THE RINGMASTER'S WIFE - Kristy Cambron - One Free Book

Welcome back, Kristy. God has really been moving in your writing life. What do you see on the horizon?

Our family actually has some exciting things on the horizon! As soon as I’m able to share with everyone, I will. I can’t wait to talk about what I’m planning to work on next. J

Tell us a little about your family.

Three words: messy, awkward, love.

That’s our family. My husband and I are next year moving into a 20-year anniversary as a couple. I can’t even believe time has flown by so fast. But now we have three young sons and with that comes sports schedules, school events, and one harried momma who sometimes has to write chapters while sitting in the bleachers at a basketball game. We make it all fun though!

Has your writing changed your reading habits? If so, how?

I love this question, because I think my reading habits have changed and I hadn’t even realized it! My sister is a teacher so she’s always sharing the best of Young Adult (YA) fiction with me. I find that because I research and write in this structured world of historical fiction, I like to fall into fantasy or dystopian novels almost as an escape. (Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles are absolute favorites.)

What are you working on right now?

I’m actively editing my fourth novel with HarperCollins Christian Publishing: The Illusionist’s Apprentice (releasing March 2017). It’s really a departure me and I confess that as a writer, I enjoy trying new things. This novel is still a non-linear narrative of historical fiction, but there’s the mystery (and a bit of suspense) of the 1920s vaudeville world mixed in. Toss the world famous Harry Houdini into the story and I’ve got some fun editing days ahead of me!

What outside interests do you have?

I love watching classic films, spending time outdoors with my family, and I really enjoy traveling for onsite book research. I also like to cook, but now that I’m gluten-free, it’s a new set of challenges that I’m not convinced I’m ready to tackle in the kitchen! J

How do you choose your settings for each book?

It’s all about the inspiration.

My current novel, The Ringmaster’s Wife, was an idea that my publishing team actually brought to me. The world of vintage circus was always something I’d had interest in, so I jumped at the opportunity. But most of my settings and storylines include things and places I love: Europe, art history, travel, and vintage themes. I hope they always color any story I write.

If you could spend an evening with one historical person, who would it be and why?

I’m selecting someone from my history – my Dad. He passed from aggressive leukemia in late 2013 and I miss him every day. What hope I have that if there are evenings in eternity, I think I’d like to spend each one with him.

I lost my mother, who was in her early thirties, when I was seven years old. I look forward to really getting to know her in heaven. What is the one thing you wish you had known before you started writing novels?

That we can write, but it doesn’t always mean that we write well. There’s a big difference. I learned very quickly in this industry just how much I don’t know, and how much I have yet to learn about the mechanics of writing, and writing well. I’m still a student.

All authors are still students, whether they admit it or not. I’m always learning, even after all these years. What new lessons is the Lord teaching you right now?

It sounds simple, but it’s more complex that I’d ever imagined: trust God. Our family has been on this journey of trust for the last couple of years. While it’s a critical piece of my own spiritual development, this daily dying to myself and trusting everything to Him is truly more difficult than it sounds. It’s daily faith-walking.

What are the three best things you can tell other authors to do to be successful?

1.) Own it. It doesn’t matter if you’re published yet or not – you’re an author because that calling has already been placed on your heart. In order to make it in this industry, own your calling and refer to yourself as what you are: an AUTHOR.

2.) Seek Him. Whatever your daily communion looks like, whether it’s prayer, devotions, Bible study or listening to sermons online, spend time with Christ before you write. He’s the leader in everything we do and He can’t be left out of the writing process.

3.) Have fun. This is a business, so it’s important to be professional. But… don’t get so wrapped up in the demands of this author life that you forget to have fun with your writing. It’s work, but it’s work that you ardently love. It should be fun too.

Very well said. Tell us about the featured book.

