"Finding Beth" is now available!

Amazon reviewers are giving "Finding Beth" 5 Stars:

A run-away-bride-to-be and a southern-boy-next-door... Trapped by the reality of past choices... lost in confusion and pain, Beth Gallagher must fight her way back to God. Just when she makes a new friend in Adam Blythe and finds peace with God, tragedy strikes. Beth faces new demons that steal her new-found peace and threaten to steal her future. Could she possibly find true love with Adam Blythe? Or will this crisis tear them apart? Will she ever find her way home a midst her emotional mine-field? Read Finding Beth to find out!

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What Amazon reviewers are saying about "Finding Beth":

Intriguing! 
Linnette Mullin's "Finding Beth" is an intriguing story. You will find yourself eagerly flipping each page hoping Beth will make the right choices, cheering Adam on and biting your nails at every trial. A story of what true love looks like.
~ Lindsay Varble

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You won't put it down! 
I encourage you to give this book a try! It takes the "typical Christian romance" into new waters, and the journey will keep you turning those pages to see what happens next. Loss, heartache, trust, forgiveness, abuse, betrayal, PTSD, healing, love... I think I'll go read it again! Sure, with most Christian romance novels, you can guess the ending pretty early...who ends up with whom. But the path Linnette takes to get to that end is different and captivating.
~ SDP

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I didn't want to put the book down!
I loved this book! She managed to touch every corner of my heart in one incredible story. I can't wait to see what else Linnette brings to life in her future books. What a powerful story of Gods devotion in the storms we find ourselves in.
~Angela Maes

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In "Finding Beth" one just might find themselves, as well.
... Beth is perfectly crafted... beautifully broken and devastatingly real. You want to sit down with her over tea (or coffee with too much cream and sugar) and encourage her, pray for her and with her, root for her, cry with her, and cheer with her as she makes her way out of the darkness and tragedy that surrounds her. She's as tough as she is tender, and I really loved that about her. She's enduring, and wraps herself tightly around your heart. You can't help but love her and hold out hope for her story to end well. She's inspiring, even when she's falling apart. Even in weakness, her courage really shines through in the decisions she makes on how to handle her circumstances. ...
~ D. M. Kilgore, Writer and Super Book Worm

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Kathy Nickerson's Writing Journey

Thirty Days to Glory

by Kathy Nickerson

The Waiting Room 

In 1983, I stepped into a local bookshop and purchased my first copy of The Writer’s Market. I trembled at my own audacity. Who was I to aspire to such things? Yet, every afternoon while the children napped, I devoured the mysteries of query letters, book proposals, and the now-out-dated SASE.

Thirty years later, someone published my first novel. If you are an eager, young novelist, such news might seem dreadful. I might sound like a failure. But let me tell you what I did while I waited:

I Learned

The first thing you do in a waiting room is flip through magazines. The pictures are distracting, and sometimes you learn a thing or two. In 1986, I attended my first writers’ conference, and I learned a lot. An editor encouraged me to keep writing. A Pulitzer-winning author told me I showed promise, and the conference host signed me up for his college course. I kept attending conferences ever year and met lots of editors, authors, and friends. I read books about writing, subscribed to magazines, and followed several blogs in the writing world. Eventually, I took a twelve-month online course in writing fiction.

I Wrote

Reading magazines will only pass the time for so long, of course. Eventually, you have to get up and pace the floor. Attending conferences won’t get a book published if you haven’t stayed home long enough to write something. So, I started sending out freelance articles and proposals. To my surprise, editors started buying them! I’ve written three unpublished novels, ghosted five memoirs (two have been published so far), sold a few dozen articles, and written countless press releases, web stories, newspaper columns, and brochures, along with posting to my own blog every week. I still yearned to see my own novels on store shelves, but in the meantime, I wrote.

I Grew

Nothing tests one’s character or faith like waiting. Especially if you are waiting for the results of a biopsy or the birth of a grandchild. For a writer, waiting is a lifestyle. When I look back at early drafts of my novel, Thirty Days to Glory, I am so glad no one wanted to publish it ten years ago! That would have been a premature birth. As I grew, so did my characters. We are all better people than we were in those early days.

So, if you are in The Waiting Room as a writer, take heart. Keep learning, keep writing, and keep growing as you enjoy this process. Eventually, a nurse will step into the room and announce, “It’s a boy!”  Or a book. Or script. Or a poem.

You will be so glad you waited.

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Kathy Nickerson writes from her home in rural Missouri, where she lives with her husband of nearly forty years. They are the parents of four children who grew up to become their best friends and who have given them a dozen grandchildren, so far.

 Kathy’s writing credits include magazines such as Discipleship Journal, Angels on Earth, Focus on the Family, Proto, and Kyria.com. Some of her stories have also been published in collected works by Bethany House and Guideposts Books. Her novel, Thirty Days to Glory, will be released by CrossRiver Media in October 2013. You may connect with Kathy at: 

www.kathynick.com

www.facebook.com/kathynick

www.twitter.com/kathynick_

Book Link

www.crossrivermedia.com