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Book Review: Saving Mars

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Saving Mars by Cidney Swanson Jessamyn must make a choice: save her beloved brother or her planet? Click the cover to buy When an accidental fire destroys ninety percent of their food supply, Marsians trust aspiring pilot Jessamyn, her genius brother Ethan, and a select few others to fly to Earth and smuggle out precious ration bars.  However, TerraMarsian relations have been either hostile or nonexistent for over a century.  When the raid goes south, Jess finds herself facing some hard choices: go with her gut or her heart with the Terran boy?  Focus on saving her brother or her planet?  Can she even manage to do either? This book was written by Cidney Swanson, author of the Amazon bestselling Ripple trilogy and nice writer friend of mine.  I raved about her previous books, hosted a guest post by her, interviewed her , and held giveaways of her books.  She's one of those writers that (even though you know all writers a...

Book Review: All Things Different

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All Things Different by Shawn Underhill Click the cover to buy Jake's dad let Sara into their lives; he never expected her to come so deeply into their hearts. It's a rare thing for an author to contact me personally and directly to request a book review; when it does happen, I always want to say yes and love the book.  With such a beautiful cover, how could I go wrong?

Heroes vs. Mentors

When I recently redid my blog design, I found this sitting on one of my pages.  When or why I wrote it, I can't remember.  But there wasn't room for it with my pages, and I thought it'd be a shame to delete it.  So I'm editing and re-posting it here for all my lovely readers. Heroes.  We all have them. They're the people we look up to, the people we strive to be like, the people who are, in our eyes, the epitome of all that is good and pure, true and honest, just and godly.  They are the parents we want to be like, the teachers we want to talk like, the older friends we want to look like. They seem to have accomplished the ultimate task in life : being Christ-like. We think they are perfect.

Book Review: Starring Me

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Click the cover to buy Starring Me by Krista McGee Kara McKormick is told she's auditioning to star in a new teen variety show. It's what she isn't told that could change her life. Kara McKormick is a normal American teenager... well, except that she's been in a reality television show competing for a date with the First Son.  This happened in McGee's First Date , for which this book is a sequel.  Now, in Starring Me , Kara is aiming for the role of co-host in a new teen variety show.

Fanfiction Contest Winner!

The first reader to correctly guess both what my fanfiction series was based on and how it was different from the original will win an ecopy of Cidney Swanson's new book, Saving Mars . But nobody guessed both!

New Blog Design

I have a new blog design!  Last night I decided to simplify and change up several things.  The results are more suited to my and my personality, I think What do you, my lovely readers, think?

My First Fanfiction (Part Five and Epilogue)

Read Part One here , Part Two here, Part Three here, and Part Four here.  Also, don't forget to return on Thursday to find out who won the contest! The day after the ball, Danielle struggled to hide her fatigue. She managed to pass the Baroness's suspicion, and the next day Marguerite and the Baroness left to call on a courtier who they met at the ball. Jacqueline, Gustave, and Danielle took this opportunity to sit in the attic and discuss the excitement. "I was so worried! When Mother came to fetch me, and I went to warn you - I could not find you anywhere! Then I thought perhaps you had gone already, but Gustave came to me to ask if I had seen you. Wherever were you?" Danielle sighed. She didn't want to share her conversation with the prince, but she had nothing to hide. There was no reason not to tell. "I met the prince."