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Great American Christmas | 2026 Schedule!

I am so excited to dive into the Christmas movie season at Great American Pure Flix. These movies look fabulous to watch with the whole family. I love that I don't have to worry about the content that my children may be exposed to. And it is bonus that there are well known to me performers. Candace Cameron Bure? Cameron Mathison? YES!! Check out what has already released this month.

OCTOBER

A Second Chance Christmas 

Premiere Date: Thursday, October 8 on Great American Pure Flix 

Starring: Candace Cameron Bure, Jonathan Scarfe
Description: After five years, divorced parents Anna and James reunite with their adult children for Christmas, only to find an unexpected ice storm may give their love story a second chance.

Pure Flix Page: https://www.pureflix.com/a-second-chance-christmas

Preview: A Second Chance Christmas | Preview | Starring Candace Cameron Bure and Jonathan Scarfe

Trailer: A Second Chance Christmas | Trailer | Starring Candace Cameron Bure and Jonathan Scarfe

Silver Bells at Christmas 

Premiere Date: Thursday, October 15 on Great American Pure Flix

Starring: Laura Osnes, Ryan McPartlin, Chuck Wicks, Taylor Kalupa, Julia Reilly and Tanya Christiansen
Description: When Ginny fights to save her late mother’s beloved Christmas shop, a determined buyer and the return of her first love force her to choose between holding onto the past and opening her heart to a new future. 

Pure Flix Page: https://www.pureflix.com/silver-bells-at-christmas

Preview: Silver Bells at Christmas | Preview | Stream Thurs. October 15 on Great American Pure Flix

Trailer: Silver Bells at Christmas | Trailer | Stream Thurs. October 15 on Great American Pure Flix

A Christmas Prayer Tradition 

Premiere Date: Thursday, October 22 on Great American Pure Flix

Starring: Shae Robins and Christopher Russell

Description: As Natalie prepares to launch her new children’s book, a family’s quiet mission to answer the prayers of neighbors reminds Bellford Falls that some of God’s greatest works begin with simple acts of faith and kindness.

Pure Flix Page: https://www.pureflix.com/a-christmas-prayer

Preview: A Christmas Prayer Tradition | Preview | Stream Thurs. October 22 on Great American Pure Flix

Trailer: A Christmas Prayer Tradition | Trailer | Stream Thurs. October 22 on Great American Pure Flix

A Very Arctic Christmas  

Premiere Date: Thursday, October 29 on Great American Pure Flix

Starring: Jill Wagner and Cameron Mathison
Description: When a father-daughter Christmas cruise leaves them stranded in the Arctic, they must rely on a spirited wildlife conservationist to guide them home, turning a holiday mishap into an unforgettable journey of family, wonder, and unexpected romance.

Pure Flix Page: https://www.pureflix.com/a-very-arctic-christmas

Preview: A Very Arctic Christmas | Preview | Stream Thurs. October 29 on Great American Pure Flix

Trailer: A Very Arctic Christmas | Trailer | Stream Thurs. Oct 29 on Great American Pure Flix

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Spotlight and Giveaway: The Ties That Bind by Jane Bayly Vaughan

About the Book

Book: The Ties That Bind

Author: Jane Bayly Vaughan

Genre: Historical Fiction

Release Date: April 14, 2026

In 1830s Cornwall, Grace Bayly faces unimaginable events that threaten the survival of her family. Her father and half of her large family are an ocean away and her mother and remaining siblings are poised to follow. As hardships close in, hopes of a new beginning grow distant. She must summon fortitude borne of love and sacrifice to hold her family together. Amid the unyielding grip of loss and grief, Grace steels herself to persist as she faces the ultimate challenge that threatens to break her.

Will Grace find the strength she needs to ensure her family survives?

A poignant tale of loyalty, resilience, and the enduring bonds that shape a woman’s courage when everything she cherishes is at stake.

Inspired by real people and events.

 

Click here to get your copy!

 

About the Author

Jane’s love of God and family permeates her life, including her passion to share stories rooted in genealogy and history. She weaves the theme of family into the fabric of her historical fiction and dives deep, by writing about true events and people.

Using her 20+ years of experience in genealogy research as a family historian, Jane has written articles and short stories. She was awarded a travel grant by the Cornish American Heritage Society and visited Cornwall to walk in the footsteps of her ancestors and research her roots.

Jane has won several awards for her writing, and invites readers to experience timeless lessons of faith, resilience, and heritage that echo from the past into our lives today.

She makes her home in the beautiful lowcountry of South Carolina with her husband of 45+ years. They have two grown children, and lots of cats.

