Interview with Susan Davis and Giveaway!

Good morning, Diamond Mine readers! Today, I'm so excited to bring you an interview with Susan Davis, multi-published romantic suspense author you won't want to miss! 

She just completed her fifth book, The House Next Door, which released this month in The Maine Justice series. Let me tell you, I've delved into the first book and I'm hooked. AND... Susan is giving away a copy of The House Next Door to a lucky commenter! Details for the giveaway after the interview.

First, here's a bit about the latest book.

The charming stone house next door is for sale! How could there be a down side to that?

As his wife Jennifer’s due date approaches, Captain Harvey Larson decides to invest in real estate, unaware of the terror this will cause his family. The neighboring house seems ideal for Jennifer’s brother Jeff and his wife. A hidden cupboard isn’t so bad—in fact, it’s almost fun to try to solve the little mystery inside it. But will any of their loved ones want to live next door after they learn what’s in the basement?

The men of the Priority Unit might be wasting their time, trying to prove one dead man killed another. Or is the murderer still alive, and ready to strike again?

AMAZON LINK FOR THE BOOK: The House Next Door

THE INTERVIEW:

So Susan, you have written in several difference genres. What inspired you to write mysteries?

I first started writing in the mystery and suspense genres. My first published books were historicals, however. Readers will find that many of my historical novels have mystery and suspense elements, too. The Maine Justice series has been on my heart for a long time.

I love when a mystery/suspense thread is added to historicals! 

With your family and many activities, when do you find the time to write?

Our children are all grown, and my husband is retired. Writing is my full time job now. I usually spend most of the morning writing, and most of the afternoon doing other writing-related tasks, such as research, editing, and marketing. I like being able to set my own schedule and take time off when I want to.

You include wonderful details about the police investigations in the Maine Justice series. How do you do your research?

Research is a never-ending part of writing, and when you write about crime solving you need to get it right! I recently attended the Killer Nashville conference, for mystery and crime writers, as one way to increase my knowledge in this area. I also keep up-to-date reference books and do a lot of research online. I cultivate friendship with law enforcement officers so that I can ask them questions, and I call liaisons in various agencies to get details on particular law enforcement units.

Was there a particular Bible verse or experience from your own life that shaped any of the books in the series?

In the first book, The Priority Unit, Harvey and Jennifer go looking for God. I think the verse in John 6:44 inspired that quest: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. (ESV). I wanted to show how a person might be drawn in by God.

How important is it to you to include a spiritual emphasis in your books?

In this series, it is a very important part of the theme, plot, and takeaway. Spirituality isn’t as overt in a lot of my books, but for these, it was a main goal for me to write the unbeliever’s journey in a believable way.

What do you hope your readers take away from your stories?

In addition to being entertained, I hope my readers find some encouragement in my stories. The people in my Maine Justice books are everyday people with everyday problems (outside the mysteries, of course).  A lot of my books touch on the theme of forgiveness and reconciliation.  The House Next Door touches on fear and security. In each book, I hope the reader will see how the characters handle a problem and either apply it to their own life or think of a way to handle a problem better than my characters did.

Any advice for aspiring writers?

Read widely, not just in the genre you’re writing, and be sure to get an edit before you send off your manuscript.

Thanks so much for being a part of the blog today and sharing your stories. Excited to read the rest of the series!



AUTHOR BIO:

Susan Page Davis is the author of more than 70 published novels and novellas, in romantic suspense,mystery, and historical romance. A native of Maine, she now lives in western Kentucky with her husband Jim. They have six children and ten grandchildren and two temperamental cats.

Author Links: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Newsletter

GIVEAWAY:

All you have to do is leave a comment on the blog for a chance to win! If there are at least three people who comment, we'll be picking a random winner to receive a copy of The House Next Door. (Paperback for the US and electronic for those out of the country) Good luck!

Victoria Kimble Interview and GIVEAWAY!

Happy summer, Diamond Mine readers! Have I got a treat for you today. Victoria Kimble is on the blog to talk about her latest Middle Grade series, The Choir Girls. 

