Interview with Ann Marie Stewart & Stars in the Grass...

We're so happy to have Ann Marie Stewart will us today talking about her book Stars in the Grass. To learn more about Ann Marie and her book, read on!

Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.
I won a Grammy, midwife to lambs in our flock, maiden name was 13 letters long, National Anthem soloist for Seattle Mariners, did a mini triathlon, won a Christy.

Why did you choose to write this book?

I first wrote a short story about what I most feared:  losing a child, even though I wasn't married and didn't have any children. By writing my fears, it was as if I could keep it from happening.

What one thing about writing do you wish non-writers would understand?
Don't correct periods and commas when first you read my drafts. See the big picture.

What is the toughest test you've faced as a writer?

Writing in unfamiliar time periods and places I've never been or cannot go to because of security issues. 

What do you hope readers to take away from your novel?

Hope and humor. That no matter what they go through in life, there is hope and one day they will laugh again.

What accomplishment(s) are you most proud of, writing-related or not? 

I love my kids. I can't take credit for them but I'm so absolutely PROUD of what they are studying:  Middle East and Peace and Conflict Management, Nursing.

What do you do for fun when not writing?

Cheering on UVA Basketball, watching This is Us and Madame Secretary, waterskiing.

What are you working on now? 

Three books:  a 30K word romantic holiday novella about a Capitol Christmas and a holiday bet gone awry.

Out of the Water:  A 90K word time slip novel about a young woman's search for her birth mother and how she unravels 5 generations of secrets

Mama's Liebling:  A Memoir about my grandparents' escape from Russia and why they had to leave a child behind.

Back cover blurb

Nine-year-old Abby McAndrews has just experienced her greatest loss, and in its wake, her family is unraveling with guilt, grief, and anger. Her father, Reverend McAndrews, cannot return to the pulpit because he has more questions than answers. Her older brother Matt’s actions speak louder than the words he needs to confess, as he acts out in dangerous ways. Her mother tries to hold her grieving family together, but when Abby’s dad refuses to move on, the family is at a crossroads.

Stars in the Grass, set in a small Midwestern town in 1970, is an uplifting novel that explores a family’s relationships and resiliency. Abby’s heartbreaking remembrances are balanced by humor and nostalgia as her family struggles with—and ultimately celebrates—life after loss.

Please give us the first page of the book. 

Prologue

I spent the better part of my childhood sitting on a pew in the balcony of Bethel Springs First Presbyterian Church, listening to my dad’s long vowels as he preached on predestination. Sandwiched between my older brother, Matt, and my little brother, Joel, I counted bald heads, doodled on church bulletins, and studied the stained-glass Jesus.

Reverend McAndrews was godlike and mysterious. Definitely not the same man who read to us from Dr. Seuss, ran through the sprinkler on steamy Ohio summer afternoons, or smiled as we played hide-and-go-seek in his Father’s House.

Though I can’t remember many of his three-point sermons, I have other good memories. One Sunday during a hymn, Matt and I sang loudly, changing the words to our liking, “Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear,” and crossing our eyes for added effect. When we sat back down, I rested the hymnal on the railing and fanned myself by riffling through the pages. Then it happened. Ontoone of the fifty-one shining bald heads below, I dropped the hymnal.

It clapped to the floor, and then in the congregational hush, Mr. Ludema winced in surprised pain. I only looked down long enough to see necks craning up toward the balcony and then turning toward my father and then back to the balcony. Dad squinted to see Mrs. Ludema as she nursed her husband’s head and then looked up at the cause of the disruption. Me.

Dad stared at me for fifteen seconds. I know because I counted every one of them. I did not look away; instead I memorized his sandy thick hair fringed with gray streaks. I couldn’t see his eyes because the sun was reflecting on the lenses of his glasses. His mouth was closed, his thick jaw tense. The congregation waited for the Reverend McAndrews, and so did I. At last he said, with a nod to the balcony and a sigh, “And the Word has come down from on high.”

During responsive reading, his voice rose and fell so predictably, I was nearly lulled to sleep unless I pulled out a pencil to sketch the hills and valleys. “‘O give thanks to the Lord, for he is gooood,’” Reverend McAndrews read from Psalm 136. His voice grew louder and the pitch higher until the word Lord, where he paused and let it fall off to a low, soft, long, concluding gooood.We echoed, “‘For his steadfast love endures for ever.’” After repeating it twenty-six times, what I thought everlasting was the psalm itself.

