What Makes Good Stories that Are Worth Reading - Part Six of Six
unExpressed Ep3: April McGowan
enMarch 08, 2020
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About this Episode
http://www.whitefire.tv/ep3-april-mcgowan/
April McGowan loves to read and write inspirational fiction. She and her husband, two children, and her ‘mews’ (three cats!), live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. April is a member of Oregon Christian Writers, the Christian Author’s Network, and American Christian Fiction Writers. When she’s not writing, homeschooling her son, or playing board games, you might find her at her drum kit, imagining she’s on a world tour. Hey, it could happen.
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorAprilMcGowan/
Twitter @AprilKMcGowan
JASMINE
MACY
HOLD THE LIGHT
SHINE THE LIGHT
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April’s Blog Posts:
If you want to learn more about chronic illnesses: https://primaryimmune.org/
(A Note from April: There’s so many different chronic illnesses out there, but this is the group I’m most familiar with. Primary Immune Disease (where you don’t have a sufficient immune system to protect your body with), which is very different from autoimmune (where it attacks your body). Both are devastating in their own way. )
Oregon Fostor Care and Adpotion Info: https://www.oregon.gov/dhs/children/fostercare/pages/index.aspx and https://www.oregon.gov/DHS/CHILDREN/ADOPTION/Pages/index.aspx
The feature in The Christian Journal on April and Shine the Light: (page 12) https://en.calameo.com/read/00437127097108b6f1240
A sneak peak at one of the neat things coming in her next book – Bird Songs!
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/uocp-bcw052009.php https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-development-of-birdsong-16133266/
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Click the links on the titles to read two sample chapters.
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unExpressed Ep 11: Lauralee Bliss
Today’s guest is Lauralee Bliss. She’s the author of Mountains, Madness and Miracles: 4000 Miles Along the Appalachian Trail and Gators, Guts and Glory: Adventures Along the Florida Trail as well as numerous works of fiction.
We chat about her hiking adventures, history, and how hiking or just taking a walk can give God an opening to reveal something new to you.
Her new Podcast, Blissful Hiking Adventures, is now available now on the WhiteFire Podcast Network.
ABOUT LAURALLEE
LAURALEE “BLISSFUL” BLISS
Lauralee Bliss (trail name Blissful) is an avid adventurer, having hiked the entire Appalachian Trail twice from Georgia to Maine and from Maine to Georgia, one of only 25 women to accomplish this feat. Lauralee has also hiked numerous other trails including the Colorado Trail and the Florida Trail in 2018. She is a published author of twenty-five novels and novellas in both historical and contemporary with over 600,000 sold. Besides her love of hiking and writing a good book, Lauralee enjoys speaking about her hiking experiences, traveling to interesting places, and gardening. She makes her home in Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
http://blissfulhiking.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLauraleeBliss/
https://twitter.com/LauraleeBliss
BOOKS BY LAURALEE
GATORS, GUTS & GLORY: ADVENTURES ALONG THE FLORIDA TRAIL
MOUNTAINS, MADNESS, & MIRACLES:
4000 MILES ALONG THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
INTERESTING THINGS FROM THE INTERVIEW
Info About The Trails – Visit the websites for more information, maps and more.
GO TAKE A HIKE!
Lauralee wanted to end our talk today by asking each listener to go take a hike or even just a walk through the neighborhood and see what God might reveal to you along the way.
unExpressed Ep 10: Joy Palmer
https://www.whitefire.tv/unexpressed-ep-10-joy-palmer
Today's guest is Joy Palmer, Today's Guest is Joy Palmer Author of Love, Lace, and Minor Alterations, Weddings, Willows, and Revised Expectations, and Marriage, Melodies and Rewritten Conclusions (coming winter 2020.)
You'll be drawn in immediately when you start reading her books so go over to READ at WhiteFire to read a chapter or two before coming back to the interview.
V. Joy Palmeer
V. Joy Palmer is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, an avid blogger, and co-founder of Snack Time Devotions. In her spare time, Joy is an unprofessional chocolate connoisseur/binger, and she loves acting crazy and drinking coffee with the teens she mentors. When Joy isn’t urging the elves that live in her computer to write, she’s hanging out with her husband, their adorable baby girl, and their socially awkward pets.
