ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

As the Owner/Director of the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance Bonnie has helped use the 220+ blogs of the Alliance to promote many titles on the Christian bestseller list. She also owns and publishes the Christian Fiction Online magazine which is devoted to readers and writers of Christian fiction. She is the Northeast Zone Director for American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). At ACFW she was named the ‘Mentor of the Year,’ for 2011, and she is the current President of (CAN) Christian Authors Network. Bonnie is also the Appointment Coordinator for both the Colorado Christian Writers Conference and the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference.

In her spare time she is an avid social media junkie, and teaches Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and HTML as recreational occupations. She also has a novel coming out in the Abingdon Quilts of Love series. Her novel Pieces of the Heart will publish August of 2013.

Bonnie and her husband Bob live in a log cabin on 15 acres in upstate area of Binghamton, New York with a dog and cat who consider the humans as wait-staff.

ABOUT THE BOOK

After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also “inherits” a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast iron stomach to partake of her culinary disasters. And with a group like this you should never ask, “What else can go wrong?”

A lot! Sloane begins to receive cyber threats. While Sloane uses her computer forensic skills to uncover the source of the threats, it is discovered someone is out to kill her. Can her life get more crazy?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Cooking The Books, go HERE.

Watch the book video:

If you’d like to read interviews with Bonnie, try these:

Everbody Needs A Little Romance

A Christian Writers World

Novel Rocket

ACFW – Fiction Finder

1. Faithful

2. Frugal

3. Flexible

4. Free-Hearted

Deborah also offered our listeners and readers her FREE scripture matrix! Go to www.ConfrontingIssues.com now for more details!

Check out our interview…

Put Fear In It’s Place

With her trademark clarity and practical wisdom, Deborah Smith Pegues offers you hope and assurance as she addresses relational, health and safety, financial, and emotional fears with godly principles and straightforward helps. Each step of the way, she gives you power over fear by helping you understand

*the root cause of your fears

*God’s perspective on your anxieties, fears, or phobias

*how to respond to fear triggers with awareness and confidence

*ways to embrace healthy fears and to resist unhealthy ones

how neutralizing your fears can maximize your life

If you find yourself walking the minefield of frequent fearfulness, this book will help you exchange your fear for the peace that surpasses all understanding.

“Blessed are the children, for they shall inherit the earth”

Need a manual on raising children and having healthy relationships? Refer to the Bible. That’s what Deidre Collins’ inner spirit is telling her to do now that Andre, her son’s father, is back in town after deserting them eight years ago.

At fourteen years old, her son, DeAndre, is struggling with his own issues–peer pressure, problems at school, and figuring out how to navigate his first crush.

When DeAndre gets suspended from school for ten days, Andre sees it as the perfect opportunity to get to know his his son–and to get closer to Deidre. Can this couple overcome the past for the sake of their son’s future?

A lot can happen to the heart, mind, and soul in…fifteen years.

Having overcome a rough childhood and teenage years to rise to the top of the corporate ladder, it looks as though Josiah (JT) Tucker knows exactly what it means to forget those things that are behind and look only at what lies ahead.

However, at one of the highest points of his life, JT finds himself at his lowest, and it’s clear he has not forgotten.

He has not forgotten the many forgotten the many foster homes he’d been in and out of as a child. Nor the Smiths, the one foster care family who loved and cared for him, giving him a sense of stability and imparting spiritual truth in his life. He has not forgotten the years of working, while going to school and worrying about his birth, wondering when she would come home and in what condition. Nor the news he received the day after his high school graduation.

It was years later and it was all behind him. But the memories were present, torturing him in his brokenness.

When he finally realizes that sometimes moving forward means going back, he goes on a journey. JT’s faith is challenged as he discovers secrets about his past and the love he’s been longing for.

About the author: Kendra Norman Bellamy is a national bestselling author and founder of KNB Publications LLC. Her award-winning titles have been featured in Essence, Upscale, EKG Literary, and HOPE for Women magazines. She has been a contributing writer for Precious Times and Global Woman magazines, among others. Kendra is also a motivational speaker, the organizer of Visions In Print and The Writer’s Hut, and the founder of Crusin in Christ. Kendra is the author of One Prayer Away, Crossing Jhordan’s River, and A Love So Strong. A native of West Palm Beach, Florida, Kendra now resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia with her family. For more information, visit www.knb-publications.com.

