Welcome to Fliterary! We love
making new friends.
Let’s sit together on the swings
and you can introduce yourself:
This swing is rather comfy. I
like it. Thanks for sitting with me for a spell. *smiling* My name’s Debra
Ullrick. For over twenty-five years my husband and I lived and worked on
cow/calf ranches in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Recently we moved down to the
flatlands. Still not sure how I feel about that, but I’m learning to adjust. My
only daughter still lives up there, so we can at least go and visit what will
always be home to me. Well, okay, my physical home anyway because a home isn’t
a place, it’s who you’re with. So, this is home too. One thing I do love about
being down here is I get to have flowers. Up on the mountain I didn’t get to
because every time I planted them the gophers ate ‘em. Now I have all kinds of
flowers in my yard. The only thing I don’t have is hummingbirds. Something I
love. Up on the ranch, all summer long,
I fed about a hundred of them. And that’s no exaggeration either. Down here, I
feed the wild birds. While I really enjoy that, it isn’t the same as watching
those cute little hummers flitting about and having them land on your fingers. Because
I love hummingbirds so much I’m always putting something about them in my
books. Books, I started writing a few years after my daughter brought a Palisades
Christian romance novel home from the library. At the time, I hated reading…I
know shocking but true *g*…but now I love it. One day I wondered if I could
write a book. An idea came to me, and in two and half weeks I’d written a 55K
words novel. A novel that had potential but needed a lot of work. So at the
recommendation of one of favorite authors, I purchased several books on how to
write novels and joined the ACFW. As they say, the rest is history.
You have a new book out, what’s
it about? Yes, my latest release is, The
Unintended Groom. It’s the fourth and final book in the Bowen family series—all
mail-order bride type stories.
A Perfect Partnership
When Abby Bowen's dream of love is dashed, she pursues a new dream: opening a dinner theater in Hot Mineral Springs, Colorado. There's just one hitch; she needs a male business partner. The handsome father of twins who answers Abby's ad is perfect…perhaps too perfect. Working with someone like Harrison Kingsley—without losing her heart—will be harder than Abby anticipated.
It's a good thing Harrison's arrangement with Abby is strictly business. Because with her kind soul, smiling blue eyes and gentle way with his boys, he could easily fall for her. But the longer he works with Abby, the more Harrison realizes that the Lord might have an entirely different partnership planned for them.
When Abby Bowen's dream of love is dashed, she pursues a new dream: opening a dinner theater in Hot Mineral Springs, Colorado. There's just one hitch; she needs a male business partner. The handsome father of twins who answers Abby's ad is perfect…perhaps too perfect. Working with someone like Harrison Kingsley—without losing her heart—will be harder than Abby anticipated.
It's a good thing Harrison's arrangement with Abby is strictly business. Because with her kind soul, smiling blue eyes and gentle way with his boys, he could easily fall for her. But the longer he works with Abby, the more Harrison realizes that the Lord might have an entirely different partnership planned for them.
Where can we buy it?
In the month
of June you can purchase The Unintended
Groom at Walmart, Kmart, or order it from any bookstore. You can also
purchase it online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, CBD,
Harlequin and numerous other online places where books are sold.
If we invited your main character
to sit with us, how would she/he react?
Abby’s so
friendly and bubbly she would accept your invitation in a heartbeat and return
one of her own immediately. She would be the friend you’ve never met and help
you at the drop of a hat. However, while she’s bubbly and outgoing, she’s not
easily mowed over. She stands up for herself and for what she believes. And Abby’s
a dreamer who makes dreams come true, hers and others. *smiling*
What would they say? What advice
would they give?
Well, if you were a person who took
life too seriously and didn’t know how to loosen up and have fun Abby would
say, “Oh, don’t be so stuffy.” She would also tell you not to be afraid to take
risks. To stand up for what you believe. And to not let anyone bully you or
stop you from fulfilling your dreams. But most of all, to whatever you were
going through she’d say, “Don’t worry, God’ll take care of it. He always does.”
If any one person from history
could sit with us, who would it be and why?
My grandmother—from my mother’s
side—who was a German from Russia. I would love to ask her a millions questions
about her life and what it was like living without my grandpa for eleven long
years. Her husband had moved to the United States so that his family could have
a better life. It took that long to save up enough money to send for her and
their children. I would also love to know what it was really like those nine
months it took for her to make the trip from Russia to here. I’ve heard horror
stories about what others went through at that time. That time in history
shortly before the Bolshevik War broke out. I would also like to ask her what
life was like in Russia and what it was like on the farm here in Colorado. Actually
talk to her about what the “good ole days” were truly like. Not the way we
romanticize them. *smiling* The only thing is I would need a translator. My
grandmother didn’t speak English. My grandpa did, but Grandma didn’t. Don’t
know why.
Why did you choose to be a
Christian writer and what does it mean to you?
I chose to be a Christian writer
because many times Christian books have ministered to me right when I needed
them the most. They still do. Therefore, I wanted to do the same. I want my
books to minister to people in a special way. To offer them hope in a God who
cares. Who loves them. And Who wants to minister to them everywhere they hurt.
What advice do you have for
aspiring authors?
Learn
from people you trust, people who don’t try to change your style or your voice.
Don’t get bogged down by the rules. Rules are meant to be guidelines to help us
write quality stories, not stop our creative flow or stifle our unique writer’s
voice.
And don’t let rejections stop you from doing what
you love. Elvis Presley was told he would never make it in the music industry.
We all know how that ended.
Where can we find you on the web?
Website: www.debraullrick.com
Twitter: @DebraUllrick
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/DebraUllrick/
Thank you so much for stopping by
for a visit! Thank you so much for having me. It’s such an honor and a pleasure
to be here. God bless you and yours.
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