Welcome back, Caryl.
Thank you so much for having me back, Lena !
I love coming to visit with you!
You have a lot of
books out now. What is your favorite setting to use in your books?
Yes, ma’am! At the end of 2020, I’ll have fifty-six titles
published. Since 2015, I’ve averaged seven new titles a year. That’s a lot when
you’re doing all the negotiating for covers, formatting, publishing and marketing
by yourself . The only thing I have help with is, of course, the writing since
Ron and I write together.
As for my favorite settings. That’s got to beTexas . Even my June 2020 release, KENTUCKY
BRIDE, my heroine meets and falls for a Texas Ranger fighting for the
Confederacy! I’m a true blue, loyal Texan by heart even though I was born in California .
As for my favorite settings. That’s got to be
My Texas Romances Family Saga is set in Clarksville ,
seat of Red River
County where we live now.
This area is so ripe with history; it lent itself as a wonderful setting. And
we know the land so well. That series has ten full-length novels and six Texas
Companion Books of those families’ ancestors and descendants.
My characters travel and some even move to both coasts—San
Francisco and New York .
Some even went to Alaska , but Texas is always home.
There’s about to be five titles so far in my new Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga where each of the novels hasTexas
in its title. Those families came to Texas in
1840 from Tennessee .
They’ve done some traveling, too.
A NURSE FOR JACOB, we randomly set inNew Orleans
and the Touro Infirmary or Hospital now.
What do you look for when you’re shopping for a book to buy for yourself?
My characters travel and some even move to both coasts—
There’s about to be five titles so far in my new Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga where each of the novels has
A NURSE FOR JACOB, we randomly set in
What do you look for when you’re shopping for a book to buy for yourself?
I must admit, writing seven titles a year leaves little time
for reading, but God is slowing me down. He keeps having me remove things from
my plate. The only blog I have left is my own at my website which I haven’t
written for in a long time.
Many of my author friends send me their books for endorsements, but if the stories don’t hook me right away, I don’t finish them. When one does, I can’t put it down and get so far behind! I cannot remember the last time I went shopping for a book. I truly hate saying that.
I do understand. With
my newest 3-book contract, I don’t have many other activities. Give us a little
tour of the setting for this book.
The book opens when Lydia Andres, freshly graduated from the
Harrows
This is the first time a whole story—albeit quite short, the shortest we’ve written—is set there, but we don’t mention the seedy parts.
It's short because the authors who organized the collection
set the lengths of the stories. When you sign up for a collection, you should
adhere to the guidelines the leaders of that collection set. I prefer writing a
long book.
What other books do
you have coming out soon?
On September first, I’m quite excited to release TEXAS
TROUBLES, book five in the Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga I mentioned
earlier and, it’s also in the third annual Thanksgiving Books and Blessings
Collection which as you know, I organize each year. I was blessed for you to be
a part of it the first year with ESTHER’S TEMPTATION!
TEXAS TROUBLES covers the Civil War period. What an oxymoron to call that war civil in any world. It actually opens in the summer of 1860 before the war started with a true incident ofTexas
history called Texas Troubles. Several towns burned on the same day: Dallas , Denton ,
and Pilot Point. Negro slaves were blamed and hung. Many say it was the
beginning of the war.
The two young scallywag boys—if memory serves they were five and six in 1840, characters of GONE TO TEXAS, book one of the Cross Timbers series. Now they have grown into men, and they’re off to fight in the craziness—on opposite sides. It’s an epic story with two romances in its pages that is available on Pre-order nowhere: https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Troubles-Timbers-Thanksgiving-Blessings-ebook/dp/B08DJ7YKS8
TEXAS TROUBLES covers the Civil War period. What an oxymoron to call that war civil in any world. It actually opens in the summer of 1860 before the war started with a true incident of
The two young scallywag boys—if memory serves they were five and six in 1840, characters of GONE TO TEXAS, book one of the Cross Timbers series. Now they have grown into men, and they’re off to fight in the craziness—on opposite sides. It’s an epic story with two romances in its pages that is available on Pre-order nowhere: https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Troubles-Timbers-Thanksgiving-Blessings-ebook/dp/B08DJ7YKS8
Please give us a
glimpse inside your home.
