Interview and Giveaway with Author Lisa Prysock!!!

Today we welcome author Lisa Prysock to The Diamond Mine!! She will give away a free ebook copy of A Bride For Lane to 3 readers who comment on this post, and who answer these three questions:

1. Tell us how many books you plan to read this summer?

2. Something you enjoyed hearing about in this blog post

3. Do you prefer Tacos, Fettucini Chicken Alfredo, or something else as a favorite dinner?

So there you go, readers! At the end of this post, just click on leave a comment to answer these questions and be eligible to be in in the drawing for a free ebook of A Bride for Lane.

Now let's get started with  the interview!

What do you enjoy most about being a writer?

Thank you so much for having me on your blog, Nancy!

I love being able to use my creativity and imagination to take readers to another world where faith can grow. It’s a world where anything can happen, and the impossible becomes possible.

What a great answer!

Do you have a favorite book or character among your many novels?

I think I love them all, but Katie from Marry Me Katie stands out because it was the first book I wrote where my inclination toward including humor in my stories really started to spark within me.

Where do you get your ideas for a story?

 I think the Lord sparks them within me since I’ve had a tendency to escape into books and dream world as a child from a very young age. I could dream wide awake for hours as a child, thinking about the stories I’d read, developing them until they took on a life of their own. I can look at a house or picture and instantly be pulled in, thinking about who might have lived there and what they accomplished in their lifetime.  

 I also grew up with a great love for books, inherited from my mother and maternal grandparents who always had great libraries and stacks of books on their nightstands. There are jokes in the family about the dread of who might have to help my mom or grandpa move next because of how many books they had. The family talked about dropping them in the mailbox to mail one by one as it would have been preferable to lifting the boxes. 

Sounds similar to how I grew up!  

Which comes first, the story idea or the characters? 

 I usually find a story idea first, and then I start building the characters, but not always. Sometimes I can see the characters, or even a title first.

 Yes, inspiration does tend to vary in the way it hits! 

What is the most odd or weird inspiration you’ve ever had for a story?

Tacos. I’ve recently had inspiration from tacos for a story, and I think it’s weird, but you never know…I’m still tossing that one around.

Well, that sounds interesting! 

Do your characters ever take over and run off with the story or do they always behave?  J

 Yes, they do sometimes seem to have a kind of life of their own. I’ll want them to be all nice to each other and get along, but they often want to take the long way around and have a couple of good rows or arguments first.

I know what you mean!! 

Do you ever base the qualities of your characters on yourself or people you know?

 Sometimes I find inspiration in someone I’ve known, but I try to avoid writing about the people I actually know. However, their character, behaviors, and qualities may definitely move me enough to end up as some part of a character. Sometimes the qualities are good, and other times, human nature displays itself in a more, shall we say, interesting route.

 I hear you! I imagine that's how it is for most writers.

Do you write in bursts, or in a more disciplined manner? 

 I try to write every day except for Sunday or the day we’ve chosen to take a Sabbath rest. However, sometimes I’ve been working so hard I’ll need to take a few days away from words. Right now I’m on a tight deadline, and it’s one, big, long burst after another with breaks long enough to eat, sleep, shower, and do it all over again.

 Oh those nerve-wracking deadlines!!

What do you hope that readers will take away after reading your books? 

 Jesus is who I hope they embrace, and I also hope they find the inspiration and courage to stay on the path with Him and toward Him. I hope they find encouragement, life, greater understanding, blessings, miracles, increased faith, joy, peace, divine intervention, love, healing, deliverance, acceptance, and friendship with the writer, as well as the characters on the pages. In a way, writers take readers by the hand as a friend on this journey of life, and we want to leave them with plenty of positives in an entertaining, faith-filled way.

Those are very worthy hopes and goals for a writer.

What are you working on now? 

 Last Friday, I released my historical Christian romance novel, A Bride for Lane. I write both contemporary and historical books, and they are always sweet, clean, and usually fun!

Readers can check out all of my books at my website, www.LisaPrysock.com, but here’s something new from behind the scenes about my next release.

 Currently, I’m writing another Whispers in Wyoming story. It’s called Secret Admirer. There’s a dancer in the story, so I’m researching the Cha Cha, the Rumba, ballroom dancing, hip-hop dancing, and that sort of thing. (Yes, I love to dance, so I’m really enjoying the research.) She’s moved to The Sweetwater Ranch to leave New York behind to teach dance and theater to the ranch guests.

 There’s also a character who was a kind of “bad boy” after he lost his father at a young age in a car crash. He didn’t get along with his stepfather, got into trouble in school, and although he has grown up a little and now owns a restaurant, he’s been acting like a womanizer and remained strayed from the faith. He’s also involved with the wrong sorts of people, and consequently, trouble follows him. However, he has to return to Wyoming to visit his grandmother in the nursing home and tend the property she is giving him as an inheritance.

When he meets the dancer, a strong Christian, she has promised herself she won’t get involved with another guy like the director of the last Broadway musical she starred in. She has decided she will only date someone who is a man of strong faith and integrity, everything he isn’t right now.

I’m also in a box set with 12 authors, each of us writing one book in the collection, releasing in September, Save the Date. I’m so excited to share more about it with you. Readers can pre-order it here.

Readers will receive 12 Christian contemporary romance novellas in this exciting collection. The set hits all the bases in these 12 books. Readers will find stories with themes which include all of these genres--: beach/coastal romance, office romance, rom-com, small town/rural romance, inspirational/Christian contemporary romance, Paris romance, a romance set in New Zealand, friends to lovers, two marriage of convenience stories, a military romance, and so much more.

 

My story in the set is A Valentine for Veronica. This will become Book 1 in my new Brides of Distinction series, releasing in 2022. Here’s a look at the cover, and I hope readers will consider grabbing this 99c pre-order now as it is only going to be available for a limited time at this price! We are trying to make USA Today with this collection, so we’ve lowered the cost to offer readers a fantastic deal and a way for them to get all twelve books for an incredibly special price. --:

  
        
 

 Don’t forget to pre-order it here. Below is another look at the eBook box set collection in three dimensional view--:

Thank you so much for having me on your blog, Nancy!

And thank you so much, Lisa!!!

And readers, please remember to leave a comment with your answers to Lisa's three questions in order to be entered for the free ebook!

Also remember: Readers, you can check out all of her books at her website, www.LisaPrysock.com