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Author: Rebekah Lyn
I am a sandal-loving Florida native with a passion for my Savior, my family, writing, and travel. Some of my best writing has been done on the balcony of a cruise ship!
After working in the travel and hospitality industry for 15+ years I decided it was time to pursue my writing dream. My novels are relational and character driven and I hope they will always engulf the reader in a great story while leaving them stronger in their faith.
Reverse Space Travel?
I am a huge fan space exploration, Star Wars movies and of course Star Trek. The premise of this book has an interesting twist. I hope you enjoy it and I encourage you to enter the Rafflecopter at the end of the page for a chance to win a signed paperback copy of Gestern.
About the Book
You never escape your past
Andi Lloyd is more comfortable than most with interstellar travel, but she’s not prepared for the perils and peculiarities of a world she has all but forgotten—the planet Earth. As the Surveyor undergoes repairs, her brother August receives a message with news that will send both of them across the world to a place he never wanted to visit again.
Neither of them are prepared to be thrust into a world of political intrigue amid the tangled forests and crumbling ruins of Austria. They aren’t prepared to encounter wild animals and endure cross-country hikes. And they definitely aren’t prepared to face it all alone.
But despite the dangers they must press on into the unknown to find a way to save Andi’s life, to decide the fate of Earth itself—and to rescue a lonely girl who just happens to be their little sister.
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We are Hosting One of our Own~DiVoran Lites and Go West
We always enjoy hosting authors here on Rebekah Lyn Books but today is special because we are hosting one of our own, DiVoran Lites! If you are a subscriber, you may have read parts of Go West as she published a weekly chapter on the website. Now she has polished it up, sent the manuscript to the editor and finally it is available on Amazon. Onisha, our webmaster and head cheerleader conducted the author interview.
Onisha: I enjoyed your descriptions of the terrain in Colorado, especially the shelf road and the train trip through a tunnel. Were these actual places?
DiVoran: Shelf roads actually exist in many parts of the state, but I made up the one for the cattle push. Our dad took us fishing in the mountains and we had to ride on a trail that was so rocky and narrow that I had to sit still and shut up so as not to distract my horse from picking his way across it. As far as the train trip goes, you can still take that trip on the track running alongside the Arkansas River. I recommend it.
If you are interested, explore these links for a drive over a shelf road and information on booking a rail trip on the Royal Gorge Train.
Shelf Road https://youtu.be/dS1Krc8YbpA
Royal Gorge https://royalgorgeroute.com/
Onisha: Each of the characters in Go West have distinct and interesting histories. Did you pull their characteristics from family stories or people you knew growing up in Colorado?
DiVoran: We’ve heard that characters find the writers. That’s true for Aldon, Ellie, and the rest of the characters of Go West. But, yes, their motives and personalities came from people I knew in the small town and ranches of Westcliffe where I lived as a child. It felt good to show a melting pot where several cultures knew and loved each other because of, and in spite of, their differences. They had to get-along in order to survive.
Onisha: I found all of your characters to be interesting, did you have a favorite that you couldn’t wait to tell their part of the story?
DiVoran: Did you notice how much of the thinking, and actions Aldon did in Go West? Writing his part of the story fascinated me. For one thing I have always pondered the differences between men and women and tried to understand a grandfather, a dad, a brother, a husband, a son, and a grandson. Being a side-kick to Aldon helped me gain insights for my life-long research about men.
About the Book
After duty as an ambulance driver in World War I, Ellie Morgan returns to Chicago to take up her share of the work in her grandparents’ department store. Ellie doesn’t want to alienate her family or disappoint them, but despite a six year effort to settle in, she feels increasingly trapped in store routine. Meanwhile, her grandmother urges her to marry a local politician and help him succeed in his chosen field. Ellie’s grandfather, however, wants to see her happy and independent. “Go West, young woman, go west,” he advises paraphrasing a popular quotation of the day. So with Granddad’s help, Ellie secures a job on a ranch in Colorado and sets out to prove that she has the necessary character to succeed at a third vocation.
When Aldon Leitzinger meets Ellie’s train in Clifton Colorado, he introduces himself as the foreman of the ranch. But the more people Ellie meets in the community, the more apparent it becomes that she is in demand to fill a number of roles for which she is not prepared. Desperate to prove herself, she settles in to please everyone, a task that puts her at risk of failure in every attempt at finding a new and happier life.
