This Week on Living Inspired: Miralee Ferrell and Darlene Schacht

This week on Living Inspired, we’ll be chatting with author Miralee Ferrell and marriage blogger Darlene Schacht. Miralee Ferrell writes books with a suspense thread as well as romance, and three of her previous books have a higher degree of action with a decided Old West slant. Her newest book, Blowing on Dandelions (David C. Cook, 2013) is book one in a three book series. Darlene Schact is an award winning and New York Times best-selling author who is nothing without the grace of God. Her ebook The Good Wife’s Guide (Time Warped Ministries, 2012) offers reasons for achieving a well-managed home backed by scripture and gleaned from experience. As well it provides readers with detailed cleaning and organizing schedules for practical application.

More about Miralee: Miralee Ferrell is a speaker, accredited counselor, and American Christian Fiction Writers chapter president who has published multiple contemporary and historical romance novels. She and her husband enjoy horseback riding, sailing, and family gatherings around their eleven-acre property in Washington State’s beautiful Columbia River Gorge.

Connect with Miralee on her website.

More about Blowing on Dandelions: Do Dandelion Wishes Actually Come True? Katherine Galloway knew this moment of calm wouldn’t last, blown away like the dandelion seeds she scattered as a girl. In 1880, three years after her husband’s death, she struggles to run an Oregon boardinghouse and raise two girls alone. Things don’t get easier when her critical, domineering mother moves in. Katherine must make the situation work, but standing up for herself and her family while honoring her mother isn’t easy. And with a daughter entering the teenage years, the pressure on Katherine becomes close to overwhelming. Then she crosses paths with Micah Jacobs, a widower who could reignite her heart, but she fears a relationship with him might send things over the edge. She must find the strength, wisdom, hope, and faith to remake her life, for everything is about to change.

“As soft and gentle as the wisps of snowy seeds for which it is named, Blowing on Dandelions is an achingly tender love story that will lift your spirits—and your heart—high on a gentle breeze over the Oregon prairie.”

-Julie Lessman, award-winning author of The Daughters of Boston and Winds of Change Series

“Miralee Ferrell’s writing style is always a delight, even as her stories are captivating. Blowing on Dandelions is no exception. From the opening scene the reader is drawn into Katherine Galloway’s life, and we care about her from that moment on. This is more than a heart-tugging romance—though it is that—but it is also a mind-challenging read that will leave us in a different place than when we began.”

– Kathi Macias, multi-award-winning author of 40 books, including the Golden Scrolls 2011 Novel of the Year and Carol Award finalist, Red Ink

Purchase your copy of Blowing on Dandelions. 

 

More about Darlene: Darlene Schacht is the mother of four children, help meet to her husband Michael, and co-author of the award-winning and New York Times best-seller, Reshaping it All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness.

Connect with Darlene on her blog.

More about The Good Wife’s Guide:  Author Darlene Schacht encourages women to joyfully serve their families from a place of sacrificial love. She beautifully demonstrates how supporting our husbands and living in unity is a reflection of God’s blueprint for marriage.While doing so, The Good Wife’s Guide offers reasons for achieving a well-managed home backed by scripture and gleaned from experience. As well it provides readers with detailed cleaning and organizing schedules for practical application.If you like tips on organization and housekeeping, this book is for you!

“Being a woman is a powerful role that God has called each of us to, and I love the ways in which Darlene helps us focus on those priorities and live out our desire to be ‘The Good Wife.'”

– Candace Cameron Bure, Actress, NYT Best-Selling Author

“I found myself being convicted, encouraged and motivated all at once! I was highly impressed by this great little ebook and I highly recommend it. I know I will be returning to reread it in the future!”

– Ashley, Stay-At-Home Daughter

Purchase a copy of The Good Wife’s Guide (for only $2.99)!