#TuesdayTreasures Away in a Manger by David B Biebel

Good Morning Friends!

Whew, been a busy weekend with Bayou Writers Conference, a wonderful event but I'm glad it's behind us.

Today's guest, David Biebel is new to the blog. I've known him for sometime through TWJ Magazine, but for some odd reason he's never visited us here before. 

Anyway, he's here with a brand new book I just know is something to treasure!

Once upon a time, a lamb and his mommy were selected to participate in a live Nativity Scene sponsored by a local church in Colorado. The Christmas story is retold, replete with full-color original artwork, through the very inquisitive lamb’s questions and his mother’s replies.

In Away in a Manger, pertinent gospel passages are shared by a narrating pastor, with a salvation emphasis at the end. The ewe explains who the various characters are and what their roles were in Bethlehem long ago. You will find this mini-novel to be a new and refreshing perspective on the true meaning of Christmas, designed for Christian parents to read and discuss with their children during the Christmas season.

To order from the publisher, with free shipping & no tax: http://bit.ly/2dbHksk. Printed book and all eBooks available in all versions. Inquire re. the type you need. To order from Amazon.com, with printed book and eBook available (Kindle only): http://amzn.to/2dUGTCI. Check out Kindle “matchbook” pricing: $11.99 for book; $1.99 for Kindle.

What folks are saying about Away in a Manger....

"Not your ordinary Christmas book, but an extraordinary Christmas story that adults and children will enjoy! The child-like perspective of Ransom, the inquisitive lamb in a live nativity scene, draws you in, asking profound questions that a child might ask if he or she had been there in person, in Bethlehem, long ago. The story naturally flows into a salvation invitation and prayer. Adults should first read this book and then give it as a gift with a personal inscription to each and every child they can think of this Christmas." ~ Monte Swan (author of Romancing Your Child’s Heart, its Vision & Strategy Manual, and The Secret of Singing Springs

Sure sounds like a book children of all ages will treasure.

About the author: Dr. David Biebel is a minister, editor, and publisher, having founded Healthy Life Press in 1998. He has authored or coauthored twenty books, including this one, which he says has been gestating in his mind for about three years. He has also written or co-written: If God is So Good, Why Do I Hurt so Bad?, Jonathan, You Left Too Soon, Making God Visible, New Light on Depression, and Finding Your Way after the Suicide of Someone You Love.

Healthy Life Press was founded with a primary goal of helping previously unpublished authors to get their works to market, and to reissue worthy, previously published works that were no longer available. Our mission is to help people toward optimal vitality by providing resources promoting physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational health as viewed from a Christian perspective.

We are a collaborative and cooperative (subsidy) Christian small publisher. We share costs; we share proceeds. Fulfill your dream— publish your book with us. For information about publishing with us, e-mail: info@healthylifepress.com.

I hope you enjoyed today's post and that you'll check back weekly for Tuesday Treasures, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlight.

Leave a comment and you'll be entered in a drawing for 1 pdf copy of Away in a Manger!

Until next time, take care and God Bless.

PamT

#SaturdaySpotlight is on Linda Nightingale & Four by Moonlight

Good Morning Friends,

Tuesday, Linda shared with us something she treasures and we mentioned her new book, Four by Moonlight. Well today we are spotlighting her book!

My very favorite poem, and one of my favorite works of literature, is The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.  It is lyrical enough that it has been recorded many times over. 

This poem inspired my “Gypsy Ribbons,” which is included in an anthology from Class Act Books, Four by Moonlight.  I wanted to see what the idea of the highwayman, combined with other elements, would become in prose.

Once I read the story on a PodCast.  I had practiced the entire day before the reading, and only stumbled once.  No surprise, I had almost memorized Gypsy Ribbons.  I don’t have a copy of that PodCast or I’d include the link so that you could have a laugh as a South Carolinian with an accent tried to read a story starring British characters.

I often wondered if I could expand the story into a book, but it seemed happy as a short story.  The piece dates back quite a few years, but it has been polished and edited.  I didn’t have to worry about the advent of modern technology.  In the late 1800s, no one had a cell phone!  “Gypsy Ribbons’” setting is the Yorkshire moors, the time period parallel with the American Revolution.

