I did a couple of Christian Fiction books, House of the Forest, Smoke Before the Wind, and Shadows on the Mountain, but have had the best success with Biblical Fiction. I have learned so much about that era, Jewish customs and the people, and the research has been a pleasure. I used to wonder how people who wrote historical fiction knew all that information, say about life in the 1700’s, and realize it required hours of reading and searching for facts and information! Years ago one of the ladies in my critique group said to me, “When you write Biblical fiction, you write differently.” It’s true. I feel the inspiration of the Holy Spirit when I write in that genre. Characters move across the pages with ease and it is if I know them personally. I don’t do story boards, or outlines, I just sit down and begin writing and the story seems to weave itself. What a joy. There is nothing that gives me so much pleasure as putting a story together. This new book coming out, Mary, Chosen of God, was what might in a way be called a divine commission. I hadn’t planned on writing a book about the mother of Jesus, but in writing an e-mail to a former editor, I mentioned I was working on a book about Mary and stopped and stared at my computer. I was not working on a book on Mary at the time. I hadn’t even thought of it. I knew it was my next book and it was the most wonderful challenge, to take a familiar story and tell it through Mary’s eyes. I pray my readers will enjoy reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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