Books on the Ridge

Join us for a fun chat with JPC Allen about her new YA suspense in the Rae Riley series:  RIDDLE IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER.

Just in time for Halloween, Rae and her family face  a time of crisis while trying to deal with a treasure hunt tangled up in some disturbing events in the history of Marlin County. 

JPC Allen started out writing inspired by Scooby Doo adventures, and has graduated to writing her own compelling, absorbing mysterie...

Trekking Pebbled Paths with Jesus -- a devotional journal, Book 2 of Lessons From the Father  Series 

Join us for an enlightening and fun chat with author S.D. Simms about her newest devotional book on Christian growth and spiritual maturity.

Trekking Through Pebbled Paths… includes daily devotions and journal question pages to reveal Jesus’ character and attributes and compel readers not only to fall in love with the Savior but also...

All good things must come to an end, and that's what's happening with the Together series by Kim Garee.

In Book 1, Pressed Together, and Book 2, Packed Together, we met the Graham sisters and their secrets and pain and hopes and dreams -- and watched them fall in love despite trying circumstances.

Now it's time for their good friend, Dottier Berkely, known as the Roller Coaster Princess because she manages Buckeye Lake...

Today's episode is a deep dive into the newest Tabor Heights re-release, "Behind the Scenes." 

If you've explored other Tabor Heights novels before, you'll notice that the stories are like moving to a small town: you meet some people, learn their stories, and they tell you about other people's stories. When you visit Tabor Heights, the stories overlap, and you hear about other stories from other books i...

Join us in a fun chat with Penny Frost McGinnis as she talks about her new children's book, Otto and Ollie Play Together Every Day. This is a delightful follow-up to her first children's book with Mt. Zion Ridge Press, Betsy and Bailey, No One Will Be Just Like You.

Fun fact: Penny's daughter Hannah is the illustrator!

Otto and Ollie are two friends who learn an important lesson after they have a disagreement.

Use the c...

Join co-publishers Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne as we chat with author Theresa Miller about her recent release, The Posture of Victory: Finding True Peace amidst Our Everyday Battles .

How do you walk in victory when your head is spinning with defeat?

 As Christians, we are anointed with the power to walk in victory in our everyday lives, relationships, and callings. While we understand this, in theory, the challenge lies i...

Join us for a fun chat with Jerah about her 2nd Would You Rather book, a fun children's book about stories from the Bible featuring animals.

Jerah shares her ideas, her process, and the input from her children -- and gives a sneak peek at the next book. Including the inside scoop that this book was originally the 3rd book, and switched places  in the publishing order.

Did You Know? Jerah is also the translator who makes our bili...

Join a fun chat about inspiration and spiritual growth and personal journeys as editors Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne "grill" Gordon Jackson about his new book, Sit, Stand, Walk Run.

Make sure you check out MtZionRidgePress.com and use the code RUN (make sure to use all caps) to claim your discount on a print or ebook purchase of his book. Good through the end of July.

Sit, Stand, Walk, Run—A Vocabulary for the Chr...

Join managing editor Tamera Lynn Kraft and Marketing Director Jerah Alverado as they put author Michelle Levigne on the hot seat about her newest Tabor Heights release, FIRESONG.

Dani, her brother and cousins are an up-and-coming Christian band called Firesong, and they're about to hit the big time, with a new manager, and their first professionally published CD in the works. But then come choices, personal and professional. Wh...

This is the 2nd of 3 suspense novels that tie into the Forest Glen romance series by Bettie Boswell, from Mt. Zion Ridge Press.

Join editors Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne as we chat with Bettie about the ties between all her Forest Glen books, the personal life experiences that contributed to HIDDEN WITNESS, and get a tiny sneak preview of the 3rd book in the series, coming out on New Year's Day: HIDDEN TALENT.

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Join editors Tamera Lynn Kraft and Michelle Levigne as we chat with one of the new members of the Mt. Zion Ridge Press family, Harriet Michael, about her new book, STUCK IN THE MIDDLE.

Harriet speaks from experience, as she chronicles the  adventure of Hannah, a little girl who thinks there's nothing special about her, because she's  not the only son, or the oldest daughter or the baby, she's "just Hannah." ...

Join us for a fun, insightful chat with author Sharon Simms, as we go "behind the scenes" of what went into her 40-day devotional, "The Lord Is ..." focusing on the names of God.

What are the deeper meanings behind all the different names of God, His aspects as He interacts with us and teaches us, and we grow closer to Him?

Sharon went on a fascinating journey of growth and discovery, and shares what started her o...

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 danger and mystery. The daughters o...

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 her fabulous illustrator, her backgrou...

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 country's history...

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 after she ran away with B...

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 to romance ....

Bo...

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 living, and Caleb has to move to a ...

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, good and bad -- an...