This week, Meet the Voices, presents Winter Peck. She is an Iowan at heart. At the age of 10 she discovered her talent for composing stories, and a passion was born. She leans heavily on her mid-western roots, her love of the Old West, and the rodeo. Winter is married to a National Guardsman, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their story during the time of his deployment will be published in the book GOD Strong: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Military Wives, by Sara Horn (Zondervan 2010). She’s the mother of three boys and one cowgirl in training. Along with her own blog Rodeo with a Twist of Suspense; she contributes a monthly column called She Wears Combat Boots Too at the Take Root and Write blog. Winter and […]
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Meet the Voices: Sandra Orchard
Meet the Voices presents Sandra van den Bogerd who writes as Sandra Orchard! Sandra began writing fiction five years ago and queried Steeple Hill after completing her first novel. She was thrilled to receive a request for the full manuscript, and disappointed to learn it didn’t have enough romance. She set out to find other publishers and discovered Write!Canada, an annual conference for Christian writers in her home province of Ontario. Author Linda Hall critiqued her first three chapters and recommended her to an agent and she was off! Four years and four novels later, she’s made lots of wonderful friends, learned tons, let her first agent go, had one story get as far as acquisitions, and on July 18th received the 2009 Daphne DuMaurier Award of Excellence in Mystery/Suspense. […]
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Meet the Voices presents Nick Daniels! Nick was born in the late 1970s, in a bustling city in South America. He wrote his first short story in third grade about a explorer lost in the Amazon jungle, then discovered Jules Verne during sixth grade and was hooked into fiction for life. He spent the next few years reading literature classics (mostly Dostoievsky) and contemporary Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, and Mario Vargas Llosa, plus every book in the library that picked his interest. At age fifteen, he decided to write a novel about a woman who loses the ability to love. It remains (thankfully) unpublished. After graduating from journalism school, Nick moved to the United States to continue his education and write […]
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My Book Therapy presents Jean Shattuck as this week’s featured Voice. Jean started writing when she was thirteen. She’s always had a love for telling stories and for reading, so taking the next step and writing a novel seemed natural. She dabbled for years and didn’t start to get serious about it until her early twenties. Then she was hit with a long-term illness and her dreams were put on hold for a while. Three years ago she got serious about writing again. She is currently working on her first Romantic Suspense novel and has plotted her second. When she’s not busy writing, she’s a nanny to a 6 1/2 year old little girl. Jean lives in Minnesota, and has two Papillion dogs. One is eight years old and the […]
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