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CIAN Editor Spotlight    Pam Lagomarsino Above The Pages  We hope that our Authors will enjoy this intro to Above The Pages. Please take a look at one of our many CIAN editors.  Pam Lagomarsino has a informative website so if you're in the market for an editor check out her site.  Above the Pages – Equipping authors to touch the lives of their readers. Pam Lagomarsino is a Christian editor who provides thorough, affordable editing, proofreading, and manuscript review services. I work with nonfiction, devotionals, inspirational, fiction, children’s materials, and home school curriculum. I also do fact and Scripture verification.   Whether you need a light proofread, substantive revision, or anything in between, I will go the extra mile to help you create a captivating piece to engage, inspire, or educate your readers.   I do all work in Microsoft Word using Track Changes. I offer free sample edits to see if we are right for each other. I will also work wit

We are here talking to Lynnette today. She has a new release. Check out the interview below and her new release HERE What started your writing career? I grew up overseas without electricity or TV, so I was a reader from my very early years. I loved to immerse myself in story and sometimes wouldn’t reemerge until hours later. Eventually my love of story turned the bend to me beginning to pen my own stories. Or I would read a book and think “it could have been so much better if they’d done it this way.” I started several books, but never finished one until I was doing some research about the town I lived in at the time and found some tidbits from history that I knew had to be told. That research turned into my first published novel, Rocky Mountain Oasis. You were born and raised in Africa?!  Did that have any kind of influence on you as a writer? For sure! I often tell my kids that I wish anyone who interacted in politics in our country would be required to first live for 2 y

Susan started writing novels in her mid-thirties at the encouragement of her twin sister, who said, "Write something for me, and I'll read it." She has completed five novels and has currently published three of them. The first two are contemporary Christian fiction and the other three are historical fiction, all with serious themes but with a dash of romance. Ellen's Endeavors Ebook   Life with the Huguenots My fifth novel, Ellen's Endeavors, was just released last Saturday. In many ways, this book was the most labor-intensive of all of them. It occurred not just in a historical setting, like its prequel Johanna's Journey, but with a specific group of people that many Americans know little about - including myself before I started researching them!  The Huguenots were French Protestants in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, followers of Jean Calvin (aka John Calvin). Although th

The Greatest Generation By Author Linda Ellen As I was writing my first novel for publication, I wanted an angle or trademark to set mine apart. Since my first story took place in Louisville where I reside, I decided to make my future stories take place in the ‘Ville as well. Once I finished my first series, which was centered on my own parents’ love story ( Once in a While is book 1 of that series—the Cherished Memories series), I looked around for a theme on which to build a new series of books. One thing that kept coming to mind was one of our local landmarks, Fort Knox, so I started tossing around ideas for how I could use the famous army base prominently in a story.   The answer, of course—since I wanted to keep it historical—was a WWII tale.   From there, it took off.   Fort Knox is literally a household word, and “Locked up tighter than Fort Knox” is a common saying.   The name embodies the stuff of legends, and it has always fascinated me—espe