Giveaway and Author Interview: Christmas Belles of Georgia

Welcome to Writing for Christ Rose McCauley, it is great to have you here!

Thanks so much for hosting me, Casey.

Do you have an interesting fact about yourself the average reader probably doesn’t know?

I love to read and collect Christmas books, so I am very happy my first fiction published is a heart-warming Christmas story—Christmas Belles of Georgia!

Do you have a favorite genre to read/write?

I like to read many genres, but find myself most drawn to contemporary women’s fiction because it can include other genres like romance and mystery. And I can always get a spiritual uplift from Christian WF when I see how God solves the problems of the characters. I also love books set in small towns like the Mitford series. In fact, my tagline is “Stories from small towns with huge hearts.” That is true of the small town of Monticello Georgia where this book is set.

Do you have a nugget of writing advice that has completely changed how you view writing? Something I learned from the Bible study Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby—pray and discern what God is doing and join him in those purposes instead of asking Him to bless what you want to do! So whether I am working on a writing project or something around the house or neighborhood, I need to follow that wisdom. That’s something I am still learning. Probably will be til the day I die!

What do you enjoy most about being a published author?

Although I do have selections in several non-fiction books, it has been my dream for over a decade to be published in fiction, so I am enjoying watching my dream come true. And I got my first email from a reader just last week who told how a devotional I wrote in one of the non-fiction books blessed and encouraged her. I hope and pray that my fiction stories will do the same.

Places for readers to learn more about you?

My revamped website, thanks to Gayle DeSalles, is www.rosemccauley.com where you can click to order the book, and my blog is www.rosemccauley.blogspot.com where I have book reviews and posts from other authors, too, and a monthly book drawing. I hope you will visit my sites and click to become a follower of my blog.

Thank you for being with us today! Thank you and all your readers for taking the time to let me visit with you.

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Thanks for coming by to enter! Contest ends on October 14th.