Books on the Ridge

Join Tamera Lynn Kraft and Jerah Alverado as they chat with Michelle L. Levigne about the next re-released Quarry Hall adventure, KATHRYN. This women's fiction, adventure series, focuses on the mobile representatives of the Arc Foundation, a philanthropical organization that looks for the people who have fallen between the cracks. They investigate before they invest, and often that leads into...

Join us for a fun chat with author Yvonne Morgan about her new children's book, Mary the Missionary. Mary is a little girl whose world expands with an adventure to the mission field, where she learns about other cultures and makes friends and learns how much alike we all are, despite our differences. We had a great time discussing the genesis of the story idea, how she found and worked with h...

Welcome to a new year, and a new book. Today, co-owner and executive editor Tamera Lynn Kraft is in the hot seat, talking about her newest release, THE AFTERMATH, the third and final (and long-awaited) book in her Ladies of Oberlin historical series. The first two books are:  RED SKY OVER AMERICA, leading up to the Civil War, and dealing with issues of slavery and social reform at that time in our...

Join managing editor Tamera Lynn Kraft and marketing manager Jerah Alverado, as they chat with author Michelle Levigne (taking off her managing editor cap) about her newest Tabor Heights series release, FORGIVEN. FORGIVEN Tabor Heights Year One, Book 6 The hardest thing Nikki has ever done is go home to Tabor Heights, to the people who know how far she fell, and the hearts she broke. Four years af...

Join us for a fun chat about Kim's newest release, the next book in the Buckeye Lake "Together Series," a historical romance in the heart of Ohio. In Book 1, we met the residents of Buckeye Lake during a hunt for a missing witness to a mob murder. We met the Graham sisters and learned about their history, their runaway mother, their secrets and dreams and fears. And the rocky road t...

Join us in a fun chat with one of our favorite, prolific authors at Mt. Zion Ridge Press, Bettie, Boswell, discussing her newest release,  CALEB AND GREAT-GRANDPA FRED: MOVING DAYS. This fun adventure will be the first of hopefully several stories about Caleb and his great-grandfather as they explore different topic. In this first story, Great-Grandpa Fred is moving from his house to assisted livi...

Join us for a lively chat with Gordon Jackson about his new Bible study, "I'll Be Your Server: The Heart of Christian Discipleship," part of the Profiles in Servanthood series he's working on. This is Gordon's 2nd book with Mt. Zion Ridge Press. His first was "Your Photo on God's Fridge Door." In this study he examines different aspects of being a servant, g...

Tabor Heights novel 5 is THE FAMILY WAY, a story of a troubled marriage on the verge of shattering at what should be the happiest time: the news of a baby on the way. Join managing editor Tamera Lynn Kraft and marketing manager Jerah Alverado as they talk with author Michelle Levigne (and co-managing editor at Mt. Zion Ridge Press) about this next story set in the town of Tabor Heights: A friendly...

Join us for a fun chat with Penny Frost McGinnis, as we discuss her third (and last!) Abbott Island novel, "Home At Last." But don't worry, listeners -- Penny is hard at work on a NEW series, and she even has a short story in the works that bridges from Abbott Island and the people and places we've come to love, to the new series. In previous books, we've met Sadie and Joe...

Join managing editors Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne as they chat with author (and translator) Jerah Alvarado about her new children's book, WOULD YOU RATHER? Bible adventures .... in water! More adventures on the theme of "Would You Rather?" are planned for future books, so stay tuned. Join the chat for a fun look behind-the-scenes to what inspired this picture book, how it...

Join managing editor Tamera Lynn Kraft and marketing director Penny Frost McGinnis, chatting with author Michelle Levigne about the next title in the Quarry Hall suspense series, ANNE. After a rough assignment catching people out to destroy battered women's shelters, Anne needs a break. Being assigned to observe operations at Common Grounds Legal Clinic seems like a cake assignment. Xander Fi...

Join us for a fun chat with new Mt. Zion Ridge Press author, Kim Garee, about her historical romantic suspense, "Pressed Together," book 1 in her Together series. This lovely, lively, fun, thoughtful novel takes place just after the close of WWII, as the people of Buckeye Lake, Ohio, try to get life back to normal. It's spring and the amusement park on the piers of Buckeye Lake is g...

Join managing editors Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne as they chat with Mt. Zion Ridge Press author Bettie Boswell, about her new children's book, I LOVE MOM. A perfect Mother's Day gift, available NOW from Mt. Zion Ridge Press. www. MtZionRidgePress.com Save $1 using the discount code MOM on the site, through the end of April. A military family faces big changes as Dad comes home...

