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A3 Author Book Release: The Key Collector’s Promise: A 1980s Suspense with Romance at Our House on Sycamore Street

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When young real estate agent Sandra Lejeune rece​ives an anonymous letter threatening her family, she leaves her ​home in Cypress Bend, Louisiana and travels to England, inten​ding to warn her estranged mother. But first she has to find her.​ Sandra starts her search in the Suffolk coastal village of Ede​n Cove, untangling memories and mysteries along the way. W​ho sent the letter? Her father’s shady business partners? The ​private investigator Sandra previously hired? Or someone else en​tirely?

She came to warn her estranged mother of danger. But will the cost of unraveling family secrets be too much to bear? If you love domestic suspense with romance, you’ll love The Key Collector’s Promise. 

Award-winning author Donna Jo Stone delivers a tale of domestic suspense infused with family drama and a dash of southern charm. You can purchase The Key Collector’s Promise: A 1980s Suspense with Romance on Amazon, which released on September 6, 2024.

The Key Collector’s Promise is part of the Our House on Sycamore Street, a new multi-author, multi-genre series set in quaint and quirky Eden Cove, an English seaside town with plenty of spirit. With stories of redemption and salvation behind every door, you’re sure to find a new tale of romance, intrigue, humor or heart. All you have to do is knock!

Donna Jo Stone writes southern-flavored novels for the inspirational and general market for adults and young adults. Her stories are often about people facing tough times. Not all of her books have romance but when they do, the romances are sweet. No graphic language, sex, or violence, just plenty of heart-tugging emotion with endings that leave readers with a sense of hope.

When she’s not writing or reading, she spends her time hanging out with family and friends, and occasionally visits bookshops and fabric sales. 

You can learn more about Donna Jo by visiting her at donnajostone.com.

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October Releases

Almost an Author is pleased to announce book releases this month by two regular columnists, Lori Z. Scott (Mastering Middle Grade) and Norma Poore (Writers Chat Recap).

Offsides by Lori Z. Scott

From the publisher:

Danielle Stephens expected her senior year to be challenging, with her final season of soccer, a strained friendship, and a new crush. But she didn’t expect to uncover a human trafficking ring in her town. When an older man seems to be grooming her young neighbor, Dani is determined to keep the girl safe. Except if Dani doesn’t watch her own back, she may be the next victim.

With a mixture of humor, poignant honesty, and human trafficking awareness, award-winning author Lori Z. Scott fields a tough topic in an age-appropriate way. Offsides kicks off its debut with a big score, boasting three #1 new release banners on Amazon, including the Teens & YA Christian Relationships category.

Besides her bestselling Meghan Rose series, Lori has published over 200 articles, short stories, devotions, and poems for magazines like Brio and Focus on the Family. She has also contributed to 15 books, including Writing and Selling Children’s Books in the Christian Market. In 2022, Lori introduced a new YA series. The first book, Inside the Ten-Foot Line, is a Carol Award YA semi-finalist, Golden Scroll Youth Book of the Year winner and Illumination Book Award medalist. The second book, Offsides, promises even more action and humor.

You can purchase Offsides on Amazon, Christianbooks.com, End Game Press, and other book outlets.

Lori Z. Scott

Elementary school teacher Lori Z. Scott usually writes fiction. Her down time is filled with two quirky habits: chronic doodling and inventing lame jokes. Neither one impresses her principal (or friends/parents/dogs/casual strangers), but they do help inspire her writing. Somehow, her odd musings led her to accidentally write a ten-title bestselling chapter book series and on purpose write over 175 short stories, articles, essays, poems, and devotions. Lori enjoys speaking, leading workshops, and visiting local elementary schools to share her writing journey. Follow her on Instagram @Stories.by.Lori .

Abba’s Lessons Compiled by Dee Dee Lake

From the publisher:

Thirty stories…thirty unique lessons to bring you hope, comfort, and learning.

Jesus used fishermen, prostitutes, the rich and the poor, the sick, the young and old to teach the principles of the kingdom of God. Today, Abba Father is no different. He uses real people with real issues to bring you healing, instruction, and understanding.

