Soul Inspirationz // The Christian Fiction Site Blog

Blog Relocation

2014-09-10T19:57:00.000+12:00

The main blog for Soul Inspirationz is now only at Soul Inspirationz // The Christian Fiction Site. The posts are no longer being duplicated here.

Featured Debut Novelist: Sarah E. Ladd

2014-07-07T12:22:00.001+12:00

Sarah E. Ladd is the author of the Whispers on the Moors series, which are inspirational romances set in Regency England.

Sarah has always loved the Regency period — the clothes, the music, the literature and the art. A college trip to England and Scotland confirmed her interest in the time period and gave her idea of what life would’ve looked like in era.

It wasn’t until 2010 that Ladd began writing seriously. Shortly after, Ladd released the first book in the Whispers on the Moors series. Book one of the series, The Heiress of Winterwood, was the recipient of the 2011 ACFW Genesis Award for historical romance.

The following is a July 2014 interview with Sarah.

ENTER THE GIVEAWAY
AT THE END OF
THE INTERVIEW

Be in to win a copy of
The Heiress of Winterwood or
The Headmistress of Rosemere
by Sarah E. Ladd

One copy of each to be won
Contest open to entrants with USA addresses only.
Contest runs from 4-18 July NZDT

Featured Author Interview: DeAnna Julie Dodson

2014-07-05T21:35:00.000+12:00

DeAnna Julie Dodson is the author of The Chastelayne Trilogy, and as Julianna Deering is the author of the Drew Farthering Mysteries.

DeAnna is a Dallas native and has lived in North Texas all her life. Although her degree is in business, her real interest has always been in literature, music and the fine arts.

Medieval English history, Shakespeare, and cozy mysteries such as Agatha Christie are particular favorites of hers and, along with her Christian faith, have most influenced her medieval series The Chastelayne Trilogy and her English cozy series, The Drew Farthering Mysteries, as well as her contemporary mysteries for Annie's Attic.

DeAnna also loves cross stitch, quilting, Dallas Stars hockey, and her cats: Eloise and Elizabeth and her new baby boy, Petie.

The following is a June 2014 interview with DeAnna.

ENTER THE
GIVEAWAY
AT THE END OF
THE INTERVIEW

Be in to win a copy of a DREW FARTHERING MYSTERY title
(Rules of Murder, Death By the Book OR Murder at the Mikado)
by Julianna Deering

Two copies to be won, winner's choice
Contest open to entrants worldwide.
Contest runs from 27 June - 11 July NZDT

Featured Author Interview: Lisa Harris

2014-06-24T00:30:00.000+12:00

Lisa Harris is an award-winning author of more than twenty novels and novellas, who lives with her husband and their three children in Mozambique, Africa, where they work as missionaries.

Lisa is a wife, mom, teacher, author, dreamer, photographer, but most importantly a follower of Christ Jesus.

She currently lives with her husband, Scott, near the Indian Ocean in Mozambique as church-planting missionaries. Two of their three children are attending a missionary boarding school, while she homeschools their daughter.

When she's not working she loves hanging out with her family, cooking different ethnic dishes, photography, and heading into the African bush on safari.

The following is a June 2014 interview with Lisa.

ENTER THE GIVEAWAY
AT THE END OF
THE INTERVIEW

Be in to win a copy of
Fatal Exchange
by Lisa Harris

Two copies to be won
Contest open to entrants worldwide.
Contest runs from 20 June - 4 July NZDT

Featured Author Interview: Ruth Axtell

2014-06-23T11:30:00.000+12:00

Ruth Axtell (also known as Ruth Axtell Morren) is the author of several Regency and Maine historical Christian romances. She wrote her first story when she was 12--a spy thriller--and knew she wanted to be a writer.

There were many detours along the way as she pursued more realistic goals - studying, teaching, working, marriage and family. While living in Holland Ruth began crafting her first serious story in between having children, and gained her first recognition as a writer when she made the finals in the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Contest in 1994. But it wasn't until their return to the US coast of Maine before she seriously began her writing career.

Ruth's inner journey of faith parallels her outward journey--seemingly circuitous, sometimes wandering in the desert--yet ever-guided by the Good Shepherd.

The following is a June 2014 interview with Ruth.

ENTER THE GIVEAWAY
AT THE END OF THE INTERVIEW

Be in to win a copy of
A Heart's Rebellion (Print* or Digital), In Your Eyes,
The Lady and the Logger, or The Rogue's Redemption (Digital)
by Ruth Axtell

One copy (winner's choice) to be won
Contest open to entrants worldwide.
Contest runs from 13-27 June NZDT

*Print copy to a US winner only

Blog Tour - Beth K. Vogt

2014-06-13T11:36:00.000+12:00

Somebody Like You - Book Review

Beth K. Vogt is a nonfiction author and editor who said she’d never write fiction. She’s the wife of an air force physician who said she’d never marry a doctor—or anyone in the military. She’s a mom of four who said she’d never have kids. She’s discovered that God’s best often waits behind the doors marked “Never.” Somebody Like You is Beth's third novel.

Can a young widow find love again with her husband’s reflection?

Haley’s three-year marriage to Sam, an army medic, ends tragically when he’s killed in Afghanistan. Her attempts to create a new life for herself are ambushed when she arrives home one evening—and finds her husband waiting for her. Did the military make an unimaginable mistake when they told her Sam was killed?

Too late to make things right with his estranged twin brother, Stephen discovers Sam never told Haley about him. As Haley and Stephen navigate their fragile relationship, they are inexorably drawn to each other. How can they honor the memory of a man whose death brought them together—and whose ghost could drive them apart?

Somebody Like You is a beautifully rendered, affecting novel, reminding us that while we can’t change the past, we have the choice to change the future and start anew.

My Review

This is the first book by Beth K. Vogt that I have read and certainly will not be the last! This gentle love story is one I would love to revisit again.

I really felt the state of shock that Haley was living in as the story opened, which was then compounded by the shock of her coming face to face with the image of her dead husband Sam in his twin, Stephen. With very different quests - Haley coming to terms with a life without Sam and the impending birth of their child, and Stephen trying to find out what became of his brother after they parted ways as teenagers - also comes their story of discovering each other. A part of Haley that she had dismissed as a child slowly emerges once again as Stephen becomes to Haley what she had needed from Sam, but never received. And in being to Haley what he thought Sam would want of him, Stephen discovers he is so much more.

This gentle journey of healing and love is a must read for those who love Becky Wade, Melissa Tagg, Kim Vogel Sawyer, Deborah Raney and Susan May Warren.

Somebody Like You
by Beth K. Vogt

Howard Books
Contemporary
13 May 2014
ISBN: 9781476737584

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