Carrie Fancett Pagels: What's new with members of CACW

Carrie Fancett Pagels joins HEA to share what's out and what's coming up from members of the Colonial American Christian Writers.

Carrie: Thanks for having me back, Joyce! I appreciate the chance to discuss recent releases (and one special soon-to-be-released book) from Colonial American Christian Writers. We have a full-length e-book novel, two new novellas, a repackaged novella collection, a paperback repackaged as an e-book and an anthology collection available from our members!

New member Dina Sleiman's inspirational Federalist-era novel, Love in Three-Quarter Time, is the first in Zondervan's new line, Zondervan First.

Love in Three-Quarter Time, out now as an e-book and coming later in paperback, is set in early-19th-century Virginia, where an impoverished young woman struggles to make a way for herself. The heroine must rely on her skills as she introduces the then-scandalous waltz(!) into Virginia society.

The blurb from the publisher:

In the style of Deeanne Gist, Dina Sleiman explores the world of 1817 Virginia in her novel Love in Three-Quarter Time. When the belle of the ball falls into genteel poverty, the fiery Constance Cavendish must teach the dances she once loved in order to help her family survive. The opportunity of a lifetime might await her in the frontier town of Charlottesville, but the position will require her to instruct the sisters of the plantation owner who jilted her when she needed him most. As Robert Montgomery and Constance make discoveries about one another, will their renewed faith in God help them to face their past and the guilt that threatens to destroy them in time to waltz to a fresh start?

An Amish Kitchen, a December release, includes several novellas and 50 Amish recipes by co-authors Kelly Long (a CACW member), Beth Wiseman and Amy Clipston. Kelly's novella is entitled A Taste of Faith. She also has a re-release of one of her books in e-book format, Hart's Truth. And A Marriage of the Heart, just published by Thomas Nelson, contains three previously released novellas by Kelly. One is a Christmas novella.

Gina Welborn has a new novella out entitled All Ye Faithful in the A Cascade Christmas anthology, just published by Barbour. This is Gina's second published novella. The first one was very well-received.

Also, NINE Colonial Quills blog members, including the very busy Kelly, have begun a serialized colonial for readers, called A Forted Frontier Holiday: A Colonial American Fiction Anthology. Participants post one section per week online.

Here's the blurb:

While harvesting, the German settlement near New Market, Va., receives warning of an impending attack by French and Indian war parties. They flee to a quickly cobbled refuge, Fort Providence — for they will surely need to rely on God's Provision. The forted colonials long to celebrate the holidays and await the arrival of visitors. Each CQ contributor to this serial will bring their characters into the fort from throughout colonial America.

Here's the schedule of weekly releases, already underway:

Part 1 (out now):Inside Fort Providence by Carrie Fancett Pagels

Part 2 (out now):A Providential Proposal by Susan Craft

Part 3 (Nov. 19):Landlocked by Carla Olson Gade

Part 4 (Nov. 26):Preserve my Life from Fear by Elaine Marie Cooper

Part 5 (Dec. 3): A Gift from Buckskin Samson by Kathy Maher

Part 6 (Dec. 10):Narrow Passage by Pat Iacuzzi

Part 7 (Dec. 17): As yet untitled release by Lynn Squire

Part 8 (Dec. 24):Christmastide by Carrie Fancett Pagels

Part 9 (Dec. 31):Amish Snow by Kelly Long

Part 10 (Jan. 7):Epiphany by Dina Sleiman

You can connect with Carrie on her blog and the Colonial Quills blog.