The Ringmaster’s Wife is my first work of semi-biographical fiction – on the life of Mable Ringling. It’s a novel set in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, centering around Mable (the circus queen), and a new recruit to the Ringling Bros. circus world – a bareback rider from England by the name of Rosamund Easling. Readers will get to see behind the curtain of circus life during the golden age of traveling entertainment, but they’ll also have an opportunity to meet two strong female characters who have more in common than they might have thought possible. It’s a book about dream chasing, being brave, and risking everything to follow the call God’s placed on your heart.

SUMMARY:

An ounce of courage.

A leap of faith.

Together, they propel two young women to chase a new life—one that’s reimagined from what they might have become.

In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confines of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago World’s Fair. There, a chance encounter triggers her destiny—a life with a famed showman by the name of John Ringling.

A quarter of a century later, Lady Rosamund Easling boards a ship to America as a last adventure before her arranged marriage. There, the twenties are roaring, and the rich and famous gather at opulent, Gatsby-esque parties. The Jazz Age has arrived, and with it, the golden era of the American circus, whose queen is none other than the enigmatic Mable Ringling.

When Rosamund’s path crosses with Mable’s and the Ringlings’ glittering world, she makes the life-altering decision to leave behind a comfortable future of estates and propriety, choosing instead the nomadic life of a trick rider in the Ringling Brothers’ circus.

A novel that is at once captivating, deeply poignant, and swirling with exquisite historical details of a bygone world, The Ringmaster’s Wife will escort readers into the center ring, with its bright lights, exotic animals, and a dazzling performance that can only be described as the Greatest Show on Earth!

I’m already hooked. Please give us the first page of the book.

Prologue

1929 Louisville, KY

We only see what we want to see— in people, in love, and in life.

What we see is a choice, as is what we offer the world in return. And it’s only behind the costumes and the masks that we can be who we truly are.

The words echoed in Rosamund’s mind, in a tangle of memories collected over the past three years. She waited at the performers’ entrance at the back of the enormous Big Top, trying to ease the racing of her heart before show time.

Waves of riotous applause ebbed and flowed with the breathtaking thrills of the trapeze act. It was a “straw house” tonight— sold out, the bleacher seats packed and the overflow of children lining the edges of the rings on piles of laid- out straw. Rosamund could hear the children now through the call of horns and pops of confetti bursts, squealing in delight at the antics of the clowns. It wouldn’t be long now— the ringmaster’s signal for the horse troop to march in was just moments away.

A breeze caught Rosamund’s attention, perfuming the air around her with the richness of caramel, mixed with the salty scent of popcorn and sweet apples from a wagonette nearby. It was a welcome contrast to the usual smell of animals and churned- up earth in their field lot. All the familiar sounds and smells, the excitement that hung on the air before a performance . . . they reminded her how the three- ring canvas castle had become her home.

How can readers find you on the Internet? 

You can connect with me at:

Facebook: Kristy Cambron | Twitter: @KCambronAuthor  | Instagram: kristycambron 

Pinterest: KCambronAuthor | Web:  KristyCambron.com | TheGROVEstory.com

Thank you, Kristy, for sharing this book with us. I’m eager for my copy to arrive.

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A SPARROW IN TEREZIN - Kristy Cambron - One Free Book, Plus More

Dear Readers, I first met Kristy through my agent’s private email loop. We became friends, and when her first book came out, I was blown away by the artistry and depth of her first novel. The story haunted me for a long time. Since one of my aunts lived through that time period in Europe and had told me many of stories of things she’d seen, heard, and experienced, I knew that Kristy’s depictions were historically accurate. I will read every book that she writes.

BIO: Kristy Cambron fancies life as a vintage-inspired storyteller. Her debut historical novel, The Butterfly and the Violin (Thomas Nelson, 2014), was named to Library Journal Reviews' Best Books of 2014, Family Fiction's Top Ten Novels of 2014, and received a nomination for the RT Reviewers' Choice Awards Best Inspirational Novel of 2014 and a nomination for the 2015 INSPY Awards for Best Debut Novel. Her second novel, A Sparrow in Terezin (Thomas Nelson, April 2015), was named Library Journal Reviews' Pick of the Month (Christian Fiction) for February 2015 and a Top Pick from RT Book Reviews for April 2015.

