Cover Reveal ~ The Lumberjacks' Ball by Carrie Fancett Pagels, © 2015

 

I love this cover!! Waiting to open to get inside and read the story. I can just see our protagonist stride walking right off the cover!

The Lumberjacks' Ball

A decade after surviving a brutal attack, a mercantile owner’s daughter seeks to begin her life anew in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A gifted craftsman wishes to leave his lumberjack life and seeks employment at her new store. When his presence dredges up memories she sought to suppress, she must learn to overcome them. Can affection grow between the cabinetmaker and the proprietress of St. Ignace’s newest business? When complications arise, will they overcome adversity in time for The Lumberjacks' Ball?

   --Author Carrie Fancett Pagels

N*E*W*S   F*L*A*S*H

Author Carrie Fancett Pagels has  graciously offered *winner's*choice* of one copy from her stories to a commenter at each of the seven participating blogs listed below. Winners to be chosen at random one week from today's posting. U.S.: eBook or print copy; International: eBook only ~ the Guideposts and Family Fiction copies are not available in eBook. Single selection to each winner; if duplicate drawn, will redraw for new winner.

~*be sure to leave your contact e-mail address[at]...[dot]com with your comment below*~

The Fruitcake Challenge ~
When new lumberjack, Tom Jeffries, tells the camp cook, Jo Christy, that he’ll marry her if she can make a fruitcake, “as good as or better than the one my mother makes,” she rises to the occasion. After all, he’s the handsomest, smartest, and strongest axman her camp-boss father has ever had in his camp—and the cockiest. And she intends to bring this lumberjack down a notch or three by refusing his proposal. The fruitcake wars are on! Order link.

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Carrie's short story, "Snowed In," was published in Guidepost Books' A Cup of Christmas Cheer,
Vol. One, Tales of Faith and Family for the Holidays. Order link.

I was privileged to be one of the contributors to this amazing collection of inspirational Christmas short stories. Enjoyed them all immensely! The books are small hardcovers and fit perfectly into a handbag for lunchtime reading. This collection is still available through Guidepost Books and a second collection has been released recently.
   Snowed In is set in 1945. The hero is a WWII injured veteran who is experiencing his first Christmas back home. Snowed In is a special story because it is inspired by a true event in my parents' lives—when they took in my aunts, who were school-age at the time. I set this story at my great-grandparents' log (cedar) cabin which is now part of the Tahquamenon Logging Museum, in Newberry, Michigan. Inspired by real family members, writing this story was like spending time with my young mom and dad (both are in heaven), my aunts, my great-grandmother and my great-uncle. Of course the story is a fiction, but I sure enjoyed writing it and having Christmas during 80 degree weather while I wrote it!
   --Author Carrie Fancett Pagels

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God's Provision in Tough Times ~
Each writer's personal story demonstrates the power of God who knows exactly what you are going through and who promises to care for those who put their faith and trust in Him. Order link.

I share our story of my husband's unemployment when we had to move for my health and about how God provided for us.  --Author Carrie Fancett Pagels

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Return to Shirley Plantation: A Civil War Romance, a Novella by Carrie Fancett Pagels, is the first story in the inspirational "Cry of Freedom" collection. Order link.

Shirley Plantation on the James River - Virginia

Carrie Fancett Pagels, Ph.D., is an award-winning, and Amazon bestselling author, of Christian historical romance. She served as a psychologist for twenty-five years. Carrie lives in the Tidewater Virginia area with her family. When not writing, researching, blogging and enjoying tea, Carrie beads and reads—not necessarily in that order!

 

Carrie Fancett Pagels Cover Reveal

for The Lumberjacks’ Ball –

Blog Hop & Giveaways!!!

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One overall winner of the Carrie Fancett Pagels Blog Hop

will receive the grand prize of a basket of surprise goodies!

The SEVEN postings will all be today, St. Patrick's Day,

March 17, 2015.

To qualify, stop by and leave a comment with your contact e-mail address[at]...[dot]com at each of these SEVEN featured blogs for the Cover Reveal ~ The Lumberjacks' Ball by Carrie Fancett Pagels, © 2015:

Nancee Marchinowski - Perspectives by Nancee

Anne Payne - Stuff & Nonsense

Britney Adams - Buzzing About Books

Kathleen E. Belongia - Lane Hill House

Debbie Lynne Costello - The Sword and Spirit

Overcoming with God

Colonial Quills

A total of seven books will be given away!

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Leaving a comment and your contact e-mail address

 at each of the above seven blog posts for the

Cover Reveal ~ The Lumberjacks' Ball

will be a double entry opportunity

~* win one book - winner's choice - from Carrie's books *~

and

~* one grand prize winner *~

will be drawn from those commenting

on ALL of the seven blog posts -

a basket of surprise goodies!

Winners will be chosen at random one week from today's posting.

Winner’s choice on EACH blog: The Fruitcake Challenge; The Lumberjacks' Ball; Return to Shirley Plantation: A Civil War Romance; God’s Provision in Tough Times; upcoming release Saving the Marquise’s Granddaughter ~ eBook (international and U.S), or paperback (U.S. only), copy choice; A Cup of Christmas Cheer from Guidepost Books, hardcover only; or Family Fiction Anthology of The Story 2014 which includes Carrie's award-winning short story “The Quilt Contest,” paperback only.

***Thank you to author Carrie Fancett Pagels for inviting Lane Hill House blog to be a part of the Cover Reveal for The Lumberjacks' Ball. I am looking forward to reading this story when it releases by mid-April, 2015!*** half-Irish Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House