To learn more about Jane, visit her at JaneBaylyVaughan.com and sign up for her newsletter to receive an award-winning short story that will introduce you to the series A Story of Grace.

More from Jane

I have been a long-time family historian for over twenty years. When COVID hit, I was at a crossroads and could choose the next grand adventure. As I took stock, I revisited a question that had nagged me on and off for some time: how do I ensure the family history is not forgotten? Around that time, a friend of mine invited me to observe a writer’s group. I accepted her invitation, and after one meeting, I became a member of Word Weavers International. I knew that writing stories about my ancestors would generate interest among my relatives.

I faced a learning curve and dedicated myself to writing brief scenes as submissions each month. At first, I considered this venture as something fun, not to be taken seriously, but after several months, someone I respect encouraged me, and so I applied myself. As my writing improved and my research continued, I thought of my four^th great-grandmother from Cornwall. A story formed, and I wrote all my submissions to the writer’s group about her in a fictional narrative. After a year or two attending the writer’s group, I was suffering from imposter syndrome and needed encouragement from sources who were not familiar with me. I wrote a short story and entered it into a contest as validation to either continue writing or quit altogether.

I attended the Florida Christian Writers Conference in 2024 and sat white-knuckled as they announced the short story winners. They announced third place first, and I didn’t win, so I almost stopped listening because I assumed I hadn’t placed at all. They announced second place, and of course, someone else won. Then the announcer paused and explained that the first-place winning piece was so good they said it was ready for publication. The words, “In first place is ’Becoming Grace’ by Jane Vaughan,” shocked me! That was a God moment, and I realized He was offering me a partnership.

Driven by my love for family history, I found my next grand adventure: partnering with my Creator to create stories that help us remember the resilience and sacrifices of our ancestors and how their lives affect us today. Ultimately, my stories are about how important it is to love each other. The Ties That Bind is the first book in the series A Story of Grace.

Blogs Stops

Books Less Travelled, October 20

Babbling Becky L’s Book Impressions , October 21

Simple Harvest Reads, October 22 (Guest Review from Marilyn)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, October 23

Texas Book-aholic, October 24

Blossoms and Blessings, October 25 (Author Interview)

For Him and My Family, October 25

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, October 26

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, October 27

Books You Can Feel Good About, October 28

Stories By Gina, October 29 (Author Interview)

The Bookish Pilgrim, October 29

Avid Reader Nurse, October 30

Cover Lover Book Review, October 31

Holly’s Book Corner, November 1

Pause for Tales, November 2

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Jane is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card and a signed copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://gleam.io/94vrw/the-ties-that-bind-celebration-tour-giveaway

Spotlight and Giveaway: Moment in Time by Cynthia L Simmons

About the Book

Book: Moment in Time

Author: Cynthia L. Simmons

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction, Faith Redemption murder mystery, Murder intrigue

Release Date: August, 2026

Helen Moore was devastated when she learned her husband was missing and presumed dead in the Civil War. Fortunately, Uncle Henry invited her and her son, Aaron, to apprentice with his photography studio in Marietta, Ga, after the war. However, while planting herbs on his property, she unearthed a body no one could identify. Who put the man there? Was her uncle involved in his death? As she unravels the mystery, she finds unexpected companionship and learns every moment in life matters.

 

Click here to get your copy!

 

 

About the Author

Cynthia L Simmons and her husband have five grown children . She loves hot tea, orchids, and adores historical research. Her ragdoll cats often sit by her when she writes. Cynthia has written historical fiction, mysteries, Bible studies, homeschool curriculum, devotions, and hosts Heart of the Matter Radio/podcast, posts History Chats, and shares history stories to encourage women.

 

 

 

 

More from Cynthia

Secrets in the Darkroom: Welcome to the Moment in Time Blog Tour!

What if the key to solving a dangerous post-war mystery was hidden in a photographic negative?

Welcome, readers and bloggers! I am beyond thrilled to kick off the Celebrate Lit blog tour for my newest historical mystery, Moment in Time!

If you love rich historical detail, high-stakes suspense, hidden ciphers, and stories of unexpected hope rebuilding from the ashes, then step back with me to 1867 Marietta, Georgia.

About the Story

The Civil War may be over, but for the town of Marietta, the fight to rebuild has just begun.

When Helen, a former midwife, takes a job assisting her uncle in his photography studio, she expects darkroom chemicals and quiet portraits. Instead, she stumbles into a web of secret codes, hidden motives, and a threat creeping through the Reconstruction-era town.

