Hi Friends, Happy Valentine’s Week! I hope you are making fun plans to celebrate Valentine’s Day with family and friends! I know you love to read . . . so I’ve invited four amazing authors with wonderful new books to join me for a special Valentine’s Giveaway! Let me tell you about them, and then how to enter our special giveaway.
Cathy Gohlke writes novels steeped with inspirational lessons from history. Her stories reveal how people break the chains that bind them and triumph over adversity through faith. She is the four-time Christy Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novels Night Bird Calling, The Medallion, (winner of the 2020 Christy Award), Until We Find Home, Secrets She Kept, and several others novels. When not traveling to historic sites for research, she and her husband, Dan, divide their time between Northern Virginia and the Jersey Shore, enjoying time with their grown children and grandchildren. Visit her website at www.cathygohlke.com and on Instagram and Facebook
Sarah Sundin enjoys writing about the drama and romance of the World War II era. She is the bestselling and award-winning author of When Twilight Breaks, The Land Beneath Us, The Sky Above Us, and The Sea Before Us, as well as the Waves of Freedom, Wings of the Nightingale, and Wings of Glory series. A mother of three, Sundin lives in northern California and enjoys speaking to community, church, and writers’ groups. Sarah serves as Co-Director for the West Coast Christian Writers Conference. Visit Sarah at www.sarahsundin.com, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Melanie Dobson Writing fiction is Melanie Dobson’s excuse to explore abandoned houses, travel to unique places, and spend hours reading old books and journals. The award-winning author of more than twenty novels, Melanie enjoys stitching together both time-slip and historical stories including The Curator’s Daughter, Memories of Glass, Hidden Among the Stars, Catching the Wind, and the Legacy of Love novels. Five of her novels have received a Carol Award for historical fiction, and Catching the Wind’s audiobook won the 2018 Audie for Best Inspirational Novel. Melanie and her husband, Jon, live Portland, Oregon, and they love to travel and hike in both the mountains and the cliffs above the Pacific. Visit Melanie’s website: www.melaniedobson.com, or at Facebook, or Twitter.
Heidi Chiavaroli is a writer, runner, and grace-clinger who could spend hours exploring places that whisper of historical secrets. Her debut novel, Freedom’s Ring, was a Carol Award winner and a Christy Award finalist, a Romantic Times Top Pick, and a Booklist Top Ten Romance Debut. Her latest dual timeline novel, The Orchard House, is inspired by the lesser-known events in Louisa May Alcott’s life. Heidi makes her home in Massachusetts with her husband and two sons. Connect with Heidi online at her website: heidichiavaroli.com, or on Facebook or instagram.
Carrie Turansky is the author of more than twenty inspirational novels and novellas and a winner of the ACFW Carol Award, the International Digital Award, and the Holt Medallion. She loves traveling to England to research her Edwardian novels including No Journey Too Far, No Ocean Too Wide, Across the Blue, Shine Like the Dawn, and The Highland Hall series. Her novels have received stared reviews from Christianbooks.com and Library Journal. They have been translated into several languages and enjoyed by readers around the world. Connect with Carrie at her website: carrieturansky.com, and on Facebook, and Instagram.
To enter our Valentine’s Day Giveaway, just fill out the Rafflecopter form below. You will need to copy and paste the links for each option. One winner will be chosen at random on February 15 to win paperback or hardback copies of all five books. This contest is open to US and International readers. Thank you for being a faithful reading friend! Do you have a friend who loves to read historical novels? Please forward this giveaway and share the love!
Until Next Time ~ Happy Reading,
Carrie
I like pretty much any time period depending on what mood I’m in! 😁
Pick me 🙋🏼♀️ … I love all eras of historical fiction!
What a wonderful giveaway opportunity! Wishing you a wonderful Valentine’s Day!
My favorite time periods for the setting of a novel are 3: One is the 1700’s, the other is the 1800’s, I also like some WW2 novels.
Romans 10: 9-13
My favorite time period for the setting of a novel is 1800’s.
I think my favorite time period is around WWII, but I love all time periods!
My favorite historical time is anything because I really like history… but I read more World War II and before.
World War 2 is probably my favorite time period for historical fiction. But I love learning from other eras as well. Love historical fiction! Thanks for this opportunity!
I love WWII stories
Any as long as the story is good My Favorites are contemporary and the 20’s
I love books set in the Victorian era!
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As long as the story is intriguing I enjoy any historical time period.
I do love WWII era…
Thank you for the fabulous giveaway!! I’m excited to read these books…
Favorite time period is Biblical.
I like all time periods. But, I am partial to the split time stories.