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About the Author
DiVoran has been writing for most of her life. Her first attempt at a story was when she was seven years old and her mother got a new typewriter. DiVoran got to use it and when her dad saw her writing he asked what she was writing about. DiVoran answered that she was writing the story of her life. Her dad’s only comment was, “Well, it’s going to be a very short story.” After most of a lifetime of writing and helping other writers, DiVoran finally launched her own dream which was to write a novel of her own. She now has her Florida Springs trilogy and her novel, a Christian Western Romance, Go West available on Amazon. When speaking about her road to publication, she gives thanks to the Lord for all the people who helped her grow and learn. She says, “I could never have done it by myself, but when I got going everything fell beautifully into place, and I was glad I had started on my dream.”
Giveaway
DiVoran has five prizes for five people! First to go will be the beautiful art cards and then we’ll have the two eBooks. Enter below:
Tour Schedule
July 10
Bookish Orchestrations – Tour introduction
Rebekah Lyn Books – Author Interview
Janice’s book reviews – Review
July 11
Frances Hoelsma – Book Spotlight
Rachel Rossano’s Words – Author Interview
Writings, Ramblings, and Reflections – Character Interview
July 12
Shout Outs – Book Spotlight
July 13
Laurel’s Leaves – Author Interview
God’s Peculiar Treasure Rae – Book Spotlight
Old Things R New – Book Spotlight
July 14
Letters from Annie Douglass Lima – Book Spotlight
Stephany’s BLOG Snippets – Character Interview
July 15
Bookish Orchestrations – Giveaway Winners
The Fourth of July
To celebrate the Fourth of July, I decided to share an excerpt from my new novel, “Go WestGo West.” This chapter is written in Aldon’s voice as he writes to his brother in “Hollywood Land.”
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The Fourth of July
By DiVoran Bowers Lites
Aldon
The town council voted to spend a lot of money on pyrotechnics this year. About dusk, we workers went around to the other side of the dam to set off the spectacle. You won’t believe this, Bill, but when we got all the fireworks, including spinning wheels and Roman Candles, laid out, a lighted match fell onto one of the displays and it blew up. That set off the rest of the fireworks and before we knew it, we had a shower of colored lights that illuminated the sky for miles around. They looked pretty reflecting in the lake for all of three minutes, and then it was over. The mayor was so furious, he headed for his automobile saying he was going to the fireworks salesman in Artesia and knock his block off. We managed to talk him out of it, but he took his wife down to City Hall to typewrite a letter of complaint.
It didn’t take long to get to the dance where they had the platform set up at the foot of the range. The folks enjoy the dance, but I never really cared about it. From the time we were boys, mother scrubbed us until our skin burned, then slicked back our hair with Madagascar oil. She parted it in the middle, remember that? We looked like little Lord Fauntleroys. We had to wear those suits, and above all, we had to behave like gentlemen. She took turns dancing with us when she wasn’t making us play our instruments. We had to smile the whole time and it made our faces hurt. With Ellie there though, I was thankful for Nancy’s determination to make gentlemen of us. Dad’s too.
Brother, this is a long letter, but I thought I’d work on it when I had time, then I could put it all in one envelope and save on postage.
I’ll tell you about the dance. Once the band got going, the Solanos didn’t miss a set, and every uncle and male cousin asked Ellie to join them on the floor. Believe me, she learned fast to keep her feet out of the way of their clodhoppers. Usually no man asks any woman to dance except his wife and sometimes his sister, but Ellie has a way about her that puts you at ease, and she’s so daggone shiny, they couldn’t help themselves. Dieter, then Arn went off the band stand to dance with her, so I did too. When I got right up to her I suddenly turned shy and didn’t know what to say. I might have chickened out altogether, but she smiled and put her arms out to me and I was a goner.
The band started the Varsouviana and she shook her head saying, “I can’t do this dance.”
“All right.” I turned away thinking she didn’t want to dance with me, after all.
“Could you teach me, though?” she asked and my heart flipped over.
“Why sure! Here’s how we start.” We had a couple of laughs wrestling to get the arms right. It came to me why people like to dance so much…so’s they can hold each other. All that practice, just so you can put your arms around somebody, Mother never told us about that part. We wouldn’t have liked it if she had. At first Ellie couldn’t get the hang of it, so I showed her a few steps and sang those words the school-teacher (Ma) taught us: put your little foot, put your little foot, put your little foot right down.
“I hate to tell you, but what I’m seeing is not a little foot,” she said, looking at my boots. I laughed so hard she finally had to slap me to make me shut up. Ha, not hard, just a tap on the cheek.
She soon got the hang of it and we rotated around the floor with all the other dancers. Throughout the evening, Nancy and Gertrude took turns with their three hefty brothers and with dad’s brother, Ernest, who lost his wife last year.
Go West is available at Amazon in three editions
Kindle, Regular Print, and Picture Edition.
Go West is going on tour! I hope you stop by on Monday, July 10 to learn more about Go West and enter for a chance to win one of five prizes. First to go will be beautiful art cards and then we’ll have the two eBooks.