spring 2015] was the 2013 project.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b>DEBUT DAY!</b></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b>My first Biblical fiction series, </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> The Generations! </span><span style="font-size: large;">Volume one,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS</b>, here today, November 2nd</span><span style="font-size: large;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Lower-Than-Angels-Generations/dp/1502412276/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414953479&sr=1-9&keywords=Caryl+McAdoo" target="_blank">Buy Your Copy Now!</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>This novella offers three parallel storylines: 1) Adam and Eve in Adam's Valley, 2) Cain and Sheriah traveling east of Eden to Nod, and 3) Abel in Paradise with angels, including one dear cherub named Namrel you are sure to fall in love with. And my cover characters both play important roles in the story! </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Come to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/335110706668314/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming" target="_blank">LAUNCH PARTY t</a>oday at 2 p.m.!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Before the story starts, I talk about what Biblical fiction means to me which is imagination wrapped around absolute Truth--God's living Word. After all, facts are facts and who can write a better story than our Creator? Only He doesn't write fiction. Jesus called Himself The Truth. I love Him, and I love Truth! </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>And I find myself singing<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">: </span></b></span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥ </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">He's got His*•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">Angels watching</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪ ♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">Over me </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">*¨*•.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♫ </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">every step I take!</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">¸.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">•*</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;"> ¨*Angels•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♫♪ </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">watching •*</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">¨*•Over me! </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♫♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;"> *•.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♥</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="color: #38761d;">And I also sing: </b><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥ </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">He's got His*•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">Angels watching</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪ ♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">Over YOU </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">*¨*•.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♫</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">every step you take!</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">¸.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">• *</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">¨*Angels•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♫♪ </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">watching •*</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">¨*•Over me! </span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♫♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">•</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;"> *•.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♫♪</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: 'MS UI Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">✫♥</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">.</span><span style="background: rgb(237, 239, 244); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0in;">♪♥</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;">One reason I chose to release this story on November 2nd is because it's my sweet husband's birthday! Totally grateful that sixty-five years ago, his mother Wanda Kathleen Lewis McAdoo gave birth to the 'man' God formed in her womb to be my husband! Six full months before I was born! My Heavenly Father loved me that much even way back then!</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">I hope A Little Lower Than the Angels and its entire The Generations series will bless you and cause you to open your Bible, seek out the scripture's meanings for yourself, willing to turn from the traditions of men and what you were taught as a child in order to search out the Truth. The Word tells us HIS PEOPLE perish for a lack of knowledge. Have we been led astray by the father of lies? So subtle is he, taking his time over decades and centuries and even millennium to kill, steal, and destroy.</span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d;">I'm so excited to hold my thirteenth published book in my hands. That's always fun!</b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Leave a comment and tell me if you've read a biblical fiction before and what you thought of it :) I'll put your name in the hat for another FREE BOOK! (separate from the Launch Party's Contests) </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Blessings and Peace and Joy!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Thank you for stopping by my blog! Visit anytime! :)</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span>Caryl McAdoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00392468033143238490noreply@blogger.com0