Historical fiction is my favorite genre–especially if it has some romance thrown in! I’m open to most any era.
I enjoy reading and learning about the WWII era.
I love reading books that take place in Regency England.
My very favorite is Civil War Era but I enjoy a lot of other eras.
It’s hard to pick a favorite! Honestly, it all kind of depends on my mood. Sometimes I’m in the mood for contemporary. Other times, I want regency time frame, medieval, 1700’s 1800’s, early 1900’s. So, I guess my favorite is whatever I’m in the mood for at the time.
I love all eras but especially WW2!
I think my favorite time period is the early to mid 20th century.
It really depends upon my mood.
For me it depends on my mood! Regency, Elizabethan…or even the 1920s.
I like different time periods…just depends on what mood I’m in.
Maybe Victorian if I had to pick.
Although I enjoy many, one my top favorite time periods to read in fiction is the Depression Era. I was really close to my grandmother who got married and began raising her children during the Depression. It has a sentimental element to it.
I love World War 2 the most be enjoy really time period.
middle ages to late 1800’s
I really am enjoying the books that are set between 1900-1925 right now.
I like every historical genre. I think I’ve read the most in Biblical, Regency, and World War eras.
Mostly I enjoy 1800-WWII era,
Historical, Mail Order Brides, wagon trails.
I love books written in the Victorian time period.
I love, love, love historical romance! And I especially love all the
godly life lessons I learn from the characters.
i have come to love all Historical Fiction from the 1700’s to the Second World War. The idea of seeing in my mind the words that have been written.
I love historical romance novels!
This is a tough question!!! I really like so many eras/time periods! I honestly can’t choose. I enjoy reading a vast range of books and feel I have so much to learn. I do love fiction that tells me more about history though. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into writing accurate(ish) historical fiction!
I like stories set in the World War II Era followed by stories in the Civil War Era.
I love World War II or stories set during the civil war. Anything, historical really.
Awesome giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity.
I like the time period of the 1800’s.
Give me a good romance and I will read it. I prefer the 17th, 18th or 19th century.
I love reading any time from Reconstruction through World War II
I Love reading any Historical books Thank you for this amazing giveaway Happy Valentines Day!
I love all of them!
I’ve been alternating between Regency romance and contemporary romance recently. I also do love WWII fiction. It’s nice to have so many options – something for everyone!
I love to read novels set in Colonial America and Regency.
Thanks so much for the wonderful opportunity! I’ve never met a historical period I didn’t like, but the 1890s or WWII are my favorite.
I gravitate towards old west genres but enjoy the civil war era and some regency era as well
Oh my!!! What an amazing giveaway. This would be wonderful to snuggle up in a chair with a blanket and cocoa and shut the cold weather out!
I love reading historical fiction during the 1800’s or early 1900’s and during the time of Jesus.
I especially enjoy stories that take place during WWII, featuring what people suffered under the Nazis and those who hid Jews. God bless all of you.
I love historical fiction. Especially WWI or WWII era. I also love split time novels. I especially love historical fiction when I know there has been a lot of great research done so that I can actually learn something new.
WWII 😊
I love all historical time periods, but my favorite is probable WWII!
I love reading all time periods! It’s the history that fascinates me 👀 I have a soft spot for WW2 novels and anything that involves well… history! haha
I enjoy most subgenres of historical fiction, actually, so I can’t choose one favorite. I get lost in whatever suits me at the time! I love reading mid-19th century midwestern prairie books, Mail Order Bride books, Amish fiction, Regency Period books, those with Victorian Era settings, European WWII stories, ones about the 1950’s, the 1980’s … oh so many … the variety never stops!! That’s what keeps everything fresh and new and keeps my quest for learning alive!!! Boy can you learn a lot too, what with all the carefully-researched facts and details provided by the authors behind this genre! It’s definitely the way to go if you want to keep what I call your “smart spot” stocked up!! 😜
I enjoy books set in the civil war era (1860s)
I like to read all time periods.
I adore historical novels. Any time period really from Biblical times to WW2.
Victorian era, Mid 19th century, actaually like all historical in any era
I love history but My absolute favorite is the Civil War or Revolutionary War.
Thank you for writing such inspiring stories !
I like eras that aren’t written about much, like early 1900’s, Depression Era, Cold War, Reconstruction.
I really enjoy reading about any time period in historical fiction. This is a great giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity!
My favorite is Historical Fiction
1800 , especially Regency .
And love Spit time novels.Thank you for this giveaway.
Happy Valentines Day.
My favorite time period is Regency but I like anything between mid 1800’s to early 1900’s (before 1920).
Thank you for the giveaway chance!