History, Real Life and Faith
Do society a favor and hire a young person. Look around you. Do you have work that needs doing? Listen to me. Hire a young person to do it. I don’t usually order people around on my blog, but I’m stepping out of my normal to tell the world–young people need jobs and we all need to be looking for…
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While writing my recently released novella, The Sunbonnet Bride, I needed a devastating natural event to occur and so I researched grasshopper plagues, tornadoes and other acts of God. The Sunbonnet Bride is a sequel to my The Yuletide Bride, set in southeastern Nebraska in 1874. The following summer was a grasshopper plague summer and it seemed a perfect catastrophe…
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I did not plan to write a sequel for my Christmas novella, The Yuletide Bride, but when the opportunity arose, I figured out how to write one. Before The 12 Brides of Christmas e-books were released last fall, Barbour Publishing gave the writers an opportunity to write sequels. We had several days to come up with a synopsis. Our editor liked the dozen…
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Michelle Ule’s story, The Sunbonnet Bride, appears in the first 12 Brides of Summer Novella Collection. A sequel to her 12 Brides of Christmas story, The Yuletide Bride, The Sunbonnet Bride revisits the community of Fairhope, Nebraska during the summer of 1875. The players are all the same, except for the new seamstress in town, Sally, and her family and neighbors…
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Susan Page Davis wrote the Blue Moon Bride for The 12 Brides of Summer Blue Moon Bride is a sequel to last Christmas’ The Christmas Tree Bride, though it introduces two new characters who cross paths via the Union Pacific Railroad. Susan explained how the stories are connected: “In my Christmas novella, The Christmas Tree Bride, the main character, Polly, received…
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With summer heating up, Amy Lillard has written The Wildflower Bride for The 12 Brides of Summer Collection. As a sequel to last winter’s The Gingerbread Bride, The Wildflower Bride follows the fortunes of the second sister, Grace Sinclair Older sister Maddie is married in the opening scene, set in the 1875 Ozarks, and we get to celebrate with the family. Maddie makes a…
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