Thursday on Living Inspired: Homeschool devotions with Anita Mellot and Exploring the old west with author Miralee Ferrell

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We're back to our regularly scheduled show this week and have two wonderful guests lined up. The first half hour we'll be talking to Anita who has written recently published the widely praised School is Where the Home Is: 180 Devotions for Parents. Based on her experiences from eight years of homeschooling and advice she was given along the way, this unique devotional offers both practical guidance along with scriptural wisdom needed for the homeschooling journey. Then during the second half of the show, we'll be hearing from author Miralee Ferrell. Miralee will be sharing her writing journey with us as well as introducing her recent books, Love Finds You in Sundance, Wyoming and The Other Daughter. Don't miss this week's show.

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More about Anita: Anita Mellott, in her ninth year of homeschooling, has first-hand experience with the ups and downs, the joys and challenges of the homeschooling life. She leads a homeschool encouragement group and  contributes to Homeschool Enrichment, Novel Rocket and Crosswalk.com. She blogs words of encouragement and hope at From the Mango Tree. For thirteen years, Mellott worked as a writer/editor with Habitat for Humanity International. Prior to moving to the United States, she headed the Department of Journalism at Mt. Carmel College, Bangalore, India, and also has experience in public relations and advertising in India.

Find out more about Anita at her website.

More about “School Is Where the Home Is: 180 Devotions for Parents”
An estimated 2 million children are homeschooled in the United States. This is a devotional for those dedicated parents.

Mellott’s 180 anecdotal devotionals explore specific homeschooling issues and present biblical truths to guide parents through challenging times. Themes include:

• Homeschool Basics—fundamentals such as obedience to the call, prioritizing, decision-making
• Homeschool and You—how homeschooling affects the primary educator (and vice versa)
• Homeschool and Family—juggling parenting, marriage, education, and domestic life
• Gifts We Give Our Children—intangible gifts, from a godly heritage to freedom to pursue their dreams
• And A Child Will Lead them—discovering life and faith though our child’s eyes
• Spiritual Vitamins: inspiration for Christian life, addressing fear, faith, prayer, and more
• Faith of Their Own—intentional discipleship that nurtures children in their own faith

School Is Where the Home Is presents a unique blend of the practical and inspirational for today’s homeschooling parents.


More about Miralee: Miralee and her husband Allen have been married 39 yrs. They live on 11 acres in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge in southern Washington State, where they love to garden, play with their dogs, take walks, and go sailing. Miralee enjoys riding her horse on the wooded trails near their home with her grown daughter who lives nearby. She’s an avid reader and has a large collection of first edition Zane Grey books, which inspired her desire to write fiction set in the Old West.

Miralee serves as president of the Portland, Oregon, chapter of American Christian Fiction Writers and belongs to a number of writer’s groups. She also speaks at women’s groups, libraries, and churches about her writing journey. When she started writing fiction Miralee believed that she’d always stay with women’s contemporary, but has since branched out to historical romance. Exploring family and marriage issues, The Other Daughter follows a family of four who receive a shock in the form of a 13-year-old girl who lands on their doorstep, claiming to be the daughter of the husband/father of the family—a girl they didn’t know existed. Finding Jeena features a character from the first book and explores socio-economic issues through a single woman’s sudden job-loss and ensuing struggle for survival.

Her fourth historical romance with Summerside Press in their Love Finds You series, set in Sundance, Wyoming released in August. All the Love Finds You books are stand-alone novels, and take place in a real town in America. Miralee’s first three are set in 1877, Love Finds You in Last Chance, CA, 1902, Love Finds You in Bridal Veil, Oregon, and 1881, Love Finds You in Tombstone, AZ.  The first two have a suspense thread as well as romance and the third has a higher degree of action.

Miralee recently signed a contract with David C Cook Publishing for a three-book historical series set in Oregon (women’s fiction with a strong romance thread) releasing June of 2013.

Facebook:   www.facebook.com/miralee 
Web site:    www.miraleeferrell.com

More about Love Finds You in Sundance, Wyoming:
Angel Ramirez is tired of living a lie. But can she live like a lady?

On the run from a dangerous outlaw, Angel works her way across several states disguised as a boy and working as a varmint tracker and horse wrangler. After taking a job on a Wyoming ranch owned by a bachelor and his widowed sister, she finally reveals her true identity and must fight to prove her worth as a ranch hand while somehow discovering her role as woman.

Hiring a woman doesn’t sit well with Travis Morgan, and the dark-haired beauty is causing a ruckus among his cowboys. Just as Angel decides she’ll never be able to please her boss, an unexpected surprise arrives from across the ocean and makes trouble on the ranch. Will Angel leave with the person who’s come so far to claim her.