Nancy J. Farrier

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Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #10

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Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes!

• The hunt BEGINS on 10/15 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. 

• Hunt through our loop using Chrome or Firefox as your browser (not Explorer).

• There is NO RUSH to complete the hunt—you have all weekend (until Sunday, 10/18 at midnight MST)! So take your time, reading the unique posts along the way; our hope is that you discover new authors/new books and learn new things about them.

• Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the CLUE on each author’s scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the Rafflecopter form at the final stop, back on Lisa’s site. Many authors are offering additional prizes along the way!

Welcome! Nancy J. Farrier here, author of contemporary and historical Christian fiction, desert dweller, and she-who-walks-on-rattlesnakes. Well, not quite on the rattlesnake. But, on one of my morning walks in the desert, I bumped a rattlesnake with my foot. He was not happy and my heart went aerobic. I did stop to take a picture though. I love walking and often think of new story ideas on my morning treks. You can connect with me here, on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

I may live in the desert, but I love the California coast, where my latest book, Matching Points, is set. Here is the blurb:

Fresh out of prison, Asia Jessup wishes she could change her past and maybe her future. As she searches for family, her devastating secret might destroy her last hope of connection. Ian Kittridge has his own thriving restaurant, and is a respected business owner. Thanks to a teenage Asia’s empathy one summer he’d been pulled back from the brink of ruining his life and ending up like his father—a murderer. As Asia’s secrets quake the family she hoped to find, can she and Ian find their way through the storm, to a peaceful resolution, and look toward a brighter future?

One thing Asia and Ian learn is quilting. Yikes! I don’t quilt and they don’t either. They don’t want to take a quilting class, but they do want to help out their good friend, Asia’s cousin, Cinda.

Sew What? Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone.

I took a huge step outside my comfort zone to learn about quilting for my book. Sewing has never been something I enjoyed. In fact, I often say my sewing machine and I share an uneasy truce that can quickly escalate into outright warfare. Not only did I learn about quilting and study the craft, I did a sewing project of my own, and did so successfully. 

Learning something new, or trying something you’ve never done before, can be unnerving and downright scary. But, there is satisfaction at the end of the task. I made some lovely cloth napkins that I gave my daughters and they loved them. The napkins weren’t a quilt, but the process of pinning, ironing, and sewing gave me a feel for what it might be like to make a quilt.

Have you ever stepped outside your comfort zone? Have you done something very different, and maybe a bit scary? I’d love to hear about your experience.

This is Stop #10 

If you’re interested, you can order Matching Points on Amazon! 

Clue to Write Down: to have

Link to Stop #11, the Next Stop on the Loop: Deborah Raney’s site! 

Wait! Before you go, I have a giveaway for you. If you sign up for my newsletter, you will be entered to win a box set of my historical Land of Promise series. If you are already signed up for my newsletter, leave a comment to let me know and I’ll enter you in the giveaway. Thank you for being here. Have fun! The winner will be announced on the 20th.

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Comments

    • Thank you, Abigail. Enjoy the scavenger hunt and the books. It’s always nice to connect with a new reader.

      • I just signed up for your newsletter. This is my first time of visiting your blog, I am thankful for the giveaway. I may not have found you and your work.

  3. Thank you for this fabulous chance. Subscribed under tashiajennings at aol dot com

  5. I joined Toastmaster’s Club to learn about public speaking. Somebody begged my to try the six weeks intro group, and I stayed three years. It was fun!

  11. Thank you for this opportunity to learn about a new (to me) author. I just signed up for your newsletter, too.

  13. Signed up for your newsletter. I went ziplining in Costa Rica. I was petrified and questioning my sanity but I did and have no regrets. Will I do it again that would be a negative.

    • Thank you, Sonnetta. I have always wanted to go zip lining. I’d probably be petrified too, but I would try it.

  15. Thank you for the chance to win! I signed up right away when I got to your stop before I saw the giveaway!

  16. Just signed up. I love finding new authors on this scavenger hunt. I look forward to reading your book!

  19. I live a pretty boring life…nothing terribly scary or too much outside of my comfort zone. Oh…it’s sort of laughable, but when the kids were little, I took piano with them…but the teacher MADE me perform in the recital. I completely forgot my piece…and couldn’t find where I was on the music. It was mortifying. So there you go…outside my comfort zone and terrifying…LOL!!

    • Camille, I can relate. I play piano and remember those painful recitals. I’m glad you did that though. Thank you for stopping by.

  22. I just subscribed to your newsletter! As for stepping outside my comfort zone, one story I have is God impressing on my heart to join the prison ministry at our church. It was just one other lady and I that would meet one other church one night every week. I had never done anything like that before. For a while, I pretty much just accompanied the other ladies and then one day there weren’t enough of us, and I was sent to section by myself with a teen girl. I ended up sitting and talking with a lady that we had talked about on the way there that night, who was in the news for holding up a Dollar General with a plastic toy gun. Interesting night for sure…but I was able to share Jesus with her and pray with her. And God used that to pull me further out of my shell.

    • Hannah, what an incredible story and an inspiring way to step outside your comfort zone. Thank you for sharing.

  26. I love discovering new to me authors, looking forward to reading your books? And congratulations on getting out of your comfort zone, in these times, it’s a positive thing to do.

