Thanksgiving weekend was very busy and productive for DiVoran and I. I was deep into finishing the rough draft for my next novel Jessie and DiVoran launched, Clear Spring her final book in the Florida Springs Trilogy We were so busy in fact our emails indicate we seemed to have had some mental lapses.
Tea Anyone?
I’m so happy to hear that Jessie if finished and I’m really looking forwarding to reading it. Congratulations.
Love,
DiVoran
P. S. Bill liked your announcement for Clear Spring on RLB and so did I. Thanks
Me as Michele Burton, Rocker
Thanks! There’s still a lot of work todo on it but getting the basic story out is a relief. I would love to get together with you & Precious one Saturday or Sunday.
We were happy to Matthew announcement of Clear Spring on the website. I hope it helps!
Love,
Beck
Sent from my iPad
Do you write or collaborate with a friend? Would love to read your funny communications. Care to share?
The best bit of advice I ever got was to write a letter to God. Why? Well, it got me started communicating with Him and by default with myself. I’ve written a letter to him almost every day
Sometimes I have help
since about 1970 or so. Some were short, most were several pages long. I learned from doing it that God is always there for me and he doesn’t care what I say or how long it takes me to say it. I’ve learned that He really loves me, and that to him, I’m a unique and special person.
Now some people just talk to him, and I admire that way of doing it, but it doesn’t work as well for me. Maybe I I can’t concentrate, or I get bored with hearing my own voice, or thoughts run away with me and I get distracted. But a letter? That’s different. It’s as if my whole mind, soul, and body gets into the exchange, and exchange it is because God writes letters to me as well, in many different ways. I’ll tell you about some of that later on. For now, though how about you? Are you a talker or a writer?
Do you have any kind of conflict when you talk about yourself? We love to do it, but we don’t like to get caught at it, because we’ve been taught that it isn’t modest. Modest or not, I know how I feel about the authors I love. I want to know things. I went to the town in Scotland where my favorite writer, D. E. Stevenson, once lived and I stood looking at the gray two-story house that was hers. In a shop, I bought a pair of argyle socks as a remembrance, and besides, my feet were cold. I asked if the shop girl had ever heard of my idol. She had not. Dorothy Emily died years before the lass was born.
I still have the socks, but alas, there’s a tiny hole in the heel of one, and the toe is about ready to pop through the other. I still wear them, though, with shoes that won’t let the holes show. So here, for better or for worse are my interviews, which I must say I did enjoy mulling over. As I revisited the places in my past, both tangible and intangible I relived again some of the things which have made me reading and writing so enjoyable. I hope you like them, and I hope you love my books half as much as I love Mrs. Stevenson’s. (Yes, Robert Louis Stevenson was her kinsman.)
The Story of Sacred Spring could have been written without the faith element. Why did you choose to include faith?
Could it have been written without the faith element? Maybe, but I couldn’t have been the one to do it. Leaving God out is like leaving out the sun, the moon, and the stars. Way before there was ever such a thing as a “Christian Book Market,” there were writers who included their faith in their work. A great story is paramount, but to my way of thinking any book that turns out to be worthwhile is made up of what is called “moral fiction.” Moral is good, but why not take it just that logical next step and let God join the party. He wants a part in everything we do.
A Florida Natural Spring
Read more of this interview as well as DiVoran’s blogs at Old Things R New
I’d have to say my favorite book is the best one I most recently read, which in this case is Sufficient Grace, by Darnell Arnoult.
Why hasn’t that down home woman written more novels?
What kind of music do you like?
As for music, I like many different kinds of music, but if I had to choose one type it would have to be classical-not too heavy, though, and with a great deal of variety.