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vjoypalmer_author/
Books By Joy
Love, Lace, and Minor Alterations
Weddings, Willows, and Revised Expectations
Interesting things from the Interview
Don't forget to go watch I Was a Male War Bride
Call to Action
Take a minute to examine your heart to see if there’s an issue you’ve been afraid to ask God to help you with and commit now to taking that to Him.
unExpressed Ep 9: Hannah Curie
https://www.whitefire.tv/ep9-hannah-currie
Today’s Guest is Hannah Currie, author of Heart of a Royal and the sequel Heart of a Princess (releasing Summer 2020).
We talk about why she writes Young Adult fiction and how that genre has had a profound effect on her life, why she, and maybe every female on the planet, loves stories about princesses, and how you should be prepared for God having some different in store than you might have expected.
ABOUT HANNAH
HANNAH CURRIE
Aussie author, Hannah Currie, loves God, family, people (in small numbers, let’s not go crazy here!) and writing. She and her husband live with their three adorable kids in sunny Queensland, where it really is beautiful one day and perfect the next. Except, maybe, during heatwaves. They’re not so fun. She loves to connect with readers at www.hannahcurrie.com.
http://aheartfulofhope.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/author.hannah.currie/
https://www.instagram.com/hannah_currie_author/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19415112.Hannah_Currie
HEART OF A PRINCESS
COMING SUMMER 2020
To the watching world, Princess Alina has it all – maids to serve her, a kingdom to revere her, a prince to marry her, and a wardrobe filled with enough frills, flounces and shades of pink to rival a flower shop. But behind the smiles and designer clothes, Alina has a secret. She’s barely holding it together.
After a moment of panic almost ends in tragedy, Alina is sent to a refuge far from the palace to recuperate. Her family claim it’s for her own good but – faced with cows, knife-beaked ducks and far too many of her own insecurities – Alina is pretty sure it will kill her first. And Joha Samson, infuriating man that he is, will laugh as it does.
Only there’s more to Joha than she realizes, and more to herself too. When the time comes to make a stand, will she find the courage?
INTERESTING THINGS FROM THE INTERVIEW
Royal Social Media accounts:
William and Kate – The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – https://www.instagram.com/kensingtonroyal/
The Bibilcal fiction of Connilyn Cosssette
Here’s a coupon for 20% off both Heart of a Royal and Seeing Voices: hannahpodcast at whitefire-publishing.com/read
(A small note: Heart of a Royal does mention God, just not Jesus directly)
CALL TO ACTION
We ask you to consider if there’s a difference between what God wants you to do with your live versus what you think God wants you to do.
Please post your answer or answers in the comments below or in our Community.
unExpressed Ep 8: Susie Finkbeiner
https://www.whitefire.tv/ep8-susie-finkbeiner
Today’s Guest is Susie Finkbeiner, author of Paint Chips, My Mother’s Chamomile with WhiteFire, The Pearl Spence Series including the books A Cup of Dust, A Trail of Crumbs and A Song of Home and All Manner of Things and the upcoming Stories That Bind Us.
We talk about the themes of human traficing in Paint Chips, how we need to remember to have empathy not just for others but for ourselves and what it might take to fix our broken communities.
SUSIE FINKBEINER
Susie Finkbeiner is a novelist from West Michigan. She is the bestselling author of A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl (Kregel, 2015), A Trail of Crumbs: A Novel of the Great Depression, and A Song of Home: A Novel of the Swing Era (Kregel, 2017).
Her next two novels will release in 2019 and 2020 with Revell Publishing.
She is also the author of My Mother’s Chamomile (WhiteFire, 2014) and Paint Chips (WhiteFire, 2013).
Susie is a wife, mother of three, and avid reader. She enjoys time with her family, coffee dates with her good friends, and quiet moments to read and write.
https://www.facebook.com/SusieFinkbeiner/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susie_finkbeiner/
BOOKS BY SUSIE
PAINT CHIPS
MY MOTHER’S CHAMOMILE
A CUP OF DUST
A TRAIL OF CRUMBS
A SONG OF HOME
ALL MANNER OF THINGS
STORIES THAT BIND US
INTERESTING THINGS FROM THE INTERVIEW
To learn more about human trafficking and resources:
Polaris: http://polarisproject.org
A company that supports new life for those escaping human trafficking:
Better Way Designs: https://betterwaydesigns.org
Confessions of a Funeral Director (Caleb Wilde): https://www.calebwilde.com
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/home/
CALL TO ACTION
One of the most powerful weapons we have against the darkness of this world is to pray for the Light to ou...