My Fifteen Minutes
Please visit this URL on Monday, December 10th: http://jacquelinedhopper.blogspot.com/>. Jacqueline Hopper has been kind enough to feature my current Christian romance, A Hero’s Homecoming, and my soon-to-be-released historical love story, Daughter of the King. Here it is, the author’s equivalent of fifteen minutes of fame! Of course it’s longer than fifteen minutes—it’s all day. To balance that longevity, appearing on one highly popular blog may not stand the test of becoming famous.
Jacqueline will have excerpts of both books, along with some interview questions and what we refer to as blurbs. That’s an attractive sounding word, isn’t it? Saying it gives me the feeling I should follow up with “excuse me, please,” As you probably know already, a blurb is an attempt to encapsulate a fifty to sixty thousand word novel into one or two pithy paragraphs that fit the dust jacket of a physical book. Never mind that more and more novels are ebooks these days. It’s tradition, for crying out loud.
Here is information about Daughter of the King that didn’t make it into the blurb. I wanted to write the story of a Biblical woman. Ruth and Esther are always obvious choices. However, their stories are quite complete in the books of the Bible by those names. I searched for a plot that left plenty of room for imagination. When I read of a spat between King David and his wife Michal, it occurred to me she might be the character I wanted. The more I researched and read about Michal, the more excited I became. Who wouldn’t want to write the story of a princess who loved and married one of the most famous kings of antiquity?
So that web address again is http://jacquelinedhopper.blogspot.com/>. Check it out! Jacqueline has some interesting material even when someone other than yours truly is the star.
Carlene Havel, author of "A Hero's Homecoming"
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos...
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Carle... http://www.prismbookgroup.com/AHerosH...
Jacqueline will have excerpts of both books, along with some interview questions and what we refer to as blurbs. That’s an attractive sounding word, isn’t it? Saying it gives me the feeling I should follow up with “excuse me, please,” As you probably know already, a blurb is an attempt to encapsulate a fifty to sixty thousand word novel into one or two pithy paragraphs that fit the dust jacket of a physical book. Never mind that more and more novels are ebooks these days. It’s tradition, for crying out loud.
Here is information about Daughter of the King that didn’t make it into the blurb. I wanted to write the story of a Biblical woman. Ruth and Esther are always obvious choices. However, their stories are quite complete in the books of the Bible by those names. I searched for a plot that left plenty of room for imagination. When I read of a spat between King David and his wife Michal, it occurred to me she might be the character I wanted. The more I researched and read about Michal, the more excited I became. Who wouldn’t want to write the story of a princess who loved and married one of the most famous kings of antiquity?
So that web address again is http://jacquelinedhopper.blogspot.com/>. Check it out! Jacqueline has some interesting material even when someone other than yours truly is the star.
Carlene Havel, author of "A Hero's Homecoming"
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos...
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Carle... http://www.prismbookgroup.com/AHerosH...
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