Kristy is an Art/Design Manager at TheGROVEstory.com and holds a degree in Art History from Indiana University. She lives in Indiana with her husband and three football-loving sons, where she can probably be bribed with a coconut mocha latte and a good Christian fiction read.

Welcome back, Kristy. Why do you write the kind of books you do?

I have an Art History/Research Writing degree, so I always knew I wanted to write historical fiction. I thought about becoming an art professor once upon a time. I’m still drawn to the idea of it, but I wanted to write for Christ and found that Christian fiction was the place to combine the things I love into a career.

Besides when you came to know the Lord, what is the happiest day in your life?

I try to remember that my happiest day is today. If I get to spend time with the Lord, growing in and leaning on Him, and I have my family’s laughter around me … then every day is the best day of my life. (That doesn’t mean we don’t have struggles – let’s get real about that. But I want to be grateful and lock my eyes on Him with every new day.)

The longer I live, the more true that becomes in my life. How has being published changed your life?

This is not an understatement – everything has changed for our family. I’ve gone from a fifteen-year career in Corporate America to writing from home full time, and now have the opportunity to do what I really love most (which is to speak and write in the Christian publishing industry). Any change sparks adaptability in our lives and we’re still going through it, but it’s been an amazing journey so far.   

What are you reading right now?

Right now, all of my reading time is focused on research for my next novel. I’m reading about life in the 1920s, biographies of the Ringling Brothers, and all about the early circus in America. Research is something that I always enjoy but this is particularly exciting – the subject of the circus and the Jazz Age is just so vibrant and colorful!

What is your current work in progress?

I’ve always written historical fiction – World War II, Regency, and Victorian being eras I’ve focus on. But right now, I’m excited to dive into a new era in American history – the Jazz Age. The first book in my new series (releasing in 2016) will be on John and Mable Ringling and the early circus. It’s such an incredible vibrant time in our country’s history and the backdrop of the circus brings such a diverse array of characters and scenery that I’m completely drawn in. I can’t wait to share this new story with readers.  

And I can’t wait to read it. What would be your dream vacation?

Europe. No questions asked. I’ve not yet set foot on European ground (like my characters have), but I know I’ll get there one day. The stops on my travel itinerary? The Louvre in Paris, the Palace of Versailles, and sites all about Olde London Towne. Cheers!

How do you choose your settings for each book?

I try to get a feel for the characters’ worlds by researching everything I can about them – weather patterns, social and cultural norms of the time, and especially real-life stories of people from history. I see what sparks interest from there. Usually, I can see something like a movie reel in my mind, with the characters reacting to their surroundings. I try to get a feel of what it would be like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the world through their senses. The story just comes to life from there. I see that movie playing in my mind, and I document what I see.

With a drama and film background, I see all of my stories as movies in my mind, too. If you could spend an evening with one person who is currently alive, who would it be and why?

My husband. He’s famous to me. And as we have three young boys, the quiet talk time between best friends doesn’t come often. I’d love to have an evening with him, maybe dining and talking by the river in our city. We stole away an afternoon like that once a few years ago. I still remember the bliss of that day.

Spending quality time with my husband is my favorite part of our empty nest home. Our children, grandchildren, and greats all live close so we can see them often, but being with James is so precious. What are your hobbies, besides writing and reading?

I used to love running! I ran 5k races and regularly kept up with my 40 mile per week running habit. It’s not easy to get to the gym though, with three little ones in the house. I try to get in some activity for my well-being by chasing after them. (Mommas usually do that!) I also LOVE watching classic films, going on research trips, and believe it or not – the perfect date with my husband would be to go to the batting cages. Fun!

