This Week Cynthia Ruchti, Winnie Griggs, Sarah Sundin, and Lily George

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Congratulations to Melody for winning Kellie Coates Gilbert’s Mother of Pearl, to Kate for winning Kathy Harris’s The Road to Mercy, to Betsy for winning Ronie Kendig’s Trinity and to Janice for winning Margaret Daley’s A Mom’s New Start.

 

This week I’m hosting  Cynthia Ruchti with Cedar Creek Seasons, Winnie Griggs with Handpicked Husband,  Sarah Sundin with With Every Letter, and Lily George with The Temporary Betrothal. If you want to enter the drawings for the books, please leave a comment on one of the post during the week with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (September 16th) evening.

Bio of Cynthia Ruchti:

For 33 years, Cynthia Ruchti wrote and produced The Heartbeat of the Home radio ministry. She was past president of American Christian Fiction Writers and now serves as ACFW’s professional relations liaison. Whether through novels, devotionals, non-fiction, or speaking to women’s groups, writers, or her grandchildren, she’s engaged in telling stories of Hope-that-glows-in-the-dark. www.cynthiaruchti.com

Blurb for “Maybe Us” in Cedar Creek Seasons novella collection (Barbour Publishing’s Romancing America series) by Cynthia Ruchti:

Thirty-something Beth Schurmer has her hands full running her deceased grandmother’s Yarn Shop in Cedarburg, Wisconsin’s historic downtown district. Caring for her grandfather–the storytelling heart of the Yarn Shop–consumes the rest of her time. She has no room in her life for romance. Although…the owner of the new brownie specialty shop–Life by Chocolate–two doors down might be the exception.
 

Bio of Winnie Griggs:

Always an avid and eclectic reader, Winnie has dabbled in writing stories for her own enjoyment most of her life.  In the early 90s she gave herself a personal challenge of trying to write a full length novel from start to finish.  It took her a couple of years to complete, but once she’d made it to ‘the end’ she was hooked.  It took several more years to accomplish her next goal – that of becoming published – but in 2000 she received ‘the call’ and saw her first book hit the bookstore shelves in 2001. 

Winnie has now written 14 books for three different lines and is currently hard at work on her 15th.  A small town girl herself, Winnie’s books focus on family, community and matters of faith – all subjects that are near and dear to her own heart.  In fact, the tagline on her website reads “Small Towns, Big Hearts, Amazing Grace”.  Her writing has garnered enthusiastic reviews and numerous awards, among them a TOP pick rating from Romantic Times, two nominations for a Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award and an Award Of Merit from the prestigious HOLT Medallion contest.

Winnie has been married for over 35 years to her college sweetheart and together they have raised four proud-to-call-them-mine children and a too-numerous-to-count assortment of dogs, cats, fish, hamsters, turtles and 4-H sheep.  Besides reading and writing, Winnie’s  favorite activities include cooking, exploring flea markets and pretending the growing army of dust bunnies who have invaded her home will disappear if she just ignores them long enough.

Winnie loves to hear from readers.  You can contact her via her website www.winniegriggs.com or find her on facebook.

Blurb for Handpicked Husband by Winnie Griggs:

Can she drive away not one, but three suitors?

Free-spirited photographer Regina Nash is ready to try. But unless she marries one of the gentlemen her grandfather has sent for her inspection, she’ll lose custody of her nephew. So she must persuade them—and Adam Barr, her grandfather’s envoy—that she’d make a thoroughly unsuitable wife.

Adam isn’t convinced. Regina might be unconventional, but she has wit, spirit and warmth. His job was to make sure Regina chose from the men he escorted to Texas—not to marry her himself! Can they overcome the secrets in her past, and the shadows in his, to find a perfect future together?

Bio for Sarah Sundin:

Sarah Sundin is the author of With Every Letter, the first book in the Wings of the Nightingale series from Revell, and also the Wings of Glory series (A Distant Melody, A Memory Between Us, and Blue Skies Tomorrow). In 2011, A Memory Between Us was a finalist in the Inspirational Reader’s Choice Awards and Sarah received the Writer of the Year Award at the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. Sarah lives in northern California with her husband and three children. When she isn’t ferrying kids to tennis and karate, she works on-call as a hospital pharmacist and teaches Sunday school and women’s Bible studies. Please visit her at http://www.sarahsundin.com.

 Blurb for With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin:

During World War II, Lt. Mellie Blake is looking forward to beginning her training as a flight nurse. She is not looking forward to writing a letter to a man she’s never met—even if it is anonymous and part of a morale-building program. Lt. Tom MacGilliver, an officer stationed in North Africa, welcomes the idea of an anonymous correspondence—he’s been trying to escape his infamous name for years. As their letters crisscross the Atlantic, Tom and Mellie develop a unique friendship despite not knowing the other’s true identity. When both are transferred to Algeria, the two are poised to meet face-to-face for the first time. Will they overcome their fears and reveal who they are, or will their future be held hostage by their pasts?

Bio for Lily George:

Growing up in a small town in Texas, Lily George spent her summers devouring the books in her mother’s Christian bookstore. Lily has a BA in History from Southwestern University and uses her training as a historian to research her novels. She has published one nonfiction book and produced one documentary. Lily lives in the Dallas area with her husband, daughter, and too many pets.

Lily’s favorite authors are L.M. Montgomery, Grace Livingston Hill, and Janette Oke.

Blurb for The Temporary Betrothal by Lily George:

From Temporary Engagement to True Love?

Sophie Handley is a charming flirt–just like the fiancée who jilted Lieutenant Charles Cantrill after he was wounded at Waterloo. Yet her assistance in helping veterans is proving invaluable. And when she offers to feign a courtship to appease his family, he finds their arrangement curiously appealing… Sophie has been groomed from birth for a life of easy comfort. Then financial ruin obliges her to reevaluate all her plans and dreams. Helping veterans and their wives helps her see what’s truly important–and gives her the chance to enjoy the lieutenant’s very appealing company. Somehow Sophie must help his embittered heart to see she’s found her permanent place–by his side, and in his arms.

The Temporary Betrothal, the second book in the Brides of Waterloo series, is due to be released in September, 2012.