We are having a week long celebration here at The Sword and Spirit for Laurie Alice Eakes new release, A Heart's Safe Passage. Today we are giving away a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble.?
For an extra chance to win ask Laurie Alice a question. Come back Friday to read her answers to the questions. We will be giving prizes away all week long so be sure to check in each day.?
Laurie Alice Eakes used to lie in bed as a child telling herself stories so she didn't wake anyone else up.? Sometimes she shared her stories with others; thus, when she decided to be a writer, she surprised no one. In the past three years, she has sold six books to Baker/Revell, five of which are set during the Regency time period, four books to Barbour Publishing, as well as two novellas to Barbour Publishing and one to Baker/Revell. Seven of her books have been picked up by Thorndike Press for large print publication, and Lady in the Mist, her first book with Revell, was chosen for hardcover publication with Crossings Bookclub. She also teaches on-line writing courses and enjoys a speaking ministry that has taken her from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast. Laurie Alice lives in Texas with her husband, two dogs and two cats, and is learning how to make tamales.
?Lady in the Mist
Today, I was going to discuss how Lady in the Mist came into being. That, however, comes up in tomorrow?s post on where I get my ideas; thus, for today, I am going to give you a bit of my writing testimony.
In 2009, my writing career was finally going somewhere. I had sold six books, two to Avalon and four to Heartsong Presents (Barbour Publishing). But, of course, being a writer, I wanted more. I wanted to write big, lush, panoramic, mainstream books. And I thought it would never happen. Big book publishers like Thomas Nelson, Zondervan, Baker, which includes Revell and Bethany, had always been the dream since I started writing Christian fiction. It just wouldn?t happen.
Yet that midwife idea I?d had for ten years and started to brainstorm with my critique partners the previous year before selling more books to Avalon and Heartsong, was burning a hole in my computer.
So I finished up my first book I had to write for Barbour, The Glassblower, and before starting on the second, The Heiress, decided to turn out a proposal.
And this one I did in proper form, the way my writing thesis adviser had showed me to do?I outlined every scene ahead of time. I did the character sketches. I knew this story nearly inside and out. That done, I wrote three chapters. They flowed from my keyboard as first chapters rarely do for me. The vague image of a woman walking along the beach through a misty morning and encountering a charming stranger, wasn?t in the least misty to my creative mind.
On March 31, 2009, with lots of prayers and anxious heart anyway, I sent the proposal to my agent. On April 1, she called and said something like, ?this is going to sell.?
Three weeks later, she called to tell me that the editor from Revell was taking the proposal to committee.
I?d gotten to committee before with a big book publisher, but not Revell. Those had been form rejections. This time. . . Let?s just say I?m not sure I breathed for about four minutes.
But of course I had to wait for the committee to meet. May 12, I think it was. Somewhere that week.
It was a crazy week. My husband was graduating from law school that weekend. Relatives were coming in from out of town. I had a party to get ready and people to entertain. Probably good. It kept me from thinking too much about it.
But of course I did. And I heard nothing. I figured the answer was no. Alas. Well, maybe someone else.
Yet my heart cried. I?d been so sure this was it, the big break we all wanted. We were moving across country in two months and I was more than a little scared. I needed some kind of boost, reassurance. My husband and I prayed for strength for our future and guidance and the right thing to happen for both of us, him in his new career, mine in my, as a writer, always shaky career.
We came home from my husband?s party and there it was?voice-mail from my agent. Yes, Revell wanted what became Lady in the Mist, the first book in the midwives series.
I?ve always thought that when people say don?t give up on your dreams they are being trite and a little New Agey. Yet here I am, living proof that holding onto one?s dreams and taking the steps to keep them flowing, is not at all trite.
Do you have a dream you sometimes think you should give up on? What steps have you taken to help that dream come true?
Heart's Safe Passage
It's 1813 and all Phoebe Lee wants out of life is to practice midwifery in Loudon County, Virginia. When Belinda, her pregnant sister-in-law, presses Phoebe to accompany her onto a British privateer in order to cross the Atlantic and save her husband from an English prison, Phoebe tries to refuse, then finds herself kidnapped.
Captain Rafe Docherty is a man in search of revenge. His ship is no place for women, but he needs Belinda in order to obtain information about the man who destroyed his family and his life. Between Belinda's whining and Phoebe's hostility, Rafe can't help but wonder if he made the right choice.
When it becomes apparent there is an enemy among them on the ship, the stakes are raised. Will they reach the English shore in time? Can love and forgiveness overcome vengeance?
Today's giveaway:
$25 Barnes and Noble Gift Card!?
For an extra chance to win ask Laurie Alice a question. It can be about her writing, writing in general, one of her characters, her books, you name it. Come back Friday when she'll answer those questions.
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