What is your most difficult writing obstacle, and how do you overcome it?

Time. That’s usually the elusive target we writers are trying to catch – time to express words on paper. I have more of it now that I’m not longer traveling for my job in Corporate America, but life still happens. You have to make writing a priority just like you do with the other relationships in your life. Investing and being really intentional about your writing time isn’t always easy to do, but it’s essential. I learned to write chapters on my iPhone as a result and found it to be a really effective tool to get my first drafts written.

I’m too old-school. I’m amazed at those of you who can write a book on your smart phones. I have one, too, but it’s just used as a phone and camera, with a few added features. What advice would you give to a beginning author?

Two things: Keep going and stick close to Christ throughout your entire publication journey. You may find that rejections come. If they do, you’ve got to keep going. Pray your way through every up and down. Keep learning and always growing in your understanding of the craft. And study up. Learn about the industry from authors and other professionals who are where you’d like to be one day. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery (thanks, Anne Shirley), but it’s also a fantastic teacher.

Tell us about the featured book.

Bound together across time, two women will discover a powerful connection through one survivor's story of hope in the darkest days of a war-torn world.

Present Day—With the grand opening of her new art gallery and a fairytale wedding just around the corner, Sera James feels she's stumbled into a charmed life—until a brutal legal battle against fiancé William Hanover threatens to destroy the perfectly planned future she’s planned before it even begins. Now, after an eleventh-hour wedding ceremony and a callous arrest, William faces a decade in prison for a crime he never committed, and Sera must battle the scathing accusations that threaten her family and any hope for a future.

1942—Kája Makovsky narrowly escaped occupied Prague in 1939, and was forced to leave her half-Jewish family behind. Now a reporter for the Daily Telegraph in England, Kája discovers the terror has followed her across the Channel in the shadowy form of the London Blitz. When she learns Jews are being exterminated by the thousands on the continent, Kája has no choice but to return to her mother city, risking her life to smuggle her family to freedom and peace.

Connecting across a century through one little girl, a Holocaust survivor with a foot in each world, these two women will discover a kinship that springs even in the darkest of times. In this tale of hope and survival, Sera and Kája must cling to the faith that sustains and fight to protect all they hold dear—even if it means placing their own futures on the line.

Please give us the first page of the book.

July, Present Day

Sausalito, California

The last thing a bride needs to fret over on her wedding day is whether the ceremony will take place.

It was an unproductive thought in the midst of trying to manage pre-wedding jitters. Nevertheless, the familiar doubt continued to plague her heart, and Sera James, still caught up in the shadow of an uncertain future, all but gave in to it.

She ran her fingertips over the string of pearls at her nape and stared out the first-floor bedroom window of the Hanovers’ California seaside estate. She scanned the horizon, taking in the beauty of the setting sun as it created flashes of diamonds across the bay, wondering if William had the same doubts. Would he be out there waiting on their beach?

A gentle knock drew her attention to the bedroom door.

She turned and found the familiar face of her friend, Penny, who offered a hushed greeting from the hall. She presented a serene, pink-glossed smile.

“Sera? It’s time,” Penny said, her voice whisper soft, and stepped into the oversized bedroom. Her strawberry blonde hair hung in soft waves and danced about her shoulders as if tossed by the playfulness of the sea breeze outside. “Everyone’s waiting.”

How can readers find you on the Internet?

Facebook: Kristy Cambron | Twitter: @KCambronAuthor  | Instagram: kristycambron 

Pinterest: KCambronAuthor | Web:  KristyCambron.com | TheGROVEstory.com  

Bound together across time, two women will discover a powerful connection in Kristy Cambron's new book, A Sparrow in Terezin. Connecting across a century through one little girl, a Holocaust survivor with a foot in each world, two women will discover a kinship that springs even in the darkest of times. In this tale of hope and survival, Sera and Kája must cling to the faith that sustains and fight to protect all they hold dear—even if it means placing their own futures on the line.