Four by Moonlight also includes a novella, “The Night Before Doomsday,” the tag line to which is “Azazel resisted temptation…until the wrong woman came along.” The story takes a look at the angel Azazel in a different light—not as the demon he is often portrayed.  “Night Before Doomsday” is about the Grigori’s descent to Earth to teach men to survive/thrive after their oust from the Garden of Eden.

One story is very spicy. “The Gate Keeper’s Cottage” bears a warning sign: Enter at your own risk.

The fourth offering is “Star Angel,” a sci-fi romance and is very New Age.  The hero and the heroine are soul mates separated by a dimension.

Come with me on a journey to 1789 with “Gypsy Ribbons.”  Next whistle stop is the Garden of Eden, and on to a plantation outside New Orleans, and finally a rescue in an Idaho potato patch. In Four by Moonlight, no one is exactly what he/she may seem.

Four by Moonlight: An anthology of love in the moonlight…in the paranormal universe.

Gypsy Ribbons – A moonlight ride on the moors and meeting a notorious highwayman will forever change Lady Virginia Darby’s life.

Star Angel – Lucy was stuck in a rut and in an Idaho potato patch. She’d seen him in the corner of her eye—a fleeting glimpse of beauty—now he stood before her in the flesh.

The Night Before Doomsday – All his brothers had succumbed to lust, but Azazel resisted temptation until the wrong woman came along.

The Gate Keeper’s Cottage – Newlywed Meggie Richelieu’s mysterious, phantom lover may be more than anyone, except the plantation housekeeper, suspects.

Excerpt:

Red eyes watched from the grate as she slipped into the cold, empty bed. Simon should have been there to warm her rather than the dying fire. Not pursuing a dangerous dream. Too angry, too miserable to weep, she tossed and turned. The relief of sleep eluded her.

An icy breath whispered through the room. Tory snuggled deeper beneath the goose down covers. Had the weather made up its mind? Was Simon riding in ice and snow? She imagined white flakes in Goliath’s long black mane and on the highwayman’s plush velvet cloak. Poor darling, he would be cold. Tory slowly drifted to sleep unrelated thoughts scrolling in her mind. A soft sound snapped her wide awake. She sat bolt upright, tugging the covers over the breasts.  The room was iceberg cold.  The ghost.

“Not Simon.” She held her breath, ears stained for the horrifying, otherworldly whisper, a warning of imminent death. The sound came again, closer. A slow footstep creeping over the old oaken floor. Tonight, the ghost of Darby Manor wandered its dim corridors.

“No. No.” Tory squeezed her eyes closed and prayed, forgetting she didn’t believe in ghosts.

The footsteps halted. Tory’s heart stopped. She started to cover her ears, refusing to hear. The ghost breathed that heartbreaking sigh at her door.

Shuddering, she slid back under the layers of down. The warmth had no effect on her shivers. She folded into a fetal position.  I’m no longer alone.  Fear chilled her anew.  Though she couldn’t see clearly in the dim light, she knew her breath puffed white clouds in the frigid air. Dread sank its wicked claws into her racing heart.

Get your copy of Four by Moonlight directly from Class Act Books or at Amazon!

Linda Nightingale is a native-born South Carolinian who has lived in England and Canada, and now resides in Texas.  Before turning to writing, she bred, trained and showed Andalusian horses for thirteen years.

In 2012, her novel, Gemini Rising, was voted Best Mainstream Novel in the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. Her vampire romance, Cardinal Desires won the Georgia Romance Writers Magnolia Award in 2013, and that was followed by her science fiction romance, Love for Sale, being awarded Best SF/Fantasy novel of 2015 by the Paranormal Romance Guild’s Reviewer’s Choice, and also voted one of the Top Ten Romance Novels of 2015 by the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll for that year.

Four by Moonlight is her first novel for Class Act Books. 

Find out more about Linda at:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linda.nightingale.52?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf

Website: http://www.lindanightingale.com

Blog: https://lindanightingale.wordpress.com/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4839311.Linda_Nightingale

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lbnightingale1/?etslf=10520&eq=LInda%20Nightingale

Twitter: @LNightingale

Wow..sounds like a great anthology for you lovers of paranormal romance!

Hope you enjoyed today's spotlight and that you'll return each week for more Tuesday Treasures, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlights.

Until next time, take care and God Bless.

PamT