Authors you deeply admire and are with the same literary agency - and wish you could have coffee ☕️ with. ♥️♥️ I was holding these books in my hand, trembling a bit, feeling so grateful to have had their lives touched mine. I have so much to be thankful for with all of them, each differently. I discovered @mattmikalatos #thecrescentstone at @realmmakers and after reading it found @ambassador_speakers and literary. I loved climbing through tunnels and following his characters to impossible places while they discovered a lot about life in amazing lands. Then I heard about @jolinapetersheimauthor and was drawn into her riveting tales #thealliance and #howthelightgetsin that feature Amish people and very unusual circumstances. Her ability to put raw emotion and authenticity into her gripping tales and also into her social media as we watch her family grow up has been so enriching. @wmpaulyoung dazzled me with #theshack first with the deep sadness of the loss the people experience in the book – then with the life-changing spiritual moments and mind bending thoughts about the trinity. When this book first debuted, I was unable to read it because we had no books and were scrambling for housing after wildfires took everything we owned. But later, years later, I could really relate to how his main character was able to find God in impossible circumstances so much worse than ours - still it gave me an enduring thread of hope. I’m so grateful for that. ♥️ And #Frankperetti inspired me with the #cooperkids series taking kids on grand adventures. So I wanted to start the new year thanking each of them today. 📚📚 #writingcommunity #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #authorlifemonth https://www.instagram.com/p/B7BVtdYgV7t/?igshid=h80l8krvtubk
