Hey friends!
While researching character names, I learned February 13th is GET A DIFFERENT NAME DAY in the United States.
Have you heard of this?
It was new to me.
This unique day encourages people to consider adopting a different name or switching up their name, but only for today.
It’s silly, but we all need some fun in life, right?
Jillybean is my choice.
What about you?
If you email me your “different name,” I’ll share some of the most creative ones in my March newsletter.
FRIENDS WHO WRITE:
My long-time WordPress blogging buddy, and second dad, John Howell has a new book out this month. I hope you’ll check it out!
The third book in the Eternal Road series. Sam and James are dragged into another strange assignment when a couple of souls on The Eternal Road drop off the radar. Archangel Michael gives them specific orders to resolve the issue and get Billy Ray Chitwood, the national race car champion, and Dale Earnhardt, his guide, back on the task of finding Billy’s Eternal Home.
Finally, meeting up with Billy Ray and Dale, the foursome finds themselves in the future where World War III has devastated the country. The team discovers the cause of the start of the war and vows to mitigate that circumstance and save the world from devastation. They encounter their old nemesis, Lucifer, who has in mind trading preventing the war in exchange for Sam accepting his offer to be his queen.
Since Lucifer’s offer is a non-starter, Sam and James must overcome Lucifer’s interference and work to change the course of history, or humankind is doomed.
My sweet friend, Dora Hiers, is celebrating a book birthday this month. Don’t miss out on this one!
Fifteen years ago, Beckett Danver made a pact with his best friend on the back steps of their group home. Now nearing his thirtieth birthday, he's ready to follow through on that promise. He'd fallen in love with the spunky girl who insisted on playing every sport as well as the boys, and he loves her even more now, a beautiful woman inside and out, the sass and spice covering up the pain that still lurks in the shadows of her fragile heart. He's just been waiting for her to "catch" up with him.
Spring Season needs a plan to derail any misguided ideas Beckett might have about proposing. Sure, they'd made a pact, but sheesh, they were just kids. She'd just found out that he was getting adopted and leaving the group home, and he'd found her sobbing on the back porch. Her childhood crush had slid a homemade leather ring over her finger and vowed never to forget her and to marry her once he turned thirty. But even back then she knew she'd never follow through with it. After being dumped into the group home with her three sisters, Spring plans to steer clear of love and marriage and definitely children. No, thank you. Spring is perfectly content to stay happily single for the rest of her life, pact or not.
But is she happy? Truly? With her stomach always a tight knot of nerves and fear, the only reprieve she ever gets is on the softball field. And she's seen how Beckett's faith changed him, how the chip he used to carry on his shoulder as a boy had slipped off, replaced with kindness and compassion and a heart for kids. She wants that for herself, for all the broken places in her to be healed and whole, but she's damaged for life. The police officer deserves someone better than one of those poor little Season sisters. Now if she can only convince her heart of that…
Will Spring finally discover the God who heals and see Beckett as a faithful man who's loved her through it all? Through the ugly and the painful, through the bitter and the broken, he longs to be with her in the beautiful forever. Or will she keep looking through the lens of the past and not see what a glorious future they could have together? A future that embraces love and healing and the family that she's always secretly craved.
WINNER’S CIRCLE:
Thank you for all of the lovely emails last month.
Hearing from my reader friends always brightens my day!
With an overwhelming number of entries for an e-copy of THEIR INSEPARABLE BOND, I decided to randomly select 8 winners instead of 2.
lanemarina
dhmorrell
elainegrace
dmcfarl10
karensemone
tamiwillard
valmiller8
alysap
Congratulations to all of the winners! I hope you enjoy the book.
Please email me to receive your copy.
CONTEST ALERT!
I have partnered with Celebrate Lit to do a special giveaway!
Enter the We Love Our Readers contest for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card and over 25 e-books!
Click here to enter: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/00adcf5492/?
This giveaway is going on through Feb 16.
GIVEAWAY ALERT!
If you’re interested in reading book two (the books don’t need to be read in order) in the Beckett Brothers series, I have two (maybe more) e-books up for grabs.
Email me to request your name be put into the drawing.
Contest closes February 28, 2025.
The winner will be announced in my March newsletter.
Thanks for reading!
Jill
P.S.
For those who celebrate Valentine’s Day…enjoy tomorrow!
My belief is we should express our love for one another every day but to each his own.
