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_outlineHeidi 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 throughout her stories.
Heidi is an optimist who chooses to find the silver lining in life’s clouds of doubt. She lives with her husband of more than thirty years near Charlotte, NC. When she isn’t writing, you will find her outside playing with her three grandsons, walking, scrapbooking, reading, cooking, traveling, or finding an excuse to have an outing with a girlfriend.
Her most recent release, A Place to Belong: Josephine’s Story, is a stand-alone Shumard Oak Bend Companion Christmas novella in the Discerning God’s Best Series—following Healing of the Heart (Book 5). It was released on November 18th, and for a limited time, the eBook is still available at the preorder price of only .99.
Connect with Heidi on her website, receive some wonderful freebies, and follow her latest ventures—or should I say adventures?
Need a little nudge to purchase this novella? Here is the back cover copy:
Some fresh starts begin in silence… others begin with a baby’s cry.
Josephine Blake has run out of places to hide. Pregnant and burdened by secrets, she flees the whispers of Philadelphia, clinging to the hope that her former boardinghouse roommate in Shumard Oak Bend will take her in. When a weathered but kind-hearted miner offers her a ride west, she dares to believe she might finally outrun her shame.
But hope comes at a price… and Josephine isn’t sure she can afford it.
Jeremiah Remington lost everything in the war—his family, his home, even one arm. Now a quiet fixture in the growing town, he avoids entanglements, content to live on the edges of community. But when Josephine arrives with wary eyes, an iron will, and a child on the way, Jeremiah is drawn to something he thought he’d given up for good—a second chance at family.
As Christmas nears and the town orphanage opens its doors, Josephine is offered a new beginning—not just for herself, but for her daughter. But when the past threatens to unravel it all, she must decide: keep running… or stay and fight for the place—and the man—God may have prepared for her.
A marriage of convenience. A scandalous past. A baby who changes everything. And the kind of love only a Savior can give.
If your heart longs for stories of quiet redemption, fierce hope, and homes built one act of grace at a time, A Place to Belong will welcome you in. Fans of Misty M. Beller, Liz Tolsma, Karen Witemeyer, and Jody Hedlund will feel right at home in this heartfelt Christmas novella.