{"id":108,"date":"2008-02-26T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T04:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-02-26T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T04:52:49","slug":"stuck-in-the-middle-by-virginia-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in the Middle by Virginia Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><font size=\"4\">This week, the<\/font><br \/>\n<\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfictionblogalliance.com\/\"><font size=\"3\">Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><center><font size=\"3\">is introducing<\/font><br \/>\n<\/center><center><font color=\"#993300\" size=\"4\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0800732324\">Stuck in the Middle<\/a><\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<\/center><center>Revell (February 1, 2008)<\/center><center>by<\/center><center><font color=\"#006600\" size=\"4\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiasmith.org\/\">Virginia Smith<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R8IzNw2YBEI\/AAAAAAAAAhE\/O7dMHvbymqA\/s1600-h\/Virginia%2BSmith\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R8IzNw2YBEI\/AAAAAAAAAhE\/O7dMHvbymqA\/s400\/Virginia%2BSmith\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170751633719034946\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Virginia Smith left her job as a corporate director to become a full time writer and speaker with the release of her first novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0825436931\">Just As I Am<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then she has contracted eight novels and published numerous articles and short stories. She writes contemporary humorous novels for the Christian market, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/\">Murder by Mushroom<\/a> (Steeple Hill, August 2007) and her newest release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0800732324\">Stuck in the Middle<\/a>(Revell, February 2008), book 1 in the Sister-to-Sister Series.<\/p>\n<p>Her short fiction has been anthologized, and her articles have been published in a variety of Christian magazines. An energetic speaker, she loves to exemplify God\u2019s truth by comparing real-life situations to well-known works of fiction, such as her popular talk, \u201cBiblical Truths in Star Trek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virginia is a speaker, and an avid Scuba diver. She and her husband Ted, divide their times between Kentucky and Utah, and escape as often as they can for diving trips to the Caribbean!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R8IzVg2YBFI\/AAAAAAAAAhM\/AE2vdCaSF8s\/s1600-h\/stuckinthemiddle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R8IzVg2YBFI\/AAAAAAAAAhM\/AE2vdCaSF8s\/s320\/stuckinthemiddle\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170751766863021138\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Joan Sanderson&#8217;s life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is living at home with Mom and looking after her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement-or romance.<\/p>\n<p>That is, until a hunky young doctor moves in next door. Suddenly Joan has a goal&#8211;to catch his eye and get a date. But it won&#8217;t be easy. Pretty Tori flirts relentlessly with him and Joan is sure that she can&#8217;t compete. But with a little help from God, Allie, and an enormous mutt with bad manners, maybe Joan can find her way out of this rut and into the life she&#8217;s been hiding from.<\/p>\n<p>Book 1 of the Sister-to-Sister series, Stuck in the Middle combines budding romance, spiritual searching, and a healthy dose of sibling rivalry that is sure to make you smile.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A gentle story of one young woman&#8217;s season of growth, deftly blending the tangle of family relationships with gifts of whimsey and revelation. A joy to read.&#8221;<br \/>\n~SHARON HINCK, author of Renovating Becky Miller and Symphony of Secrets~<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Virginia Smith has created a charming and humerous novel that celebrates small-town life, generations of women caring for each other, and the value of finding a deeper, more active faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~SHARON DUNN, author of the Bargain Hunters mysteries~<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0800732324\" title=\"Stuck in the Middle by Virginia Smith\" target=\"_blank\">Stuck in the Middle by Virginia Smith\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Stuck in the Middle Revell (February 1, 2008)byVirginia Smith ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Virginia Smith left her job as a corporate director to become a full time writer and speaker with the release of her first novel Just As I Am. Since then she has contracted eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}