Welcome, MaryLu and Debbie Lynne. I'm so happy to host you here.
First we'll look at MaryLu Tyndall and her book, Charity's Cross:
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Fun facts about me and my new book Charity’s
Cross
By MaryLu Tyndall
Charity’s Cross is my 4th
Independently published book (I have 16 traditionally published books before I
went Indie).
I never intended to write Charity’s
Cross, but after receiving so many reader emails begging me to write
it, I relented.
Charity’s Cross is book 4 in my
Charles Towne Belles series (originally published in 2009). However, I wrote
the story in such a way so it could be read as a stand-alone without having
read the other books.
I wrote Charity’s Cross while
caring for my very first grandchild.
I have been writing romance novels
for 13 years. Before that, I was a software engineer at IBM.
I am an introvert with a rabid fear
of public speaking.
I listen to alternative rock while
writing battle scenes and classical movie scores while writing romance scenes.
I had to dig deep into the psyche of
an abused woman to write some of the scenes in this book. Not fun, I can tell
you.
Chocolate and popcorn are my go-to
snacks while writing.
Charity’s Cross is a sort-of
crossover book between my Legacy of the King’s Pirates series and my Charles
Towne Belles series, containing characters from both family lines.
The most important thing to me when writing any book
is that God is glorified and readers are brought closer to Him through the
pages.
Suspected of killing her husband,
Charity Westcott flees on the first ship out of Portsmouth , England Nassau . When she spots
her husband’s brother, who is intent on seeing her hang, boarding her ship, she
jumps overboard.
Pirate turned preacher, Elias
Dutton, must get to Barbados
as soon as possible. His sister is in danger, and his parents have charged him
with her safety. He cannot let them down—again.
But after rescuing a madcap woman from the bay, he now finds himself
tricked into masquerading as her husband so they both can procure passage to Barbados .
Pirates, storms, shipwreck, and
betrayal threaten to delay the couple in their journey even as sparks fly
between them. With her brother-in-law in fast pursuit, the last thing Charity
wants is help from a man, especially a religious one, but she has no choice.
After Elias’s heart was broken by a sordid woman who nearly ruined his life, he
seeks a woman pure as the virgin sands of the Caribbean .
He believes he has found such a woman in Charity. Until he discovers she is a
murderer and is now faced with two choices: letting her go or turning her in to
the authorities.
MaryLu
Links
Amazon link to buy Charity’s Cross: http://bit.ly/CharityCrossAmazon
MaryLu Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/marylu.tyndall.author/
MaryLu Twitter page: https://twitter.com/MaryLuTyndall
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MaryLu Blog and Website: http://www.marylutyndall.com
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Charity's Cross (Charles Towne Belles) (Volume 4)
- paperbackCharity's Cross - Kindle
And now we're going to check out Debbie Lynne and her book:
Bio:
Debbie Lynne Costello has enjoyed writing stories since she was eight years
old. She
raised her family and then embarked
on her own career of writing the stories that had been
begging to be told. She and her
husband have four children and live in upstate South Carolina .
She has worked in many capacities in
her church and is currently the Children’s director. Debbie
Lynne has shown and raised Shetland
sheepdogs for eighteen years and still enjoys litters now
and then. In their spare time, She
and her husband enjoy camping and riding their Arabian and
In 1886
after some mild earth rumblings, Charleston ,
South Carolina
Very few
buildings escaped either total destruction or major damage. Many of the
buildings that were salvageable were fitted with earthquake bolts. These are
long rods with a washer and nut on the end that runs through both walls of the
building. So many buildings and even hospitals were damaged as the ground
shifted and rumbled. In Shattered Memories, my hero’s family sets up a
makeshift hospital when all the local hospitals are damaged beyond use.
Wires were
cut and railroad tracks twisted from the quake, leaving Charleston
An
estimated 14,000 chimneys fell from the earthquake and nearly every building
had severe damage. My heroine, Olivia experiences this devastation when she
returns to her family’s home and finds it in shambles.
Structural
damage was reported as far away as Alabama ,
central Ohio , eastern Kentucky ,
southern Virginia , and western West Virginia
Although
most numbers say 66 deaths were attributed to the quake, it is hard to know for
sure what the true amount was. Due to poor accounting of people, there seems to
be a question of how accurate the numbers are. There were people counted who
were already sick but it was said their death was hastened from fright of the
quake. Then there were the deaths that occurred instantly, and the deaths that
came over time as a result of injuries sustained. So a true count will never be
known. However, I found numbers as low as 50 and high as 500. Just as the real
people of the Charleston
Doctors
saw wide varieties of injuries from the disaster. My hero, Drew, is a doctor as
is his father and brothers. His family works hard to treat victims of the
earthquake while comforting them through their loss and pain.
The total
damage was in excess of 5.5 million dollars (112 million in today's market).
Despite South Carolina ’s leading role in the Civil
War, the country rallied around Charleston Charleston
The people behind my characters in Shattered
Memories
Most of my
characters come from within my head. I can ask myself what if—and then see how
my character responds. As I go through visualizing how they react to different
circumstances and questions, I learn my character. It usually takes about 3
chapters for me to truly get to know who they are and before I am comfortable
with them. Those first 3 chapters are sometimes slow to write because I’m not
sure how they are going to respond to things or how their dialogue with others
will progress. I want to keep them true to who I visualize in my head. The more
I write the more I know them and know what their response is going to be. I
think I can say that all of my characters have something, whether it’s a habit,
trait, look, or belief comes from someone I have met, seen, or know.
But the
characters of Shattered Memories are a little bit closer to home. Each of the
Warwick
I hope as
you read this story that the people within the book will come to life and
you’ll somehow connect with them, feeling their pain, uncertainty, turmoil, as
well as their relief, discoveries, and happiness. I hope the setting will be
real and you will walk through the streets with each of these characters,
seeing the devastation and experiencing what they experienced.
But above
all I hope you walk away with some nugget that brings you closer to our Lord
and Savior.
Shattered
Memories Back Cover Copy:
Olivia Macqueen wakes in a makeshift
hospital, recovering from a head injury. With amnesia stealing a year of her
memories, she has trouble discerning between lies and truth. When her memories
start returning in bits and pieces, she must keep up the charade of amnesia
until she can find out the truth behind the embezzlement of her family’s
business while evading the danger lurking around her.
Doctor Drew Warwick frantically searches through the
rubble left by the Charleston
Debbie Lynne's Links:
Website: www.debbielynnecostello.com
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/debbielynne1/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DebiLynCostello
Purchase Shattered Memories: http://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Lynne-
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