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Melissa Jagears - Author
I write Christian Historical Romance. Find me at www.melissajagears.com
I know my readers are fiction readers, but if you ever run across readers who "don't read fiction because it's not worth reading" here are some thoughts on why that's not the case in case you're stumped, as I often am, when faced with such a view.Last month, my regular newsletter feature ("Notes From My Desk") turned into a long treatise/rant on fiction as spiritual reading. Never have I had as many direct replies from subscribers as I did after sending it. Several of you requested I post it to my blog. Here it is:"Fiction as Spiritual Reading: Three Stabs at an Argument." rhondaortiz.com/blog/fiction-as-spiritual-reading-three-stabs-at-an-argumentIG: Link to my blog in my bio.
If you didn't know, I run the Inspirational Historical Fiction Index. It's a catalog#christhistficistHistFic that comes out every month. The best way to take advantage of the site is to sign up for the newsletter, so you never miss seeing everything available for my favorite genre. If you are not subscribed to the Index's newsletter--now is the time!! At the end of the year, I give a stack of paperbacks away from the past year just for voting on your favorite cover. This giveaway is not linked to online, it's for subscribers only, so sign up for the monthly newsletter so you don't miss it!
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I find it oddly comforting that we're not the only age to deal with "insurmountable" crises--something will happen to turn it around. This wasn't amusing at the time, I'm sure, but what a title for a crisis!
The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
By the late 1800s, large cities all around the world were drowning in horse manure. The London Times predicted in 1894 that in 50 years time, every street in London would be buried under nine feet of ...
I've assigned "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children" by Nesbit to my 5th grader. He's been reading it for a week or two now and today he had to tell me: "Mom, these stories are neither beautiful or for children because the characters almost always *he made a raspberry noise and thrust out the spear he made from a poky Christmas tree star topper taped onto a stick* DIES!" These aren't for children, Mom!!" If only he knew about all the innuendos the adapter took out of them....
Melanie Dobson's The Wings of Poppy Pendleton is the feature of the month on the Index! Go take a look, get your name in the hat!
Look at this beautiful cover, it’s so intriguingly different, don’t you think? Welcome Melanie to the Index! New York , Castles, Island , 1900s , 1860-1920 (Gilded Age), 1900-1930 (US Early Americ...