Filled with realistic middle school drama and a solid message, this series is perfect for tweens and teens. It's also great for parents to read who are not always aware what happens in middle school among girl friends. My daughter who is eleven thoroughly enjoyed all three available books! Can't wait for the fourth one to be released. AND...Victoria is giving away a copy of Harmony Blues to a lucky commenter! Details for the giveaway after the interview.

First, here's a bit about the books.

Summer McKidd is a bright, compassionate 7th grader. She has a good group of friends, which can be a hard feat for someone in junior high. She and her friends love to sing in their choir at school, and this is where her trouble begins. At the fall concert, her friends drag her into a mean prank and Summer is soon sentenced to nursery duty at church. When she walks into the nursery, she sees that the victim of their prank is also a volunteer. Summer begins a friendship with this girl but soon sees that she will have to choose between her group of friends and her new friend. Can Summer do what is right and keep her friends?

Sports families do not understand art, so Maddie is going to have to lie.

Maddie Ryland is an amazing volleyball player. She fits right in with her sport-centered family. But when Maddie is invited to join the Aspen Junior High Art Club, her secret dream of painting looks like it can become reality. The only problem is her parents want her to play club volleyball at the rec center. So Maddie tells her parents that her school has a club team, and she’d rather join that. Only there is no club team at the school. Maddie’s lie about the volleyball team starts an avalanche of other lies she has to tell in order to keep her spot in the art club. It’s only a matter of time until Maddie’s lies catch up with her. What will her parents say?

Brittany’s painting was chosen to be featured at the Colorado state capitol building over Christmas, and her best friend Cammie is not happy about it. In fact, Cammie becomes downright mean to Brittany. Then Cammie becomes impossible when Brittany accepts some help from Cammie’s enemy, Pilar. Brittany even finds herself as a victim of some of Cammie’s mean pranks. Not only did Brittany lose her best friend, but she has to decide whether or not to forgive Cammie when Cammie isn’t even sorry.

AMAZON LINKS FOR THE SERIES:

Soprano Trouble
Alto Secrets
Harmony Blues

THE INTERVIEW:

So glad you sat down with us today, Victoria! Let’s get started. First off, what inspired you to write middle grade fiction, specifically middle school girls?

Middle school is burned into my memory. There are a lot of things I’ve forgotten about my childhood, but I remember middle school vividly. So my heart goes out to every single kid who is entering the murky waters of seventh grade, especially the girls. I was not a popular kid during those years, so I spent a lot of time reading. Those books shaped much of my thoughts and beliefs about life. Because of that, I’ve always wanted to write stories for those kids who are deep in the trenches of middle school themselves. 

I too remember middle school well. You’ve done a fantastic job of recreating that time for me. Where did you get your ideas? Did you have any of the experiences of your characters?

I’m sure my ideas are just a product of my overactive imagination. I was in orchestra in seventh grade, then in choir from eighth grade through college, so that provided the perfect base for these stories. I loved that part of my life, from the music to the natural camaraderie that forms within a choir. I also was very involved in my church and in youth group, just like Summer in Soprano Trouble. But that’s where the similarities in my experiences end.

You were able to portray the feelings of middle schoolers so well—those hard ones that never seem to change. Were you like any of your characters in middles school? Or who do you most identify with?

I identify most with Summer. I’m the middle child with two sisters, just like her, so much of her opinions about her sisters are ones that I had back then. I also identify with her struggle to do the right thing, and especially not being very sure what the right thing is. When it comes to Maddie, I connect with her desire to be known and liked for who she really is, not for who people think she is.

Cammie is a big player in the first three books. Will we see her story in book 4?

Yes, you will! Poor Cammie. I hope you’ll get to see a bit of why she is the way she is, and I hope you enjoy the journey that she takes in that story.

I wasn’t much of a reader in middle school. Thank goodness I found that joy later. Did you read in middle school? If so, what was your favorite book?

