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Back To School Blog Hop

Welcome to Stop #12 on the Blog Hop!

Collect the “clues” (pieces to the longer phrase) at each stop. Enter the individual giveaways along the way, then click on the link to the next stop and repeat until you reach #28, where you will input the full phrase as your entry to the grand prize drawing.

The hunt begins August 30, 2023, at noon EST and ends September 4, 2023, so you have plenty of time to visit each stop. If you need to step away and come back later, make a note of the last stop you visited, and go to this post with the list of all stops on the hunt.

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Are you ready to begin?

Welcome to the Back to School Blog Hop! Which is great for me because my full time job is 5th grade teacher in Montana. Having survived the first week of school I am off and running and ready to get back to some writing and reading for fun. A quick review of myself if you don't already know me! I write christian fiction that includes military fiction, young adult fiction, and Dystopian. I am an avid reader and read everything! I love finding a good series and hope my books can provide that for others. Being able to escape into other worlds is my favorite thing. My military series, starts with A Thousand Stolen Moments, and takes you through a journey of faith, forgiveness, and love as you follow Emme Sawyer and Moses Ravenscar through their deployments. Hope you get a chance to enjoy some awesome books this fall and Best
of luck to you!

Here is your next clue: to you

Next stop: Stop #13 Jayna Baas https://booksbyjayna.com/1_31_31_back-to-school-christian-fiction-scavenger-hunt-stop-13.html

Wow, what a year

It's been a little over a year from when the world shut down and things are still not back to the normal we use to know. I thought I'd have time to do little things for myself while not being able to do the big things I usually do for everyone else...but no, not really. I am finding that my world got smaller but busier and I have been horrible about my daily devotionals. Wouldn't you think that staying at home would give one more time than less? Priorities, that is what I am learning. I need to make the important things my priorities and really look at where I lose my time. Is it social media, television watching? Is it activities that bring me closer to God and his plan or farther apart. Reflection time. :) 

Trust the Plan

Sometimes the most frustrating thing a person can say is, 'trust in God's plan'. Trust is one of the hardest things a Christian can do and I guess that's why I write about it. All my books have the theme of the characters struggling with trusting that God has put events, struggles, and celebrations into our life to help us to grow. If one of those things is removed you may not meet a person or learn something important. Looking to the goal, or the end is key. Don't get stuck on the problem of the day.

In the past three Thousand Moments books and in the soon to be released fourth book A Thousand Sacred Moments, the tagline is, every moment is sacred, even the hard ones. Every event is put in our path for a reason.

The best example I give to people who question my faith and trust in the plan is when I moved to Montana. My husband and I prayed and prayed for a sign to know whether we should move. We would be moving away from a home we had had for twenty five years and all our family was there. We couldn't decide if God wanted us to move and our prayers were not getting us anywhere. It felt like on one hand God wanted us to move but on the other hand we questioned if it was the correct move. Finally we met with our pastor and he told us what I'm telling you...Trust in the Plan. Trust it is what is supposed to happen and trust God will put things in place. If he wants the path the change, he'll do it and give us what we need to get through it. 

Coming soon

Every moment is sacred, even the hard ones. 

Sawyer and Raven are finally happily married and living by the beach in California, but things are far from perfect. Unsettled with “normal” civilian life, Sawyer feels called back to the battlefield. With Raven’s reluctant agreement, Sawyer deploys with a helicopter medic group. 

Raven struggles with letting her go again, the nightmares of her last deployment never far from his thoughts, but when their close friends, Thommy and Vanessa, announce they are expecting a baby, Raven begins to wonder if Sawyer is searching for more than just her next deployment. 

As a former prisoner-of war, Sawyer suffered life changing injuries that leave her unable to have children. Now that their best friends are expecting, Sawyer’s questioning her ability to give Raven the family he desperately wants—and deserves. It seems everyone is moving forward in their lives while she continues to go backward, hoping the next life she saves will fill the hole in her heart. But the middle of a battlefield is the last place she expected to discover the doctors were wrong, and God has other plans.

Summer Loving!

