Interview with Liz Johnson: Weaving Faith, Healing, and Love into Storytelling

Interview with Liz Johnson: Weaving Faith, Healing, and Love into Storytelling

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Christian romance author Liz Johnson as she takes us through her journey from early storytelling to a thriving writing career. Liz shares how her faith shapes her characters and stories. She weaves themes of brokenness, healing, and God’s presence into her books. She shares her new book, Meddling with Mistletoe, and the love story behind it in the Christmas season. Discover the heart behind her writing and the encouragement she hopes to bring to readers everywhere.

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Meet Liz Johnson

Liz Johnson is the author of more than a dozen novels, a New York Times bestselling novella, and a handful of short stories. She’s a Christy Award finalist for The Red Door Inn and a three-time ACFW Carol Award finalist.

Liz is a graduate of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where she earned a degree in public relations.

Now a resident of Phoenix, she enjoys theater, live music, and doting on her nieces and nephews. She writes stories filled with heart, humor, and happily ever afters.

Visit Liz at her website www.LizJohnsonBooks.com

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Bible Verse for Encouragement

Matthew 1:23, NKJVBehold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

New Book: Meddling with Mistletoe

Whitney Garrett is preparing to enter culinary school in the spring, but first she has to sell enough homemade pies at the local Christmas markets to pay her tuition. When her oven breaks, Whitney asks Marie Sloan, proprietor of the Red Door Inn, if she can use the inn’s kitchen to keep up with her orders.

Marie agrees, with a catch: Whitney has to watch the three Sloan children and cook breakfasts for the Red Door in return.

The inn is busy with holiday guests–including Aretha Franklin Sloan’s perpetually single nephew Daniel and Ruby, a businesswoman in town to purchase Aretha’s antiques store. Intent on making a Christmas match for the two, Aretha enlists Whitney’s help in her schemes.

But the deeper Whitney gets, the more she realizes that Ruby is definitely not the right woman for Daniel–and the more she thinks that she just might be his perfect match.

Cuddle up for some warm holiday cheer as New York Times bestselling author Liz Johnson explores the unforeseen consequences of meddling with mistletoe when love is on the line.

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Kelly’s Personal Update

My debut novel, Finding Forevermore, is coming to Kickstarter on January 23rd, 2025!

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Interview with Mary Connealy: Faith, Fiction, and Mental Health in Christian Romance

Interview with Mary Connealy: Faith, Fiction, and Mental Health in Christian Romance

In this episode of the Christian Romance Podcast, Kelly sits down with bestselling author Mary Connealy. Mary shares her inspiring journey from stay-at-home mom to published author, navigating the highs and lows of the writing world. Together, they explore the ways faith, mental health, and historical research shape her stories, and discuss her dedication to raising awareness on women’s rights through fiction. Tune in as Mary reveals how scripture encourages her writing and how she found her unique voice in Christian romance.

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Meet Mary Connealy

Mary Connealy writes romantic comedies with cowboys and is celebrated for her fun, zany, action-packed style. She has sold more than 1.5 million books and is the author of the popular series WYOMING SUNRISE, THE LUMBER BARON’S DAUGHTERS, and many other books. Mary lives on a ranch in eastern Nebraska with her very own romantic cowboy hero.

Visit Mary’s website www.MaryConnealy.com

Follow Mary on her blog Petticoats and Pistols

Bible Verse for Encouragement

Romans 8:31, NKJV What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

New Book: Into the Sunset (A Western Light Book #3)

Will the sun set on their chance at happiness before they can seize it?

To finally escape the clutches of her controlling husband and the threat of being recommitted to an asylum, Ginny Rutledge enlists the help of her friends, Maeve O’Toole and Dakota Harlan. Fleeing their own tumultuous pasts, the group embarks on a journey to prove Ginny’s sanity. However, as they confront the shadows they wish they could forget, danger looms from unexpected places.

Maeve grapples with her mother’s impending remarriage and seizes a rare chance to escape her homestead–but that means reuniting with Dakota, the man she holds responsible for her father’s death, who is caught in the crosshairs of a vengeful family. As the two of them navigate their shared history and a dangerous mission, Dakota is forced to confront his deepest fears and fight for the woman who has unwittingly captured his heart.

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Also, if you’re interested in reading the book inspiring Mary’s main character, here’s the link to The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

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Kelly’s Personal Update

My debut novel, Finding Forevermore, is coming to Kickstarter on January 23rd, 2025!

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Interview with Jaime Jo Wright: Mysteries, Romance, and the Art of Storytelling in Gothic Fiction

Interview with Jaime Jo Wright: Mysteries, Romance, and the Art of Storytelling in Gothic Fiction

Join us for an inspiring conversation as Kelly sits down with award-winning author Jaime Jo Wright to explore her fascinating journey from aspiring archaeologist to Gothic mystery novelist. Jaime shares the unique influences of growing up in a circus town, her passion for forensic psychology, and how hunting and conservation play into her storytelling.

Together, they delve into the emotional connections that bring Jaime’s characters to life, the evolution of criminal psychology, and her newest novel, Specters in the Glass House, a story that masterfully blends themes of death and hope. Filled with humor and deep insight, this episode offers a glimpse into Jaime’s world—a world where darkness meets light, fears are faced, and hope prevails.

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Meet Jaime Jo Wright

Jaime Jo Wright is the author of ten novels, including Christy Award and Daphne du Maurier Award winner The House on Foster Hill and Carol Award winner The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond. She’s also a three-time Christy Award finalist, as well as the ECPA bestselling author of The Vanishing at Castle Moreau, The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater, and two Publishers Weekly bestselling novellas. Jaime lives in Wisconsin with her family and fabulous felines.

Visit Jaime’s website www.JaimeWrightBooks.com

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Bible Verse for Encouragement

Psalm 4:8, NKJV I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; For You alone, O Lord , make me dwell in safety.

New Book: Specters in the Glass House

In 1921, Marian Arnold, the heiress to a brewing baron’s empire, seeks solace in the glass butterfly house on her family’s Wisconsin estate as Prohibition and the deaths of her parents cast a long shadow over her shrinking world.

When Marian’s sanctuary is invaded by nightmarish visions, she grapples with the line between hallucinations of things to come and malevolent forces at play in the present. With dead butterflies as the killer’s ominous signature, murders unfold at a steady pace. Marian, fearful she might be next, enlists the help of her childhood friend Felix, a war veteran with his own haunted past.

In the present day, researcher Remy Shaw becomes entangled in an elderly biographer’s quest to uncover the truth behind Marian Arnold’s mysterious life and the unsolved murders linked to an infamous serial killer. Joined by Marian’s great-great-grandson, can Remy expose the evil that lurks beneath broken wings? Or will the dark legacy surrounding the manor and its glass house destroy yet another generation?

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Kelly’s Personal Update

My debut novel, Finding Forevermore, is coming to Kickstarter January 23rd, 2025!

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