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Yvonne Joy’s New Novel Follows a Retired Headmaster’s Illness and a Community’s Path to a Nature Retreat
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Author Yvonne Joy has released "My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord," a work of inspirational fiction published through Christian Faith Publishing, according to the publisher’s announcement.
The story follows Bill, a former headmaster and respected community figure, as a grave health crisis prompts him to reconsider his life’s direction and impact, the publisher states. Into that crisis arrives Jill Evans, a preacher whose aim, as the announcement describes it, is not just to comfort Bill but to guide him toward renewed faith. A third figure, Bill’s neighbor Prissy Miss, carries unresolved pain tied to Bill’s past actions and is described as caught between resentment and a desire to reclaim her own voice.
The three characters’ paths converge around the founding of the Dense Forest Nature Interfaith Retreat, a project the announcement describes as transforming a neglected area into a nature and interfaith gathering space with the help of municipal funding. The announcement positions the work as an examination of how friendship, faith, and forgiveness emerge when adversity catalyzes transformation.
The title draws on a biblical phrase, the opening line of the Magnificat in the Gospel of Luke, in which Mary responds to news of her pregnancy with Jesus. The phrase has been used before as a title in Christian publishing, including in devotional writings by Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, though Yvonne Joy’s book is an unrelated work of fiction.
"My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord" is available through Christian Faith Publishing’s website, Amazon, Apple’s iTunes store, Barnes & Noble, and in brick-and-mortar bookstores, per the announcement.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be curious whether the Dense Forest Nature Interfaith Retreat, as a fictional project blending civic funding and interfaith space, resonates with readers looking for faith fiction grounded in community-building rather than personal piety alone.
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The Millbrook-based artist and author Betty Kiser has unveiled her latest devotional work, "Trusting God with Your Change of Seasons," via Christian Faith Publishing.
The work explores major life transitions such as career shifts, empty nests, relocations, and changes in marital status — and frames them as opportunities to deepen religious faith rather than obstacles to it. According to the announcement, Kiser draws on Romans 8:28 and Joshua 1:9 to argue that age shouldn’t be treated as a barrier to pursuing what she describes as God’s plans for a person’s life.
Kiser brings a background spanning six decades of work as an artist, writer, mentor, and teacher, according to the announcement, and now creates from what she calls her Forever Home and Art Gallery. In a statement, Kiser expressed her goal of showing readers how life’s transitions can strengthen spiritual connection and reveal God’s reliability.
The publisher describes the book as offering readers practical encouragement to release fear and find steadiness during uncertain periods — territory shared by other recent entries in the Christian devotional genre, including titles built around daily reflections and scripture-based coping strategies for anxiety and loss of control. "Trusting God with Your Change of Seasons" is available in hardcover and paperback through Christian Faith Publishing’s website, as well as major booksellers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be watching whether Kiser’s dual identity as both visual artist and author shapes how the book is marketed and received in the months ahead.
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Author Tonya Williams’s New Children’s Book Tells a Rescue Puppy’s Story Through the Lens of Her Wisconsin Ranch
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Tonya Williams has released "The Adventures of Loki and Friends," a children’s book narrated by a rescue puppy named Loki who leaves an uncertain start in Texas behind and finds a home on a working farm. The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available now in bookstores and through major online retailers.
The story is told in Loki’s own voice. He arrives at his new home not knowing anyone, and the book follows him as he meets the farm’s other animals, including a donkey named Amos who becomes his closest friend, along with goats, horses, cattle, and potbellied pigs. According to the publisher’s description, each of these animals carries a story of its own, and Loki’s arrival becomes part of a larger web of relationships built around rescue, belonging, and gratitude.
Williams draws on her own background for the material. She grew up on a farm and now runs Never Done Ranch, a 200-acre property in Wisconsin, with her husband, raising cattle, horses, goats, and other livestock alongside family pets. That hands-on experience with animals, she says, shaped how she thinks about faith and resilience, and it’s the frame the book uses throughout: animals as both companions and, in Williams’s telling, instruments of spiritual lesson.
In her statement, Williams remarked that "Animals have been God’s instrument in my life to teach me about love, forgiveness, and purpose." "I wanted to share these lessons through Loki’s story so that children everywhere could understand that their pets are not just companions: they are teachers of the heart."
The book is categorized as juvenile nonfiction-adjacent fiction aimed at young, animal-loving readers, and is pitched as a faith-centered take on the familiar rescue-dog narrative, with the ranch setting giving it a specific, lived-in backdrop rather than a generic farm.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees the appeal here less in the plot than in the setting: a real working ranch, run by the author herself, lending a children’s book about rescue animals an unusual degree of authenticity.
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