I did not question the psalmist’s message until I was nine and Matt was fifteen and we crossed a crevasse of pain. It took struggling through that jagged blackness of doubt and fear for the girl in the balcony to finally consider the words, and to really connect with the man in the pulpit and the woman at the organ.

My mother looked just like Jackie Kennedy. I don’t know if our former First Lady could play the organ, but my mother could not, despite the expectations of the elders of 

Brief Bio:

Ann Stewart, Christy Award Winner for Debut Novel 2017, and her husband Will raise two daughters and a flock of sheep on their Virginia farm where fireflies light up the sky on warm summer nights. Ann originated three of AMG’s Preparing My Heart books and writes a column “Ann’s Lovin’ Ewe” for the Country Register, contributes to Mentoring Moments and has written for Proverbs 31. Her background in drama and film bring her characters to life. When she’s not directing music or writing, she loves Madame Secretary, This is Us, and UVA Basketball.

Where else can readers find you online?     

Any social media links:

Website: www.annmariestewart.com  see book trailer!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnMariStewart/

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-stewart-37ba16171/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annmaristewart/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnnMariStewart

We're so happy to have Amy Anguish with us today talking about her book An Unexpected Legacy.  For more information about Amy and her book, read on!

Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.

1.     I’ve lived in eight different states in my lifetime.

2.     I am married to my first and only kiss.

3.     I once had pink streaks in my hair.

4.     I am not a dog person. Cats all the way.

5.     I hate coffee but adore hot tea.

Why did you choose to write this book?

I like to think stories choose me instead of me choosing them. A scene or idea pops into my head, then it grows ... and grows. This book started with just me imagining a girl sitting at an iron table outside a smoothie shop we used to go to occasionally in Round Rock, TX. What if she got interrupted from her book ... by a cute guy? It grew from there.

What one thing about writing do you wish non-writers would understand? 

Editing is hard! No matter how many times we go back through a story, we’re likely to miss at least one thing. And it’s not easy to change it once it’s been sent to publication. So, unless it’s a glaring mistake, it will probably just stay there.

What is the toughest test you've faced as a writer?

Learning to market myself and my books. It’s one thing to write a story down, but another thing completely to convince someone else that they should give it a chance rather than reading another book. It’s not something I ever imagined having to know. In the dreams I had as a teenager, I just figured I would write the book and someone else would sell it for me. I wish!

What do you hope readers to take away from your novel?

Just because people are Christians doesn’t mean their lives are perfect, or that they don’t struggle with things like faith, trust, and forgiveness. Christians are humans, too. They just have the help of their heavenly Father to get through the rough spots.

What accomplishment(s) are you most proud of, writing-related or not?

Being a mommy. 😊

What are you working on now? 

I have a new book coming out in April. It’s in edits right now, so I’m back and forth working on that. It’s about two sisters who don’t get along, forced to spend a summer together. While they’re dealing with that, they also deal with their own relationships, and struggles with faith and hope when life sends bad things their way.

I’m also editing another manuscript to start submitting it this year with hopes of publication. It’s about a girl who takes home a baby because its parents die in a wreck. She has to learn how to move past survivor’s guilt, the true meaning of love, and that sometimes God puts us in a place for a reason, but it might not be the reason we think.

What do you do for fun when not writing?

I’m pretty crafty. I dabble some in painting, crochet, sewing and quilting. And last summer I kept a garden and ended up canning some of that. It was hard work, but so satisfying to see the jars of veggies my family would eat this winter.

Where else can readers find you online?

   http://abitofanguish.weebly.com and http://www.facebook.com/amyanguishauthor

Bio

Amy R Anguish grew up a preacher's kid, and in spite of having lived in seven different states that are all south of the Mason Dixon line, she is not a football fan. Currently, she resides in Tennessee with her husband, daughter, and son, and usually a bossy cat or two. Amy has an English degree from Freed-Hardeman University that she intends to use to glorify God, and she wants her stories to show that while Christians face real struggles, it can still work out for good.

Back cover blurb

When Chad Manning introduces himself to Jessica Garcia at her favorite smoothie shop, it's like he stepped out of one of her romance novels. But as she tentatively walks into a relationship with this man of her dreams, secrets from their past threaten to shatter their already fragile bond.  Chad and Jessica must struggle to figure out if their relationship has a chance or if there is nothing between them but a love of smoothies.

Please give us the first page of the book.

1978

“Don’t even think about it.”

Sandy stared across the room at Rob’s eyes. Spellbinding. The brightest shade of blue she had ever seen. “About what?”

