Welcome to October—and all things autumn! I’m looking forward to joining Author Susan Meissner for our virtual Author-to Author interview on behalf of Save Ellis Island’s Virtual Author Series as we discuss Ladies of the Lake. We’d love to have you join us Thursday, October 26 for this free event! Here’s the invitation from Save Ellis Island: There’s time to Register for Save …
RELEASE MONTH AT LAST! BOOK LAUNCH GIVEAWAYS!
Ladies of the Lake is now available online and through your favorite bookstore. I’m celebrating with Book Launch Giveaways! Check out this short Book Gems with Cathy Gohlke video (click on my picture or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmEHFGER2X8&t=1s ) to see how you can enter to win one of FOUR PRIZES: A signed copy of Ladies of the Lake and an Anne of Green Gables Devotional A signed …
Celia’s Birthday Applesauce Cake
“We heard over the radio that the train was delayed for ice on the tracks. We celebrated Celia’s birthday quietly, cutting the applesauce cake Gladys had baked that morning—a recipe Celia loved and one that had been passed down to their family for generations. But Celia barely ate.” — Cathy Gohlke from Night Bird Calling Celia’s Birthday Applesauce Cake Ingredients …
Night Bird Calling
If I could go anywhere during the month of November, I’d run to the foothills and mountains of North Carolina. There’s nothing like the Blue Ridge these crisp autumn days! That’s where Night Bird Calling, my ninth novel, unfolds. For me, writing Night Bird Calling was both a “coming home” to those welcoming foothills and an emotional journey into difficult …
Book Quotes from Cathy Gohlke’s Saving Amelie
“Joy is the gift of God, and you are His child. He loves you so. He rejoices over you with singing!” “Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.” “What worried him most was something Dietrich had mentioned observing during his visit to America—the way Americans treated Negroes. …
Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”—Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker, along with other members of her family, saved many Jewish people from the Nazis by hiding them in their home. Corrie told her story, with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, in The Hiding Place. Corrie’s life, so …