books Archives - Tricia Goyer

Last July at ICRS (International Christian Retail Show) I went to lunch with a group of friends from the Christian Authors Network. One of them was Sharon Hinck. We gathered a few looks as we walked along. You see, Sharon was in a SuperMOM outfit to promote her book The Secret Life of Becky Miller. (Seriously, it had a red cape and everything.) Only someone with a fun, spunky and crazy personality would do something like that.

Now, a second book has hit the shelves this month: Renovating Becky Miller. I LOVE home decorating/remodeling shows. I love fun, crazy people/characters. This book has both.

Sharon brings her same-real life fun into the lives of her characters. In fact, they come to life within the pages of this book.

Here is a short description:
Young mom Becky Miller daydreams about the happy endings she sees during her weekly movie nights with her husband. But problems mount with the remodeling of the new house. Her mother-in-law moves in, her eldest son gets in trouble at school, her sister arrives for a visit, her best friend starts acting weird, and work becomes more stressful than ever before. Can Becky stop trying to fix everything and let God renovate her heart so she can find her own happy ending?

SHARON HINCK, the author of The Secret Life of Becky Miller, is a wife and mother of four who holds an M.A. in Communication and spent ten years as the artistic director of a Christian performing arts group. She has been a church youth worker, a choreographer and ballet teacher, a home-school mom, a musician, and manager of a direct sales craft business. She and her family currently reside in Bloomington, Minnesota.

To end, I’m stealing a line I heard about Sharon’s writing: Sharon’s stories for the heroes in all of us. I agree! Check it out!

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is posting about Karen Kingsbury‘s latest book, Like Dandelion Dust.

About the Author:

USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America’s #1 inspirational novelist. There are nearly 5 million copies of her award-winning books in print, including more than two million copies sold in the past year. Karen has written more than 30 novels, nine of which have hit #1 on national lists, including award-winning Oceans Apart, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, the Redemption Series and Firstborn Series, and several other bestsellers, one of which was the basis for a CBS Movie-of-the-Week and Gideon’s Gift, which is currently in production as a major theatrical release for Christmas 2007.Karen lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Don, and their six children, three of whom are adopted from Haiti.

About the Book:

A PEACEFUL TOWN…

AN IDYLLIC FAMILY…

A PHONE CALL THAT THREATENS THEM ALL.

Jack and Molly Campbell enjoyed an idyllic life (great house in a fancy neighborhood, high-paying job, and a beautiful little boy) in their small hometown outside Atlanta with their adopted 4-year-old, Joey. Then they receive the phone call that shatters their world: a social worker delivers the news that Joey’s biological father has been released from prison and is ready to start lifeover with his son. (It’s discovered that Joey’s birth mother forged the signature of Joey’s birth father, making it a fraudulent adoption.)

When a judge rules that Joey must be returned to his father (a man who cannot separatee love and violence), the Campbells, in a silent haze of grief and utter disbelief, watch their son pick a dandelion and blow the feathery seeds into the wind.Struggling with the dilemma of following the law, their hearts, and what they know to be morally right, the Campbells find that desperation leads to dangerous thoughts. What if they can devise a plan? Take Joey and simply disappear….

LIKE DANDELION DUST.

Review by Mimi Pearson