Ruth stepped between Sandy and her view. “That boy.”

“Which one?” Sandy asked, although she had a guess. She trailed her finger along the snack table, reached for a pretzel as a way to get a better view. His new letterman jacket hung loosely on his lean frame, his long fingers playing with the edge of his Bible as he stood talking to several other boys in the youth group.

Ruth turned Sandy to look at her. “You know which one. That Manning boy. That family’s no good.”

“How can you say that?”

Ruth huffed. “Are you coming or not?” She motioned toward the door. “Daddy’s waiting in the car.”

Sandy intentionally walked around the table in the opposite direction of her older sister so she could get a little closer to Rob as she left. Her heart sped up a bit as she wondered what it would feel like to have her hand in place of his Bible. He looked up, noticed her stare, and gave her a grin before she could duck her head.

Ruth caught up and nudged Sandy again as she slowed down. “Do you know where they’re living?”

“In the old Potter house.” Sandy frowned. “What does that have to do with anything?”

Ruth opened her mouth, as if to say something, then shook her head. “Just leave him alone, Sandy. He’s no good for you. You’re going to end up with your heart broken.”

“Don’t be silly, Ruthie.” Sandy pushed the door open. “I’m going to marry that boy.”

We're excited to have Judythe Morgan with us today talking about her book When Love Blooms, a novel about the Fitzpatrick Family. To learn more about this award winning author and her book, read on!

Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.

~I like to sing Sacred Harp. It’s also called fa so la singing and been around since the 1840s. Check it out, depending upon where you live, there might be a singing near you.

~I’m addicted to having an afternoon cup of Brewley’s Irish tea. It’s a habit I picked up on my many trips to Ireland.

~I taught computer literacy for seven years. Looking back, I’m still amazed we covered word processing, databases, spreadsheets, programming, telecommunications, technology futures, and ethics in an eighteen-week semester.

 ~I love snow. The ice that follows a beautiful snowfall, on the other hand, is not my friend.

~I’m a fifth generation Texan, back home after living in ten different states and South Korea.

Why did you choose to write this book?

This book grew from a contest I entered in 2009. Sadly, it didn’t win. I shelved Andy and Darcy’s story. Years later, in talking about the story concept, writer friends suggested it would make a great series. I dug out the old contest entry, worked with a story editor, and the Fitzpatrick Family series was born. Two of the eight Fitzpatrick siblings, Andy and Becca, have had their stories published. The others’ stories will be coming.

What one thing about writing do you wish non-writers would understand? 

I do wish friends understood why I sometimes say “no” when asked to do something or go somewhere, especially if I’m on deadline.

What is the toughest test you've faced as a writer?

It’s not exactly a test, though it does challenge me. Marketing and self-promotion is so hard for me. I’m very, very thankful for people like K. Dawn Bryd who make it so easy.

What do you hope readers take away from your novel?

I hope Darcy and Andy’s story will encourage readers to see that forgiveness can lead to happy endings.

What accomplishment(s) are you most proud of, writing-related or not?

I feel so proud when readers stop and talk to me about how much they enjoy my books.

What do you do for fun when not writing?

I love to play contract bridge and cook. Not at the same time, of course.

What are you working on now?

I’m plotting the next Fitzpatrick story for Joshua -When Love Trusts.   

Where else can readers find you online?   

Visit Judythe’s website to learn more about her.

Read her award-winning blog View from the Front Porc

Friend her on Facebook and Goodreads

Follow her on Twitter

Please give us the first page of the book.

Darcy Clark tightened her grip on the teetering wheelbarrow piled high with bags of black peat mulch for flowerbeds and focused on the four Goth-attired boys with spiked hair who watched her approach. The two girls standing beside them sported raccoon-eye mascara and brassy makeup. Mingling in the garden area of her high school alma mater, the group looked more like escapees from county juvie than students.

One of the boys, a rail-thin kid in a dirty heavy-metal band tee shirt with the logo so badly faded as to be unrecognizable, stomped on a row of dianthus. The others snickered.

“Stop! What do you think you’re doing?”

Darcy raced down the sidewalk heaving from roots of the massive oaks planted with the building construction in the 1950s when the small town of Burton finally had the population to warrant its own school district. For weeks, she’d landscaped the grounds for her upcoming ten-year reunion. Those hooligans were not going to destroy all her hard work. She cringed at the shredded flower petals and plucked foliage.

“What’s it to you, lady?” A different teenager with a defiant smirk plucked a primrose and crushed the tiny crimson blooms between his thumb and fingers.