Teamed up with Edward—a former Union surgeon carrying his own deep wounds—the two must decipher the clues before time runs out. In a world of wet-plate glass negatives and volatile chemicals, every single second matters… because someone in Marietta will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried.

Blog Stops

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, October 22

Babbling Becky L’s Book Impressions, October 23

For Him and My Family, October 23

Simple Harvest Reads, October 24 (Author Interview)

Artistic Nobody, October 25 (Author Interview)

Texas Book-aholic, October 26

Guild Master, October 27 (Author Interview)

Fiction Book Lover, October 28 (Author Interview)

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, October 29

The Bookish Ledger, October 30 (Author Interview)

Vicky Sluiter, October 31 (Author Interview)

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, November 1

Mary Hake, November 1

Books, Books, & More Books, November 2 (Author Interview)

A Modern Day Fairy Tale, November 3 (Author Interview)

Lily’s Corner, November 4

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Cynthia is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://gleam.io/VTxgD/moment-in-time-celebration-tour-giveaway

Spotlight and Giveaway: Embers of Endurance: Rising Above Chronic Pain and Illness by Carolyn Dale Newell

About the Book

Book: Embers of Endurance: Rising Above Chronic Pain and Illness

Author: Carolyn Dale Newell

Genre: Christian Devotional

Release Date: February 17, 2026

When chronic pain invaded Carolyn Dale Newell’s life, it didn’t just attack her body—it attacked her faith.

Through crippling sciatica, major spinal fusion surgery, and countless complications that left her in agony, Carolyn found herself in the darkest valley she’d ever known.

But in that darkness, she discovered something powerful: God’s grace truly is sufficient, even when it doesn’t feel like it.

In this raw, honest 30-day devotional, Carolyn walks alongside you through the unique spiritual battle of chronic illness. She shares the biblical truths that sustained her through the fire and will sustain you too.

Like embers rising from ashes, you can find beauty again.

Begin your journey from surviving to thriving in chronic pain now.

 

Click here to get your copy!

 

About the Author

Carolyn Dale Newell is a bestselling and award-winning Christian author, certified speaker, and contributor to iBelieve.com. Despite living with chronic pain, she empowers women to break free from emotional strongholds and embrace lives transformed by faith. She resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband and their two loyal Black Labrador Retrievers.

 

 

 

 

More from Carolyn

The Reason I Wrote Embers of Endurance

While discouragement had its tentacles wrapped tightly around me, it seemed easier for doubt to chisel away at my faith. Before I realized it, I was depressed, living without joy and peace. Life seemed hopeless because surgery changed my life forever.

Once God brought me out of the darkness, I began finding Scriptures I’d never given much attention. Job and the psalmist felt like I did. Elijah gave up and couldn’t resist the threat in his life. I was in good company, and so are you, my friend. I realized I walked a horrific journey of pain due to scoliosis to share my experience with you.

These devotions aren’t filled with one victory after another, but rather a slow steady pace to living like the conqueror God has made each of us to be.

I felt like my life was a pile of ashes, but then embers began to rise above that pile. Something new began to spark in my life. God gives us beauty for ashes, and I want to help you find beautiful again.

Blog Stops

Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, October 21

Texas Book-aholic, October 21

Simple Harvest Reads, October 22 (Author Interview)

Artistic Nobody, October 23 (Author Interview)

Guild Master, October 24 (Author Interview)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, October 25

Fiction Book Lover, October 26 (Author Interview)

The Bookish Ledger, October 27 (Author Interview)

Vicky Sluiter, October 28 (Author Interview)

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, October 29

Mary Hake, October 29

For the Love of Literature, October 30 (Author Interview)

Tell Tale Book Reviews, October 31 (Author Interview)

Blossoms and Blessings, November 1 (Author Interview)

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, November 2

Stories By Gina, November 3 (Author Interview)

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Carolyn is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://gleam.io/srRQl/embers-of-endurance-celebration-tour-giveaway

Blog Tour and Guest Post: Time Stoppers: Interludes in Time by James Young

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  TIME-STOPPERS: INTERLUDES IN TIME by James Young

Category: Adult Fiction, 376 pages

Genre: Fantasy: Time Travel/Romance

Publisher: Mascot Books

​Publication Date: June, 2026

Content Rating: PG-13

Book Description:

The “perfect life” is an impossible dream—or is it?

Aided by an ability to stop time at will, David Preston intends to find out. David is obsessed with making his world perfect: career, love life—everything. Most people settle for less because they know perfection is impossible. But David has a problem: He believes perfection is not just possible but attainable. At least, for someone with his extraordinary gift.

