Sharing Tuesday on Overload

This week’s Sharing Tuesday is on overload. Here we have four authors and books to highlight. All authors are part of the Facebook group, Writing with The Erasers (ERASERS is an acronym for Edit, Rewrite, And Save. Edit. Repeat. Save.) This is a mutual commiseration society for writers and readers who appreciate a good ruff draft, a belly laff, and a grate eraser. [Sidebar] Writer groups are invaluable if a writer wants to enhance their work. Authors and soon-to-be authors offer guidance and support not found anywhere else.

Debbie Sprinkle

Debbie Sprinkle has two books this year. The Case of Stolen Memories (Scrivenings Press, August 2024) is the third book of the three-book A Mac & Sam Mystery series. When a new year begins, Private Investigator Mackenzie Love resolves to get in better shape. But after only one week of walking, she interrupts a burglary in progress and ends up in the middle of a murder case. Detective Jake Sanders, the man Mac’s dating, is assigned to the murder. Mac, along with her partners, Samantha Majors and Ms. Prudence Freebody, is hired to find the memorabilia stolen from the time capsule in Rennick Park. The two cases intertwine, and Mac finds herself once more on the wrong end of a gun. Can Mac and Jake find the killer and the stolen property before the killer finds them? She also has a book coming out in December, In Death Under the Ice.

Starr Ayers

In Starr Ayers‘ new book, Waiting for Sunset (Mountain Brook Ink, September 2024), thirty-two-year-old interior designer Olivia Houston suffers anxiety since the death of her husband. Weary of the tyranny of the urgent, she longs for quiet and welcomes the invitation to update her cousin’s 1950s cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina. On a jog to the tip of neighboring Bird Island, Olivia discovers the mysterious Kindred Spirit mailbox. Planted in the dunes decades earlier by a young couple, the box contains journals with visitors’ entries—as well as an item that plunges Olivia into a search for the family of WW2 Sergeant Walter Larsen. While at the Kindred Spirit, Olivia collides with Chase Evans, a deep-sea charter boat captain with a circuit-breaker smile, whom Olivia soon recruits to assist with her search. Their shared pursuit takes them far beyond the sands of Sunset Beach and well outside the borders of their hearts. What will future visits to the Kindred Spirit mailbox hold for Olivia? Will her Sunset Beach sabbatical bring the healing and peace she seeks or compound her heartbreak and loss?

Christian Fiction is a powerful source of entertainment and introduces us to some fabulous authors.

Linda Dindzans

Linda Dindzans’s first book, A Certain Man (Scrivenings Press, August 2024) is Biblical fiction. In it, Mara, a young Samaritan, begins to discover her love for Samuel—and his for her. Soon she will be deemed mature enough to marry. Her hopes are dashed when her greedy father brokers a match with the cruel son of the wealthy High Priest of Shechem. When her loathsome betrothed is killed, her beloved Samuel must run for his life. Mara and Samuel struggle to survive and reunite during the treacherous and scandalous times of the Bible under the merciless rule of Rome.Along the way, they are entangled within the snares of such notable figures as King Herod, Herodias, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, and Salome.

Charlsie Estess

Charlsie Estess‘ book When The Ocean Roar ( Iron Stream Fiction, June 2024) offers the reader a Christian mystery embraces intrigue. Weeks before the Ultimate Fighting World Championship, Keane “The Golden Lion” Temple lands in Japan for the battle of his professional life. The adored prizefighter is primed to take the win. And nothing has ever distracted him from victory in the ring. But when his path collides with an intriguing woman, he gives in to impulse and asks her to spend his day off from training with him. Surely, he can keep his heart safe for one day. Ami Ono cannot pass on the invitation but also hides her full identity. As their extraordinary day bleeds into night, both realize one day won’t be enough. Then the excursion ends in disaster when Keane discovers who Ami is. They part ways, but compelling circumstances and an undeniable attraction draw them back together, driving their attraction—and her high-society family drama—to something more intense than Keane has ever faced. As the forbidden romance threatens to take down his principles in the knockout of his life, he struggles to honor his beliefs. Will The Golden Lion surrender his heart? Will Ami defy the domineering men in her life and accept it? Do they stand a chance against nature?

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These are fine examples of the beauty of writing groups. If you’re in the market of a group to help you in your writing journey, consider Word Weavers, International. Its mission  is to help members find their unique voice, strive for the exceptional and not settle for the mundane, and to raise the quality of our members’ writing to a publishable level.

Can a woman on the run find herself again?

Ladies of the Fire brought us to the late 1960s as we met the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she fled Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she could get her hands on at the family bank, she left the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stopped in Applegate, Ohio, and decided to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she met Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox, a Southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood.

Together, they enjoyed Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams were spoken and secrets revealed. As they embraced a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose began thinking her past could finally be laid to rest—until someone ended up dead.