“Yeah. It’s our school. We can pick flowers if we want.” The girl with a fuchsia streak in her midnight black hair pinched a white bloom from the bush, sniffed, and placed the flower behind her ear Hawaiian-style.

The ribbing escalated, each taunt becoming a little cruder than the last.

“I’m calling security.” Darcy reached in her pocket only to discover she had left her cell phone in the truck.

“No need for that.” A bearded man came from behind her and joined them. He shifted a black book under his arm and extended his hand. “Andrew Fitzpatrick. I apologize for my students. Everyone out of the flowerbeds. Now.”

Darcy pulled off her dirty glove and reluctantly shook his hand. Matthew Fitzpatrick’s younger brother had been a pimply-faced tween the first time she met him. Wanting to believe she could have handled the situation, at the same time thankful for his presence, she shot a suspicious glance at the students.

“Darcy Clark. If they’re your students, why aren’t you paying attention to what they’re doing? On second thought, how do I know you’re a teacher? I’ve heard the stories about drugs on campus. Maybe that book is your accounts book and you’re checking on your pushers.”

A stocky kid with an acute case of acne jumped off the flowerbed edging and gave a toothy grin. “Mr. Fitz a pusher? Nah, he’s too soft.”

Andrew Fitzpatrick whipped the black leather book out and flashed the title, Selected Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “See? Poetry.” Meeting Darcy’s gaze, he said, “I should have been paying more attention. English poetry is not a teenager’s favorite subject. I do apologize.”

Back cover blurb

After a hit-and-run accident leaves her mother confined to a special care facility, Darcy Clark abandons her dream of an art career to focus on the family’s struggling landscape business.

At-risk students from her old high school become the labor force on a city park project, and their teacher, Andy Fitzpatrick shows up to supervise his students. The chemistry between Darcy and Andy is instant.

But will a secret link between Andy and her mother’s accident kill the attraction before love can bloom?

Bio

Award-winning author Judythe Morgan was an Air Force daughter then an Army wife and a one time-Department of Army Civilian employee. She's seen a lot of this big world.

She's also a mother/grandmother, antiques dealer, teacher, former mayor's wife, and sometimes-church pianist. Recently, she's ventured into Sacred Harp singing and playing bridge. And she always finds time to love on her Old English sheepdog Finnegan MacCool and his Maltese brother, Buster.

Her diverse experiences have made her life full, her stories authentic, and her characters vivid and that, in turn, has earned her fiction numerous writing awards. She writes from a Christian worldview and there’s always an emotionally satisfying ending.

With her husband, a preacher’s kid, and her son, a preacher, she has a wealth of material for her Fitzpatrick Family series about eight preacher kids and their sweet romance stories. When Love Blooms is Andy’s story and first of the series.

Judythe is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and Romance Writers of America (RWA).

Barbara Britton Interview & Jerusalem Rising...

We're happy to have Barbara Britton with us today talking about her book Jerusalem Rising. To learn more about her and her book, read on!

Why did you choose to write this book?

I have taught the story of Nehemiah many times in Vacation Bible School. Kids love tearing down fake rocks and rebuilding them into a wall. Nehemiah was tasked with restoring the wall around Jerusalem and he also pointed the Hebrew people toward God. I was shocked to learn the daughters of Shallum helped rebuild Jerusalem’s wall. I thought their take on the construction project would make an interesting story. Women construction workers in Bible times were rare. I also discovered a prophetess in the book of Nehemiah who was new to me. She’s not a nice prophetess.

I enjoy bringing little known Bible stories to light. I wanted to share all the “new things” I discovered in the book of Nehemiah: women wall builders, a nasty prophetess, all the men who worked against Nehemiah and God. Spoiler alert. God wins.

What is the toughest test you’ve faced as a writer?

Even with three books published and three in the publishing pipeline, I sometimes doubt my writing skills. I need to cast the doubts aside and realize God gave me my passion. When I finish a manuscript, I look at the amount of work and say, “How did I do that?” With God. I’ve spent many years learning the craft of writing and I pray God will use me to shine a light on Him and His Word.

What do you hope readers take away from your novel?

The theme for “Jerusalem Rising” is be strong and courageous and do God’s work. It isn’t always easy to do Kingdom work or stand up for God, but God calls us to make disciples and share the Gospel. I hope people are encouraged by Adah and Nehemiah’s story.

What accomplishments are you most proud of, writing-related or not?

