by Roseanna White | Jul 31, 2017 | Giveaways and Contests
It’s July 31, which means my month-long giveaway to celebrate the release of A Name Unknown has drawn to an official close. Which means we’ve got an official winner, of course!
Big congratulations go out to . . .
Linda Hanberry!
Linda, I’m sending you an email with details, so if you see this before you see that, go and check for it! 😉
As a reminder, Linda has won . . .
by Roseanna White | Jul 5, 2017 | Giveaways and Contests
I’m so excited about the release of A Name Unknown that I’m throwing a giveaway full of items that fit right in with the library and book themes in the story! This is a hoard to make every book lover’s heart go pitter-patter.
This giveaway includes:
- A fun library card tote bag, personalized with A Name Unknown‘s info, signed by me, and with your name on it!
- A signed copy of A Name Unknown
- A throw pillow that reads “get lost in a good book”
- A personal library kit, for when you lend out your treasures 😉
- Coffee mug that reads “professional book worm”(text will be blue-green rather than pink)
- Ginger cookies, homemade by me
- A typewriter pencil cup
- Old Book book ends
- Cotton stationery and envelopes, so you can write letters like Peter (not pictured)
- A handmade book locket (hard to see in the composite image, so here’s a closeup…)
(Giveaway will run through August 4. Available only to US addresses due to shipping costs.)
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by Roseanna White | Jun 22, 2017 | Giveaways and Contests, Scavenger Hunt
Welcome to the WhiteFire Publishing Scavenger Hunt! This is the first stop, so begin here and collect all the
clues in order by visiting each consecutive stop. Once you have them all, you’ll have uncovered a secret message.
Turn that in at the final stop for a chance to win one of THREE amazing prize
packages!
- Take your time! You have all weekend to complete
the Hunt—entries will be counted until Monday June 26—so have fun reading all
the posts along the way and getting to know each author.
- Lots of extra prizes! Many of the authors are
featuring unique giveaways as well, for even more chances to win!
OLD or NEW?
I’ve always loved Biblical fiction – I love learning about the lifestyles and cultures of the people of the Bible, I love breathing new life and understanding into stories so old as to be common knowledge. But as a Christian, I had a hurdle to get over the first time I sat down to write a story set in the Old Testament.
See, as a young writer, I just couldn’t imagine having characters who didn’t know Jesus. What’s life without Him? I remember thinking that I could never, ever write a story where the characters didn’t come to be Christians. But in an Old Testament setting, that’s not even possible, right?
Yet the OT is the foundation of the NT. There were obviously godly people who loved the Lord. Which led me to a new question: what does salvation mean in the Old Testament?
I explored this theme a bit in Jewel of Persia, and I’ll likely explore it more in the next bib-fic I write–which will be set in the days of Abraham and focus on a son of the mysterious Melchizedek. It’s a theme, too, which has led me to a greater appreciation of Christianity and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Because though without Jesus, without the Spirit being always within us, salvation is hard and the visitation of the Spirit unusual and somewhat abrupt (He’s described as “coming upon” people and then departing), He’s still there. People can still love the Lord first and foremost. Sins can still be forgiven, that forgiveness just doesn’t cover all sin, forever, in their lives.
Most of my stories are still after Christ, so faith in Him is still a part of the lives of most of my characters. But I’ve learned so much through writing stories set in the Old Testament too. About my faith, about the nature of our unchanging God, and about the foundation of the faith that defines my life.
Do you have a preference in biblical stories? Do you prefer to read about Old Testament or New?
Here’s
the Stop #1 Scoop:
Clue
to Write Down: In the
Need
the full list of stops?
And now,
my giveaway!
Enter to win your choice of one of my four biblical novels, in either signed paperback or digital format, whichever you prefer! (Paperbacks available to US addresses only due to costs of international shipping. International readers are welcome to enter for a digital version though!)
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by Roseanna White | May 23, 2017 | Books, Giveaways and Contests
Hello, gentle reader, and welcome to the
second annual British Blooms and Books giveaway! This week, we’d like to
celebrate the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. After
enjoying this post, please visit each of the other five authors’ blogs (links
provided below) and, after a bit of reading fun, follow one simple instruction
and then leave a comment on each blog. You’ll be entered to win a fabulous,
British Blooms and Books prize. (US winners only, please, due to shipping the
petit fours.) Enjoy, and thank you for stopping by!
