Meet the Voices presents debut author Kit Wilkinson! Kit is a former Ph.D. student who once wrote discussions on the medieval feminine voice. She now prefers weaving stories of romance and redemption. Her first inspirational manuscript won the prestigious RWA Golden Heart and sold to Steeple Hill Books. Besides writing, she loves hanging out with friends and family, cooking for lots of people, and participating in almost any sport. She and her husband reside in Virginia with their two young children and spazzy black mutt. What is the biggest writing challenge you’ve encountered this past year – craft, career, writing life, etc.? Selling a second story was a huge challenge for me this past year. My first contract went through in December of 08 so just after this […]
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Meet the Voices: Winter Peck
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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I’ve been privileged to work with some wonderful editors in the CBA. For the past four years, I’ve been under the tutelage of Thomas Nelson’s Senior Acquisitions Editor, Ami McConnell. She’s such a gift to me as a writer and story teller, helping me hone my skill and art, but by being my champion. When I sold my first 2 books to TNI, the ACFW Conference was in Nashville that year, home of country music and Thomas Nelson. The conference hotel was right across from the fiction (then West Bow) offices! Ami had just given birth to her third child, a beautiful girl. Even though she was on maternity leave, she took time to meet with me, picking me up from the hotel, driving me to coffee, and spending a […]
Read the RestMeet 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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