Each of the nearly forty Points of Power encourages, uplifts, and comforts. The Points offer material for meditation and reveal a blueprint for harnessing the force of God. Key scriptures with practical applications, helpful prayers, and prompts for self-reflection all help you access the authority and benevolence of God.

The Points of Power themes–faith, love, forgiveness, confession, praise, confidence, prayer, peace, protection, and victory–are freshly presented in an entertaining gathering of stories and anecdotes. The message throughout is that God intends for you to be successful, victorious, and happy.

God has given you benefits and privileges, including the power to change your life, your attitude, and your outlook. POINTS OF POWER will show you how!

Debut author Rhonda McKnight has recently released her novel Secrets and Lies! After many emails, we finally scheduled a date for an interview.

Rhonda is not what I guess to be a new author, she is extremely knowledgeable especially when it pertains to  publishing and marketing. This woman is no rookie. She is rooted and grounded spiritually as well. Rhonda wears many different hats and balances them all well, which is why she is successful in each.

To learn more about Rhonda visit www.RhondaMcKnight.net.

Listen to our interview:

Book Blurb:

Faith Morgan is struggling with her faith. Years of poor communication and neglect leaver her doubting that God will ever fix her marriage. When a coworker accuses her husband, Jonah, of the unthinkable, Faith begins to wonder if she really knows him at all, and it’s truly in God’s will for them to stay married.

.Pediatric cardiologist Jonah Morgan is obsessed with one thing: his work.  A childhood incident cemented his desire to heal children at any cost, even his family, but now he finds himself at a crossroads in his life. will he continue to allow the past to haunt him, or find healing and peace in a God he shut out long ago?

Every Christian woman who desires to be married one day, should own a copy of Lord, I’m Ready to Be a Wife. Christine Pembleton broke the mold when she wrote this book. She is energetic and authentic with her approach to single Christian women. She addresses issues head on with no room for misunderstanding that most people sugar coat.

Christine challenges women to stop acting single and start acting like a wife-in-waiting.

I hope you’re ready for this awesome interview that will take you on a journey to another way of thinking.

About the author:

Christine Pembleton is a wife, mother, and minister. She hosts the Christian Wives Club Show, a weekly interview radio program that encourages women, both single and married, to become the vies God wants them to be. She and her husband Bob live in Philadelphia with their two children. To learn more about Christine or the book please visit www.ReadytoBeaWife.com.

Indigo Burns’s life is going according to plan. She possesses he ambition and talent to be a professional photographer, and she thanks God for all the blessings that surround her. Now, all at once, Indigo’s family life, love life, and hopes for success have flipped upside down. Indigo loves the Lored, bbut can she trust him to work his plan in her plan.

Worth a Thousand Words dramatically explores the tough decisions one woman must make in the world of love, relationships, and career. Will Indigo find the courage to face her own truths–and accept those being barbored by the people she loves most? Either way, she risks losing everything she’s ever wanted.

God Calls You “Winner!”

Is stress, indecision, heartache, or fear zapping you energy? Popular speaker and author Thelma Wells says life doesn’t have to be that way! Opening her heart and God’s Word, she reveals how God taught her to stand tall to win again discouragement and oppression by putting on God’s armor. You’ll discover:

what spiritual warfare is

who you’re fighting

what you’re accomplishing

Thelma’s contagious energy and enthusiasm invited you to tackle life with a “can do” attitude. You’ll find great ways to dress for successful spiritual battle by:

fixing you hair

(putting on the helmet of salvation in Jesus for safety)

padding you heart

(donning the breastplate of righteousness to confront evil)

putting on you stomping shoes

(stepping out in faith against the devil)

No human wins every fight, so Thelma encourages you to call on Jesus when you get tired. He wants you to win, and He actively participates with you to ensure victory.

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I must admit that I don’t usually write reviews for self published books, however, I received numerous emails urging me to simple give author Patricia Neely-Dorsey a chance, and ladies and gentlemen I’ve never regretted it.

Patricia has taken the some what “negative” stigma behind the south flipped it, drizzled it with some poetry, and blended it Dorsey style thus creating her own unique flava.

The poems in her books compel feelings of joy, sorrow, laughter, times of the past, some poems easy on the palate of the mind, and on the contrary there are some  thought provoking poems as well. Patricia is a well rounded southern bell who has a bright future ahead of her. To learn more about her visit www.patricianeelydorsey.webs.com.