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BJ Hoff’s WordSongs Newsletter
Spring, 2008
Dear Readers,
Although it’s still winter in my work in process, it’s spring in real time … at last. We’ve had a long winter, and an unusually severe one here in the Midwest. Being a snow lover, I enjoyed it, but I’d best say that in a low voice so I won’t call down the wrath of most of my friends!
As I write this, the re-release of my Song of Erin saga is making its way to your local bookstores. Harvest House has made available a one-volume edition of two of my earlier novels, Cloth of Heaven and Ashes and Lace, complete with an absolutely lovely cover.
This is a chance for new readers to become acquainted (and those who would like to become reacquainted) with the newspaper titan, Jack Kane, and Samantha Harte, the widow with the haunted past; the enigmatic Gabriel Vaughan, Irish benefactor of the homeless, who’s torn between rescuing the prodigal Brady Kane or allowing the young American artist to destroy himself as punishment for the pain he’s inflicted on others.
In the advance publicity materials for the book, Harvest House calls Song of Erin “a tale of dark secrets, of sins of the fathers … an epic that spans generations and relives one of the most colorful eras in American history …”
I’m still hard at work on the manuscript for the first book (Rachel’s Secret) of the new series, The Riverhaven Years—due for release this fall. You can learn more about this new story and see an image of the cover on my Coming Soon page. I think you’re going to love the feature characters, including Rachel Brenneman, a young Amish widow; Jeremiah Gant, the wounded riverboat captain who sets Rachel’s world to spinning when he bursts through the fog into the rural Amish community of Riverhaven; and Dr. David Sebastian, the gentle-natured but courageous Englisch physician to Rachel’s people.
As always, I’m exceedingly grateful to all of you for your continuing prayers for me and my work, and for your notes and emails of encouragement.
May God bless you with a beautiful springtime and an abundance of joy,
