{"id":2874,"date":"2013-02-22T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2013-02-20T05:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T09:48:06","slug":"give-away-of-romancing-olive-by-holly-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Give Away of ROMANCING OLIVE by Holly Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to Holly Bush as she launches not one but two eBooks with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holly-Bush-Tour-Banner.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2875 lazyload\" alt=\"Holly Bush Tour Banner\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holly-Bush-Tour-Banner.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"224\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 630px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 630\/224;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2875\" alt=\"Holly Bush Tour Banner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holly-Bush-Tour-Banner.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"224\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><b>Just leave a comment below to be entered. The giveaway is for one eBook of either book (winner&#8217;s choice, ePub, mobi or PDF) and open internationally.<\/b><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Romancing-Olive1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2876 lazyload\" alt=\"Romancing Olive(1)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Romancing-Olive1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2876\" alt=\"Romancing Olive(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Romancing-Olive1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Romancing Olive<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"> Publication Date: November 1, 2011 | BookBaby | 205p<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1891, spinster librarian, Olive Wilkins, is shocked to learn of her brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s violent death at a saloon gaming table and her sister-in-law\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s subsequent murder, traveling far from her staid life to rescue her niece and nephew, now orphans. She arrives to find the circumstances of her brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life deplorable and her long held beliefs of family and tradition, shaken.Accustomed to the sophistication of Philadelphia, Olive arrives in Spencer, Ohio, a rough and tumble world she is not familiar with, facing two traumatized children. Her niece and nephew, Mary and John, have been living with a neighboring farmer, widower Jacob Butler, the father of three young children of his own and a man still in pain from the recent loss of his wife.Real danger threatens Olive and Mary and John while Jacob and his own brood battle the day-to-day struggles for survival. Will Olive and Jacob find the strength to fight their battles alone or together? Will love conquer the bitterness of loss and broken dreams?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Reconstructing-Jackson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2877 lazyload\" alt=\"Reconstructing Jackson\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Reconstructing-Jackson.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2877\" alt=\"Reconstructing Jackson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Reconstructing-Jackson.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Reconstructing Jackson<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\">Publication Date: September 25, 2012 | BookBaby | 191p<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">1867 . . . Southern lawyer and Civil War veteran, Reed Jackson, returns to his family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plantation in a wheelchair. His father deems him unfit, and deeds the Jackson holdings, including his intended bride, to a younger brother. Angry and bitter, Reed moves west to Fenton, Missouri, home to a cousin with a successful business, intending to start over.Belle Richards, a dirt poor farm girl aching to learn how to read, cleans, cooks and holds together her family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meager property. A violent brother and a drunken father plot to marry her off, and gain a new horse in the bargain. But Belle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got other plans, and risks her life to reach them.Reed is captivated by Belle from their first meeting, but wheelchair bound, is unable to protect her from violence. Bleak times will challenge Reed and Belle&#8217;s courage and dreams as they forge a new beginning from the ashes of war and ignorance.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holly-Bush21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" alt=\"Holly Bush2(1)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holly-Bush21.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"221\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 216px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 216\/221;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Holly Bush2(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Holly-Bush21.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"221\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 About the Author<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Holly Bush was born in western Pennsylvania to two avid readers. There was not a room in her home that did not hold a full bookcase. She worked in the hospitality industry, owning a restaurant for twenty years and recently worked as the sales and marketing director in the hospitality\/tourism industry and is credited with building traffic to capacity for a local farm tour, bringing guests from twenty-two states, booked two years out.\u00c2\u00a0 Holly has been a marketing consultant to start-up businesses and has done public speaking on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Holly has been writing all of her life and is a voracious reader of a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction, particularly political and historical works. She has written four romance novels, all set in the U.S. West in the mid 1800\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. She frequently attends writing conferences, and has always been a member of a writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s group.<\/p>\n<p>Holly is a gardener, a news junkie, has been an active member of her local library board and loves to spend time near the ocean. She is the proud mother of two daughters and the wife of a man more than a few years her junior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollybushbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.hollybushbooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Holly Bush as she launches not one but two eBooks with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours Just leave a comment below to be entered. The giveaway is for one eBook of either book (winner&#8217;s choice, ePub, mobi or PDF) and open internationally. Romancing Olive Publication Date: November 1, 2011 | BookBaby | 205p &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2874\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give Away of ROMANCING OLIVE by Holly Bush<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}