HALLOWED HALLS - Hannah Alexander - One Free Book

Dear Readers, I’ve loved every Hannah Alexander novel I’ve read, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce this writing duo to you. You’ll love their books, too.

As an author, I know it takes a lot of people to birth each book. Who were the people involved in the birthing of this book, and what were their contributions? Since my husband and I work together on each book for the pen name of Hannah Alexander, Mel is my sounding board, my encourager, my resident expert on all things medical. He edits, checks for typos, markets. He is the “Alexander” of Hannah Alexander. We also have a group of friends who are novelists who brainstorm with us. We call them the “Kansas Eight.” They know who they are.

I have been meeting with long-time friends who graduated from high school with me. Six or seven or ten of us girls get together for a pajama party once a year, and we realize that we still like each other after all this time. They have been my inspiration for this whole series. I wish to show how the solid foundation of friendship can work. So Sherry, Doris, Tess, Sheila, Linda, Deb, Vickie, Marie, Corinne, Peggy, thank you for being my friends.

If you teach or speak. What’s coming up on your calendar? We have a move coming up on our calendar. I learned a few years ago that I am too scattered to speak plus write, and so when we moved from Missouri to the wilds of Nebraska Panhandle, and then later to Wyoming, I left my speaking life behind.

If you had to completely start over in another place, where would you move, and why? What a great question, since we are completely starting over once again. We plan to move to Phoenix, Arizona, before the end of the year. We have discovered that my Southern California bones don’t do well in cold weather. Wyoming is winter about eight months of the year, complete with thick ice on the street for many months. Mel works in the ER, and has seen so many broken bones from falls on the ice that I don’t like getting outside during the winter. I’m so thankful that we have several friends and family members where we’re moving, so we won’t feel alone at all.

Neither James nor I do well in the cold either. If you could only tell aspiring novelists one thing, what would it be? Get edited. I put so many books down because of the writer’s inability to form a good plot, write good dialogue, create lovable characters, or even write a good sentence. A good editor can help with all of that.

That is so true. You’ve been asked to be in charge of a celebrity cruise. Who would you ask to take part, and why? (AS in what program, singers, etc. [it doesn’t have to be writing related]) My dream come true would not be an ocean cruise. I have wanted to go on a riverboat cruise for many years. The idea of sitting on a deck of a boat with far fewer people is paradise for me. I would love to see the shore at all times, the animals along the way, the towns, the other boats. My celebrities would most definitely be some of my favorite novelists, and we would sit together on the decks and form brainstorming teams and develop lasting friendships. Jerry Jenkins would be keynote speaker. For entertainment, I would have karaoke with many of my favorite writers singing—Angie Hunt, Karen Ball, Dave Lambert, Jim Bell, Bob Elmer, Brandilyn Collins, Nancy Moser—and we will all join in and sing along and rock the place!

Sounds like fun. I’ve wanted to do the riverboat cruise, too. Tell us about the featured book. Hallowed Halls is the first book in the Hallowed Halls Series. When Dr. Joy Gilbert is fired from a lucrative position in Kansas City, she returns to her small med school town on the Missouri River to find her former fiancé, Zack Travis, single; her once vivacious mother, Molly, struggling financially and physically; and Tressa, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the boss who just fired Joy, popping out the back door of the car. Tressa refuses to return to the city, where her divorced parents continue to battle one another in the aftermath of her brother’s death.

The girl’s rebellion threatens Joy’s medical license, but that threat means nothing when Tressa starts getting sick, and it appears that her parents might lose another child.

Will Joy and Zack be able to work together again in time to save Tressa’s life?

Please give us the first page of the book. Fury surged through Dr. Joy Gilbert like a rifle shot as she shut her office door and yanked the stethoscope from around her neck, suppressing a rebel yell. She stormed to the wide windows and sucked in her breath, ready to throw open the panes and shock the world. But an inquisitive squirrel leapt from one branch to another on a tree behind the clinic.

With a comical tilt of his head the furry critter broke the force of her outrage. Joy released her breath and deflated. As a child, she’d helped Mom bottle-feed an orphaned gray squirrel, and the little thick-tailed acrobat had often made her laugh.

Why scare the squirrels because she was angry with the ridiculous accusations of a hostile patient? The man was unbelievable.

Her intercom buzzed, jerking her back to complete maturity. “Dr. Gilbert, honey, you okay in there?” It was Betty, her favorite nurse.

“Give me a sec—”

“The boss is on his way to the clinic, sweetie. I want to rush Mr. Bezier out the door before he can waylay Mr. Cline.”

Joy winced. Along with half the clinic staff and several patients in the waiting room, Betty had clearly heard Frank Bezier berating Joy for her refusal to write him a script for a half-year’s supply of Percocet. He wouldn’t listen when she explained that was illegal.

Where can we find you on the Internet?

You can find us at www.hannahalexander.com

You can also find Hannah Alexander on Amazon.com

Email us at askhannah@hannahalexander.com

Thank you, Cheryl, for sharing this book with my blog readers and me.

Readers, here are links to the book.

https://amzn.to/3fR8cQb - Paperback

https://amzn.to/3yCMs30 - Kindle

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