Rachael Phillips

Author Bio:

Rachael, a church music director, began her unplanned writing career when the church secretary demanded newsletter articles at gunpoint. The pastors hated this task, but she loved writing humor. Soon she began to write a column for her local newspaper and take writing classes in the adult program at Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN. There she made connections that resulted in her first biography in Barbour’s Heroes of the Faith series, Frederick Douglass. She wrote three other Barbour biographies [(Billy Sunday, Saint Augustine, and Well with My Soul (four hymn writers)], as well as more than 400 articles, newspaper columns, devotions, and stories for newspapers, magazines such as Today’s Christian Woman, as well as Pearl Girls, Guideposts, and other collections. Ride with Me into Christmas, Rachael’s novella in A Door County Christmas collection, was her first published fiction (2010). She also co-authored a Barbour reference guide Women of the Bible with Carol Smith and Ellyn Sanna that releases February 2011, and her new novella, Pirate of My Heart, in Barbour’s A Quaker Christmas collection, will release September 2011. Her awards include the Erma Bombeck Global Award and the Genesis award for Young Adult Fiction.

She and Steve, her high school sweetheart and husband of thirty-six years, have three grown children and five perfect grandchildren. They live in Upland, Indiana.

The Return of Miss Blueberry

Callie Creighton ditches her Chicago lifestyle and highly successful career to be her best friend’s bridesmaid in her hometown of Plymouth, Indiana. There she reunites with the childhood church that nurtured her in Christ and runs headlong into her past. Namely, Jason Kenton, the Mr. Hottie of her…

A Quaker Christmas (Romancing America)

Christmas is a simple matter among the Quakers of the historic Ohio River Valley, but can it be time to welcome love into four households? The Hall family runs an inn that welcomes travelers like Silas Jones who challenge their beliefs and woo their daughter. Widowed Lucinda Hughes mourns her husband’s…

A Door County Christmas

Door County innkeeper Lola Peterson’s gift of a Christmas cactus to four single women comes with a guarantee that the plants—and romance—will bloom by Christmas. But the barren plants don’t appear interested and love isn’t flowering either. Amanda Brooks escapes Chicago, hoping for a quiet…