I am personally proud that I am active in ministry even though I have a lot of writing tasks. I love teaching Bible study and mentoring women, and I have honored those commitments even though life can get hectic at times. God gives us gifts to use in His church and I want to be faithful to Kingdom ministry.

Book Blurb:

When Adah bat Shallum finds the governor of Judah weeping over the crumbling wall of Jerusalem, she learns the reason for Nehemiah’s unexpected visit—God has called him to rebuild the wall around the City of David.

 Nehemiah challenges the men of Jerusalem to labor on the wall and in return, the names of their fathers will be written in the annals for future generations to cherish. But Adah has one sister and no brothers. Should her father who rules a half-district of Jerusalem be forgotten forever?

Adah bravely vows to rebuild her city’s wall, though she soon discovers that Jerusalem not only has enemies outside of the city, but also within. Can Adah, her sister, and the men they love, honor God’s call? Or will their mission be crushed by the same rocks they hope to raise.

The first page of  Jerusalem Rising:

Seventeen-year-old Adah bat Shallum breathed deep. Deep enough to carry the pomegranate, cassia, and aloe scents from the length of her nose to the depths of her lungs. Was this fragrance a treasure or a stench? She trusted her senses. Her patience had produced a precious perfume worth several silver coins. Possibly some gold ones too. Careful not to spill a single drop, she poured her afternoon’s labor into small glazed jars, and lined them one finger length from the edge of the shelf and one thumb width apart. A piece of whittled poplar closed every opening and kept her fragrance captive.

“Adah. Judith.” The summons echoed down the street. A harsh inflection deepened her father’s voice.

She peeked through a hole in the wall—a roughedged reminder of Nebuchadnezzar’s siege—and spied her father’s forward-leaning march. Wiping her hands on a clean rag, she scurried around the acacia wood table, a centerpiece to the small space she recently called her own. She crossed the threshold of her storeroom and hastened into the dirt lane.

What do you do for fun when not writing?

I love to read books by author friends. As Elizabeth Bennet said in the movie Pride and Prejudice, “I’m very fond of walking.” I don’t walk as much outside due to the cold Wisconsin winters.

What are you working on now?

I am finishing a mini-series about the daughters of Zelophehad. “Lioness: Mahlah’s Journey” will release in October of 2019 and tell the story of these five orphaned sisters. The remaining two books show their journey to inherit their land…and find love.

Where else can readers find you?

I have a website www.barbarambritton.com, and I am on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads.

Barb’s Bio:

Barbara M. Britton lives in Wisconsin and writes Christian Fiction for teens and adults. She has a nutrition degree from Baylor University but loves to dip healthy strawberries in chocolate. Barb brings little-known Bible characters to light in her Tribes of Israel series.

What Bible story would you like to know more about?

Gail Sattler's Interview & Spotlight of Mercury Rising

I'm happy to have Gail Sattler with me today with a spotlight of her book Mercury Rising. Click on the cover image for more info. To learn more about Gail and her book, read on!

Gail, please tell us five random things we might not know about you.

My first published book contracted on my 40th birthday

I have owned many pets but I have never had a cat

My car is a manual transmission

My favorite color is green

I've always wanted to play the violin

Why did you choose to write this book?

This book is based on a true story, with my husband as one of the affected victims. I thought it was intriguing, and so I built a story around it.

What one thing about writing do you wish non-writers would understand? 

The easier a book is to read, the harder it was to write.

What is the toughest test you've faced as a writer?

Short deadlines

What do you hope readers to take away from your novel?

Hope, because life is full of happy endings.

What accomplishment(s) are you most proud of, writing-related or not?

That I'm self-taught on the bass guitar, because I don't play guitar, my first instrument is piano.

Please give us the first page of the book. 

CHAPTER 1

When he first joined the FBI, Steve Gableman had anticipated a life of action and intrigue. International espionage. Secret missions. Dangerous liaisons. But this wasn’t one of them. After the fallout from his last assignment, he’d been downgraded. Just surveillance.

Although, he couldn’t complain. It wasn’t often an agent got running water with indoor plumbing on a stakeout, much less a whole house with comfortable furniture, a full fridge, and not a rodent in sight.

An elderly lady had called the FBI’s tip line after a bomb threat at her grandson’s school, saying the teen tried his luck on the Internet to see how difficult, or easy, it would be to build a bomb. While researching, the boy read a post from Jeff Schuster, the owner of a hydroponics store, also asking questions on building a bomb and then planting one. Except, unlike the boy, Schuster’s enquiries were serious. The FBI sent a mole into Schuster’s store, confirming that Jeff Schuster was indeed collecting the components to construct a bomb.

