Saturday, October 12, 2019

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Sanctified by Maggie Blackbird-GUEST POST


Sanctified
The Matawapit Family Series Book 3
by Maggie Blackbird
Genre: Inspirational Contemporary Romance 

In the midst of a battle for leadership at their Ojibway community, two enemies of opposing families fall in love...

After suffering a humiliating divorce, infuriated Catholic Jude Matawapit bolts to his family’s Ojibway community to begin a new job—but finds himself thrown into a battle for chief as his brother-in-law’s campaign manager. The radical Kabatay clan, with their extreme ideas about traditional Ojibway life, will stop at nothing to claim the leadership position and rid the reserve of Western culture and its religion once and for all, which threatens not only the non-traditional people of the community, but Jude’s chance at a brand-new life he’s creating for his children.
Recovering addict Raven Kabatay will do anything to win the respect and trust of her older siblings and mother after falling deep into drug addiction that brought shame and anger to her family. Not only does she have the opportunity to redeem herself by becoming her brother’s campaign manager for chief—if he wins, she’ll have the reserve’s backing to purchase the gold-mine diner where she works, finally making something of herself. But falling in love with the family’s sworn enemy—the deacon’s eldest son, Jude—will not just betray the Kabatay clan. It could destroy everything Raven believes in and has worked so hard for.




Redeemed
The Matawapit Family Series Book 2
Genre: Contemporary Inspirational Romance

A single woman battles to keep her foster child from his newly-paroled father—a dangerous man she used to love.
Bridget Matawapit is an Indigenous activist, daughter of a Catholic deacon, and foster mother to Kyle, the son of an Ojibway father—the ex-fiancé she kicked to the curb after he chose alcohol over her love. With Adam out on parole and back in Thunder Bay, she is determined to stop him from obtaining custody of Kyle.


Adam Guimond is a recovering alcoholic and ex-gangbanger newly-paroled. Through counselling, reconnecting with his Ojibway culture and twelve-step meetings while in prison, Adam now understands he’s worthy of the love that frightened him enough to pick up the bottle he’d previously corked. He can't escape the damage he caused so many others, but he longs to rise like a true warrior in the pursuit of forgiveness and a second chance. There's nothing he isn't willing to do to win back his son--and Bridget.

When an old cell mate’s daughter dies under mysterious circumstances in foster care, Adam begs Bridget to help him uncover the truth. Bound to the plight of the Indigenous children in care, Bridget agrees. But putting herself in contact with Adam threatens to resurrect her long-buried feelings for him, and even worse, she risks losing care of Kyle, by falling for a man who might destroy her faith in love completely this time.




Blessed
The Matawapit Family Series Book 1
Genre: Contemporary M/M Inspirational Romance

It’s been ten years since Emery Matawapit sinned, having succumbed to temptation for the one thing in his life that felt right, another man. In six months he’ll make a life-changing decision that will bar him from sexual relationships for the rest of his life.


Darryl Keejik has a decade-long chip on his shoulder, and he holds Emery’s father, the church deacon, responsible for what he’s suffered: the loss of his family and a chance at true love with Emery. No longer a powerless kid, Darryl has influence within the community—maybe more than the deacon. Darryl intends on using his power to destroy Deacon Matawapit and his church.

Hoping to save the church, Emery races home. But stopping Darryl is harder than expected when their sizzling chemistry threatens to consume Emery. Now he is faced with the toughest decision of his life: please his devout parents and fulfill his call to the priesthood, or remain true to his heart and marry the man created for him.

This is very erotic book about a spiritual journey.






An Ojibway from Northwestern Ontario, Maggie resides in the country with her husband and their fur babies, two beautiful Alaskan Malamutes. When she’s not writing, she can be found pulling weeds in the flower beds, mowing the huge lawn, walking the Mals deep in the bush, teeing up a ball at the golf course, fishing in the boat for walleye, or sitting on the deck at her sister’s house, making more wonderful memories with the people she loves most.



GUEST POST
Writer? It’s my imagination telling stories!


I get asked this question a lot: When did you consider yourself a writer? Honestly, I never really thought of myself as a writer, but other people do, such as my family. Before publication, my dad would say, “My daughter, the writer.”

I still can’t quite say “I’m a writer” to this day, because writing is something I always did, before I even knew how to read and write. In the Ojibway world, we had and still have storytellers. Am I a storyteller? When I think hard on it, the answer is no.

I’m simply a person who loves using my imagination. And stories happen in my head before I go to sleep. Such as one constant daydream I conjured up of a gay professional golfer (I’m a golf fanatic) that a handsome movie star is obsessed with. They wind up meeting, through the movie star’s agent, who gets in contact with the pro golfer’s agent. During the pro-am, movie star makes his move and invites pro golfer up to the hotel room for “dinner.” The rest his history. Haha.

Will this story see the light of day in the publishing world? Nope. It’s just a fun little story I enjoy running through my head before I drift off to sleep. I love making new mini-stories for this couple. Nothing more.

Other stories I conjure up in my head do make it on to my computer’s hard-drive, such as Blessed, Redeemed, and now Sanctified, books one, two, and three in the Matawapit Family Series. Before publication, I wrote numerous and numerous short stories, long stories, novels, and series. I wrote them simply because I had to, and to destress after a too long business trip, or while sitting in my hotel room after another one of many meetings.

Writing is a part of me, so much a part of me, if I said, “I’m a writer,” I’d have to own up to it when I’d hang my head over the top bunk of my bed, jabbering with my sister as a child while we made up stories. More than stories. We roll-played before roll playing was even a word LOL.

So if people want to call me a writer, that’s cool. I got no problem with it at all. But for me. Writing is simply what I do and who I am—something I’ll keep doing until I leave planet earth.


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