Welcome to the Blog Blitz for The Mosaic Collection, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
For His glory...
The Mosaic Collection is an international community of women authors who use faith-based fiction to touch hearts with the good news that Christ's finished work on the cross has made us one family, and to nurture affection for the people God has placed within our circles of influence, so that the grace and glory of God may become visible and personal to everyone we meet.
We are sisters, a beautiful mosaic united by the love of God through the blood of Christ. We have experienced the redemptive, restorative power of God's grace in our marriages and families, and we believe our God is able to heal, restore and redeem our brokenness. His love fills us with the courage to persevere, and to offer others a Christ-like compassion that is full of His wisdom and grace.
Visit the Mosaic Collection Website to stay posted on each new release & follow the collection blog for meaningful posts from the authors!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deb Elkink
lives with her long-time husband in a cottage beside a babbling creek in rural
Alberta, Canada. She grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and studied in
Minneapolis–Saint Paul (B.A. Communications), publishing a dozen or so short
stories and articles as a young adult. She spent the next twenty years as a
rancher’s wife and homeschooling mom (rounding up cattle on horseback, cooking
for huge branding crews, earning her private pilot’s license, readying kids for
high school).
Graduate studies (M.A. Theology) then prepared
her for editing a professional quarterly magazine, doctoral dissertations and
scholarly articles, and an online expository Bible study. Today she writes and
edits, travels like mad, drinks lots of creamy decaf with friends, and speaks
to women’s groups about the Christian faith.
Her debut novel (The Third Grace)
received Canada’s prestigious Grace Irwin Prize in 2012, and her literary work
on the fiction of a late-Victorian British writer (Roots and Branches: The
Symbol of the Tree in the Imagination of G.K. Chesterton) was published in
2015. Her upcoming novel is a contemporary women’s fiction with a
historical/theological twist: Eat, Pray, Love and The Wizard of Oz
meet the Book of Hebrews in showing that “home” is a state of soul, a
state of inner rest.
Cornerstone message from the collection:
Look for God in the Bible. Everything (art,
literature, fashion design, engineering, philosophy, travel, cooking, health,
romance, community, fitness . . .) can be a way to express or
illustrate God’s action on our world, but only the living and breathed-out
Word of God can give us knowledge of the Father our hearts are longing for.
Only the mind of God revealed to the minds of mortals by the Holy Spirit
through Scripture can bring us into alignment with the Person of Jesus Christ.
In today’s increasingly pagan culture, “spirituality” has become a buzzword for
any belief but the truth—the more mystical the better. But the Holy Book of God
is the only source containing all we need for salvation and spiritual
life.
Get to Know Deb Elkink Q and A
Favorite place to read: In bed beneath my down duvet, propped up on goose-feather pillows,
and ensconced in crisp, white, Egyptian cotton sheets of high thread
count--with a chocolate snack to nibble.
Favorite book character from childhood: Nancy Drew--so poised, so brainy, and so gullible all at
the same time. She led me into and through many mysterious plots that
stimulated my curiosity about dude ranches and treasure maps and old attics.
It’s funny I didn’t become a mystery writer.
Favorite movie: Usually psychological thrillers (with no spiritistic thread) like
Gone Girl or The Game, or any movies I can read theology into
such as Chocolat or Father Brown. Currently, however: When
Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Favorite quote or Bible verse: 2 Timothy 2:15 . . . rightly dividing the Word of
truth.
Also Phil 1:9-11: And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in
knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern
what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled
with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the
glory and praise of God.
Favorite splurge/treat: Chocolate! Dark, bittersweet, enveloping rustic candied
ginger or cherries or salted caramel
Favorite character you’ve created: Mary Grace (renamed Aglaia after a Greek goddess),
who ran from her rural background searching for herself (and love) in the arts.
Or maybe Ebenezer MacAdam, the old Scottish sage full of truth. No, I
take that back--better Libby Walker, who’s been walking away for all her
life and finally finds her way home. That said, my current antagonist, Sybil
Tansey, travels from one exotic international “sacred place” to the next
for yet another thrill--gotta love the misplaced verve.
Last 3 great books you read: All the Light You Cannot See (Doerr);
Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering (Keller); Hebrews
(the Holy Spirit)
Dream vacation: A Japanese ryokan (traditional inn) in Kyoto during cherry blossom
season
Hidden talent/little-known fact: I can hear the (silent to most) shriek of an armed but not
activated high-frequency alarm in some shops--yikes, drives me bats!
Plotter or pantser: Definitely plotter
In no particular order, ten of your favorite
things (i.e. hot cocoa, a warm breeze, the sound of my kids’ laughter, etc.) : Exotic perfume; Chinese brush art (ink on sepia paper); Mennonite
food (especially vrenekje with schmontfat--look it up); deep red
silk velvet; prairie thunderstorms; a huge church choir singing old hymns of
praise beneath the vaulted ceilings of a cathedral; my sewing machine; a crisp
sheet of blank superwhite paper and a new roller pen; my hot tub in a
snowstorm; a warm hug
TOUR GIVEAWAY
(1) winner will receive a $50 Amazon eGift Card & an ebook prize pack*!
Winner will receive an ebook of:
- Where She Belongs
- Pieces of Granite
- Lifelines
- Christmas on a Mission
- Vigilant
- Other Side of the River
- The Third Grace
- Carolina Grace
- The Benefit Package (a devotional)
- Dance of Grace
- When Love Calls
Full tour schedule linked below. Giveaway will begin at midnight July 10, 2019 and last through 11:59 PM EST on July 24, 2019. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. Open internationally, but international winner will receive a gift card only *(may be substituted for a Book Depository gift card if winner cannot accept from US Amazon)
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