I started the new book, tentatively titled THE WEDDING TREE, on Sunday, and by now I’ve finished the prologue and about half of chapter one. As always, it’s fun starting a new book. This third book in the Simpson Creek Spinsters series will finally give Prissy Gilmore, friend of Sarah Matthews and a founding member of the Spinsters’ Club, her story. For her match I’ve given her a rascal. I’ve been writing such serious men lately–preacher/lawman Jude Tucker in HILL COUNTRY CHRISTMAS, revenge-driven Sandoval Parrish in THE OUTLAW’S BRIDE, and most recently, Dr. Nolan Walker in SOMEONE FOR SARAH, the book I just turned it. So it’s time for a rascal, I think, and I think Sam Bishop will fit the bill….
My next book to review for Waterbrook just arrived today, YOU WERE BORN FOR THIS by Bruce Wilkinson. I’m looking forward to starting to read this book this evening. This time the publisher sent me something extra–a copy to give away! Be sure to watch this blog for the time to enter a comment and perhaps win the book!
For those who read my earlier blog, I finally finished achieving the renewal of my basic CPR card. Ahead lies the renewal course for Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), always an ordeal, and a necessary evil I have to go through every two years for my nurse job. Then after that–the A.C.F.W conference in Denver! I can’t wait!
Blessings, Laurie
I finished SOMEONE FOR SARAH and sent it off to my editor and agent–ta da! 9 days early! I’m taking a few days off to catch up and breathe, not counting when I’ve been engaged in a futile attempt to succeed in my hospital’s new method of getting CPR cards renewed online. Quelle frustration! I haven’t figured out yet if it’s because Firefox won’t play nice with the program or (more likely) it’s just a very flawed way to do things. More complex does not always =better.