Holiday Treats, Jane Austen, and a Gothic Regency Mystery with Julie Klassen

In this episode, KyLee and Darcy share a few holiday highlights, then KyLee sits down with author Julie Klassen to talk about research, faith, and her latest Regency release.

Key takeaways

  • Holiday traditions can be simple, and still feel special.
  • Teachers and read-aloud stories can shape a reader and a writer for life.
  • Julie Klassen weaves themes of grace, forgiveness, and second chances into her fiction.
  • Real places and local legends can add weight and texture to historical novels.
  • Whispers at Painswick Court blends romance with gothic atmosphere and a murder plot.
  • Holiday baking, hot chocolate, and an Instagram invite
  • A Bookworm Review of The Lost Girl of Astor Street, Stephanie Morrill

KyLee: Today I will be talking with Julie Klassen. Darcy will not be with us because she’s gone to spend some time with her family.

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Episode 119 | Jewels of Kalispell — Behind the Pages

Today we are joined by two guests to chat about the latest book they have co-written, An Unexpected Grace  Book 3 in the Jewels of Kalispell series. We’ve visited with both of them individually before, and we’re so excited to have them on together today.

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A Bookchat about Heart of the Glen with Jennifer Deibel

Jennifer Deibel joins us for a chat about living in Europe, her love for The Lord of the Rings, Irish traditions, and her latest release, Heart of the Glen. Don’t forget to enter to win a copy of this great book!

About the author:

Jennifer Deibel  is the bestselling and award-winning author of A Dance in Donegal, The Lady of Galway Manor and The Maid of Ballymacool. Her work has appeared on (in)courage, on The Better Mom, in Missions Mosaic magazine, and others. With firsthand immersive experience abroad, Jennifer writes stories that help redefine home through the lens of culture, history, and family. After nearly a decade of living in Ireland and Austria, she now lives in Arizona with her husband and their three children.

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A Bookchat about Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor with Roseanna M. White.

Roseanna joins us for a chat about Christmas traditions, the joys of email, completing her chemo treatments, and her latest release Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor. Don’t forget to enter to win a copy of this great book!

About the author

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.

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A Bookchat about Yesterday’s Tides with Roseanna M. White

About the author

Today we are talking with Roseanna M. White about her spring release Yesterday’s Tides. Rosanna 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.

To start us off, I ran across an interesting bookish conundrum on Facebook the other day that I thought would be fun to ask.

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