JPC Allen is back with her newest novel, the 2nd full-length Rae Riley Mystery: A STORM OF DOUBTS. In the series launched by her short story, "A Rose From the Ashes," Allen's heroine, Rae Riley, is a gutsy young woman armed with smarts, courage, and her camera, as she tackles huge questions and searches for her identity, and a place in her new-found family. Rae wants to help people,...

Today, February 15, is release day for the next Tabor Hts. small-town inspirational romance novel. Book 4 of Year 1, WHITE ROSES is also a romantic suspense novel, as it continues to deal with the White Rose Killer, who appeared in the previous Tabor Hts., Novel, COMMON GROUNDS. Join managing editor Tamera Lynn Kraft and marketing director Penny Frost McGinnis as they chat with managing editor and...

The newest cozy mystery is now available at Mt. Zion Ridge Press. Join managing editor Tamera Lynn Kraft and marketing director Penny Frost McGinnis as they grill managing editor Michelle Levigne about her newest entry in the series set in a fictional, formerly quiet little town in Northeast Ohio. (We're talking about a place that's starting to feel like Cabot Cove, folks ...) Who's...

Join us on a fun, informative chat with Bettie Boswell, as she takes us inside her new Forest Glen suspense novel, HIDDEN NAMES. This book ties into her previous Mt. Zion Ridge Press titles, with familiar characters giving cameo appearances, and visiting familiar locations from other Forest Glen stories. Our heroine, Amber Whitney, sets off, not quite voluntarily, on a cross-country quest that tur...

Join our hosts in a chat with new Mt. Zion Ridge Press author Gordon S. Jackson to discuss his thoughtful, something humorous, always insightful and thought-provoking collection of 101 parables and analogies for living in today's world. New release December 15, in ebook, audiobook, and print. Save $1 by ordering from the Mt. Zion Ridge Press website, using the code PHOTO www. MtZionRidgePress...

Welcome to Books on the Ridge, the podcast for readers and fans of Mt. Zion Ridge Press: Books Off the Beaten Path. Today is something of a roundtable discussion with the authors of the CHRISTMAS IN OHIO anthology. Bettie Boswell, author of the Forest Glen novels: On Cue, Free to Love, and Hoping for Treasure, and the upcoming Hidden Names -- discussing her short story,  STOLEN GIFT EXCHANGE. Penn...

Welcome to Books on the Ridge, the podcast for readers talking about books from Mt. Zion Ridge Press: Books Off the Beaten Path. Today, Tamera Lynn Kraft, co-managing editor, and Penny Frost McGinnis, promotions director, put co-managing editor Michelle Levigne in the hot seat, talking about the 3rd Tabor Heights re-release, COMMON GROUNDS. The timing is appropriate, since Common Grounds spans the...

Join Penny Frost McGinnis and Michelle L. Levigne, hosts, as they chat with Pastor Tamera Lynn Kraft about her newest children's church curriculum offering, Building a Fortress in God. Part of her curriculum offered through Revival Fire For Kids. Our children nowadays are under attack, spiritually, and they need to be trained to defend themselves in spiritual warfare.

Celebrate the release of the special edition hardback of Christmas Fiction Off the Beaten Path: 6 stories that aren't your granny's Christmas stories. Laurie Lucking, JPC Allen, Patricia Meredith, Sandra Merville Hart,  Ronnell Gibson and Michelle Levigne chat about the stories behind their stories, Christmas memories and traditions, and the "extra" that has been added to the n...

Join editor Tamera Lynn Kraft and promotions manager Penny Frost McGinnis, as they chat with Mt Zion Ridge Press author and editor, Michelle Levigne, about the re-launch of her women's fiction/suspense series, Quarry Hall, with the first title, JOAN.   Podcast episodes include a discount code for purchasing the featured book from the Mt. Zion Ridge Press website, good through the end of the m...

Join editors Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne chatting with Penny Frost McGinnis about her newest children's book, BETSY AND BAILEY, which also happens to be the first bilingual (English/Spanish) book produced by Mt. Zion Ridge Press.   Podcast episodes include a discount code for purchasing the featured book from the Mt. Zion Ridge Press website, good through the end of the month when...

Join editors Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne chatting with Bettie Boswell about her newest novel, a split-time romance, HOPING FOR TREASURE. This book is a follow-up to her previous novels with Mt. Zion Ridge Press: ON CUE and FREE TO LOVE.   Ginny and Scott, our heroine and hero from ON CUE, are newlyweds. As the months pass, they deal with disappointments and losses and challenges, while...