Carrie Fancett Pagels is on The BookFun Magazine Cover!

Author Carrie Fancett Pagels on the cover of Book Fun Magazine's June 2017 cover!!!

What fun! I'm on the cover of The Book  Club Network's Book Fun Magazine for June!!! Beautiful Mackinac Island is the setting for my post. Thank you to Fred and Nora St. Laurent for allowing me to move from May to June! And thank you to Hilary Lodge for the lovely job she did and to Barbour Publishing for their help!

The Book Club Network's Book Fun Magazine is FREE through Tuesday June 13th!!! (Click here) Be sure to click on the Buy Now purchase option not on the top button Read for Free because that is for people with Kindle Unlimited Membership only.

This picture is my inspiration for the Cadotte/Swaine home referred to as "The Canary" in My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island: Maude's Mooring.  This home is also in my upcoming 2018 releasing "His Anchor" in Barbour Publishings's First Loves Romance Collection. 

Cliffside on Mackinac Island! This is to the left of the Grand Hotel, when viewed from the water.

Fort Mackinac is up on the cliffside and the docks are on the bottom of this picture. 

Links to purchase My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island: Maude’s Mooring (Barbour Publishing, July 2017)

Barbour Publishing http://www.barbourbooks.com/product/My-Heart-Belongs-on-Mackinac-Island,14733.aspx?Tab=Books&sj=0

Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-heart-belongs-on-mackinac-island-carrie-fancett-pagels/1125051921?ean=9781683220886

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/My-Heart-Belongs-Mackinac-Island/dp/1683220889/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1481305286&sr=8-16&keywords=fancett

CBD https://www.christianbook.com/heart-belongs-mackinac-island-maudes-mooring/carrie-pagels/9781683220886/pd/220886?product_redirect=1&Ntt=220886&item_code=&Ntk=keywords&event=ESRCP

Book Depository http://www.bookdepository.com/My-Heart-Belongs-on-Mackinac-Island-Carrie-Fancett-Pagels/9781683220886?ref=grid-view

Target http://www.target.com/p/my-heart-belongs-on-mackinac-island-maude-s-mooring-paperback-carrie-fancett-pagels/-/A-52027933

Can you do me a favor? Can you pray for me and my monthlong trip to Mackinaw City, Mackinac Island, and to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan!  

Giveaway: Download your copy of Book Fun Magazine and read my article and come back here to leave a comment for a chance to win your choice of My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island: Maude's Mooring OR Seven Brides for Seven Mail-Order Husbands which includes my novella "Dime Novel Suitor."

Guest Review by Nora St. Laurent of Dan Walsh's "Remembering Christmas"

Remembering Christmas

By Dan Walsh

Published by Revell, 2011

This is reposted by permission. Review by Nora St. Laurent.

REVIEW: This is a warm, cuddly, feel-good novel sure to become your NEW family favorite. I'm thankful for the review copy of this book. It reminds the reader that God uses all things in our life for His Glory and our good. You may not see it at the time because of all the pain and drama but when you look back at the situation you can see the situation didn't take God by surprise. He used the event to change the course of our life. No easy task to get us to change the path we were headed down.

Rick Denton’s life is interrupted when his mom calls and asks him to fill in at the Book Nook. His stepfather is in the hospital. She needs to stay with him and can’t be at the book store.

Rick’s lived life on his own terms after his father abandoned him. He made a point to not get tangled up with his mother’s husband, so that he wouldn't get hurt again. Life was humming along nicely. He was climbing higher and higher on the corporate ladder; he didn’t have time for family, because he was on the pathway to greatness.

Now his mom tells him his stepfather has had an aneurysm and there was no one to run the store. His mom had never asked for much so when she tearfully asked for his help he reluctantly said he would. He got off the phone with her but hadn’t fully grasped what he just signed up for.

His parents went to church and read the books they sold at the Christian book store they ran--he didn’t! He gives his mom a week. He could only take a week away from his clients! That was as much as he could sacrifice. Then when Rick gets there and realizes all he’d have to do--maybe he should reconsider. This was going to take longer than he thought.

The people that show up at the Book Nook sure felt the need to talk to him about Art, his stepfather. All this talk was beyond him--he had work to do. There was No time for chit-chat, didn't they see he had a business to run?

“The Book Nook seems more like an enchanted cottage than a bookstore. It’s a harbor from the cares of life!” Rick was beginning to see why his parents loved their business so much.

Dan’s characters were endearing and I was drawn to them instantly. I enjoyed the fact that most of this novel took place inside a small sweet book store called the Book Nook, and last but not least I liked the way this author showed how only God can bring the miracle of Christmas to our lives. He’s the light in our heart that shines for the whole world to see! This is a novel that will get you in the Christmas Spirit on so many levels. I highly recommend it as a book that will get you ready for Christmas and as a Book Club Selection for your group.

Nora St.Laurent

The Book Club Network

www.bookfun.org