Calling is the simplest answer. I thought about other
careers and have held other jobs, and being an author was the primary goal in
my life as far as careers go. No matter where I worked or in which career—high
school teacher, HR administrator, office manager … everything led back to me
becoming an author.
If you weren’t an
author, what would be your dream job?
This probably won’t surprise anyone who has read my books,
and I’d like to be a college history professor.
If you could have
lived at another time in history, what would it be and why?
Probably the turn of the 20th century. It was far enough ago
to still hold elegance, style, and old-fashioned values, yet late enough to
have modern conveniences like electricity, hot water baths, and telephones.
Doctors had even realized that wounds needed to be kept clean and surgery
performed under sterile conditions. They had anesthesia. Antibiotics were a
ways off, but medicine was getting modern.
What place in the United States
have you not visited that you would like to?
The far northeast or the far northwest like East
Port , Maine , or Puget
Sound .
How about a foreign
country you hope to visit?
I’ve been to numerous countries outside the U.S. , including Iceland ,
and I’ve yet to get to Scotland ,
one of the primary countries I’ve always wanted to visit.
What lesson has the
Lord taught you recently?
Stop worrying. He has everything under control.
Tell us about the
featured book.
A Reluctant Courtship is the third book in the Daughters of
Bainbridge series, a Regency Romance series. This one features the youngest
sister, who has a little problem with falling in love with the exact wrong man.
So now she fears that the man she is falling for might be guilty of the crime
of which he is accused because … Well, she loves him. In other words, she has
lost all the youthful innocence and surety that she holds the world in her
hands with which the series began. She needs to work her way back to her faith
and her belief in herself as a beloved child of God—and faces danger,
heartache, and romantic fun along the way.
Please give us the
first page of the book.
September 1813
Miss Honore Bainbridge was about to fall off a cliff. One minute she stood examining a fissure in the stratified rock, and the next, the crack turned into a gaping hole—ready, able, and apparently eager to swallow her whole. Her feet plunged off solid ground. Her pinwheeling arms grasped a spindly shrub struggling for life above the sea, and she clung to it with about as much hope of survival as the infant bush.
She did not scream. She had opened her mouth to do so, but her middle slammed into the rock, driving the breath from her lungs in an ignominious squeak.
And there she dangled with her arms around a sapling, her feet swinging two hundred feet over the sea, and a hawk circling above as though trying to decide if her feathered hat was some kind of new small bird.
“I am not your dinner,” she gasped out to the hawk.
More like supper for several schools of fish.
At least Papa would never know that his youngest daughter had culminated her disastrous penchant for falling in love unwisely by falling off a cliff.
Miss Honore Bainbridge was about to fall off a cliff. One minute she stood examining a fissure in the stratified rock, and the next, the crack turned into a gaping hole—ready, able, and apparently eager to swallow her whole. Her feet plunged off solid ground. Her pinwheeling arms grasped a spindly shrub struggling for life above the sea, and she clung to it with about as much hope of survival as the infant bush.
She did not scream. She had opened her mouth to do so, but her middle slammed into the rock, driving the breath from her lungs in an ignominious squeak.
And there she dangled with her arms around a sapling, her feet swinging two hundred feet over the sea, and a hawk circling above as though trying to decide if her feathered hat was some kind of new small bird.
“I am not your dinner,” she gasped out to the hawk.
More like supper for several schools of fish.
At least Papa would never know that his youngest daughter had culminated her disastrous penchant for falling in love unwisely by falling off a cliff.
“I suppose this is one catastrophe you can't
get me out of, Lord?” Through gasps for air from her constricted lungs, she
managed the kind of cynical prayer that had become her usual way of communicating
with God of late. “I suppose you can, but it looks like—“
The shrub began to loosen from its precarious hold on the thin soil.
The shrub began to loosen from its precarious hold on the thin soil.
What a wonderful
hook. I can’t wait to read the next page. How can readers find you on the
Internet?
