Books on the Ridge

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...

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 little town on Ohio'...

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 Joel, and Marigold a...

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 came about, and ...

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 Finley, the head lawyer, is ...