There’s nothing quite like an English garden. On my tour of the Cotswolds and Cornwall (with a brief stop in Devonshire) last autumn, my family enjoyed little more than being set free to explore the beautiful grounds of the houses we toured, or frolicking about the rugged cliffs of Land’s End.
We saw the stunning terraced gardens of St. Michael’s Mount, in Cornwall, from above.
We saw the most perfect rose, still wet with rain, in the gardens of a manor house that had once been an abbey, in the Cotswolds.
We wandered the paths of Knightshayes’s expansive gardens in Devonshire.
But for all the beauty and appeal of a formal flowerbed, of carefully plotted and potted and planted gardens, sometimes it’s the wild that appeals most to us. Sometimes it’s the accidental beauty, or the little bits that God positioned just so for us. Perhaps it’s the purple heather or the yellow-sprigged gorse or the white wildflowers growing beside a cliff…
Or perhaps it’s something as simple as a dandelion–a little burst of yellow blooming where it shouldn’t. A little ray of sunshine, too often overlooked or dismissed as a nuisance.
In A Lady Unrivaled, Ella is quite determined not to be charmed by the scowling Lord Cayton, who has broken too many hearts before–fortuitous, because Cayton is quite determined not to do any charming. But when an impromptu walk through the gardens of Ralin Castle, still not quite in bloom, lead them out to the gardener’s shed, they happen upon one of those weeds that the gardener would no doubt obliterate.
Just a dandelion. Nothing special. But when Cayton’s toddler daughter shows delight with the spot of yellow, Cayton picks two of them. Gives one to his daughter and hands the other to Ella.
An admission that sometimes, as Ella had just insisted, you can find a reason to smile even when you shouldn’t. That sometimes, even when there are clouds overhead, you can find a little patch of sunshine.
Sometimes, what the world dismisses can be the most treasured beauty of all.
Ella’s optimism is perhaps what makes her A Lady Unrivaled . . . and Cayton’s moods can’t ever stand long against her. I hope you have a chance to read more about this unlikely couple, and the other adventures they have in a Cotswolds garden–not to mention the dangers and adventure they face as they work together to trap a villain haunting both their families. PLEASE SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER (current subscribers, you’ve already done this step!) and comment below for a chance to win A Lady Unrivaled as well as the other amazing books in the giveaway, plus a sweet set of tea hat petit fours to enjoy while you read!
Giveaway Rules:
One grand prize winner who comments on
each of the six authors’ blogs and agrees to the one boldfaced condition posted at the end of each post will win a
signed copy of each of the books plus
delivery of six English hat petit fours to enjoy while you read! Name will be
drawn via random.org
Finished? Well done! Please visit these
other fabulous authors of England-set historicals to see what flowers mean to
them and their heroines.
by Roseanna White | Dec 5, 2016 | Book News, Giveaways and Contests
To celebrate the release of Giver of Wonders ~ and the season of giving and sacrifice and love that it celebrates through our Lord and Savior ~ I’m giving away a stocking full of special treats!
What will it contain?
Well, that’s a secret. But I’ll tell you that a copy of
Giver of Wonders will be tucked inside, along with some treats for you ~ and some to give away.
The giveaway will run from December 2-20, 2016. Open to both US and international readers, though the stocking can only be shipped to US addresses; in the event of an international winner, she will be given a digital copy of the book and a special gift courtesy of Amazon. 😉
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by Roseanna White | Nov 15, 2016 | Giveaways and Contests
Wanted to share some fun, and a chance to win some A-MAZING books.
I’ve teamed up with 55 other authors this month to bring you a pretty fantabulous giveaway featuring inspirational historical fiction. You have
the chance to enter to win all of the books PLUS a Kindle Fire!
This means a chance to read my latest, Giver of Wonders, plus
books from amazing authors like Elizabeth Camden, Tracy Higley, Suzanne
Woods Fisher, Mary Connealy, Leslie Gould, and so many more I can’t
begin to name them all!
Enter the giveaway by clicking here: bit.ly/historical-inspy
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.