Feb. 6, 2008
CFBA Featured Book ~ Feb. 6-8
ABOUT THE BOOK:
 Sisters, Ink marks the first in a series of novels written by, for, and about scrapbookers. At the center of the creativity and humor are four unlikely young adult sisters, each separately adopted during early childhood into the loving home of Marilyn and Jack Sinclair.
Ten years after their mother Marilyn has died, the multi-racial Sinclair sisters (Meg, Kendra, Tandy, and Joy) still return to her converted attic scrapping studio in the small town of Stars Hill, Tennessee, to encourage each other through life’s highs and lows.
Book one spotlights headstrong Tandy, a successful yet haunted attorney now living back in Orlando where she spent the first eight years of her life on the streets as a junkie’s kid. When a suddenly enforced leave of absence at work leads her to an extended visit with her sisters in Stars Hill, a business opportunity, rekindled romance, and fresh understanding of God’s will soon follow.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
 Rebeca Seitz is Founder and President of Glass Road Public Relations. An author for several years, PRINTS CHARMING was her first novel.
Rebeca cut her publicity teeth as the first dedicated publicist for the fiction division of Thomas Nelson Publishers. In 2005, Rebeca resigned from WestBow and opened the doors of GRPR, the only publicity firm of its kind in the country dedicated solely to representing novelists writing from a Christian worldview.
Rebeca makes her home in Kentucky with her husband, Charles, and their son, Anderson.
MY THOUGHTS: I really enjoyed this book! I shared in my post about the Winter Reading Challenge, that the cover of this book just screamed "FUN!" and I was not disappointed. This book is fun, heartwarming, and enjoyable. The characters are real and very easy to relate to~ so "girl next door" that I feel like I know them. Because I'm a scrapbooker (ok, I confess, it's been awhile, and I'm VERY behind), I loved the references to scrapbooking; there were references to some products I'm not familiar with that I'm anxious to check out. I loved that the main character, along with her 3 sisters (supporting characters in this story) were all adopted; I have 2 adopted children, so I could easily relate to that. I enjoyed the references to small town living; I live in a small town, so I felt very "at home" in this book! I would highly recommend Sister, Ink., and will be anxiously awaiting the second installment, coming in June. In the meantime, I'll be looking for Rebeca's first book~ Prints Charming.
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Feb. 6, 2008 - Fun!
 Posted by SuzyScribbles
I just love reading your reviews, Heidi. They are as much fun as reading the book. I haven't read this book, as I am so busy reading TOS stuff, that my mind is fried to any leisure reading. I got mostly fiction this time from Kate, and I'm beginning to regret it. Some of the self-published stuff is just not the quality one would hope for.
Also, I'm not an eclectic reader--rather picky--and chic-lit is not on my "must-read" list right now.
p.s. Is your right sidebar supposed to be that red/blue plaid? I can't read the blue writing.
I saw you made Heidi redo her Lesson 13. Good for you. She seemed to struggle with that lesson more than any of the others combined. I told her I'm glad she's being challenged, and that not everything is so quick and easy for her. LOL
Point of view is a good skill to develop, like walking in another's shoes for a while. She did better the second time around, but I'm trying to get her to get out of the box and expand, use her own words, and not feel limited to the original wording of the author when she's writing her own scene. :-)
Have a great day! I need to write up 2 reviews today. I'm not as good as a reviewer as you are, I'm afraid, but so far Kate has taken every one of them "as is."
Edited by SuzyScribbles on Feb. 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM
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 Posted by melissal89
Thanks for the review! I agree, reading your reviews is so fun. I'd like to check this book out if I didn't already have a pile of at least four books on my nightstand waiting for me to read them! But I'll put it on my "I would like to read someday list."
Blessings, Melissa (who is still really enjoying her lovely earrings, thanks again!)
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