History, Real Life, and Faith
Shannon McNear In her debut novella, “Defending Truth,” South Carolina writer Shannon McNear describes a surprising romance between a fugitive Tory militiaman, and a young patriot woman in charge of her siblings while her father fights during the Revolutionary War. It’s the first story chronologically in the September 1 release of Barbour Publishing’s A Pioneer Christmas Collection. “Defending Truth”…
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Michelle Ule’s interview about her story in A PIoneer Christmas Collection
Kathleen Fuller The author of over twenty-five novels, Kathleen Fuller lives in northeastern Ohio, which is the setting for her new novella, “The Calling,” part of Barbour Publishing’s September 1 release, A Pioneer Christmas Collection. For Kathleen, the local Unionville Tavern, a currently unused historical spot, provided the germ for her story idea. “Once I found out the tavern…
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Cynthia Hickey Cynthia Hickey pulled off quite a surprise in her novella A Christmas Castle. When Annie, a mail order bride, arrives in Arizona to meet the man she’s married by proxy, the situation turns a little awkward: the man is dead and has left behind an orphaned daughter! It’s hard to imagine how anyone could turn such a…
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Introducing A Pioneer Christmas Collection! When Barbour Publishing announced they were looking for novellas for A Pioneer Christmas Collection, they had just a few parameters: the story needed to take place between the 1700s to the late 1800s. The stories were about people surviving a pioneer experience, and celebrate Christmas in a unique dwelling. The stories that appear in A…
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Here’s Chapter Three of my original manuscript for The Dogtrot Christmas. When I finally finished writing the novella, everything changed. Tomorrow, I’ll provide the opening chapter to The Dogtrot Christmas so you can catch a glimpse of where and how Molly and Jamie–not to mention the baby–survived. If you missed the first two chapters, you can read Chapter 1 here…
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