by Roseanna White | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sorry my blogging is a bit sporadic right now. I’m on vacation (woot!), and dealing with launch stuff for The Lost Heiress (woot, woot!). But I wanted to let everyone know about some of the giveaways running right now.
A Taste of Nobility Giveaway
This spectacular giveaway is sponsored by Bethany House, and so cool that I told them I was going to create a fake identity so I could enter it too. 😉 There will be two winners, one of the coffee package and one of the tea package. Hurry over and enter!
My big giveaway, featuring coffee, chocolate, a CD, two books (one of which is mine), a journal, a secrets box, and Brook’s necklace. Enter here
A fabulous site for lovers of Christian historical fiction, and a really fun interview too! A signed copy of The Lost Heiress is up for grabs! Enter here
Another fun interview and chance to win a signed copy! Enter here
by Roseanna White | Sep 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
An impromptu nation-wide Day of Prayer has been called today, to coincide with the funeral of the latest police officer killed. Wherever you are, please join with your neighbors or churches during the 12 EST / 11 CST hour to pray for:
- Our police officers
- Our servicemen and women
- That people would rally against the atrocity that is Planned Parenthood and all it represents
- Our Christian brethren being persecuted and killed by ISIS
It’s time to stop complaining about the way things are and start standing up for change. But the only way to do that is to stand united before our God. To change hearts–beginning with our own.
For anyone in the Cumberland, MD area, my church* will be open between 11:30 and 12:30 for prayer. Come as you can, or get your own group together. At noon, we’ll be ringing the bell, as other churches around the nation do the same.
May the sound toll across the land and call His people to their knees for this country.
*My church is located at 14407 Hazen Rd NE, Cumberland. Where Bedford Rd intersects 220, turn onto Smouse’s Mill Rd (across from Bedford Rd). First left onto Hazen, and then it’ .6 miles down, on the left. White church, red doors.
by Roseanna White | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s release week! Pre-ordered digitals of The Lost Heiress should have downloaded to your devices at midnight today, and pre-ordered paperbacks have already shipped.
SO EXCITING!!! There will be a slew of interviews coming up soon, many with giveaways attached, and I’ll link to those as they come up.
But today also marks the launch of my 2-week long MEGA giveaway! There’s a special tab for it on my blog, but I’ll post about it here too. =) I really love this one–though I gotta say, it’s proving quite a temptation to walk by that chocolate and coffee every day and not help myself! 😉
To celebrate the release of The Lost Heiress, I’m giving away Brook’s favorite things! Prizes include:
~ Ghiradelli Sea Salt & Caramel Chocolate
(It sounds Italian, right? Brook treasured things both French and Italian…and related to the sea)
~ Coffee
(Her favorite was espresso, but she would have loved to have Starbucks Via handy)
~ Puccini without Words CD*
(Brook’s maman, Collette, earned her fame singing a Puccini aria)
~ Brook’s necklace
(handcrafted [and modeled here] by moi)
~ Chivalrous by Dina L. Sleiman
(by my critique partner, and a story of an adventurous, strong heroine that Brook would have loved!)
(Duh.)
~ Collette’s Journal*
(Inspired by her secrets…ready for yours)
~ Secrets Box
(Looks like a book on your shelf, but opens to hold your treasures)
Contest will run from September 1 – 15.
*CD and journal will ship separately.
Void where prohibited. Chance of winning depend on number of entries. Winner will have 1 week to claim prizes before another winner is drawn. Due to shipping costs, only US addresses are eligible.
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by Roseanna White | Aug 31, 2015 | Word of the Week
It’s release week for The Lost Heiress! So in honor of Brook, this week’s Word of the Week is one of Brook’s favorite things: espresso.
Now, according to etymonline.com, espresso didn’t come into the English vernacular until 1945. But the Italians had created caffe espresso in 1906, literally meaning “coffee that is pressed out” under steam. The first espresso machines reportedly produced a strong coffee that critics said tasted burnt, but that didn’t stop it from being a hit and soon gaining die-hard fans. Over the next decades smaller and more economical machines were invented, the “burnt” taste was managed, and now espresso is often the only coffee to be had in many parts of Europe.
Brook got a taste for it in Monaco–she loves espresso, or coffee in general if the specialty variety can’t be found (so long as it’s strong! Must be strong, she says)…but detests tea. Much to the horror of her newly-discovered English relatives. 😉
by Roseanna White | Aug 27, 2015 | Thoughtful Thursdays, Uncategorized
Tragedy always strikes. Bad things always happen. Evil always sinks its claws into people and whispers in their ear, Do something about this. Make a statement. Make them see.
Good people always get hurt. Broken hearts always cry out.
This is tragic. And we all hate those stories. We all wish they never happened. That we could spare those families the agony. My heart and prayers follow those who suffer such things.
But tragedy is as old as time. It will happen. The question is:what do we do in the face of it?
Last night, watching a snip of the news after yesterday’s horrible on-air violence, I heard the victim’s father demand legislation. And I shook my head. My heart goes out to this hurting father. But I also wanted to take his hand and say, “I know you’re hurting. But here’s the thing–legislation doesn’t stop criminals. By definition, they don’t care about the law.”
So often, our human response to something hateful is limit. Make new laws! Take away freedoms!
Our response instead ought to be to fall to our knees and beg the Lord to set more people free–free of the chains of bondage that enslave them and fill them with hate. Free of the influence of evil that tells them they are the only ones that matter, and that such hatred is good.
We live in a world filled with violence. Filled with rage. Filled with people so very quick to judge anyone who takes a stand, yet shouting all the while that those people “have no right to judge me.” We live in a world where it somehow makes sense to people to picket for the rights of an endangered frog and yet sacrifice their own unborn to their convenience. We live in a world that has become self-contradictory in its effort to keep from offending.
We live in a world at the height of offensive.
We can’t protect ourselves with laws. We can’t protect ourselves with guns. We can’t protect ourselves with calls to our representatives. We can protect ourselves only by ushering revival into this land. By opening our hearts before God and saying, “Cleanse me. Cleanse every wicked way from me. Purify me, and then help me to reflect Your light.”
Because, you see, if His light floods the land…then the darkness can’t stand. The darkness can’t cling. The darkness will lose its hold.
The problems today–all the racial tension, all the hatred, all the judgment, all the insistence for “rights” that deny morality–aren’t a legal matter. They aren’t a social matter. They are a spiritual matter. And until we fight in the throne room of Heaven rather than the courts of the land, we’re just, at best, treading water.
Christianity isn’t supposed to be easy. It isn’t supposed to be comfortable. It’s supposed to demand sacrifice.
What have American Christians sacrificed lately for God? Oh, we’re sacrificing plenty to the country–giving up rights because we’ve forgotten that we have to fight to keep them. But for God? What have we been willing to give up–or to fight for–for Him?
Tragedy is supposed to break our hearts. It’s supposed to make us cry out.
But please. Don’t cry out to Washington. All they can do is change laws.
But we don’t live by laws. We live by our hearts. And we need to cry out to the Lord to change those.
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.