I can remember the time and the place I was when God spoke to me and told me that Brad and I were supposed to adopt Stevan.
I can remember the time and the place I was when my dad died.
I can remember the time and the place I was when the planes hit the World Trade Center.
I can’t remember the time or the place when God told me to write a book. All I know is that the year was 2008.
I can go through my computer files and my paper files and find page after page of chapter ideas, stories, and quotes that I collected over many years.
I can remember sitting down with another couple one evening and telling them about my vision for a book.
I knew the title in 2008, I knew the subject, I knew what the underlying theme would be for the book.
What I didn’t know was the book wasn’t ready to be written in 2008. God just planted a seed.
God knew that life would have many more twists, highs and lows and lessons for me to learn.
Here we are in 2023, fifteen years after the seed was planted and I have exciting news!
I’m writing a book! My story…. a memoir!
I signed a book contract with Hope*Books at the end of May. I have been meeting with 32 other authors by Zoom every Thursday for the past 3 months. It has been exciting and scary. I have completed nine assignments to help me gain focus on my subject, my audience, and my dream. Assignment #4 was to publicly announce on my social media accounts that I was writing a book, I wasn’t ready. I had told myself that I wanted Bryson’s situation to be resolved and then I can turn the page to the next chapter. That hasn’t happened, but I feel God telling me it’s time to make it known.
Last week I turned in my book outline to my developmental editor. The hard work of writing the manuscript will be my focus over the fall and winter months. The timeline of Hope*Books process is to have a published book in 12-18 months after starting with them.
Stay tuned, I hope to share more about the writing process and bits and pieces of it here. I can’t wait till 2024 when I can share the whole work… my story with you “In a Stroke of Love”.