In Abba’s Lessons, you’ll find thirty stories of people from all walks of life—an adoption attorney, a wedding planner, Bible leaders and pastors, military wives, and more. Each story brings a special lesson we can apply to our own lives. Lessons of surrender, forgiveness, humility, pride, judgement, praise, trust, letting go, God’s will, anxiety, and so many more.

Sit for a minute. Read these stories and experience learning from Abba the way He did it in the Bible and come away changed.

One of the contributors in this devotional anthology is our A3 Managing Editor, Norma Poore. You can order your copy at Cross River Media.

Norma Poore

Norma Poore has lived through difficult circumstances, and allows her journey to fuel encouragement for the hurting. Her inspirational nonfiction is penned with honest transparency and hope from God’s Word. As a respected member of the publishing community she’s an award-winning author. Married 40 years, has six children, and eleven grandchildren. Connect with her at NormaPoore.com.

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Rose’s Redemption by Donna L.H. Smith

Hot off the Press! Rose’s Redemption, by A3 Managing Editor Donna L.H. Smith, is now available on Amazon. Donna has been with Almost an Author from the very beginning, first with the Writer’s PenCase column, she now writes for the Romancing Your Story column, and will help out with History in the Making column in 2019. As Managing Editor, she is also responsible for the Bestselling Author column. In 2017, she was tapped to assist Cherrilynn Bisbano as assistant managing editor, and in April 2018, Donna became Managing Editor for Almost an Author.

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A Former Dance Hall Girl. A Handsome Young Doctor. Can Rose overcome her past? That’s Rose’s Redemption

Rose Rhodes changed not only her name after the tornado; she changed her outward appearance. No more was she Rosalie O’Roarke, former dance hall girl. She loves her new work as a nurse-in-training to handsome Doctor Scott Allison. As Scott and Rose’s relationship begins to change from professional to personal, they must deal with figures from Rose’s past who make life anything but easy. Rose is concerned that the town will discover her dance hall girl past, especially when Jake Thomas, the man who viciously beat her, asks all over town where Rosalie O’Roarke went. But both Rose and Scott are in for surprise encounters with Christ that will change their lives forever and help them see His plan for them. In fact, they will see God at work all over New Boston.

Rose’s Redemption won second place in the 2017 Golden Leaf Award at the Advance Novelist Retreat and was a finalist in the American Christian Fiction Writers’ Phoenix Rattler Contest. Other pre-publication awards were two 1st place prizes at the 2017 Advanced Novelist Retreat.

Published in connection with Hartline Literary Agency, serving the Christian book community.

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Donna L.H. Smith is a Kansas prairie girl transplanted to Lancaster County, PA. She is a graduate of Christian Writer’s Guild Craftsman program and holds a B.S. in Telecommunications (broadcasting) from Oral Roberts University and a M.A. in Mass Communication from Wichita State University. She’s been married to a wonderful man named Kirby for thirty-one years. No children, but a dog and her Mom over an eleven-year period.

She’s been a freelance journalist, and a radio reporter. Now, she blogs, speaks at workshops and retreats and although she is at an age where many begin slowing down, she wouldn’t think of it. She serves as Managing Editor for Almost an Author.com, and is Mid-Atlantic Zone Director of American Christian Fiction Writers. Her debut novel, Meghan’s Choice was named a finalist in both the Selah Awards and Will Rogers Medallion Award. Her second book, Rose’s Redemption, was just released. You can find her at her website, www.donnalhsmith.com, Facebook, and on Twitter as @donnalhsmith.

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A Musket in My Hands by Sandra Merville Hart

Releasing November 8th, A Musket in My Hands is Sandra Merville Hart’s third Civil War romance with Smitten Historical Romance, an imprint of Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. Her fifth historical romance releases in the summer of 2019. Sandra writes for Almost an Author’s column “History in the Making,” listed under the Genre tab. Sandra loves learning about history through researching her stories—and then passing along these gems to her readers. This book releases today, November 8th.

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Can I count on you in times of great need?”

 Callie Jennings reels from her pa’s decision that she must marry his friend, a man older than him. Her heart belongs to her soldier hero, Zach Pearson, but Pa won’t change his mind. Callie has no place to hide. Then her sister, Louisa, proposes a shocking alternative.

Zach still hears his pa’s scornful word—quitter. He’s determined to make something of himself as a soldier. He’ll serve the Confederacy until they win the war. If they win the war.

