Sunday, December 18, 2016

MERRY CHRISTMAS!



With this Christmas season I wanted to take time to wish my readers a Very Merry Christmas! I've just turned in the page proofs for Trusting Grace, which releases in May, 2017. I hope you've added it to your wish list for spring.

Christmas has a deeply spiritual meaning for me personally and my family as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. I was asked by Family Fiction Magazine:

One Question: What is the number one way you and your family help yourselves to remember the real meaning of Christmas?

"Baking Christmas cookies, last minute shopping, and wrapping gifts, were only part of how we spent Christmas Eve with our son and daughter. But the highlight of our evening culminated at church. After an early dinner of Cornish hens with all the trimmings, we’d venture out into the cold or sometimes snowy Colorado twilight to celebrate the birth of Christ-the true meaning of why we exalt Him at Christmas. The church was filled with people, and evergreen trimmings scented the sanctuary as we lifted our voices in hymns of Christmas praise before our pastor read the birth of Christ from St. Luke with the children gathered at his feet. We ended the evening singing Silent Night, as each of us in turn lit candles representing Christ, The Light of the World. A benevolent offering was collected at the door as we left calling our “Merry Christmas” and well wishes to our friends. Now our children are grown, but we know that we’ve instilled in their hearts traditions for their own family, but most of all how one tiny babe changed the world for all eternity.

God bless you and your family in your Christmas tradition and may all the joys of the season be yours!
MAGGIE




ookies, last minute shopping, and wrapping gifts, were only part of how we spent Christmas Eve with our son and daughter. But the highlight of our evening culminated at church. After an early dinner of Cornish hens with all the trimmings, we’d venture out into the cold or sometimes snowy Colorado twilight to celebrate the birth of Christ-the true meaning of why we exalt Him at Christmas. The church was filled with people, and evergreen trimmings scented the sanctuary as we lifted our voices in hymns of Christmas praise before our pastor read the birth of Christ from St. Luke with the children gathered at his feet. We ended the evening singing Silent Night, as each of us in turn lit candles representing Christ, The Light of the World. A benevolent offering was collected at the door as we left calling our “Merry Christmas” and well wishes to our friends. Now our children are grown, but we know that we’ve instilled in their hearts traditions for their own family, but most of all how one tiny babe changed the world for all eternity
 
 
 


Monday, October 31, 2016

COMING IN MAY~TRUSTING GRACE!

I'm so excited to share with YOU, my dear readers the book cover for Trusting Grace which releases in May, 2017.

I'm sure you will agree with me the cover is lovely and as always Revell does a beautiful cover. I showed them the gown I wanted and they had it made for the model. I couldn't be more pleased.

It ready for pre-order most of your favorites websites.
Here's a little to whet your appetite until then:

All her life widow Grace Bidwell has longed for a loving husband and children but now chances are looking slim and prospects low as she cares for her elderly father and struggles to maintain the chores on the farm…until she places an ad for a hired hand. Robert Frasier arrives with three pitiful bedraggled children and nothing but the clothes on their backs and a wagon, applying for the job…along with a load of hurt, pride and anger. Rachel’s unaware the children aren’t his and he’s feels duty bound to raise them. Grace believes this is divine intervention but how can she convince his reluctant heart when they begin to have feelings for each other?
I hope you'll want to read Grace's story and enjoy it as much as I did writing it.

Blessings,
Maggie

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

FALL GREETINGS

It's been such a long time since I've blogged and much has happened. You already know that my new book, A Sweet Misfortune, released in February and next May, the third and last book in the Virtues and Vices series, Trusting Grace, releases. I can't wait to share the beautiful cover that Revell has created, and once again they gave me exactly what I asked for and even had the gown created for the heroine. Soon as they give me the go ahead, I'll post the cover picture. The galleys have been submitted and I await page proofs. I believe you're going to love Grace's story, and I can't wait for you to read it! :)

I'm finally settled in at our new location in Georgia, and still tweaking a few things around the house. After much discussion, I finally gave in and we now have a Maltipoo puppy named Pepper. It has been years since our Sheltie died after living 16+ years so we'd forgotten the work involved in training a puppy. I'm happy to say we've made it! But she still likes to chew things like all pups. Pepper is a cutie but it's hard to get a good picture of her because she's black.

Are you a dog lover? Write and tell me what type of dog you have if you are.

Don't forget to follow me on Facebook.

Enjoy your fall. Thanksgiving is just around the cover and don't we all have so much to be thankful for this season?

God Bless,
Maggie




Tuesday, January 26, 2016

AVAILABLE NOW~A SWEET MISFORTUNE EBOOK RELEASES TODAY!

Yay! Today the eBook for A Sweet Misfortune is available now at these fine websites!

The paperback will release in stores on February 2nd. But you can pre-order the paperback now if you prefer that to an e-reader.

I'm really excited about this book and Rachel's story. If you haven't read the first chapter you can scroll down in the blog to read it. I hope it will captivate your desire to read the rest of Rachel's story.

 I'm busy writing the last book in this series, The Virtues and Vices of the Old West, which releases in 2017. A sneak peak of the first chapter is included at the back of A Sweet Misfortune.

On my last blog post I tried to give away three copies of The Trouble With Patience, but unfortunately, I had no one participate. :( I'm hoping that was because you all have your own copy but I thought it would be nice to give as a gift to someone, or you were busy with the holidays.) :)

If you read my last blog post, you saw that I lost my nephew suddenly right before Christmas. Since that post, two weeks later, my daughter lost her sweet, mother-in-law who live down the street from me, and it was very sudden to all of us. So December turned out to be a difficult month for me, so I apologize to all of you who've check back to read my blogs (even when you don't post a comment to me) and didn't see any a new post. Two deaths, two weeks apart--very difficult then trying to wrap my head back around the story when you're own heart is aching for all involved, especially my grandchildren and son-in-law was not easy.

I don't want to end on a sad note though, so I can tell you that God is good all the time and we are never far from His love even when life becomes so hard to bear. Trust Him. I wonder how those who don't trust in Him get through those difficult times.

Until next time,

Maggie