David can stop time at will for everyone but himself. The world freezes around him, giving him “time” to complete tasks on impossible deadlines, compose brilliant answers to sudden questions, and dodge the otherwise unavoidable disasters we can see coming but are powerless to stop.

But life is messier than it appears, and reality is not easily dissuaded—especially when there may be someone else out there, stopping time...

Buy the Book:

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Meet the Author:

This is James Young’s first foray into fiction. He has spent over three decades in and around D.C. politics, immersed in economic and policy legislation. Alongside degrees from the University of Chicago (B.A.) and Cornell University (M.A., Ph.D.), Young’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, The Hill, American Spectator, The Federalist, Washington Post, New York Post, Barron’s, Forbes, Chicago Tribune, Townhall, Blaze Media, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, USA Today, and elsewhere.

In his early days, James was Kipling’s “cat who walked by himself,” working in a steel mill, sailing on the Great Lakes’ iron ore boats, tending bar, riding motorcycles, scuba diving, traveling extensively worldwide, and “doing all manner of things that would have consumed fully eight of the Kipling cat’s nine lives.” He is spending his remaining life more sedately, though still traveling with his family to America’s national parks—with only the occasional exotic foray here and there.

​Connect with the author:  Website  ~ Instagram ~ Facebook ~ Goodreads

Guest Post:

My writing journey began when….

This is a surprisingly difficult question.  It is because I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t writing.  My mother told me that one of my first phrases was “Read a book,” spoken as I carried one to her.  Skipping to college, I went to the University of Chicago, where writing was accentuated and seemingly every class that didn’t have a lab had papers assigned.  I was convinced that my career was academics and went on to Cornell University, wrote my doctoral dissertation, and started academic writing…BUT, while I was finishing my dissertation, I began working on Capitol Hill to make ends meet (I also worked as a bartender, but that is another set of stories!) and never made it to academia.  Instead, I worked in and around the legislative process—House, Senate, administration, lobbying—for the next several decades.  Through it all, I wrote on the side; these were mostly analytical pieces, and I was fortunate enough to place many over the years in a wide variety of national publications.  What I didn’t do was write fiction—so, here is where THIS journey begins.

Writing fiction is a real jumping off point, or perhaps a return to my “Read a book” earliest beginnings.  As I loved to be read to, so too I loved to read to my children.  My wife, also an avid reader, did so as well.  As I read and listened, I became more enthralled with the structure and content of stories (my professional analytical side remaining engaged at all times!), until I started crafting some in my head.  

The springboard for taking this further came from a conversation with my daughter when she was very young.  We were musing on superpowers; as we worked our way down the list of possibilities (the usual suspects: flying, speed, strength), we came to traveling through time.  I said to her, “What about stopping it?”  We kept talking, but I never stopped thinking about stopping time.  The more I thought, the more I imagined it in certain situations; these of course included my work.  Well, as my work at the time was lobbying, a whole series of situations came to me.  

Before long, I had the core of a story in my head.  Because I love to write, I thought I would commit the core to paper.  The more I did, the more the story came together, and the more engrossed I became in the characters and the story’s direction.  I showed it to some editors, which is of course where the real writing process (the hard part) begins.  

Then there was a big leap of faith: to leave my comfortable analytical surroundings and take it to a publisher.  I had told no one, except the handful of people in the professional process, that I was doing this, or even thinking about it.  The first my wife knew of this book was when I showed her its galley proof.  

So, there is the journey’s beginning.  I hope it continues (yes, I am writing more), and I hope you enjoy its result.

My Review: 

When I read the blurb for James Young's Time Stoppers: Interludes in Times, I knew I had to pick it up and give it a read. At first the writing style took me a little bit to get used to. Once I was in about a quarter of the way through, I was hooked. It was nice to find a unique style and plot in a story. I liked the main character, David Preston, and learning about his ability to stop time. It sure did made me think of what if this could be a real thing from time to time. The sprinkle of humor all throughout the book made me giggle from time to time. It was fun and entertaining to find out how his ability to freeze time would turn out for him. Overall, I thought it was a great tale to read and once I got into it, I did not want to put it down. A wonderful debut for this author. 

I am going to give Time Stoppers: Interludes in Times four stars. I believe fans of time travelling fantasies with a touch of romance will enjoy it. I would be interested in reading more from the talented author, James Young, in the future. I am curious to see what he has in store for his readers. 

I received a paperback copy of James Young's Time Stoppers: Interludes in Times from the publisher, but was not required to write a positive review. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion.