Four New Members Join the Diamond Mine in 2019!

Happy New Year! I hope the year 2019 greets you with love and joy that lasts and blesses you throughout the entire year!

We here at The Diamond Mine are very blessed also. We are welcoming in four new writers who will be conducting new interviews of Christian Authors throughout the new year. Sadly we've said good-bye to several and we will miss them greatly. But, please help me herald in a new wonderful bunch of writers! Karla Akins, Crystal Caudill, Terry Palmer, and return blogger, Erin Unger!

Karla Akins

Karla Akins is the author of A Pair of Miracles, the story of raising her twin sons with autism. Akins is also the author of several history books for homeschoolers including O Canada Her Story, Sacagawea, and Jacques Cartier. Her work has also been published in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and she currently writes for Spirit-Filled Woman Magazine. Her first novel, The Pastor’s Wife Wears Biker Boots includes a character with autism. Karla is a full-time special education teacher. She loves writing with her fur kids on her lap: a pug, a Boston Terrier, and two tuxedo cats. When Karla isn't writing she's dreaming about writing and making movies. Karla lives with her husband, twin adult sons with autism and her mother-in-love in rural Indiana.

You can connect with Karla at: KarlaAkins.com, https://www.instagram.com/karlaakinsspedwriter/, https://www.facebook.com/KarlaKAkins/, https://twitter.com/KarlaAkins.

Crystal Caudill

Crystal Caudill is a tea-drinking, book-hoarding, history nerd. Her parents had no idea what a monster they were creating when they took her to her first history museum. From that moment on, she has researched and crafted stories filled with danger, love, and history.

Her latest project won the 2018 RWA Wisconsin Fab Five, came in second for the 2018 RWA Touched By Love Contest, and was a finalist in the 2017 ACFW Virginia Crown Award.

You can connect with Crystal at: www.crystalcaudillwrites.com, https://www.facebook.com/crystalcaudillauthor/, https://twitter.com/ccaudillwrites, https://www.pinterest.com/crystalcaudillwrites/, Instagram:@crystalcaudillauthor, Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/c9n-7P

Terry Palmer

Author Terry Palmer lives in Rosemount Minnesota with his author wife Leann. Seven busy grandchildren are a constant source of amusement, source of stories, and source of mischief – like papa. No writers could be farther apart in style. Leann loves to write in her romance style, with the deeper feelings of life painted into her stories. Terry has to have some action/adventure, with disaster after disaster which makes the characters face those tough choices in life while on the run. But both are also the same. From separate points of view, our books bring the reader to one essential truth - ‘How to overcome adversity and darkness through a step of faith in Jesus Christ.’ You see…only by going through some tough challenges and finding out that it’s all about Jesus, about our worship and relationship with Him that makes the difference of either fear or peace, of either chaos or contentment. Last Christmas, Terry placed A Night to Remember into the market and ranked as high as #5 in the children’s Christmas books category. A Night To Remember is actually a gospel tract. The cute Christmas story leads right into ‘how to’ accept Jesus Christ as told by my characters. Right now Leann is trying to finish, ‘Strength For today’ in her romance voice and Terry is trying to get Shaken to market in his action/adventure voice.

So pleased to be part of the ‘Diamond Mine’.  Such a gathering of great voices for Jesus is like a literary choir of praise to Him and amen for that.

You can connect with Terry at: https://chroniclesoform.wordpress.com/.

Erin Unger

Erin Unger was raised in the hills of Virginia, exploring abandoned houses and reading the scariest books she could find. After marrying so young it would make a great romance novel, she has enjoyed an exciting life with her hubby. But her fast-paced life sometimes rivals the suspense in her books thanks to all her mostly grown children and a couple grand kids. She has won several writing awards. 2019 is a busy year for Erin. Several of her books are releasing. Her novel, Desolate Paths, releases January 11, 2019 and Practicing Murder, releases March 29, 2019. Be on the look out for a few other novels of hers next summer and fall.

You can connect with Erin at: www.erinungerwrites.com, https://www.facebook.com/ErinUngerWrites/, https://twitter.com/erinungerwrites, https://www.instagram.com/erinungerwrites/.

In celebration of inducting these 4 new Christian authors, we are giving away a $25 Amazon card. Please leave your email in the comments and become one our our readers to qualify. Welcome aboard authors and thanks for reading!