I have always been a bookworm. When I was in middle school I spent hours and hours with The Babysitters Club series. My dad had enrolled me in a BSC book of the month club, and every month I got a package with three books. I read them over and over. In fact, when I was in ninth grade my English teacher had to tell my parents to forbid me from reading them for a while just so I could expand my horizons. I moved on from those to the Christy Miller series by Robin Jones Gunn. And other things, of course. My teacher was right. I needed to expand my reading pool.

Ah, The Babysitter’s Club. Great stories.

What would you say is your favorite Bible verse?

James 4:7 – “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” I feel like this makes things simple, when life seems complicated. It reminds me to go back to the Bible to see what God says about life, and submit to that. 

Love that verse and your words. Writing is challenging enough. What is the hardest thing about writing middle grade fiction?

The hardest thing about writing middle grade fiction is balancing the fun with the theme. I don’t want the stories to be heavy, but I also want kids to connect with them. I pray all the time, that God helps me with that balance as He inspires me to write the stories.

Any advice for aspiring writers?

A writing career is a marathon, not a sprint. If you desire to write, you should start now. They say it takes ten years to become an overnight success, so just start and keep going, especially when you don’t see any success right away. I always think of it as planting seed that will hopefully grow in the next five or ten years. If you have that mindset, then it’s easier to keep working during the long dry spells of not seeing any fruits of your labor. It’ll come, if you keep at it.

Thanks so much for being a part of the blog today and sharing your stories. Excited to read the conclusion to this fun series!


AUTHOR BIO:

Victoria is the author of The Choir Girls series. She is a wife, a mom to three girls, a full-fledged homebody, a so-so housekeeper, a mediocre musician and has dreamed of writing her whole life. She lives at the foot of the Rockies in Littleton, Colorado and she will never take that for granted. She loves French fries, superhero TV shows and movies, and cats. She could probably love the beach if she ever spent any time there. She blogs about her stories and writing at www.victoriakimble.com.

GIVEAWAY:

All you have to do is leave a comment on the blog for a chance to win! If there are at least three people who comment, we'll be picking a random winner to receive a copy of Harmony Blues. Good luck!

Meet Elva Cobb Martin

Please welcome Elva Cobb Martin to the Diamond Mine of Christian Fiction. 

Her name may be new to you, but once you read a smidgen of her novel, Summer of Deception, you will probably be telling all your friends to get a copy.  She grabbed me from the first page - here is a short snippet. Bet it snags you as well:

Rachel York gasped when the taxi headlights pierced the stormy night and illuminated Barrett Hall in all its southern grandeur. Her travel fatigue faded, and she leaned forward, energized, as the cab crunched its way up the tree-lined shell drive to the entrance. At the gate, she exited the auto with her umbrella extended, and the taxi driver placed her large bag and tote at her side. Rachel thanked him, paid him, and hurried up the front walk, pulling her valise behind her. 
The vehicle disappeared down the drive, and darkness closed in as she made her way up the front steps. On the wide porch, she propped her umbrella beside her suitcase, took a deep breath, and tried to ignore a shiver of disquiet that traveled up her spine. She would discover the truth. This summer job in Charleston was her first step. 

Julie Cosgrove - Elva, tell us how long have you been writing?

Elva Cobb Martin-I have been writing stories and poems since seventh grade. I recall writing a story about a race horse winning a race, even with a broken leg. Only in fiction, my teacher informed me! My writing grew naturally out of my great love of reading. As a child I was a voracious reader first of childhood fairy tales, then other fiction, like Black Beauty, Flicka, Nancy Drew Mysteries. Later, I loved Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson and Poe. I’ve actually written dozens of poems myself, some of which were published in college anthologies. My most beloved book today, however, better than any fiction or poetry, is the Bible. I love studying it, teaching it, and confessing its great promises

Julie- I knew we were soul sisters. Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe were early favorites of mine because of their mastery in descriptions. I think some of that has rubbed off on you., Yours are fresh and vivid. 
But tell us, what else keeps you busy besides being an author?

