Molly Noble Bull's "Cinderella Texas"

Cinderella Texas (The Cattlemen Series – Volume 1)
by Molly Noble Bull
www.mollynoblebull.com

My new novel, Cinderella Texas, is the retelling of a famous fairy tale complete with a shoe problem for the heroine, Alyson Spencer. A prince-like cowboy is the hero of this modern western, Robert Lee Greene IV—called Quatro. Quatro is a rancher, an oil baron and one of the richest men in Texas, and he is also a widower with two school age children. How could Alyson have guessed that when she couldn’t find a teaching job in Dallas, she would accept a position home schooling Quatro’s children and be paid a tremendous salary for doing it?

City girl, Alyson, expects life on the huge Greene Ranch in South Texas to be idyllic. She will be living in Quatro’s home along with his children, his parents and his grandfather, and she visualizes a majestic mansion surrounded by well-tended gardens—a swimming pool and servants at her beckon call.

What she finds causes her to want to fly back to Dallas. Quatro and his family believe that modern technology corrupts. The rundown two-hundred-year old dog-run house on the cover of Cinderella Texas is the Greene home. The house is without electricity and all necessities of normal American life.

Alyson tries to get out of her teaching contract, but it is unbreakable. How is she expected to teach modern children without a computer and a working telephone? And why is Quatro so handsome and yet so pig-headed?

As with all my novels, Cinderella Texas has a Christian message that I hope will point others to the Lord. Cinderella Texas is a lighthearted romance that will make you smile. Maybe it will even make you laugh, and it is available as an e-book and will soon be published in paperback.

As the first in The Cattlemen Series, more of my westerns will follow. To find Cinderella Texas and all my novels at Amazon or Barnes and Noble, write Molly Noble Bull in the search slot.

Ada Brownell's "Swallowed by Life: Mysteries of Death, Resurrection and the Eternal"

Title: Swallowed by Life: Mysteries of Death, Resurrection and the Eternal.
Cover blurb: Do you know you are more than a physical body? An award-winning medical and religion writer, Ada Brownell—through her research after the death of her daughter—shows why we have hope of eternal life, not only from a Christian point of view, but because of physical evidence.

1) How did this story come to you?Through my work as a medical journalist, free lance religion writer, research, picking the brains of medical professionals, and observing the obvious. But it was a direct result of the death of our oldest daughter, Carolyn, a beautiful 31-year-old dedicated Christian and musician who had perfect pitch. She died within two months after the cancer diagnosis and I wanted to know for sure that I believed what I thought I believed about the eternal.

2) Tell us about the journey to getting this book published.I had a traditional publisher who already was editing the manuscript when he went bankrupt. At that time, Swallowed by Life was as a four-part book 1) You have hope because God created you so that you’re more than a body 2) How to Deal with losses that come with age and illness 3) Making difficult choices, such as pain control; life-extending treatments; assisted suicide; euthanasia; burial or cremation; and similar issues along with opinions or statements of religious denominations, medical ethics boards, etc. Although my name was widely known because of my articles in Christian publications, other publishers seemed to feel I needed to be a doctor or a minister with a large following to author such a book. So I put it aside and changed it after I retired to what I have now, when I went with CreateSpace.

It was written for support groups, religion classes, people with chronic or terminal illness, individual s who fear death or are curious about it, the grieving, and those who give them counsel.

3) Tell me three things about yourself that would surprise your readers.
A natural redhead, I won Best Actress in a one-act play contest when I was in high school and afterward two judges took me aside and told me I should go to Hollywood because I could be another Lucille Ball. Perhaps that’s why this book has places that will make the reader smile.

4) What are you working on now and what's next for you?
My teen novel, Joe the Dreamer: The Castle and the Catapult, will be released soon. The summary sentence: “In this teen thriller a 14-year-old youth becomes the target of the radical group that enslaves his parents, and his fate could be worse than death.” After that, I will polish my completed historical romance, The Lady Fugitive, and send it to the publisher.

5) Parting comments?
Thanks for inviting me to be your guest.

6) Where can fans find you on the internet? http://www.inkfromanearthenvessel.blogspot.com
The book link: http://amzn.to/Jnc1rW