Giveaway! Shadowed Dreams by Tina Pinson!

Welcome back to Writing for Christ Tina Pinson, I am excited to have you here for a second time.What has changed in your writing life since you were last here?

I now have four books available. In the Manor of the Ghost, Touched By Mercy, When Shadows Fall and Shadowed Dreams. Number 5, To Carry Her Cross releases in January. and In the Manor of the Ghost goes paperback in February. I find I am busier with promotion and doing more editing. I am trying to keep a balance and get more writing done as well. Right now, I'm trying to finish a children's picture book I started many moons ago when my 32 year old was three.

What recent read stood out to you as truly spectacular?

 Divergent, by Veronica Roth (and Insurgent, waiting for book three), a dystopian tale where the world is split into five factions;  Candor (the honest)  Erudite (the intelligent)  Amity (the peaceful) Dauntless (the brave, Or Tough)  Abnegation (the selfless) was an interesting story, I also enjoyed For Such a Time as This, by Ginny Aiken. Think Esther in the Old West.

Do you have favorite authors?

I don't know that I can say I have favorites. I have several I've been reading of late, along with the books mentioned above, I've been reading Elizabeth Camden, Julie Lessman, Mary Connealy, Sandi Rog, Shawna Williams, Melanie Dickerson, Maggie Brendan, Dan Walsh, Robert Liparulo, Colleen Coble, Anita Higman, and more.

What do you find the most enjoyable part of writing or connecting with readers?

With writing, the accomplishment of getting to the end, although that can bring a touch of sadness when you let go of characters and move on. I haven't much interaction with readers, but I suppose I'm like most authors, who enjoy it when they hear someone has picked up their book, read it and liked it.

What do you find the most ideal atmosphere for writing? Do you ever get those surroundings?

Right now, I have a great atmosphere for writing, I have the home alone with an office and sometimes a comfy couch, the question is… do it use it? I suppose everyone would love the chance to break away and write in a cabin for a week or more. I wonder if I'd go through all the trouble to get to the cabin and have my imagination free up though.

Okay, something fun for those writers out there: In what point of your writing career did you surprise yourself by writing the most words ever in the shortest amount of time?

When I first started on until my children were in school, I could get some words down but it was hit and miss. Once my children went to school, I could sit down and just write and write. I finished a 900 page novel, somewhere around 500,000 words in just over six months then finished a 200,000 word novel by the end of the year. And went on to write three more novels in the next year, all 90 to over a 100 thousand words.

Thanks for being here again! It has been a joy and we wish the very best with your novels. 

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Thanks for coming by to enter! Contest ends on November 23rd.

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