Elva-My husband and I often keep our 9-year-old grandson Samuel on weekends, and I love to garden, bake and read. We also manage a few rental houses we bought to help supplement our retirement income. We are active in a local church where my husband leads the music from the keyboard, and I co-teach adults in Sunday School and help with Children’s Church. We are actually retired ministers associated with the Assemblies of God. In retirement I now have quality time to research and write I didn’t have before.

Julie - You are a busy lady!  Here is a bit more about her, folks...

Elva Cobb Martin is president of the South Carolina Chapter of American Christian Fiction Writers (2014-2017). She is a former school teacher and a graduate of Anderson University and Erskine College. Decision, Charisma, and Home Life have carried her articles. She has published a Bible study, Power Over Satan, available on Amazon.com. Summer of Deception, released by Pelican Book Group, is her debut novel. She has also completed an historical romance, In a Pirate’s Debt, slated for release by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas in May, 2017. Elva is represented by Jim Hart of Hartline Literary. A mother and grandmother, Elva lives with her husband Dwayne and a mini-dachshund writing helper, Lucy, in Anderson, South Carolina. She also leads an internet prayer task force praying for a Great Awakening.

What spurred you to write this novel, Elva? 

Elva-I fell in love with an historic, romantic, southern plantation, Boone Hall, that I toured in Charleston, South Carolina, years ago. I also discovered some old newspaper clippings  about a famous coastal drug investigation in the 1980’s organized by a U.S. Attorney, Henry McMaster. Those clippings led to the suspense plot in Summer of Deception. Henry McMaster, by the way, is the new Governor of South Carolina. I plan to send him copy of this book, you bet.

Julie - I hope you'll let us know his reaction! Where do you get ideas for your characters? 

Elva-A lovely young Christian woman in our town who possessed spunk and determination inspired my heroine, Rachel York. I asked for and received a photo of her to use as I drafted the novel. My hero, Luke Barrett, is a composite of my husband’s temperament and romantic personality, my tall law officer son’s strength and silent good looks, and Errol Flynn’s everything. LOL  The older wise voice in the story, Aunt Jessica, came from my memories of a dear, sweet and noble, elderly southern lady that was once my neighbor and friend I often took places since she could no longer drive. The Afro-American cook Maggie and Cade Gantt, Luke’s sidekick, were drawn from wonderful people who were once members of our church when we pastored. I also get ideas for characters from movies and the internet.

Julie  - I must admit Jessica was my favorite. She oozed Southern genteel and wisdom. A true lady.What do you hope the reader will take away with them after reading Summer of Deception?

 Elva - I hope readers will find my fiction exciting, inspiring, and a pleasing escape from life’s daily toil to an interesting fictional place and characters they can respect and identify with without having to read about graphic sex scenes or immoral main characters. Summer of Deception has a spiritual plot as well as a romance and suspense plot. The spiritual theme and take away, exemplified in the war-wounded hero Luke’s life, is about regaining lost faith, dealing with bitterness, and finding some answers to “Why God?”

Julie - What are you working on now, or are you taking a break?

Elva - I am working on Book 2, Spanish Captive, in a new historical series entitled Tides of Destiny. The completed Book 1, In a Pirate’s Debt, will be released by Lighthouse Publishers of the Carolinas in May, 2017. I also have a cozy mystery on the back burner that keeps flaring up for my attention. ;-)

Julie - Ah hah - cozies. My favorite genre and what I also love to write. How do readers learn more about you? 

Elva - I would love for readers to connect with me and/or sign up for my newsletter on my web site at

http://www.elvamartin.com. They're welcome to join my writer's blog at http://carolinaromancewithelvamartin.blogspot.com .

And of course, please check out these book page links to Summer of Deception -

      https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XD6STRV

       https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34457626-summer-of-deception

Julie - Thanks, Elva. Here is the tag line and blurb for this wonderful suspenseful romance set in the deep South.

Tag: A wounded warrior, a woman searching for answers. Will she risk all to uncover the truth?