However, so far they hadn’t uncovered his target or his timeline.

When the FBI began their surveillance of Schuster’s home, they’d observed a group of four men who visited him at least three times a week, using different cars on rotation. They came and went quietly, returned a few days later in a different car, and the cycle repeated.

Schuster’s cohorts were quite an eclectic group. A couple of them had prison records, and only one had a real job. Steve’s team had a number of good leads, and they were following them.

Then there was Schuster’s neighbor, Cheryl Richardson, in the other half of Schuster’s duplex. Every second day, Schuster quietly knocked on her door and gave her a bag of unknown contents from his store. She always accepted it then quickly went back inside.

It had taken a month, but Steve finally managed to discover the contents of the bags.

Tomatoes. Grown in his hydroponics store to demonstrate his equipment.

She wasn’t helping Schuster make a bomb. She was making salad. His surveillance of her showed that other than accepting the unknown bags from Schuster, she led a clean and relatively boring life. She was a florist. She went to church faithfully. The highlight of her week was taking her small, fluffy dog to the library.

Tonight, here he sat, alone in a dark house, documenting the cleanest suspect he’d ever had the misfortune to be assigned. His report concluded that Cheryl Anne Richardson had no part in the operation. He could now re-join his team to research the real suspect.

He checked the monitors one more time. He'd planted two surveillance cameras to watch her, both planted in his own yard, so he had visual, but not audio. The camera in the front caught both Cheryl and Schuster's front doors in front of the duplex, allowing both Steve and his team, depending on who was on duty to watch, to capture images of who came and went. The second was mounted on a tree in his back yard, for now aimed both rear patio doors which exited to the shared porch. Cheryl Richardson had gone back in the house, and the pattern of lights turning off showed that she’d gone to bed.

He would complete his report in the morning.

His head had barely touched the pillow when his monitor beeped. Steve grumbled and trudged to his display to see what she was doing. The panel indicated movement, so he flipped on the view screen. The sliding door to the back yard was open. Cheryl stood in the gap, bundled in her housecoat. He turned the camera remotely, to watch the same thing that he did every night at this same time. Her fuzzy little dog made his way to a tree in the middle of the back yard,  did his business, and hobbled back into the house.

Steve nearly groaned. The most exciting thing the woman had done in twenty-four hours was let the dog out.

When the door closed, he reached to aim the camera back at the house, and then he'd turn off the monitor. His finger had begun its downward path to press the button when the light on the motion detector flashed again. He froze. He couldn’t see what, but something in the yard had moved, and it wasn’t her dog.

 What do you do for fun when not writing?

I play bass in a local jazz band as well as an Elton John tribute band, and I play piano for a community jazz band.

What are you working on now? 

A five book series featuring five members of the Kozlowski family, starting when four of Zac Kozlowski's relatives move in to his house for different reasons, all at once, and his neighbor tries her best to help. Or does she?

Where else can readers find you online?   

Visit Gail Sattler's website at www.gailsattler.com - and click on her blog to see what goes on in the mind of a writer

Facebook  - https://www.facebook.com/gail.sattler.3

Gail Sattler's author page at https://www.facebook.com/Gail-Sattler-author-568988573496833/?modal=admin_todo_tour

Bio

Gail Sattler lives in Vancouver BC Canada, where you don't have to shovel rain. When she's not feverently writing (Gail Sattler has over 40 published novels and novellas, plus a few works of non-fiction) she plays bass in an Elton John tribute band and a community jazz band, as well as  piano in a smaller private jazz band. When she's not writing or making music (or at her day job) Gail likes to sit back and read a book written by someone else, along with a good cup of hot coffee.

Back cover blurb

Mercury Rising - by Gail Sattler

Michael wants to save his daughter, but first he’s got to save the world.

Michael and Charlotte meet when Michael is trying to find Ashley, his missing daughter who has fallen into drug abuse, and Charlotte is searching for her son Jon, a brilliant and aspiring young scientist who has also gone missing.
Ashley and Jon should have nothing in common, but after the murder of Jon’s favorite professor, they become ensnared in a tangled web that becomes worse with every new discovery.
When Michael and Charlotte join together to figure what their children have become involved with, they, too, are sucked into a sinkhole for which there are no answers, only more questions. 
When all seems lost, will they all recognize the source of strength offered to them, and… will they take it?