Winners!!

Happy Saturday, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is: . Judy Strunk Burgi - No Safe Harbor by Elizabeth Ludwig! Congratulations, Judy! Please use the button in the upper right side of this page to email me with your email address. Then, sit back and wait for your book to arrive. Thank you all so much for stopping by...

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Weekly Drawing

It's fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! To enter: Follow Us! Followers are automatically entered. Or... Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzle in the comments section. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner, but by leaving your time, you double your chances. Want another entry? Tweet your puzzle time and mention The Borrowed Book, get another entry. RETWEET...

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Character Spotlight ~ Cara Hamilton and Rourke Turner

We're celebrating the upcoming release of Elizabeth Ludwig's newest novel, No Safe Harbor (Book 1 in the Edge of Freedom Series from Bethany House Publishers), and we thought it might be fun to let you meet the stars of this tale! Brief physical description: I have two protagonists—Rourke (Walsh) Turner and Cara Hamilton. Cara is Irish, with long red hair...

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2012 Carol Award Winners

Left to Right: Janelle Mowery, Becky Yauger, and Elizabeth Ludwig Every year, authors across the country look forward with anticipation to the annual American Christian Fiction Writers Carol Awards. The Carol Awards are ACFW's recognition for the best Christian fiction published by traditional publishing houses in the previous calendar year. The event has grown over...

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Why Write, Really?

Why, really? The ACFW conference for 2012 has just concluded and while exciting, challenging and exhausting, we came away with a treasure trove of information. Now it’s time to put pen to paper (rather fingers on the keyboard) and begin to write.  Why, really? Donald Maas, author of Writing the Breakout Novel states there are two pervasive reasons writers write:...

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Contemporary Romance Spotlight: The Way of Grace

About the Book: "In pursuit of justice, in need of grace . . . A justice-seeking perfectionist pursues her dream of a perfect life in her hometown of Miller’s Creek, Texas. Sidetracked by a desire to be a prosecuting attorney, Grace Soldano launches into uncharted waters, making herself over to please her boss and mentor. Then a disheveled free spirit turns her perfectly...

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Winner!!

Happy Saturday, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is: . Anne Payne - Deadly Additive by Donn Taylor! Congratulations, Anne! Please use the button in the upper right side of this page to email me with your email address. Then, sit back and wait for your book to arrive. Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed...

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Weekly Drawing

It's fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! To enter: Follow Us! Followers are automatically entered. Or... Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzle in the comments section. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner, but by leaving your time, you double your chances. Want another entry? Tweet your puzzle time and mention The Borrowed Book, get another entry. RETWEET...

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Author Interview ~ Margaret Daley

Margaret Daley, an award-winning author of eighty-three books, has been married for over forty years and is a firm believer in romance and love. When she isn’t traveling, she’s writing love stories, often with a suspense thread and corralling her three cats that think they rule her household. To find out more about Margaret visit her website at http://www.margaretdaley.com. Hi,...

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Write Right~1927 Sunday Dinner Menu

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Tweaking a Sentence to Add Drama by Donn Taylor

Who would believe that a subject as prosaic as punctuation of compound predicates could help dramatize the actions—and thus the immediacy and interest—of a novel? Yet, with apologies for the pedantry, that is what I will attempt to illustrate today. First of all, though, I’d like to suggest that no structure of writing is too small for a writer to pay attention to. When...

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Historical Romance Book Review: Angel of the Cove

About the Book "Before Anna Prentiss can start nursing school in New York, her brother sends her to Cades Cove, deep in the Smoky Mountains, to spend a summer apprenticing to the local midwife. Anna is determined to prove herself and then head to the big city. But nothing could have prepared Anna for the beauty of the Cove, the community and friendships she finds...

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Winners!!

Happy Saturday, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is: . Cindy W - The Road to Mercy by Kathy Harris! Congratulations, Cindy W! Please use the button in the upper right side of this page to email me with your email address. Then, sit back and wait for your book to arrive. Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed...

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Weekly Drawing

It's fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! To enter: Follow Us! Followers are automatically entered. Or... Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzle in the comments section. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner, but by leaving your time, you double your chances. Want another entry? Tweet your puzzle time and mention The Borrowed Book, get another entry. RETWEET...

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Author Interview ~ Kathy Harris

Kathy Harris is an author by way of a “divine detour” into the Nashville entertainment business. After graduating with a Communications degree from Southern Illinois University, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to work in the music industry. An active member of American Christian Fiction Writers and the publicity officer for Middle Tennessee Christian Writers, she...

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