Blurb:  Determined to unearth the truth about her DEA agent brother’s reported death, Rachel York takes a position at an historic Charleston tea plantation, but she finds she is ill prepared to deal with the plantation’s new owner. Luke Barrett may be handsome, but he is overflowing with bitterness and distrust.

Widowed and wounded, former Marine Corps Special Forces operative Luke Barrett has enough to handle with his little girl and an historic property to upkeep. The last thing he needs is a feisty, stubborn woman with whom to contend. Yet, Rachel’s determined spirit awakens something in Luke that he thought died a long time ago.

Luke begins to capture Rachel’s heart until the night she uncovers evidence he may be keeping his plantation solvent by allowing cocaine to be smuggled along his coastline.

Devastated by the possibility, Rachel must decide whether to confront him, even while she conceals secrets of her own.

When all the deception rips asunder in a hurricane, will love survive?

GIVEAWAY!!!  Elva has agreed to give away one eBook copy of Summer of Deception to a lucky commenter- so be sure to let her know you have read this article by leaving a comment.

Author Laurie Alice Eakes is doing a GIVEAWAY!

We're ringing in the new year with a GIVEAWAY from Laurie Alice Eakes! The Mountain Midwife marks Laurie Alice's 21st book and the first chapter had me hook, line & sinker.

For nearly two hundred years, women in Ashley Tolliver's family have practiced the art of midwifery in their mountain community. Now she would like to take her skills a step further, but attending medical school means abandoning those women to whom she has dedicated her life, the mountains she loves, and the awakening of her heart.

Ashley Tolliver has tended to the women of her small Appalachian community for years. As their midwife, she thinks she has seen it all. Until a young woman gives birth to a baby at Ashley's home and is abducted just as she tries to take the dangerously bleeding woman to the nearest hospital. Now Ashley is on a mission to find the woman and her newborn baby . . . before it's too late.

Hunter McDermott is on a quest - to track down his birth mother. After receiving more media attention than he could ever want for being in the right place at the right time, he receives a mysterious phone all from a woman claiming to be his mother. Hunter seeks out the aid of the local midwife in the mountain town where the phone call originated - surely she can shed some light on his own family background.

Ashley isn't prepared for the way Hunter's entrance into her world affects her heart and her future. He reignites dreams of her own family she has long put aside in favor earning her medical degree and being able to do even more for her community. But is it commitment to her calling or fear of the unknown that keeps her feet firmly planted in the Appalachian soil? Or is it something more - fear of her growing feelings for Hunter - that make her hesitant to explore the world beyond the mountains? 

Rebekah: What's your favorite thing about contemporary and historical romance?
Laurie Alice:  I get to explore a range and depth of human emotion other genres tend to only cover in a cursory fashion.

Rebekah:  Describe The Mountain Midwife in 3 separate words.
Laurie Alice:  Emotional, Romantic, Suspenseful

Rebekah:  How long did it take you to write this book from first draft to final edit? How do you balance writing with other responsibilities (job, family, etc.)?
Laurie Alice:  I am blessed in that writing is my job, so that part is easy. I take about three months to write a book and another month for research. Balance can be difficult when I am on a roll and want to keep working, but need to make supper or clean the cat box or, worst of all, go grocery shopping.

Rebekah:  When did you realize you first wanted to be a writer?
Laurie Alice:  I was probably about ten when I knew this was what I wanted to do for a living, about the time I realized that people did write for a living.

Rebekah:  Do you stick to your TBR pile or are you an impulsive book buyer? What are you currently reading?
Laurie Alice:  I am currently reading Malice at the Palace, which is a historical mystery set in 1930s England. I pretty much stick to my TBR pile, but sometimes a new book comes along that I want to read so much I am sidetracked.

Rebekah:  At some point an author has to torture their characters. Tell us the truth. Do you enjoy or hate it?
Laurie Alice:  Oh, I love it. But then, I know that they will get out of it and how.