COMING NEXT WEEK - June 22 - July 2 Watch this space for more bookish details...

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SPRING FLING

Taking over the Anaiah Facebook page tomorrow, April 8, 2020!  Come join me

New book out 11/6

Hearing from my readers makes me so happy

‎Tracey Mclean Moore‎ to Connie Ann Michael

January 26 at 9:47am · 

Omg.... connie!!! So... I am hooked on raven and Doogie please tell me there will be more!!! Unfortunately I didn't realize I skipped book #2, so I read 1 then 3. Anyway, you have a fabulous gift of writing for sure. I typically dont read "war stories" but I am so glad I took a chance on this series! Im not a blood and gore reader. I'm pretty much only a christian fiction reader. I think you've done a glorious job in making war real without being overly .... hmmm, descriptive? Gorey? Whatever the word is I'm trying to find? And then to realize it is my kind of genre anyway, double... triple... yay!!!
I think you've done a beautiful job! With the characters. With raven and Doogie. (I dont like her mom tho 😠). with getting to the reality of war. War isn't pretty. I'm sure there is lots we never hear about that really happens over there.
I'm hoping their story continues! I want to read about the miracle of them having little ones! Of Doogie NOT going back over! Of how raven and Doogie overcome their trauma together! Albeit not easily and with bumps. How raven NEVER turns his back on Sawyer. That Doogie will embrace her beauty, scars and all and accept the beautiful love that Raven gives her, unconditionally. Please, please tell me there will be a 4!!! 5, 6, 7? Lol
I'm hooked and love your style♡♡

Ephesians 4 31-32

31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 

32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

As if I don't have enough on my plate

My new hobby is Bible Journaling...

RLF GEM TOP BLOGGER

Super Excited I was in the top five!

July 20, 2017

The publishing industry is in constant flux and depending on the avenue you take for connection, is what information you are privy to. For the past ten or so years I have been writing. My first publisher pushed me to change my style to one more commercial, which in this Fifty Shades of Grey world, was much more racy. I changed my stories, I added spice and I followed other authors that wrote similar. I read similar work and soon found myself falling into the rabbit hole. I began to ask myself was I selling my soul for potential readership? I joined a touring Author's group and began selling books at local bookstores and fairs, however I found I was really unable to explain my books because I was embarrassed by their content. So I decided I needed to branch out more and signed up for book signing in Vegas. There I discovered I a totally different world and although I could explain my book to eager ears, I still wasn't comfortable with myself. What I found is I was being tempted to change for the chance of success. It took awhile and a lot of soul searching to realize I was changing into someone I didn't like or respect. Thankfully Anaiah Press gave me back my identity and I am writing what my heart tells me and not what a society that is falling to their desires necessarily wants.  But now I have to find my new TRIBE. I have to find my readership and leave those who read my stories before behind. Slowly I am rebuilding my brand and hope to find my TRIBE soon.

Pre-order link for my next book is up on amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Forsaken-Screamers-Book-Connie-Michael-ebook/dp/B072LNKWGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495329485&sr=8-1&keywords=connie+ann+michael

A Little Taste of A THOUSAND STOLEN MOMENTS

 

       

When twenty-two year old Emme Sawyer joins a Marine unit heading into Helmand Providence, she focuses on what she does best: keeping her men safe.With the help of her guard and good friend Tahk she enters the battle with little fear. But, when the unit is hit by an IED, Emme realizes she can’t save everyone. With her humanity on the line, and her faith in question, she seeks comfort from Raven, her commanding officer. Soon, Emme develops feelings that don’t belong in a combat zone, where each step could be your last. 

Raven keeps his emotions locked up tight, never allowing the men to see him sweat. But when Emme joins his unit, all bets are off; and the feelings he thought he left stateside begin to emerge. Knowing that the deserts of Afghanistan are the last place to start a romance, and the United States military’s view on fraternizing; Raven tries to deny his heart but can't help but hide small gifts, folded swans, with words of the feelings he tries to deny. Emme and Raven learn you can’t always choose where love finds you. And that sometimes, you just have to trust in God’s plan.