Giveaway and Author Interview: Mail Order Cowboy

Welcome to Writing for Christ, Laurie Kingery! Thank you for being with us today. 

How long did you write before you were published?--

I started my first book on the eve of my thirtieth birthday on a dare. Mind you, this was a loooooong time ago, before the availability of personal computers, so I wrote longhand in spare moments between childcare, then transcribed it on my typewriter, so it took a long time to finish. I was fortunate enough to sell that first book (don't worry, I had rejections later J), and it came out in 1987 from Leisure/Dorchester as DEFIANT HEARTS, a medieval romance.

When you held that first book in your hands, what was your first thought?--

That the characters looked better than I could have imagined they would. My heroine looked like Morgan Fairchild back in her prime, and the hero was definitely handsome and appealing. Little did I realize at the time how rare it was that the cover angels smiled on one so completely

What are you working on now?—

The fourth book in my "Brides of Simpson Creek" series. I won't bother telling you its working title because publishers so frequently change them. The first book in the series, MAIL ORDER COWBOY, will be out from Love Inspired Historicals on Nov.10. If you like mail order bride stories, this series is an interesting twist on that staple of western fiction. 

 Where can readers find out more about your books?

Come visit my website at www.lauriekingery.com, or on Goodreads.com  Or friend me on Facebook.

What message(s) do you want to be clear to your readers?—

That God loves them, and wants to have a relationship with them. That's why I switched to writing Christian (or "inspirational") fiction from the historical romances I had been writing. I think adding the faith thread to the hero +heroine threads of romance makes for more fulfilling reading.

What are two things that people wouldn't normally know about you as a writer and or person?

I'm a forty-year veteran RN in a big-city Emergency Department of a Level-One trauma center, and I'm an eHarmony bride. So maybe writing about advertising for a marital match, as my heroine does in MAIL ORDER COWBOY, comes naturally for me. ;)

Thank you for being with us today.  Any final words for readers?

If you've read my books, or the books of my Love Inspired sister-authors, thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing so. I hope you enjoyed them. (And if you haven't read one, I hope this blog visit has encouraged you to try one!)  And thank you for letting me visit here!

                      Blessings, Laurie Kingery

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Thanks for coming by to enter! Contest ends on December 11th.