Personal Update:
Robert and I are headed to France! And we’re excited to experience France’s cultural motto: joie de vivre! We want to squeeze as much French culture: its natural and architectural beauty, food, history, and people as we can.
And what better way than to experience it through planes, trains, and automobiles. We’re flying into Paris, catching a train to Toulouse, and renting a car to drive to Gavarnie in the French Pyrenees. (Google Gavernie Cirque- it’s stunning.)
In Gavarnie, I’m conducting book research for Book 3 of the Mayo Love series. I’ll walk in my character’s shoes: breathing the cool mountain air, tasting the French cuisine, and seeing the lakes, the waterfalls, and forests.
We’ve already booked tickets to The Louvre Museum, a dinner cruise on the Seine, and a food tour in Lourdes. Also, we get to visit with dear friends: my fellow Lady Lit, Janet Weinou. I’m excited to meet her in person since we’ve only met online.
Then we’ll finish our trip in Prague, Czechia to visit the Lillards. Jerry Lillard was our pastor in Tulsa before he and his family moved overseas. Since my grandma is Czech, I’m excited to visit a part of my heritage.
Be prepared for pictures in the October newsletter!
Featured image of the Eiffel Tower Courtesy Alex Ovs on Unsplash
Writing Corner
Photo Credit: Sarah Freeman
I’ve finished the proofreading edits, so this month, I’ll be emailing the Advanced Reader Copy for Christmas at Sonshine Barn to all who volunteered.
I’m anticipating an early November release. And this coincides with the Christmas anthology I’m participating in as well. Wow! I never thought I’d be releasing a debut novel and Christmas anthology around the same time. Exciting!
In case you’ve followed me closely, after I had a marketing consult with a prolific author, she informed me that my novella is actually a novel. But it’s on the lower end of a novel (it’s about 60,000 words, 25 chapters).
Featured Author: Jill “J. Bea” Wilson
Jill “J. Bea” Wilson joyfully adopted her pen name after living with chronic pain for more than two decades. A freelance editor for over thirty years, she spent three years typing her way through the Bible and ten years homeschooling her daughter with special needs. With the support of her husband of thirty years and the companionship of their rescue chihuahua, Bilbo, she is now embracing her season of knitting wooly yarns, both fiber and fiction.
J. Bea’s writing passion is using story to unveil and celebrate the essential role of people with disability within the body of Christ. She has completed writing novels based on the Genesis account of Leah and on events recorded in Joshua. Her story featuring Mephibosheth is outlined. All seven novels planned for her Blemished Sheep Series recast biblical accounts into modern or future contexts and feature characters challenged by disability.
For updates on J. Bea’s writing, visit jbeawilson.com to join her Lift! newsletter community, lifting hearts and hands through story. She especially loves featuring the creativity of others through her prompt-driven Inspired contests.
You’ll also find jbeawilson on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Read J. Bea’s short story “Poison Mushrooms,” a whimsical story of a single-mother needing an inspirational reminder that life is sweet and fulfilling.
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