We’re officially OTRA (on the road again). And before I continue, the reason for the explanation – I have some new subscribers. WOOHOO!!! Thank you for joining us and to those who have been with me a while, I’m sending virtual hugs your way. Oh, how I appreciate all of you!!!
Since I mentioned we’re traveling, I have to tell you it hasn’t come without a few pitfalls. But you know me—I always find funnies in the fiascos.
- Hubby found us a camping spot at the Junkyard on 66 Brewery. After fighting high winds, we pulled in and parked among junked vehicles. I told Ray, “I didn’t think it’d be a literal junkyard.” He laughed, and we ventured inside. BTW: Good food, beer, and we met a friendly couple.
- We heard a loud noise going down the highway. A trucker motioned to the side of our RV. Ray stopped, and I started to pray. He returned and, in a calm voice, said, “One of the outside doors flew open. We lost our white plastic table, and it’s nowhere to be found.” (Side Note: We thanked the Lord and ate chicken fried steak at Cracker Barrel to calm down.)
- We arrived at the campground in South Dakota, and Ray hooked up the water. Everything worked but the bathroom sink. After we both tried to solve the problem, a neighbor suggested we check the mesh screen on the faucet. Ray didn’t, but after another hour, he admitted defeat and unscrewed the end of the spout. He found it was clogged and rinsed it out. With the issue solved, he walked over to our neighbor and thanked her.
WRITING NEWS:
I’m in the editing phase on both books. I’ll finish the first run through this week on my novel and start on the edits on my novella in May.
WRITER’S CORNER:
This month I’m featuring one of my fellow authors from Winged Publications. Sherri Stewart has a new book and she wanted to tell you all about it.
The Everyday Heroine
By
Sherri Stewart
What does it take to make a heroine? I wish women didn’t have to share the word with a deadly narcotic! My answer to this question came as I wrote the book, A Song for Her Enemies. Prior to that book, if you’d have asked me what a female hero was, I’d have given you a list of examples: Florence Nightingale, Rosa Parks, Joan of Arc, Corrie ten Boom—women who rose to a challenge and did amazing things. But now I realize a heroine doesn’t have to slay dragons; she just has to do the little thing that’s required at the moment when life becomes difficult.By
Sherri Stewart
In the book, Tamar was a Jewish twenty-year-old singer in Haarlem when the Nazis took over the town and closed the opera house. She had no skills other than her voice, but she joined the Dutch Resistance as a messenger because her blond hair allowed her to walk past the Nazi guards to leave the ghetto she lived in. Here’s the first clue. Heroines have something to offer, even if it’s just hair color. On one of her walks, she entered a home full of refugees where one of them was in labor. The atmosphere was tense, so she was asked to sing a song to quiet the children. Here’s clue number two. Heroines never know when they’ll be called upon to do something heroic, even if it’s just singing a children’s song.
Sometimes the very thing that blesses others also causes unanticipated results. It was Tamar’s blond hair and her beautiful singing voice that caused a Nazi officer in the sequel that I’ve just finished writing—In Her Enemies’ House—to become obsessed with her. Clue number three—whatever God calls a heroine to do may have consequences she cannot control, still God calls us to be everyday heroines, to look for those little things that will bless someone else. That’s the definition of a heroine.
Blurb
After Nazi soldiers close the opera and destroy Tamar Kaplan’s dream of becoming a professional singer, she joins the Dutch Resistance, her fair coloring concealing her Jewish heritage. Tamar partners with Dr. Daniel Feldman, and they risk their lives to help escaping refugees. When they are forced to flee themselves, violinist Neelie Visser takes them into hiding.
Tamar’s love for Daniel flowers in hardship, but she struggles with the paradox that a loving God would allow the atrocities around her. When Tamar resists the advances of a Third Reich officer, he exacts his revenge by betraying the secrets hidden behind the walls of Neelie’s house. From a prison hospital to a Nazi celebration to a concentration camp, will the three of them survive to tell the world the secrets behind barbed wire? https://amzn.to/3NY2VXg
Bio
Sherri Stewart loves to write a clean novel, sprinkled with romance and a strong message that challenges her faith. She spends her working hours with books—either editing others’ manuscripts or writing her own. Her passion is traveling to the settings of her books, sampling the food, and visiting the sites. She loves the Netherlands, and she’s still learning Dutch, although she doesn’t need to since everyone seems to speak perfect English. A recent widow, Sherri lives in the Orlando area with her lazy dog, Lily, and her son, Joshua, who can fix anything. She shares recipes, tidbits of her books’ locations, and pix in her newsletter. Subscribe at http://eepurl.com/gZ-mv9
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Thank you, Sherri. Reminder: You can find Sherri's books on Amazon.
Until next time...
Blessings!
Janetta Fudge Messmer - Author of Christian Comedy/Romance
“Turning Life Into Comedy”
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