My web site is: http://www.lauriealiceeakes.com
My Twitter handle is: @LaurieAEakesDear Readers, one of Laurie Alices's relatives had a heart attack this weekend. She may or may not be able to answer comments. When you do leave a comment on the blog for a chance to win a copy of the book, please leave a prayer for her family if you feel led to. I know how caring all of you are.
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This really sounds like a read for me. Thank You!
ReplyDeleteAmy C
VA
I love Laura's writing and always look forward to her new books!
ReplyDeleteDonna, TX
I haven't read her books yet but I'm sure looking forward to it! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHeidi, CA
I enjoyed the first two books in this series and I'm looking forward to Honore's story!
ReplyDeleteAbbi (PA)
Thank you, Lena for the interesting interview. I haven't read Laurie's books but I sure would like to. I am sorry to hear of the health issues of her family member and will certainly remember them. Thank you again!
ReplyDeleteMelanie Backus, TX
Laurie, I am so sorry to hear of your loved one's heart attack. Please know you and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lena, for sharing this interview and giveaway!
Britney Adams, TX
Your family will be in my prayers Laurie! Thanks for the opportunity to win your books!
ReplyDeleteLive Oak,Fl
sarajohns95@yahoo.com
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Laurie.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the chance to win Reluctant Courtship.
Wendy in FL
wfnren(at)aol(dot)com
Sending best wishes & prayers.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading A RELUCTANT COURTSHIP.
Mary P
QLD AUSTRALIA
would love to win. Angela from KY
ReplyDeleteI pray your family member gets well soon!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this first book in this series and look forward to this one.
Lis from VA
I would love to read Honore's story!
ReplyDeletePatty in SC
Don't know if I am in time to enter to win her book. But there isn't a book she writes I don't want to read. They so encourage you.
ReplyDeletejrs362 at Hotmail dot com
Live in Missouri
Laurie Alice came by the blog and read all your comments and prayers. She thanks you for them very much. I had forgotten to turn off the word verification feature for her. She can't use it.
ReplyDeleteHer mother is very ill, and she welcomes every prayer you sent up to the Lord for her.
She also said to keep them coming.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear Laurie's mother is ill. :-(
ReplyDeleteI think the turn of the century would also be great to live in. Never thought about it much, but, yes! It would be just the right amount of old fashioned and modern to be enjoyable!
Stephanie
Binghamton, NY
mybabyblessings AT gmail DOT com
Praying for you and your family, Laurie.
ReplyDeleteLove your book. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this giveaway.
Barbara Thompson in LA
barbmaci61(at)yahoo(dot)com
Thank you for this opportunity!
ReplyDeleteJean K
West Palm Beach, FL
What a horrible decision to make- date a criminal or turn against him, but you've already fallen in love! I would love to read this one. sharon, ca
ReplyDeleteThank you all for stopping by. My family and I appreciate your pryers for my dear mother.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't win the book this week, next week, at the online launch party, I am giving away a total of 5 Amaon or Barnes and Noble gift cards (winner chooses). Plus chocolate. http://www.regencyreflections.com. The Book Club network is giving away five copies, and you ahve to join, though I think it's free.
I would love to win this awesome book, enter me!
ReplyDeleteIf I win I would choose the paperback!
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway and God Bless!
Sarah Richmond
NC
Whoa, what a beginning! I'd love to win A Reluctant Courtship. You are in my prayers.
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Praying for Laurie Alice and her mother and family.
ReplyDeleteTennessee
I know this is a book I would enjoy. Thanks for the nice interview.
ReplyDeleteBeth from Iowa
Enter me for this great giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteSharon Richmond Bryant
Conway,SC.
sharonruth126@gmail.com
Enjoyed your interview, Laurie!
ReplyDeletePraying for healing for your mother, & strength, & peace, for you & family!
The character in your book, A Reluctant Courtship, seems to have the same problem I used to have - falling for the bad boys! Haven't read any of your books, & would love to read this one - thanks for the opportunity to win a copy!
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Kentucky