A Louisiana Christmas To Remember

A Rare Snowfall Leads to a Christmas to Remember Three heartwarming, interconnected stories of faith, love, and restoration, brought to you by three Louisiana-native authors. Will a rare snowy Louisiana Christmas bring restoration and hope to the hometown and hearts of three women from the town's founding family? In A Louisiana Snow by Morgan Tarpley Smith, meet Mattie: A passionate visionary who learns to forgive and finds love in unexpected places... In Restoring Christmas by Betsy St. Amant, meet Jolene: An artist and prodigal daughter who discovers love exists in the very place she once called home... In A Christmas Reunion by Lenora Worth, meet Adale: A beautiful widow who finally dares to love again... And don't forget Granny, whose feisty spirit, blunt dialogue, and quirky ways play an important and endearing role.

"Will a rare snowy Louisiana Christmas bring restoration and hope to the hometown and hearts of three women from the town's founding family? In A Louisiana Snow by Morgan Tarpley Smith, meet Mattie: A passionate visionary who learns to forgive and finds love in unexpected places... In Restoring Christmas by Betsy St. Amant, meet Jolene: An artist and prodigal daughter who discovers love exists in the very place she once called home... In A Christmas Reunion by Lenora Worth, meet Adale: A beautiful widow who finally dares to love again... And don't forget Granny, whose feisty spirit, blunt dialogue, and quirky ways play an important and endearing role"--

What are the key elements to writing a time-slip novel? Where do you start in your plot? How do you weave together multiple storylines?In A Split in Time, time-slip authors Melanie Dobson and Morgan Tarpley Smith help fellow writers navigate and then master the challenges of writing a novel with two or more storylines. Within these pages you'll find:· Thirteen key components for split time fiction· Practical tips on building the time-slip structure· Interviews with bestselling novelists like Lisa Wingate and Susan Meissner· Analyses of multi-storyline techniques· Resources to build compelling split time characters, craft your ideas, and weave together multiple timelinesWhether you are a seasoned writer ready for a new journey or a first-time novelist wanting to learn the split timeline format, this workshop-in-a-book provides the necessary skills to weave two or more compelling stories into one time-slip novel!ENDORSEMENTS"A Split in Time is the only craft book I know devoted completely to writers who want to write in the time-slip genre. . .It's an absolute must for anyone writing split time novels." - Heidi Chiavaroli, award-winning author of The Tea Chest"This book is a gold mine of information for those looking to write split time fiction. Highly recommend!" - Lindsay Harrel, best-selling author of The Secrets of Paper and Ink

A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.

With his first three works of fiction—the novels You Bright and Risen Angels and The Ice-Shirt, and the collection The Rainbow Stories—William T. Vollmann announced himself as a writer of rare and ferocious talent, with critics comparing him to William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, and T.C. Boyle. His new novel is the story of Jimmy, who has been deserted by his lover, a prostitute by the name of Gloria. In the despair of his loneliness, and his drunken grief, he reassembles Gloria’s presence out of whatever he can buy from the hookers on the street—the fragments of their lives and dreams, and locks of hair they are willing to share for a price. In his search for these snatches of intimacy he meets the hustlers, drunks, and prostitutes of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district: Candy, who beats her customers when they ask for it but refuses to let them call her a bitch; Snake, who pimps his wife; Nicole, whose job it is to give men AIDS; Jack, who shoots his woman’s earnings into his arm but still likes Chopin even though he doesn’t have a record player; and Gloria, who may or may not be a figment of Jimmy’s imagination. Vollmann writes with explosive power of the inner city, unflinching in the way he confronts the solitude of the homeless and unloved, the insulted and the injured of skid-row America. His exhilarating, high-voltage style and lyric language touch the heart and retrieve a jubilant integrity from the harsh struggles of his characters. Here is a world of harrowing truth, beautifully expressed by a writer of prodigious gifts.