Blog Carnival Extraordinaire

***Update: we have selected our winner (using www.random.org) and commenter #124, Danielle Resnick, is the lucky recipient of both novels, the chocolate, and a lovely homemade card. Danielle has been contacted via e-mail and as soon as she responds with her address, will have her prize shipped. Thanks for participating, everyone!

Today we are excited to participate in a blog carnival with several of the ladies from Proverbs 31 Ministries. Here’s how it works: we’re all giving stuff away and if you see something you want, just click the link to enter. Easy. Fun. And free! What could be better than that?

This week we’re celebrating love. Love of books. Love of writing. And the love that brought author’s Chris Coppernoll and Christa Parrish together in a story fit for a novel. We’ve been visiting with them all week and you MUST read the Valentines Day Post on how they met and fell in love. These gifted and wonderful writers are giving away copies of their new novels, Screen Play and Watch Over Me, chocolate, and a homemade card. Simply leave a comment on this post to enter.

Sometimes the person farthest away from you is the one closest to your heart . . .

At thirty, Harper fears her chances for a thriving career and tru love are both fading fast.  But when Harper is offered an unexpected role in a Broadway play – as understudy to New York’s biggest diva-she wonders if everything is about to change.

Hoping to find love in NYC, Harper reluctantly signs up for an online dating site-but the only match Harper is even remotely interested in lives thousands of miles away.  An actress who doesn’t act, searching for love with someone she’s never seen, Harper longs for God to show her He’s still listening.

Through the contemporary text-message world of Internet dating, Harper learns it’s possible to care for someone outside her own universe.  And as she reaches out through the impersonal world of cyberspace, she becomes more aware than ever of god reaching out to her . . .

Her rescue might be the miracle they needed…

Things like this don’t happen in Beck County.

Deputy Benjamin Patil is the one to find the infant girl, hours old, abandoned in a field.

As police work to identify the mother, Ben and his wife, Abbi, seem like the obvious couple to serve as foster parents. But the newborn’s arrival opens old wounds for Abbi and shines a harsh light on how much Ben has changed since a devastating military tour.

Their marriage teeters on the brink, and now they must choose to reclaim what they once had or loose each other forever.

Blog Carnival Giveaways

Wendy Blight is giving away a copy of the One Year Chronological Bible and her book Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner: The Transforming Power of God’s Story.

Shari Braendel is givng away 3 beautiful jewelry pieces to begin a spring wardrobe with! One for a Glamor Girl, one for a Movie Star and one for a Rock Star!

Micca Campbell is giving away her book An Untroubled Heart, and a cute clutch purse for those fun summer evenings!

Whitney Capps is giving away a $30 Francesca’s Gift card, redeemable at www.francescascollections.com

Melanie Chitwood is giving away one marriage conference call (see her blog for details) and her new book What a Wife Needs from Her Husband.

Lynn Cowell is giving away a prize for mom and a prize for a teen girl in her life – the 3 book series B.A.B.E. series by
Andrea Stephens (Beautiful, Accepted, Blessed, Eternally Significant) for the teen and for Mom a $10 gift card to Starbucks along with Lynn’s CD Building a Bridge to Your Child’s Heart.

Karen Ehman is giving away a Winter White Basket that includes Skin Milk body wash, a white loofah, Winter White Citrus Bath & Body Works products, white lily linen and room sprays, white hot cocoa, a white mug and white-chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Along with it, a copy of her book on celebrations entitled Homespun Memories for the Heart: More Than 200 Ideas to Make Unforgettable Moments.

Suzie Eller is giving away a webcam!

Zoe Elmore is giving away a journal, a copy of My Heart’s Cry by Anne Graham Lotz and a piece of jewelry Zoe style!

Charlene Kidd is giving away a $20.00 Starbucks Gift Card and a copy of Karen Ehman’s book: A Life That Says Welcome, Simple Ways to Open Your Heart and Home to Others.

Tracie Miles is giving away her CD Overcoming Stress with Extraordinary Faith and a Soulmates Slipper with Christian Notepad and Pen.

Rachel Olsen is giving away Bread for Life, a hardback copy of The Daily Message, Through the Bible in One Year by Eugene Peterson (which you can read this along with her this year) and the Williams-Sonoma Muffins Cookbook.

Wendy Pope is giving away a copy of her book Out of the Mouths of Babes and her CD Yes, No, and Maybe of a Balanced Life.

Luann Prater and Encouragement Cafe are giving away an Encouragement Cafe mug and t-shirt at both sites!

LeAnn Rice is giving away a copy of her cookbook Sharing Grace: Recipes- Family Traditions-Gift ideas and a Starbucks gift card.

Susanne Scheppmann is giving away her Birds in My Mustard Tree Bible Study with an I-tunes gift card.

Renee Swope is giving away Lysa TerKeurst’s Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl 6 week DVD set and a copy of Renee’s message Living Beyond the Shadow of Doubt on DVD.

Lysa TerKeurst is giving away a Mom’s Book Club gift pack including 4 copies of Lysa’s book, Am I Messing Up My Kids? and a 30-minute Q&A conference call with Lysa.

Van Walton is giving away her DVD for children – From the Pound to the Palace.

Glynnis Whitwer is giving away her book Work @ Home: A Practical Guide for Woman Who Want to Work from Home and a French Country Wire Silverware Basket.

RadRevolution Our ministry to teen girls is giving away a copy of Do the Hard Thing along with a RadRev t-shirt!

Good luck, have fun, and let us know if you win!