Emma Faye, the Clean Read Queen
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Emma Faye, the Clean Reads Queen, is an award-winning audiobook narrator passionate about bringing stories to life. With over 100 audiobooks recorded in her professional home studio and 20 years of acting experience, she excels at diving deep into characters and bringing each to life. Specializing in , her favorite genres are YA fantasy, middle-grade fiction, clean/sweet romances, and wholesome nonfiction. Emma pours her heart into every project, fully immersing her listeners in the world she creates. Though she calls California home, Emma currently resides in Utah. You’ll often find...
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Hope and Healing with Author Marbeth Skwarczynski
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Marbeth Skwarczynski is the author of a contemporary Christian fiction series called The Rose Collection. These independently published novels are timely in that they focus on the healing process after spiritual abuse. Plague of Lies is the first book in this revised series and is now available with its new cover and updated writing on . See below for the back cover copy. Marbeth has also recently released the biblical fiction book Princess of Moab through Elk Lake Publishing—a work that was inspired decades ago. You can connect with Marbeth on her and/or . Plague of Lies back...
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Messages of Love and Hope with Children's Author Jewel Sample
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Award-winning author Jewel Sample is a Child and Parenting Specialist who offers messages of hope and love in her children’s picture books. Her latest, Love Floats, explores the bond between a mother and her child (in both English and Spanish) and is available through , Barnes & Noble, and other book retailers. Her previous picture book, , is a wonderful resource for parents to help their children understand the experience of losing a sibling. You can .
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A Modern Retelling of the Parables with Author Brady Cook
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Author, pastor, blogger, family man—Brady Cook does it all. Non-fiction books such as Lord Teach Us to Pray, King of Hearts, and Coffee and a Bible to His Parable Series, he has something for anyone who has a desire to dig deeper into the Word of God. is the first book in the Parable Series, a modern retelling of the story of Lazarus. I’ll Always Wait (the Prodigal Son), Four Cars, One Road (the Good Samaritan), and Starter Seeds (the Sower). Connect with Brady on his website (), where you can read his daily blog posts and check out his other books, and/or follow him on . The Broker and...
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Great Adventures and Encouraging Messages with Author V. Romas Burton
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Author Vanessa Burton (pseudonym V. Romas Burton) writes fantasy stories of great adventure with encouraging messages for teens and young adults. Her first series, Heartmaker, (Heartmender, Heartbreaker, and Heartrender), is . Her latest series, Legacy Chapter, includes (Book 1), Justified (Book 2), and Sanctified (Book 3) and is now available for purchase. Book 4, Unified, will be available on January 13, 2026. Connect with Vanessa on , sign up for her newsletter, purchase her books through links to various retailers (including Amazon), and stay abreast of her upcoming books. Fortified Back...
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Truth in Fiction with Author Marbeth Skwarczynski
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After years of writing, rewriting, and shelving her first foray into biblical fiction, Marbeth Skwarczynski finally finished her novel It was contracted through Elk Lake Publishing and is now available on Amazon. This is not Marbeth’s debut project. She is a prolific author of several books, including The Rose Collection, a series of contemporary Christian novels that explores the deconstruction of a broken spirit to the reconstruction of a rescued soul. You can follow Marbeth on and/or follow . Her Rose Collection includes: The Plague of Lies Twists, Turns &...
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Encouragement for Your Soul with Laura Thomas
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Laura Thomas is a prolific writer of many Christian genres including romantic suspense, teen fiction, and children’s books. Her newest Christian romantic suspense release, , is Book 2 in her Bite of Betrayal Series. Laura’s previous Flight to Freedom Series includes The Glass Bottom Boat, The Lighthouse Baby, and The Orphan Beach. Her Tears Trilogy for teens includes Tears to Dancing, Tears of a Princess, and Tears, Fears, and Fame. Not only does Laura pen stories, but she is a Hope certified writing coach, as well. She says, “The...
