“The moment Owen stepped into the boarding school kitchen, Annie pulled him to the table and sat him down across from her. Carefully she set a pot of steaming tea and her plate of warm orange and currant scones, with pots of marmalade and Devonshire cream between them.”—Promise Me This Owen’s Favorite Orange and Currant Scones Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose …
Exploring museums rich in Titanic history in South Hampton, England and in Halifax, Nova Scotia has given me an even greater appreciation of the tragedy and its aftermath than when I first conceived of this story. Well over one hundred years have passed since Titanic’s sinking, and yet we are still learning stories of survivors and stories of those who …
My mother, Bernice, is 93 years old, wheelchair bound and blind as the result of a stroke, is hearing impaired and lives in constant pain. Still, she is the most positive person I know—determined to remain cheerful, engage and ask others how they are doing, and practice gratitude for the smallest things. Her generous attitude, forged over decades, has been …
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 3/18 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaBergren.com Hunt through our loop …
February is here—the month we celebrate Black History Month, National Library Lover’s Month, Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday—the first of 40 days of Lent. In one month we celebrate the serious, the humorous, the romantic, the patriotic and the spiritual! To Celebrate READERS, five historical novelists have banded together to offer our latest releases to …
To celebrate the January 5 release of Night Bird Calling I’m offering a month of weekly giveaways—books and gifts related to my story—as well as signed copies of Night Bird Calling! You can find these offerings through weekly videos of Book Gems on Facebook at CathyGohlkeBooks. Each week I will share new information–inspiration for the story, quirky characters, why I …
To celebrate the launch of my new website I’m offering a gift, “Into the Starry Night”–a short story prequel to my new book Night Bird Calling–to all who subscribe to my newsletter updates. Into the Starry Night introduces a few of the characters from No Creek, North Carolina, the small Appalachian town featured in Night Bird Calling. Characters are a couple …
SO looking forward to the cooler temps and beautiful autumn foliage of New England–and ReNEW–Retreat for New England Writing and Speaking October 4-6! Join me and an amazing team of Christian writers and speakers for a wonderful weekend retreat in beautiful West Hartford, Connecticut! I’d love to share my fiction writing workshop with you–Sharing Influences of Your Life in Your …
June 3-11, 2019 Welcome to the D-Day 75th Anniversary Blog Tour! Seven novelists are commemorating the brave men who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Thank you for joining us as we remember their heroism and sacrifice. Our novels illuminate different aspects of the war—from the landing beaches of Normandy to Nazi-occupied Europe to the US Home …
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