Welcome
to Fliterary! We love making new friends.
Let’s
sit together on the swings and you can introduce yourself:
Hello,
and thanks so much for inviting me. I
love swings (in fact, just last night I had fun writing a scene with my heroine
joyfully discovering an old tree swing in a back yard lot!). So let’s see - something about me. I’m a wife and mother with four grown
children, the youngest two being twins.
I worked a day job in the computer programming field for 30+ years
before retiring a couple of years ago.
My husband is a cattle rancher and will probably never retire from
that. I’ve loved reading and writing for
as long as I can remember. And when I’m
not doing one of those two things, I enjoy exploring flea markets, traveling
and working puzzles.
You
have a new book out, what’s it about?
The
Bride Next Door is the second book in my four book Texas Grooms series. This series, which started with Handpicked
Husband, follows four men who traveled together from Philadelphia to Turnabout,
Texas to start new lives. And they all
have very good reasons for wanting to start over.
The
hero of this book is Everett Fulton, a disgraced newspaper reporter. Everett is a bit of a dandy who misses the
big city life. He’s opened a one man
newspaper operation in the small town of Turnabout but considers it merely a
temporary stop before he can find work on another big city paper.
The
heroine, Daisy Johnson, is a transient peddler’s daughter who’s tired of
traveling and dreams of settling down and one day opening her own
restaurant. She comes into possession of
an abandoned building which just happens to adjoin Everett’s newspaper
office. Daisy jumps at the chance to
make her dream a reality - all she needs is a way to earn money so she can
purchase a proper stove for her future restaurant.
Then,
thanks to a pesky connecting door and a local gossip, they find themselves
headed for the altar. Problem is, they
have mutually exclusive dreams and it takes a lot - a lot of patience, a lot of
understanding, and finally a lot of love for them to work it all out..
Where
can we buy it?
The Bride Next Door is available at http://www.christianbook.com; http://www.amazon.com; http://www.barnesandnoble.com, and in traditional bookstores as well as Walmart, Target, and similar stores.
If
we invited your main character to sit with us, how would she/he react?
Daisy
would love to join us and chat for a bit.
She enjoys being around people and especially meeting new folks.
What
would they say? What advice would they give?
Hmmm
- she would probably encourage us to appreciate what we have - a good home and
loving family. She hasn’t had much of
either in her lifetime.
If
any one person from history could sit with us, who would it be and why?
Eleanor
Roosevelt - I’ve always admired her as a woman of intelligence, courage and
compassion. I think she would be a
fascinating woman to just sit down and chat with.
Why
did you choose to be a Christian writer and what does it mean to you?
If
by Christian writer you mean someone who writes for the Christian market, I didn’t initially choose to write in that
sub-genre. In fact, when critique
partners read my early work and suggested that my voice seemed to fit there, I
fought against it. While my characters
have always had a distinctly Christian world view, I didn’t feel qualified to
deliberately weave a faith thread into my stories, I was too afraid I would get
it wrong.
But
after writing five books that were published in the secular market, those doors
began to close to me, until I finally surrendered and turned my writing over to
Him. It was the best decision I ever
made in the whole of my writing career.
What
advice do you have for aspiring authors?
You
learn by doing so write every day. And
read, both in the genre you’re writing in and in other genres.
I
learned the hard way that if you stop either of these activities for any
significant amount of town, it becomes very difficult to get those creative
juices flowing.
Where
can we find you on the web?
Pinterest
- http://pinterest.com/wdgriggs/
Thank
you so much for stopping by for a visit!
About the interviewer: Lisa Phillips is a wife, mom of two and worship leader. She doesn't have to do the diaper thing anymore (as of last week - yay!) but still has nap times to write Inspirational Romantic Suspense. Her first book, The Ultimate Betrayal will be released summer 2014 from Harlequin's Love Inspired Suspense.
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