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Fusing Faith and Fiction with Heidi Gray McGill
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Heidi Gray McGill is a Selah Award finalist and best-selling author. Whether historical or contemporary, you will find Heidi’s writing true works of Christian Fiction, full of God’s redeeming love. Everything Heidi writes is purposeful. She believes in bringing a reader into the awareness of who God is to them and how He interacts with them on a personal level. She does this by crafting characters so relatable you feel part of who they are. Heidi reaches deep into the reader’s heart through masterfully written words and offers ways toward healing by seamlessly applying God’s Word...
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Author, Lawyer, Inspiration.
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IyanuOluwa Olorode, known to most as Iyanu, is passionate about writing Christian Fiction that portrays the love of God in a broken world. She writes about the Master Fixer who puts back together broken hearts and souls. When she’s not writing, she’s daydreaming and having conversations with her characters in her head. If she’s not doing either of these, then she’s listening to music (majorly Contemporary Christian Music), cooking and finding new recipes, reading novels and gushing about them online, watching movies with incredible storylines, scrolling on Instagram and sending...
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Inspirational Split-Time Stories by Amanda Wen
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I thoroughly enjoyed my chat with author Amanda Wen. It quickly became clear the reason for her tagline, This is My Story, This is My Song. Not only is she a talented writer, but she is also an accomplished cellist and pianist. In her own words, “I write inspirational split-time women’s fiction, which is a fancy way of saying I write books with multiple timelines featuring strong, resilient women and a God who loves endlessly, who saves unconditionally, and who creates unfathomable beauty from even our most desolate ashes.” Her newest novel, Echoes of a Silent Song, is Book 1 in her...
info_outlineIyanuOluwa Olorode, known to most as Iyanu, is passionate about writing Christian Fiction that portrays the love of God in a broken world. She writes about the Master Fixer who puts back together broken hearts and souls.
When she’s not writing, she’s daydreaming and having conversations with her characters in her head. If she’s not doing either of these, then she’s listening to music (majorly Contemporary Christian Music), cooking and finding new recipes, reading novels and gushing about them online, watching movies with incredible storylines, scrolling on Instagram and sending funny reels to her reel-ationship partners or listening to the word of God.
Iyanu lives in Ogun State, Nigeria, with her Mama Booska, Big Li’l Sis, and a younger brother who is hell-bent on becoming taller than everyone in the house.
We discussed her newest Novel Love’s Beacon Book 2 in The Way Home Series. You can connect with her on her website, learn about her other projects, and sign up for her newsletter.
Here is the back cover copy of Love’s Beacon:
Goal/Wish List
Mini Cooper that I didn’t buy with my own money. Check.
MSc from London College of Fashion. Check.
Become a millionaire, not just because of dad’s money. Check.
Have at least five thriving businesses. Check.
Get married to the love of my life. FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE TENSE!
Regina has everything she possibly wants. At least almost everything. Two things elude her.
One. Dapo.
Dapo is all shades wrong and not hers. He’s her sister’s man, yet her heart can’t stop beating for him. Why? Maybe because he has the other one thing she knows she can never have—a relationship with God. Something she once had but foolishly threw away.
Rachel is wife material. Not just any wife material. Pastor’s wife material. She’s godly, calm, and reserved. She loves the Lord, and she’s pretty enough that they’d both look good on a church poster. Dapo’s plan to become the youngest youth pastor at Solid Rock Assembly is set in motion and meets an abrupt end when his fiancée marries Brother Bisola instead.
Enraged and heartbroken, Dapo finds himself nursing a heartbreak and feelings towards his best friend’s baby sister, Regina.
Regina is all shades wrong. She’s loud, impulsive, has close to zero interest in the things of the Lord, wears skimpy clothes, and is too beautiful for her own good. Despite all the red flags, he can’t stop himself from loving her. And three words ring loud and clear: RECIPE FOR DISASTER.
Regina believes in fate. Could it be fate bringing them together? Or is there something else, something more powerful intent on weaving something marvellous out of that disaster?
Love’s Beacon is a Nigerian contemporary loose retelling of the Hosea and Gomer story.
https://iyanuoluwaolorode.com.ng/