by Johnnie Alexander | Oct 31, 2014 | Authors, Books, Foreign Affaire Spotlights
Foreign Affaire: Finding Romance in Novel Places Featuring: Believe in Me by Autumn Macarthur Set in London, England Believe in Me is October’s Book of the Month on Foreign Affaires, a blog devoted to novels that take place in international (and imaginary) places....
by Johnnie Alexander | Oct 20, 2014 | Authors, Books
Story inspiration: Riding the Katy Trail My husband and I love to ride our tadpole recumbents on the Katy Trail in Missouri—the longest rails-to-trails in the nation. The trail head in New Franklin tells the story of Joseph Kinney, a steamship company owner, who had...
by Johnnie Alexander | Oct 16, 2014 | Authors, Books
Christmas at Schoenbrunn in 1773 In the wilderness of Ohio in 1773, a band of missionaries and Lenape Indians celebrated Christmas at Schoenbrunn Village, the first settlement in Ohio. They’d come to this wilderness and started the village a year earlier to preach the...
by Johnnie Alexander | Oct 9, 2014 | Authors, Books
A Stranger on My Land. Isn’t the cover beautiful?? Sandra: While researching another novel for the Civil War time period, I found fascinating books written by Union and Confederate soldiers. One of these soldiers wrote about the “Battle Above the Clouds” on Lookout...
by Johnnie Alexander | Oct 2, 2014 | Authors, Books
Writing Stories of Faith… Mingled With Murder And Mayhem By Lillian Duncan Really? Christian fiction and murder/suspense novels? On the surface the two don’t seem to go together. After all, how can a book where murders, mayhem, and bad guys abound promote Christian...
by Johnnie Alexander | Sep 30, 2014 | Authors, Books, Foreign Affaire Spotlights
Foreign Affaire – Finding Romance in Novel Places Featuring: Majai’s Fury by Valerie Comer Set in the mythical LANDS OF THE AZHALAWAR Valerie Comer, farm lit pioneer, left her familiar countryside behind and imagined an amazing new world for her latest novel....