Kristy is celebrating by giving away a basket filled with goodies inspired by her new book!

 

One grand prize winner will receive:

• A set of poppy notecards
• A poppy pin
• A copy of I Never Saw Another Butterfly
• A copy of the Mrs. Miniver DVD
• Literary tea bags
• Tumbler
• A copy of A Sparrow in Terezin

 

Enter today by clicking the icon below. But hurry, the giveaway ends on April 28th. Winner will be announced April 29th on Kristy's blog.



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Readers, here are links to the book. By using one when you order, you help support this blog. A Sparrow in Terezin - Christianbook.com
A Sparrow in Terezin (A Hidden Masterpiece Novel) - Amazon
A Sparrow in Terezin (A Hidden Masterpiece Novel Book 2) - Kindle

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THE BUTTERFLY AND THE VIOLIN - Kristy Cambron - One Free Book

Dear Readers, it’s a great pleasure for me to introduce you to Kristy Cambron and her debut novel. We share the same agent, and we’ve become friends through the agency. When The Butterfly and the Violin first arrived at my house, I read it right away. Normally, I’m not too fond of World War II novels, but this one grabbed my heart from the first page. The characters wouldn’t let go of me until the very end. This truly is a page-turner. I kept it with me and read it every time I could grab a few minutes. It was a spark of beauty in a horrible time in history. A lyrical quality.

Bio: Kristy Cambron has been fascinated with the WWII era since hearing her grandfather's stories of the war. She holds an art history degree from Indiana University and received the Outstanding Art History Student Award. Kristy writes WWII and Regency era fiction and has placed first in the 2013 NTRWA Great Expectations and 2012 FCRW Beacon contests, and is a 2013 Laurie finalist. Kristy makes her home in Indiana with her husband and three football-loving sons.

Welcome, Kristy. Tell us how much of yourself you write into your characters.

Quite a lot so far. There are moments between Adele and Vladimir – our main characters from the WWII storyline – that have been taken right from the years my husband and I were dating. And Sera? She’s an art history buff like me. We both love all things vintage and have a borderline obsession with Paris.

What is the quirkiest thing you have ever done?

It’s a present quirk that my editor assures me is not too odd… I like to write on my iPhone. In fact, the majority of The Butterfly and the Violin was written on my iPhone, during the early morning hours I was awake to feed our newborn his bottles. Since that time, I’ve found that writing chapters on my phone really fits with my always-on-the-go lifestyle. I’ve even been known to jot down a sentence or two on a long elevator ride. J

Wow, I don’t see how you can do that. I’m a sit in front of my desktop writer. I’ll edit on my laptop, but on a smart phone? No way. When did you first discover that you were a writer?

It was in early 2001 when I was working a late-shift call center job. My husband had purchased an old refurbished laptop so I could write during the dead-air time in-between calls, and I was sold. I literally remember a wave washing over me, feeling like I’d come home somehow when I was typing away at my first story. But to become an author? That was a dream that surpassed anything that young writer could have imagined at the time.

Tell us the range of the kinds of books you enjoy reading.

I try not to read books of my WWII genre, especially when I’m writing or editing one of my books. It’s too risky to find that some of that author’s voice or their research will melt into the story I feel called to write. But in reading for pleasure? I love anything historical, especially set in Regency England. The Jazz Age is also a new interest that’s sparked for me. I’m reading on it right now in hopes that I can set a novel in that immersive era.  

How do you keep your sanity in our run, run, run world?

Easy – my husband keeps it for me. J With three young sons, a full-time job and writing career that comes alive at night, I really have little sanity to pull from. My husband is the one who cheers me on, who partners with me and takes care of all of us. He demands very little in the way of fanfare, so it’s my hope that I can do it here.

How do you choose your characters’ names?

What a fabulous question! (To which I have a secret answer…) I watch old black and white movies. Classic movies are a passion of mine and I find some of the most interesting names while reading the credits. I also pull names from my favorite works of literature. (In fact, Adele came from one of the characters in my favorite novel, Jane Eyre.)

