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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 23, 2017 By Cara Putman

  The holidays can be really hard for some. This week my mother-in-law lost her brother and a friend. That is casting a shadow over Thanksgiving. This has been a good, yet very challenging year for me. So thankfulness is more days a choice than a feeling. [Tweet "Finding it hard to feel #thankful this year? @cara_putman shares some perspective shifting verses."] So today I wanted to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith Tagged With: Thanksgiving

Canteen Dreams Excitement

November 9, 2017 By Cara Putman

Every book baby is exciting for an author but there's something special about that first one. The one that first made it's way into the world and proved I had a story worth telling. Canteen Dreams was my first. It one the Carol Award for Short Historical, which was really fun. But what makes the story so special to me is it married my love for World War II history with my love for my hometown … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: canteen dreams, Captive Dreams, cara putman, free ebook

It’s Deadline Time: Deadly Justice

October 26, 2017 By Cara Putman

Right now I'm racing to deadline on book three in the Hidden Justice series. The book is due on November 1st. I'll make the deadline, but it may be at 11:59 p.m. I have a way of pushing these to the last moment, and then sneaking in under the deadline. So I thought I'd give you some background on what that's looked like over the last month. How exactly did Jaime's story get to the point where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: cara putman, deadlines, giveaway

A time to HOPE

October 12, 2017 By Cara Putman

I'm in a season of life where I'm being asked to hope about something I don't have an abundance of hope for. It's one of those times, my mind gets to apply what my heart resists. It's amazing how now I'm seeing messages about hope everywhere I go. Have you ever experienced that? [Tweet "Need #hope? We all do. @Cara_Putman shares some along with a #giveaway"]I find it uncanny how from any and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: cara putman, giveaway, hope, Imperfect Justice

What feeds your soul?

September 28, 2017 By Cara Putman

I read a ton of fiction. I inhale novels. By July, I'd read something like sixty according to the list I keep on Goodreads. Now I find myself in a season of inhaling non-fiction, feeding my soul in a different way. Today I thought it would be fun to share some of those with you, while also having a link at the end for a giveaway I'm running of Randy Singer's latest novel and a copy of Tricia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith Tagged With: #fiercehearted, #walkitout, Holley Gerth, Mark Batterson, Sacred Slow, Tricia Goyer, Whisper

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