How I Am Humbled By My Readers…

When my book, Nathaniel Ages, was released I felt like I had suddenly stepped outside in front of a rather large crowd completely naked. It was scary. A few weeks went by and I began getting friend requests and messages on my Facebook and through my website and all fears disappeared. I was fully clothed again, but this time in humility. I was recieveing many compliments from my friends and family of course, but it was the people I didn’t know that held me in awe. They have shared their wonderful testimonies with me and shared how they ‘saw’ themselves in the characters of my book, how they rededicated their lives to God because of what they learned from my simple story.

One sweet lady and her husband contacted me and told me that my book was a life changing book, that their daughter’s family had read the book and returned to church. Her daughter had reacted to tragedy in her life and had never known to capture each thought and test it to see from whom it originated before acting out. They have begun buying my book and handing it out as a ministry as they have done with the book, The Shack.

I can take no credit and give my Lord and merciful Savior all the credit for how He has used my little story to touch people in a big way. I have no idea what the future holds for me in being an author, I have laid no plans. I enjoy being a mom and homeschooling and can’t imagine anything more. If I never sell another book I consider it a success, my life has been so blessed and my eyes open to how God can use something so insignificant as my book to change someone elses life. In this I am truly humbled.

Nathaniel Ages

Estranged angel Nathaniel Ages has lived for generations unaffected by love until he meets Kate Jennings; then, Lucifer forces him to choose.

Don’t you just hate sending those first pages to the editor?

     I have been holding back these first six chapters from my second book and not sending them to my editor.  I can take the criticism, change suggestions, and ‘what were you thinking here’ comments. I think it’s the fact that once I send it, it then turns into a job and that kinda sucks all the fun out of writing for me. Am I alone in this?

     I never dreamed of writing a book and where that might lead me. I wrote this book to try to encourage my twenty-two year old daughter who suffers from bipolar disorder. She speaks like a tossed salad, I can’t always follow her but when she showed me some things she had written, I was in awe. It was fantastic and amazing and I’m not coming from this from a ‘Mom’ angle because sadly I’m usually the one who talks her out of grandiose ideas, like going to study in Europe. She is a point under genius, but I’m afraid she would get lost or something worse, trust me, you have to know her to understand. Like anything else, she quit writing and I tried everything to encourage her to begin again. So, I tried writing and asking her help. Nothing. She was on to other things, but I realized it was fun and now that my book is out she has began to write again. I am now trying to encourage her to write some screenplays as she is very creative.

     Anyway, I guess I will just suck it up, put on my big girl panties and hit send. My four-year old son asked me if I was going to be sitting at my desk and staring out the window again(writing)? Yes, I guess I am.

Hello world!

I am a southern Christian writer who just released my debut novel, Nathaniel Ages.  I have been humbled by all the encouragement and stories that people have sent me.  It made me realize how selfish I have been with not writing to the numerous authors that I have loved over the years, I have rectified this and wrote my first fan letter to an author that I love and didn’t realize she originated from my own hometown!

My life is busy to say the least!  I get the question, “How do you do it?” a lot….I never know how to respond.  Lot’s of coffee, I guess.  For every word I type, I am interrupted on the average of three times with questions, conversations and requests for food and drinks.  It is a small miracle that anything logical is being typed.  I should also add here that I don’t have any typing skills and have created my own style of hunting and pecking, which includes the over-use of the backspace bar, this is how I wrote my first novel and now am currently working on my second.

No way did I ever plan on being a writer…I never scored higher than a C on a paper.  I did always talk the teacher to change my score to something higher to save my Dean’s List status and was surprised that they did  they said my papers were always very  interesting and inventive…whatever that means.  I never wanted to be a teacher, which was my major before I dropped out.  Funny how I am now both.  We make our plans and God makes His…He always wins and I am glad.

I look forward to meeting new people here and I hope I can bring some entertainment your way.  I am thinking about writing a story here on my blog and I look forward to your comments!  If you would like to read my testimony about how I came to be a writer please check out my website.