What is the accomplishment that you are most proud of?

It’s not an accomplishment, but a very candid reality that I survived the loss of a very dear loved one. We never know how we’ll respond in life until we’re tested. And while I’m not particularly proud of the way I struggled through the days leading up to my Dad’s passing, I am extremely grateful for the Savior who restored, comforted, forgave, encouraged, loved, and in those tough moments, never left me.

If you were an animal, which one would you be, and why?

I can’t tell you how much I love this question! My ultra-quick answer is a penguin. They’re fun. Laid-back. Quirky and unconcerned with anything too cumbersome. I’d love to have one day where I could waddle around in a little tuxedo, hopping and swimming without a care in the world.

What is your favorite food?

It’s not really a food per se, but I am completely smitten with coffee. Put it in ice cream form, make it into candy, or put it hot and steamy in a vintage tea cup and I’m completely sold.

What is the problem with writing that was your greatest roadblock, and how did you overcome it?

I’m going to serve up a little transparency here… I had no idea what I was doing when I started writing! I didn’t have a firm grasp on plot design, character development, or how to craft a story that readers will never want to put down. I haven’t completely overcome it (because we should always keep exploring and learning new things to polish our craft), but I have fabulous editors who are helping me along the way.

Tell us about the featured book.

My heart has been wrapped up in the prisoner camp art of Auschwitz since I first learned of it in an art history class more than a decade ago. I was truly humbled that these artists were willing to risk death to create beauty in such a horrific place. Their watercolor images if butterflies, their sketches of children in striped uniforms and the stunning images of landscapes of such a hellish place are haunting to this day. When Auschwitz was liberated in January, 1945, found in the rubble of the camp was more than 1,600 pieces of art that had left behind. 

Perhaps the reason your book resonated with me so much is that my aunt was an army nurse in Germany during the trials after the end of the way. She had shared with me a lot about that time period, even had pictures. Please give us the first page of the book for my readers.

“Is this it?”

Sera James bounded through the front doors of the Manhattan gallery, so excited that she nearly slipped for running across the hardwood floor in her heels. She came to a flustered stop in front of the large canvas hanging on the back wall.

Breathless, she asked, “You’ve confirmed—this is her?”

“Did you run all the way here, Sera?”

“Yes. Wouldn’t you?” She wasn’t ashamed to admit it. From the second she’d received the phone call, Sera had pushed and shoved her way off the subway in a frenzy and had run the eight blocks back to the gallery, dodging taxis and cracks in the side- walks all the way.

Penny nodded. “The guys in the back just opened the crate. Can you believe it’s been there for a week and we didn’t even know it?”

She shook her head in disbelief. “Unfathomable.”

Sera unwound the chiffon scarf from her neck and shrugged off her trench coat as she stepped away for a moment, draping them both over the antique wooden counter stretching the back of the room. She twisted her long ebony hair and tucked it into a loose bun, then secured it atop her head with a pencil she found nearby. It wasn’t until she turned back to her assistant that she noticed the girl hadn’t moved an inch. Penny stood like a statue, her only movement an index finger that twirled a lock of strawberry blond hair at her nape.

Sera laughed. When her assistant took to whirling a strand of hair around her finger, something had to have completely captured her attention.

“You’re doing it again, Penny.”

The action was telltale. But Sera didn’t blame Penny in the least. This moment was special. If the painting was what they both thought it was, standing in awe was warranted. The rest of the city could have flown by outside the front windows and neither one of them would have noticed. Or cared.

How can readers find you on the Internet?

You can connect with Kristy at:

Twitter: @kcambronauthor

Facebook: Kristy L. Cambron

GoodReads: Kristy Cambron  

Website: KristyCambron.com

The Butterfly and the Violin, Hidden Masterpiece Book #1 – Available now!

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