MommyFest Book GiveAway

Today at Christian Fiction I'm giving away a great book with a strong mother protagonists:

A Mending at the Edge (Change and Cherish Historical Series #3)

Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner-Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award winning author, Jane Kirkpatrick shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman's desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of and ordinary life. While set in the historical past, it's a story for our own time answering the question: Can threads of an isolated life weave a legacy of purpose in community?

An excerpt...

Women bore the brunt, no matter how dangerous it might have been to remain married to some brute. Women were left to fend for themselves and their children, to pay for the rest of their days for the poor choices they once made. Women suffered they stayed married, chose to live with the disgrace of divorce, or dangled dangerously in between.

You will enjoy this book!

So how do you win a copy?

Share a moment when you felt empowered about your Maternity in three sentences or less.

Paint Real Pictures of Real Struggles to Engage Your Reader

Michelle McKinney Hammond stops by Christian Fiction Blog to answer our spring 1Author Interview Question:

How do you engage your reader?

He[Christ] painted real pictures of real struggles that we can still relate to today and shared how the characters conflicts were solved so that we could learn from example. I think good Christian fiction does the same thing.

In my new novel, Playing God, I wanted people to get a coherent visual of what happens when we take our own lives into our own hands without partnering with God to achieve a victorious end to our personal dramas.

We are all guilty of playing God at some point in time. Whether reacting to a situation that we believe we can fix, trying to fix others, wreaking havoc out of revenge or trying to protect someone beyond our human jurisdiction we've been there done that and have the bruises to show for it. Hopefully these women stories will inspire readers to take a look at their own responses to issues that tempt them to take over rather than letting go and letting God work it out.

Click here to learn more about Playing God: A Novel