Ron and I built a metal home on 34 acres I call The
Peaceable. We still had the four grandsons when we moved in July of 2013.
There’s two bedrooms and two baths downstairs and four cubicles upstairs, one
for each boy. The last one left in 2017, so at age 67, we became empty nesters!
We didn’t put central heat and air in the house. So now, we
only cool one room unless company comes—our bedroom. It has both our computer
desks, a comfy TV watching, nap chair for Ron, a fireplace, and our queen-sized
bed. This is where all the writing is done unless we’re traveling.
Here’s a photo taken from the living room
door into our room. I sit at the big armoire desk in the far corner, Ron’s desk
is on the wall to the right.
We pretty much stay in there unless we’re eating or outside
working in the yard. We eat in the dining room where I painted some fun woods
with a deer, a couple of squirrels and a mama bird with a nest full of hungry
mouths.
I’m trying to carve a yard out in the middle of The
Peaceable’s woods. Ron wasn’t onboard at first. He liked the no-work “natural”
look, but I kept working at it until finally, he agreed it was looking better
and better and is helping me now.
After all, didn’t God first say to tend the garden?
Is this novel part of
a series or a stand-alone book?
A NURSE FOR JACOB, for me, is a standalone story. It doesn’t
have any of my other books’ characters in it. Even though I love doing that. It
is a part of a multi-author collection, “Nursing the Heart” in which all the
stories are standalone from each other. The connection is that all the nurses
have just graduated in the same class at the fictitious Harrow’s School of Nursing .
Tell us about the
story.
The jacket copy goes like this: Physician heal thyself.
While physical wounds heal with time, a special balm is needed to heal those sick of soul. In the Civil War aftermath, two such people’s paths cross.
While physical wounds heal with time, a special balm is needed to heal those sick of soul. In the Civil War aftermath, two such people’s paths cross.
Recent graduate of the Harrow School of Nursing first class
in May 1868,
Lydia Andrews arrives at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans , hired on
Clara Barton’s endorsement. There she meets Doctor Jacob Johnston, and both
soon learn that love is the salve to soothe wounded souls.
That and the joy of helping those wounded caused her to love
nursing and submit to the school for admittance.
Please give us the
first page of the book.
“May I help you, Miss?” The old lady’s tone implied she
hated surprises and had a strong desire to know it all. Perhaps she loved order
above all else.
Hopefully, a smile would soften her.
“Yes, ma’am. Might you please direct me to the matron? I’m
Nurse Lydia Andrews from the Harrow School of Nursing, graduation class of
1868, reporting for duty, ma’am.” She almost started to salute, but instead,
just smiled.
The woman didn’t seem amused or impressed.
“I believe the matron is expecting me, ma’am. She’s
discussed me coming with Miss Clara Barton herself.”
A feminine wailing came from down the hall to the woman’s
right and drowned out her response. The lady shot a furtive glance in that
direction then looked back. “Uh . . .”
Another scream, that one louder than the first and even more
painful sounding, caused Lydia
to take a step toward the commotion.
“Ma’am? Is someone with her? Should I go see?”
The receptionist shrugged. “She’s been like that for a while
now. Doctor Johnston should be here any minute. I’ve already sent word
upstairs.”
“I see. Thank you.” Lydia did a quick sidestep. “I’ll
just go take a peek and see if perhaps I may be of assistance.”
Another scream threatened to pierce the air asunder. She
picked up her pace then burst into the exam room. The extremely pregnant woman
lay on the table, her husband holding her hand. He appeared as though he might
pass out any minute himself.
It took the poor woman three more contractions with Lydia
helping to get the baby out. She cleaned the child’s mouth then swatted the
little one’s bottom, being rewarded with a nice, healthy, albeit plenty angry,
cry. As precious as anything could ever be, the newborn boy had been through
quite the ordeal himself! And he wasn’t one little bit happy about it.