Callie and Louisa disguise themselves as soldiers and muster into the Confederate army in the fall of 1864. Times are tough and getting tougher for their Confederacy. For Callie, shooting anyone, especially former countrymen, is out of the question—until truth and love and honor come together on the battlefield.

Bio

Award-winning and Amazon bestselling author Sandra Merville Hart loves to uncover little-known yet fascinating facts about our American history to include in her stories. Her debut Civil War Romance, A Stranger on My Land, was IRCA Finalist 2015. A Rebel in My House, set during the historic Battle of Gettysburg, won the 2018 Silver Illumination Award and second place in 2018 Faith, Hope and Love Readers’ Choice Award. A Musket in My Hands, where two sisters join the Confederate army with the men they love, released November 8, 2018. Her novella, Surprised by Love in “From the Lake to the River” released in September of 2018. Trail’s End, in “Smitten Novella Collection: The Cowboys” releases in August of 2019.

Find her on her blog, https://sandramervillehart.wordpress.com/.

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10 Ways to Deepen the Craft of Writing by DiAnn Mills

Writers seek ways to polish their craft and deepen their understanding of what makes a marketable manuscript. Dedicated writers challenge themselves to make each project better than the previous one. The following 10 items will increase every writer’s awareness of the skills needed for a successful book.

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Meghan’s Choice by Donna L.H. Smith

Meghan’s Choice, is Donna L.H. Smith’s debut novel. Donna serves A3 as a regular columnist since the beginning, first for Writer’s PenCase, now in Romancing Your Story. She has extensive writing experiences in broadcast and print journalism of all types.

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An unusual ultimatum. A Young Woman’s Bold Journey. Two handsome Men. An Amazing God. That’s Meghan’s Choice

Meghan Gallagher’s father gives her an unusual ultimatum to work for one year before marriage to help her learn fiscal responsibility. She complies to his demand by choosing to tutor eight children in a wild Kansas railroad town. She immediately experiences culture shock, as she is rescued by Rosalie O’Roarke, a local dance hall girl.

Duncan Wilcox is the cowboy into whose arms Meghan faints when she’s shot by a stray bullet. He’s tall and ruggedly handsome. They enjoy a lively banter and get along well. but Duncan is sensitive, and there’s more to him than meets the eye.

Dr. Scott Allison has hair the color of wheat with classic good looks. He patches Meghan up. He and Meghan find a lot of things in common, including the church they belong to.

The school children are challenging, but delightful, even though their beginning school term is only one month long.

A June tornado and a divisive August election deciding the town’s fate aren’t the only things Meghan has to deal with.

Her biggest choice: which man? Both are after her heart. Is she scandalous to allow two men to court her at the same time?

And––how close a relationship with God does Meghan want? Will she draw near?

Meghan’s Choice was named a semi-finalist in the last Operation First Novel by Jerry B. Jenkins, late 2014. In late 2015, it was awarded 3rd Place for Best Opening Paragraph and 2nd Place for Best First Page at the Blue Ridge Advanced Novelist Retreat. It was also awarded one of six Honorable Mentions for the Golden Leaf Award.

Bio

Donna L.H. Smith is a Kansas prairie girl transplanted to Lancaster County, PA. She is a graduate of Christian Writer’s Guild Craftsman program and holds a B.S. in Telecommunications (broadcasting) from Oral Roberts University and a M.A. in Mass Communication from Wichita State University. She’s been married to a wonderful man named Kirby for thirty years. No children, but a dog and her Mom over an eleven-year period. She’s been a freelance journalist, and a radio reporter. She blogs, reviews books, speaks at workshops and retreats and although she is at an age where many begin slowing down, she wouldn’t think of it. Recently, she took on the role of Assistant Managing Editor of Almost an Author.com, and serves as American Christian Fiction Writers Mid-Atlantic Zone Director. She is also a member of the Protégé program of Advanced Writers & Speaker’s Association.

WEBSITE: http://donnalhsmith.com

FACEBOOK: Donna L.H. Smith––Stories Are My Passion

TWITTER: @donnalhsmith

Meghan’s Choice is available through Amazon.com. Here are the links: Kindle version: http://amzn.to/2ngei4n and in Paperback: http://amzn.to/2ngeDUH