HIS MOST TENDER TOUCH - Tanya Stowe - One Free Book

Welcome back to my blog, Tanya. God has really been moving in your writing life. What do you see on the horizon? Oh goodness, that’s a really good question. My husband is retired and we travel full time. Life has taken some unexpected twists in the last six months and I’m struggling to find writing time. I’ve spent a lot of time in prayer. I think the Lord is leading me to write smarter not more. I don’t know how that’s going to shape up yet. I’m still praying!

When my publisher had our author’s meeting, she had Susan May Warren teach us about how she writes better and quicker. She’s written a book about what she does. I ordered it from Amazon. It’s amazing. The book is The Story Equation. This might help you, too.

Tell us a little about your family. My husband and I have four children, twenty-two grandchildren and four great-grands with one on the way. We have a very large family spread out over the western states. We’ve been very close but it’s getting harder and harder with everyone in different places. I’m thankful for social media outlets to keep in in touch.

I understand that. We have 9 great-grands, scattered across part of Texas and New Hampshire. Has your writing changed your reading habits? If so, how? I write romantic suspense and I must say, I’m finding it harder and harder to find books that hold my interest. I usually figure out the ending before it’s time. Thankfully, I also love history so I’m very drawn to historical suspense and the history element plus the mystery keeps me intrigued enough to keep going.

What are you working on right now? I have two more books in the Tender Series to get out but I’m also working on a new romantic suspense.

What outside interests do you have? Travel, of course, and reading. I also play pickleball. My husband is a musician so I help him do a lot of Karaoke! We also go trail riding in our Jeep. We’ve seen some fantastic sights in remote locations on our trips.

How do you choose your settings for each book? Because we are full time RV travelers, I find some very unique, beautiful locations around the country. Whenever I find a place that inspires me, I start researching to find something unusual about it and the writing begins!

If you could spend an evening with one historical person, who would it be and why? Abraham Lincoln. He was such a visionary and so adept at leadership. He was a master politician but never lost his homespun common sense and humor. Still with all of that, his home life was tragic. I don’t know how he went on day after day.

What is the one thing you wish you had known before you started writing novels? I wish I had a business degree! I had no idea how much I would need it in my writing career. Either that or a degree in marketing.

What new lessons is the Lord teaching you right now? Patience and balance. I need to slow down but I don’t really know how.

What are the three best things you can tell other authors to do to be successful? Write for your reader, not for yourself. In the beginning you write the stories you want to see but as your career progress, remember who you are writing for and what they want to read. You need to be able to write for the market and the demand so you can sustain your writer life long term.

Writing for me was an obsession. I couldn’t not do it. But I had to learn how to manage my love of writing as a career so as not to burn out. A healthy body and family life makes for a good writer. It’s that balance thing again!

Embrace your inner marketer. Don’t fight it. Find the part of marketing you like and focus on that. Connecting with your readers is healthy for you and your readers. You’ll make lifetime friends, and they’ll follow you throughout your writing career.

Tell us about the featured book. Early in my Christian life I had some experiences with hands-on-healing. Those experiences attracted unexpected attention. I was a young Christian. I didn’t know how to handle the focus on me and not the Lord. False pride frightened me and I became emotionally and physically drained. His Most Tender Touch is about those emotions and what the Lord taught me. Of course, I dramatized the hands-on-healing events to make the story more exciting, but the spiritual truths behind them are all real. Also, the title refers to the Lord’s tender touch in the heroine’s life, not the romance. But it does have a great romance too!

Please give us the first page of the book.

High California Sierras 1861

Royce Darnell stared at Stumpy McPherson from beneath the brow of his tan felt hat. “Are you sure you secured the chuck wagon last night?”

The older man nodded before he sent a stream of brown spittle across the snow. “I’m sure.”

He wiped at the corner of his mouth where his white beard was stained brown. “There ain’t no way them raccoons could’ve got to the food. Someone had to open it up.”

Royce looked up at the gray, pre-dawn sky. “How much food can you salvage?”

“Enough for breakfast and that’s it.”

Royce brushed past Stumpy, headed up the hill to the chuck wagon. As he got close, the odor of coffee and sorghum carried. Even before he saw the damage, he could smell the havoc created by the raiding raccoons. Sugar, flour, and beans were strewn across the muddied snow.

Stumpy gestured to a tin of lard, resting in a pile of dead pinecones. “That’s about the only thing they didn’t eat. That and my chaw of tobacco.”

Royce stooped to examine the small tracks trampled into the dirty snow. They led in a clear path straight to the trees. “How did you secure the wagon?”

“I tied it with ropes and knots a man couldn’t undo.”

“Where are the ropes now?”

“Disappeared. Ain’t no sign of them. I expect if he’d left them, we’d seen they was cut.”

Royce’s jaw tightened. Three incidents in three weeks. Someone was determined to drive Royce and his men away from this area of the mountain. He glanced up to see the same certainty in Stumpy’s eyes.

“There’s got to be tracks somewhere.”

“I already looked. There ain’t nothin’.”

“Stumpy, this isn’t the work of Indian ghosts.”

Royce and his crew had been building a water flume up the mountain for almost two months. The incidents hadn’t started until they had reached this exact spot, close to the ancient burial ground. The mystery and location had sparked rumors of a haunting.

“Did I say it was ghosts?” Stumpy asked. “I’m just repeatin’ what some of the men say.”

“Well, don’t repeat it. It only gives it credence and that’s what our vandal wants. He’s watched our movements for a while. It isn’t a coincidence that he waited till we got close to the burial ground to stage his little scenes.”

How can readers find you on the Internet? They can find me at my website www.TanyaStowe.com, on my Facebook Reader’s Page and Instagram. They can also follow my writing and travel adventures on my newsletter.

Thank you, Tanya, for sharing this book with my blog readers. I’m eager to rea the book.

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