Rebekah:  Who’s your number one fictional character crush OR favorite fictional couple?
Laurie Alice:  Dare I admit this? Shanna and Rouarke from Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. I read that book more years ago than I want to admit and reread it every five years and am still in love with this pair. Of course, Clair and Jamie from the Outlander series hold a close second.

Rebekah:  What’s one thing readers would be surprised to know about you?
Laurie Alice:  This is always a difficult question to anser because I have answered it enough not many surprises left I want anyone to know, and I will confess here that I think the type of music I like would surprise most people.

About Laurie Alice Eakes: 

 

"Eakes has a charming way of making her novels come to life without being over the top,” writes Romantic Times of bestselling, award-winning author Laurie Alice Eakes. Since she lay in bed as a child telling herself stories, she has fulfilled her dream of becoming a published author, with two dozen books in print.

She lives in Texas with her husband and sundry pets. She loves watching old movies with her husband in the winter, and going for long walks along Galveston beaches in the summer. When she isn’t writing, she considers that housework is a time to work out plot points, and visiting museums is a recreational activity.

 

Connect with Laurie Alice . . .

http://www.lauriealiceeakes.com

http://www.facebook.com/AuthorLaurieAliceEakes

http://www.facebook.com/LaurieEakes

http://www.twitter.com/@LaurieAEakes

 

If the winner lives within the contiguous 48 states, they may choose either a paperback or eBook version of The Mountain Midwife. If the winner resides in Hawaii or Alaska or outside the USA, they may only win an eBook version.

Let's welcome Christine Lindsay to the Mine this week!!

 

 

 

 Could you tell us a little about yourself?

 

One of the things I’m proud of is that I was once patted on the head by Prince Philip (Queen Elizabeth’s husband) when I was a baby, right outside the Belfast City Hall. I was born in Ireland so a lot of British-ness is in my novels. My great-grandfather and my grandfather—yes father and son—were riveters on the Titanic, but as a family we accept no responsibility for the sinking of that infamous ship.

 

That last bit is said tongue-in-cheek. Seriously though, I’m happily married to David for the past 35 years, and we have three grown children and currently 4 grandsons. I’m also a happily reunited birth-mom—meaning I relinquished my first child to adoption in 1979 when I was an unmarried mother, and my birth-daughter and I were reunited 20 years later in 1999. Today, my birth-daughter Sarah is part of our extended family.

 

So I understand—like my readers do—what suffering is, and all my novels take those readers through dark valleys but always bring them out in a wide plain of joy in the Lord.

 

 

What genre do you write under, and what made you choose it?

 

I found my niche in historical fiction. I’m not a romance writer exactly, because my stories don’t just focus on the romance but on much more. I prefer to say I’m a historical author with Big Love Stories.

 

I think it all started with my desire to show how the Lord can heal a broken heart and fill it with scintillating joy. But I have one contemporary romance out called Londonderry Dreaming.

 

 

What made you decide to be a writer?

 

It was back in 1999 when I was first reunited with my birth-daughter, and the reunion had not been as joyful as I’d hope and prayed for 20 years. My husband caught me crying one day over my renewed loss of my daughter. He went out and returned a while later with a brand new pen and journal, and said, “Here, honey, write it.”

 

That journaling of my broken heart was the beginning. A few years later I felt the Lord encourage me to put what I had learned through that experience and the healing He had given me into fictional novels to help others with their broken hearts.

 

 

What advice would you give to those out there still striving to achieve their dream of being a writer?

 

I started writing in 1999 and it wasn’t until 2011 even after winning the ACFW Genesis that my first novel Shadowed in Silk was published. Even after that novel won a few more awards and my second book Captured by Moonlight won awards too, I still wasn’t selling a lot of books. My publishers were small press, but I have learned that the Lord isn’t just interested in the big and fast way to a writing career. Not all of us will big splash in the world of novels in a fast way.

 

However, if He has called you to write, remember this word PERSEVERANCE. After all this time, almost 16 years since I started, am I just starting to see my writing get noticed. Here’s another phrase, HANG IN THERE. As I’m looking at book 6 being published this year by a small publisher, I’m thrilled with what God has done.

