Why do you write the
kind of books you do?
I write books with lots of romance, adventure, danger,
suspense, because this is the type of exciting book I like to read. I like a
book that takes me away, and leaves me with images to remember for months, if
not years later. But at the same time, I must write books that tell about the
greatest love of all—that of Christ’s love for us. Nothing is more exciting
than that.
Besides when you came
to know the Lord, what is the happiest day in your life?
The day my husband David asked me to be his wife, and the
consequent days that each of our children were born. Aside from God, my family
is my greatest joy.
How has being published
changed your life?
It got a lot busier, but also brought a lot of people into
my life, people I consider friends, like our very dear Lena Nelson Dooley. How
wonderful to go to a writers’ conference and find lovely fellow writers such as
Lena and receive a big hug. It’s so wonderful
to work in tangent with quality writers like this, who only want the same
thing—to share Christ with others through the telling of stories.
And then there are all the really neat people I get to meet when
they contact me after reading my books. I wish more readers would email me at Christine.Lindsay.Writer@gmail.com
I love to meet them. It all boils down to relationships with others. Such a
great feeling to get to know people.
I so agree Christine.
I love getting to know other authors, and hearing from readers really makes my
day. What are you reading right now?
Band of Sisters by
Cathy Gohlke, and really loving it.
I loved that book as
well. What is your current work in progress?
I’m working on a romance novella set in England , and then I have to start
writing the third and final book to my series, Twilight of the British Raj,
which will be called Veiled at Midnight
and released by WhiteFire in 2014.
We need to schedule
that book on my blog. What would be your dream vacation?
Oh my goodness, anywhere tropical where I can sit on a
beach, look at turquoise water, sip a nice fruit juice and read a great book.
With my hubby beside me. Although I did hear about this wonderful horse-drawn
sleigh-ride that you can book at Christmas time up at Lake Louise in Canada . I would
love to do that for a winter vacation.
How do you choose
your settings for each book?
The settings always come with the character that takes my
heart. In my India series, it started out with my British Cavalry Major, Geoff
Richards, who was the fictionalized version of my great, great, great—or
something like that—great grandfather. And so that series was permanently set
in British Colonial India—an extremely exotic place, terrific for danger and
romance.
Because I’m Irish born, a lot of my characters tend to be of
British or Irish stock, so often that sets my books in the British
Isles . But British history fascinates me. Hence their colonies do
which used to take up a large segment of the map.
If you could spend an
evening with one person who is currently alive, who would it be and why?
I’d love to sit down and have tea with Queen Elizabeth.
Being born in British owned Northern Ireland ,
and a citizen of Canada
which is part of the British Commonwealth, Elizabeth the Second is my queen. In my
opinion she is a royal that is deserving of great honor. She’s kept her promise
to her subjects and served her people well.
What are your
hobbies, besides writing and reading?
I’m chuckling to myself. There isn’t much time for anything
else, although I love my garden. I just saw some of my daffodils have poked up in
the front by the driveway.
What is your most
difficult writing obstacle, and how do you overcome it?
Fitting everything into a tight schedule. There is so much
more to being a published writer than writing books. Getting the word out about
our books is a tough job. It’s hard to talk about yourself, when as a
writer—especially a Christian writer—we are much happier shining the light on
Christ or on our characters.
What advice would you
give to a beginning author?
If you find great joy in crafting words on a page, then do
it. Keep at it, because it is not an easy climb. But along the way you will
make many friends, and most of all come to rely more and more upon Christ, and
you will be what God wired you to be—a writer.
Tell us about the
featured book.
Due to their desire to help young girls who are being
sexually abused in the north of India ,
Eshana and Laine find the police on their heels. As they both escape to the
south of India ,
they are each captured by their respective pasts.
Laine goes to a new position as nurse in a clinic that is
thick in the jungle, only to discover the owner of the plantation is her former
fiancé who broke her heart during the war. Laine is determined that Adam will
never again crush her like he did when he sent her that Dear Jane letter.
Unknown to Laine, Eshana is caught and imprisoned by her
traditional Hindu uncle who is angry that she is living as a Christian. He
secretly imprisons Eshana in a house hidden in the jungle where she discovers
friendship with a little girl who is also engaged to be married, though she is
only six.
Eshana wonders if she will ever see freedom again, or is she
to wear the funeral garb of a Hindu widow for the rest of her life? She is also
saddened that she may never again see Dr. Jai Kaur, a Sikh man whom she has
become great friends with.
Captured by Moonlight has two romances within its story, and I
believe it will capture the heart of any Christian romance reader. At the same
time I try to gently tackle a serious issue that is still current today—young
children being used as sex slaves.
Here is the book trailer.
Please give us the
first page of the book.
If the head woman from the
temple looked in her direction, Laine Harkness wouldn’t give two
squashed mangoes for her
life, or Eshana’s. Laine could never be confused for an Indian, but with the
tail end of this cotton sari covering half her face, and her brown eyes peeking
over, she simply had to blend in. Still, any minute now that hatchet-faced
female standing guard to the girls’ quarters could let out a pulse-freezing
yell.
A sudden blare of a conch
shell from within the Hindu temple stretched Laine’s nerves. She and
Eshana must be mad to risk
this exploit again. The Principal Matron at Laine’s hospital would give her a
severe reprimand if she ever found out. More likely sack her. If either she or
Eshana had any sense at all, they’d turn around, go back to the mission, and
mind their own business.
But a line from Wordsworth,
one of Adam’s favorites, ran through her mind...little, nameless,
unremembered acts of
kindness and of love...
Blast! She wouldn’t call
what she and Eshana were about to do little, but please let it be
unremembered. Unnoticed
would be better still.
Nudging Eshana in the side
and closing her mind to the writhing creatures in the burlap bags
they carried, she hissed
into Eshana’s ear. “Well off you go. You’ve got yours to dispose of, and I’ve
got mine. Just please keep that guard distracted.” Laine jutted her chin toward
the obese head woman waddling around in a sari stained down the front with
betel juice. Every once in a while she would take her long wooden club and rap
on the doors of the hovels.
Eshana hurried through the
narrow alleyway toward the guardian of the temple girls, carrying a
similar burlap sack to
Laine’s.
On the opposite side of the
bazaar, the globelike spires of a temple devoted to a Hindu goddess
poked above nearby
rooftops. Like a multi-tiered cake decorated in a variety of colored
icings—pinks, blues, orange—the temple enticed like a sugary concoction.
But from there the
loveliness ended. In these alleyways behind the temple, the pervasive scent
of incense and stale
flowers mixed with the reek of human misery. Girls who should still be playing
with toys, and some a little older, chatted with each other. Many of the
paint-chipped doors were closed, imprisoning within those adolescent girls forced
into ritual marriages to a Hindu deity.
Laine flattened herself
against the peeling plaster wall to watch Eshana shake out the contents
of her sack at the base of
a cluster of clay pots. Now she waved her hands about, talking in rapid Hindi
to the older woman. Good girl, Eshana, that’s the ticket. Laine’s stomach writhed in rhythm to the
creature in the bag she carried. She strengthened her grip at the top of the
sack though the drawstring had been tightly pulled.
Sure enough the head woman
stomped off with Eshana and began to clatter around the pots
with her club, giving Laine
the moment she waited for. Sixth door from the end on this side, Eshana had
told her. Eshana had been visiting the inhabitants of this alley on a regular
basis in an attempt to give them some sort of medical aid.
How exciting. How can
readers find you on the Internet?
I would love readers to drop by and leave me a message
on www.christinelindsay.comThank you, Christine, for sharing your book with us.
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