  33. I just signed up or at least tried. I don’t think it would take my email.
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  34. Quilting is fun! Almost therapeutic! Signed up for your newsletter. Thank you for the chance to win and to get to know you.

  47. I signed up for the newsletter. This scavenger hunt is fun. I am learning names of authors that are new to me.

  55. This is so fun. You are a new to me author. I just signed up for your newsletter. Thanks for the chance to win.

  58. I signed up for your newsletter and am excited about learning more about you and your work. God bless!

  62. Hi Nancy,
    You are a new author to me and I look forward to reading your books. I too have decided to try my hand at sewing. My 84yr old mum is an amazing quilter, guess she didn’t pass that gene onto me 😊
    Love and blessings
    Robyn

  66. Nancy, I am not sure if I am already on your newsletter list or not. I received a message that I have numerous pending requests. I thought it was safer to leave you a note. Thank you for sharing your talent. God bless you.

  70. I signed up for your newsletter. I do enjoy reading historical fiction! Also, the flowers on your site here are beautifully photographed.

    Nancy
    Romans 10:8-13; John 3:16-21

  71. I’m sorry, I had never heard of you before. I have written your name down and will look on my Nook for books written by you. I’m looking forward to it!

  72. Hi Nancy! I just signed up for your newsletter, I’m sorry I was not already signed up.

    I stepped out of my comfort zone a few years ago to become a mentor to younger ladies at my church. It’s been a wonderful experience!

    (Did your sister help you learn about quilting?)

  73. Just signed up! You are a new author to me and look forward to reading some of your books. Thank you for this chance!

  75. I like to quilt, though I rarely have time anymore. That makes your new book extra interesting. I just subscribed to your newsletter. The big thing I did outside my comfort zone was studying for certification then quitting my job and starting my own business as a professional guardian. Wasn’t able to make a success of it, but I felt proud of myself for trying.

  77. I just signed up for your newsletter Nancy! Thank you for the extra giveaway & participating in the scavenger hunt. I love these each year, it’s so fun to learn more about the authors & their books 🙂

    God bless!

  78. I signed up for both the newsletter and the blog. 🙂 Yes; I’ve tried new things outside my comfort zone and I enjoy trying new things. I like the challenge. 🙂

  83. Hi Nancy I’m pleased to say that you are a new author to me, it’s always great to learn who other Christian authors are and the genre they write in. Congrats on the use of your sewing machine lol I have a somewhat similar experience with mine. Thanks for the opportunity

  86. Thanks Nancy for being part of this fun Scavenger Hunt.

    I’m not one that likes change or leaving my little cocoon of a comfort zone but sometimes GOD has different plans than we do. A few years back my husband and I were the worship leaders in our home church, we got a new pastor and he wasn’t excited with us leading worship so long story short we were replaced and were basically told to leave.

    A few Sundays later we decided to drive to visit my cousin that was a Pastor on a American Reservation. He asked us to do worship that morning, the church was very small and he didn’t have anyone in that position. After the service my hubby looked at me and we both said at the same time, we need to be here. It was almost a 2 hour drive every Sunday morning but we did it for about 2 years. Had anyone asked me would I drive 2 hours to church every weekend I would have laughed and said NO WAY, but GOD had a different plan and we have seen His blessings in our life since we followed His leading.

    Thanks for the bonus giveaway, getting a set of your books would be absolutely amazing!

  87. Just signed up for your blog and newsletter. I haven’t heard of your books before but I am excited to read them!

  92. I just signed up for your newsletter.

    I stepped out of my comfort zone this summer (and it did not involve snakes).
    I have a dislike of heights (I get very shaky on just a chair much less higher than that). This summer I was helping my dad replace a belt on his hay baler. I said a quick quiet prayer and climbed the ladder, which is not something I do usually. Then I had to look down and stretch quite a bit to get the belt to go in correctly. Dad was impressed (of course he didn’t know that my legs and hands were threatening to shake me all over).

    Thank you for being a part of the hunt.

  101. I signed up for your newsletter and look forward to reading more about you and your books. I am battling a disease called RSD and reading takes my mind off the pain i also write reviews to let the author know how i felt about the book. Thank you and have a blessed day.

  105. Signed up for your newsletter! When I was in middle/high school (back in the 70s) I helped my Mom & Aunts finish some quilts my Grandmother started. She made a quilt for everyone of her grandchildren & we were finishing up the last ones! It was very intricate work. I’ve always wished I had kept that up but now I have arthritis in my hands & I know I couldn’t do it anymore.

  106. Signed up for your newsletter–so glad to be introduced to new authors as part of this giveaway!!

  107. I signed up for your newsletter. Haven’t read any of your books yet, but look forward to it. I haven’t quilted much, but I’ve been working for weeks on sewing a new mask. Too unsure to try my new sewing machine yet, so I’ve been doing it by hand, which is why it’s taking so long. So I totally empathize with your sewing stories.

  110. Signed up. I took a motorcycle riding course with a classmate because he was afraid to go on his own. I ended up acing the course…. him not so much!

  111. Signing up for your newsletter right now. Thanks for the chance to win a prize. Definitely stepped out of my comfort zone when I rode King Da Ka at Great Adventure because my son begged me to go on. That was a “one and done” for me.