 

Don’t underestimate THE SMALL THINGS.

 

 

What book are you planning to give away this week, and could you give us a little preview?

 

I want to give away a paper-back copy of my latest novel Veiled at Midnight which is the Explosive and Passionate Finale to the series Twilight of the British Raj, following the multi-award-winning Books Shadowed in Silk and Captured by Moonlight.

 

I’m including the link here to read the first chapter. Chapter One Veiled at Midnight

 

 

VEILED AT MIDNIGHT

The British Empire is coming to an end. As millions flee to the roads, caught up in the turbulent wake is Captain Cam Fraser, his sister Miriam, and the beautiful Indian Dassah.

 

Cam has never been able to put Dassah from his mind, ever since the days when he played with the orphans at the mission as a boy. But a British officer and the aide to the last viceroy cannot marry a poor Indian woman, can he?

 

As this becomes clear to Dassah, she has no option but to run. Cam may hold her heart—but she cannot let him break it again.

  

Miriam rails against the separation of the land of her birth, but is Lieutenant Colonel Jack Sunderland her soulmate or a distraction from what God has called her to do?

 

The 1947 Partition of India has separated the country these three love…but can they find their true homes before it separates them forever?

 

 

 

 

Do you have a family, and if you do, what do they do that helps toward your goals?

 

I have a wonderful family of 3 grown kids, and the best husband in the world. They all have been supportive of my writing since 1999. In fact my birth-daughter Sarah is the model on the front cover of Shadowed in Silk, and my daughter Lana is the model on Captured by Moonlight.

 

My husband helps me with my historical research, and my mother is one of my first readers, and is almost like an assistant, especially when I speak in public. I couldn’t do my writing without them.

 

 

 

What do you have coming up for your readers in the near future?

 

Now that the series Twilight of the British Raj is complete, I am currently writing a non-fiction book for WhiteFire Publishing. It’s about the relinquishment of my birth-daughter and our painful reunion 20 years later. This book also includes other adoption reunion stories to show a balanced view. In weaving these true-life stories together the book will take the reader on a journey to discover a fascinating aspect to the heavenly Father’s love for us—His El Shaddai love.

 

I also have a historical romance coming out with Pelican Book Group called Sofi’s Bridge. This book is strictly a romance, and it’s spiritual theme is that we cannot save the ones we love—only Christ can do that.

 

 

 

What role does your faith play in your writing, and what do you hope to convey to your readers?

 

I write only to express my faith and the love relationship I have with the Savior. If it were not for this, I simply wouldn’t write.

 

I want to convey that God is in the business of healing broken hearts and broken lives through His son Jesus Christ. He is an amazing God who is at the very heart of romance—His romance with us.

 

 

 

One of my favorite things to ask each person I interview is: Do you have a favorite book? A favorite character? And if so, what makes them stick out in your mind?

 

Jane Eyre. In my opinion there is not greater example of a Christian love story. And of course my heroine is Jane Eyre herself. She stood up for her Christian beliefs and did not give in to her human passion for Rochester, and God rewarded her in the end with the man she loved, but all in God’s timing and in purity.

 

 

 

 

Lastly, what is your main goal for writing, and have you achieved it? If not, what do you plan on doing to further that goal?

 

Goals are so fluid. I find it better for me to just take one day at a time and trust God with the details. However, I found Him to be so faithful. I asked Him way back in 1999 if I could be a Christian author and encourage others through my stories, and He has allowed that to happen. As to how far He wants my writing career to go, I leave that in His hands. I’m a very happy and satisfied woman.  The joy of the Lord flows through my veins.

 

 

 

Thank you so much for sharing with us this week, Christine. I hope you’ll come back and visit with us again soon. J

 

If you’re interested in any of Christine Lindsay’s books, here are the purchase links.

 

 

 

VEILED AT MIDNIGHT Amazon

VEILED AT MIDNIGHT Barnes & Noble

VEILED AT MIDNIGHT Christian Books.com

 

SHADOWED IN SILK Amazon

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