SEATTLE CINDERELLA - Gail Sattler - Free Book

Welcome back, Gail. I haven't had you on the blog for quite awhile. I love your new picture. What are some of the spiritual themes you like to write about?

I like to write about forgiveness and living a good Christian life and being an example to those around us.

What other books of yours are coming out soon?

My current release is Seattle Cinderella, just out March 1^st 2012, and I’ll say more about that later.

In November 2012, my first book in the Bloomfield series will be released, which is a series I’m in with a number of other authors.

And I want to feature the Bloomfield series on my blog. If you could spend an evening with one contemporary person (not a family member of yours), who would it be and why?

I think I answered this question ten times and deleted everything before I made up my mind. Strangely, my first thoughts weren’t other authors – I know how most authors live, haha. My next thoughts were people I would interview about their jobs and life experiences, but doing research on careers wouldn’t be a way to spend an entire evening. So my choice would be Rebecca St James, a Christian entertainer and musician, I could see chatting for a while with the usual questions, then spending the rest of the evening playing music together and having fun.

I’d like to be a fly on the wall on that evening. What historical person would you like to meet (besides Jesus) and why?

My husband’s grandmother, on his mother’s side. I never met her, she died a couple of years before we met. From the things she said, and the legacy in her family she left behind, she was a warm and wonderful person, and I have always wished I could have met her.

How can you encourage authors who have been receiving only rejections from publishers?

Rejections happen, and they happen to published authors just the same as they do to unpublished. Don’t take it personally, because while some people think it’s their blood on paper, it’s not. It’s just words, and it’s just business. But it’s your passion, and if you keep at it, and never stop that learning curve, it will happen. I barely passed grade 12 English, I don’t have any post-secondary education except for music, and I’ve had over 30 royalty/advance published novels. Don’t quit! Ever!

Tell us about the featured book?

Seattle Cinderella is a novella anthology in which I wrote all four novellas. The first one is the obvious tale of a contemporary Cinderella named Cindy. I needed to pick a job or career in which Cindy got good and dirty, just like the Cinderella of old, so this Cindy, being independent, owns and operates a brake and muffler shop. Instead of being bossed around by her two evil step-sisters, this Cindy is the boss, except due to conditions and codicils, she is trapped and at their mercy, as well as at the mercy of her horrid step-mother. Then along comes Prince Charming, but this Cindy isn’t anxious to ride off into the sunset – she has a business and responsibilities. I won’t tell any more.

The next two novellas are about her two step-sisters who have reformed and know they have done wrong. They try to make things better, and move forward in their lives, but they, too, have their own struggles and battles to win.

The last novella is about the Fairy Godmother. Of course, in a Christian book, I couldn’t have a fairy, so instead of being the Fairy Godmother, she is Farrah the godmother. She’s happy that Cindy has found her happily ever after, and she also must move forward in her own life, even if she feels that the good ol’ happily-ever-after ending isn’t for her. But of course, we all know it is, she just has to accept God’s gift, and it’s hers.

Please give us the first page of the book.

The first page is the copyright page, and I doubt that is what you want, so… here you are.

Chapter 1

Luke Princeton pushed open the door to the muffler shop and walked inside.

Ignoring the sign above the door to the shop saying customers weren’t allowed in the work area, he forced a smile at the young woman seated at the desk in the corner of the small service office. “Mind if I go in? I need to talk to the boss.”

She jerked her head toward the shop window, where three people, all wearing their standard blue coveralls, stood together under a car raised on a hydraulic hoist. One of them pointed upward, the others nodded. “You know the drill,” she mumbled, not missing a keystroke.

Indeed he did. He also knew which one of the three he wanted—the one who was six inches shorter than the other two.

He stepped into the shop, stopping with his toes on the yellow line. “Hey! Cindy!” he called out quickly, before they fired up the welding torches and no one could hear him.

All three of them raised their welding masks and turned toward him.

Cindy laid her torch down, pulled off her safety gloves, stuffed them in her pockets, and walked toward him. “What can I do for you, Luke?”

“You can join me for lunch.” He gave her his best and, he hoped, most charming smile.

She didn’t smile back. Instead she lowered her head and wiped her hands down the legs of her coveralls. “No, seriously.”

He was completely serious—as serious as he’d been the last dozen times he’d asked.

I’m going to like this book. How can readers find you on the Internet?

My website – www.gailsattler.com

Or I also set up a small site just for this book, and it will always have additions as time goes on – www.seattlecinderella.com

Thank you, Gail, for the interesting peek into your life and book.

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Seattle Cinderella (Romancing America) - paperback
Seattle Cinderella - Kindle


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