She laid him on his mama’s belly, tied off and cut the cord,
then readied to receive the placenta. The afterbirth looked complete, but she
saved it in case the doctor wanted to examine it. Another woman came in, took a
quick look and ran out again. In mere minutes, she returned with water and
towels.
It didn’t take long to realize the new mother was bleeding
too much. The baby’s head had torn open a six-inch gash in the birth
canal. Lydia ’s eyes searched those of the
woman.
“Where’s Doctor James?”
The other lady, maybe twice her age, only shrugged. “I’m
sorry, I have no idea. Two hours ago, he was in surgery. Two gamblers got into
it, and he was working on the loser. Haven’t seen him since then.”
How can readers find
you on the Internet?
I wouldn’t imagine that would be any hill for a stepper! I’m
all over the internet! I have author’s pages at Amazon, Simon and Schuster,
BookBub, All Author, Book Gorilla, and Southern Writers Magazine! Plus, I
participate in all the social media sites! Here are those links and others!
Author Pages:
Simon & Schuster - http://tinyurl.com/S-SCarylsPage
BookGorilla - http://www.bookgorilla.com/author/B00E963CFG/caryl-mcadoo
Southern Writers Magazine - http://authors.southernwritersmagazine.com/caryl-mcadoo.html
Southern Writers Magazine - http://authors.southernwritersmagazine.com/caryl-mcadoo.html
Website: http://www.CarylMcAdoo.com
Newsletter: http://carylmcadoo.com/sign-up-to-the-caryler/
(Hear Caryl sing her New Songs!)
Blogs:
The Word & the Music http://carylmcadoo.com/blog/
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GoodReads: http://tinyurl.com/GoodReadsCaryl
Google+: http://tinyurl.com/CarylsGooglePlus
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/CarylMcAdoo
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/CarylMcAdoo
Thank you again for inviting me, Lena !
Blessings to you and James!
And thank you, Caryl,
for sharing this new book with us. I know my blog readers are as anxious as I
am to find out what happens next.
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12 comments:
A NURSE FOR JACOB by Caryl McAdoo sounds wonderful.PA.Thank you for the opportunity to win.I enjoy reading your books.
Hello, Emma! I'm so glad you have read some of my titles and enjoyed them :) So far, everyone loves A NURSE FOR JACOB which thrills me. One of my regular readers says it may be her favorite story I've written. That's special to hear! I guess every author thinks, "Will they like this one?" So it's always a good relief when the reviews are good. It only has nine reviews so far, but they are all five-star! Blessings!
What a way to end the first page! You definitely had me hooked! I love your books. :)
Hello from WV. I love Caryl’s heart for the Lord. Thank you for sharing. Blessings
Hey Janis! Thank you for loving my books! Nothing better for an author to hear! And I'm also very glad to know I hooked you! That's something I take to heart . . . making the stories grab the reader and get them right into the book straight off. As the author, I need to know the characters' back-stories, but my readers find all that out (if it's pertinent) as they get to know my characters better like they do in real life, getting to know a new friend :)
Thanks for coming by and commenting! <3
Hello Lucy! What a sweet thing for you to say! I love Lena and come by every chance I get.
How have you been? It seems like I haven't seen you online, but the may be more my fault as writing so many new titles keeps me in Word and away from scrolling and joining in the groups I enjoy :) Blessings to you! <3
Oh Caryl, this sounds like a fantastic book! I would love to read it!
And you are right..... Texas is home!
Sounds great. Lovely location. FL
Hey there Melanie! We ought to meet one of these days for lunch! It is a fun book everyone seems to love :) And I really enjoyed Jacob and Lydia :) Thanks for coming by!
Hello Nancy! I hope you aren't on the east coast, but I'm praying for those Floridians! You're new to me, aren't you? Have you read any of my stories. This is a short one, but a nice introduction if you haven't :) BLESSINGS! Thanks for stopping by! <3
Hey Lena and Caryl! Caryl stories are fabulous! I'm looking forward to reading "A Nurse for Jacob".
Caryl K in TEXAS
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