Comments on: Taking Back the Past – BoG

By: Marilynn

Marilynn — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:44:38 +0000

Angela,

Again, thank you so much for sharing these things. As a writer just starting out, I can already see so much wisdom in your words. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us newbies.

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:38:39 +0000

Sigrun, Rhonda, and Michelle, thanks for sticking with me on this journey.

By: Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:49:48 +0000

Thanks so much, Angela!
Your stories you share as always are inspirational!! I received this e-mail just when I needed it!! I love that you share with us what you know!! Thanks for giving back! Love your website!!! You’re great!!

By: Rhonda Nain

Rhonda Nain — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:36:53 +0000

I am enjoying these submissions so much Angela. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate the tip on not being so eager to sell you don’t sell well. I’ll remember that when I get the call!

By: Sigrun

Sigrun — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:27:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing this so openly. I just finished writing a comment to your last “Taking…” entry. Probably, Kensington isn’t known for Christian books and I can imagine that you just wanted to write a book that others wouldn’t think was about a “goody-two-shoes”. I don’t know if you’ve ever read anything by Arlene James who mainly wrote for Silhouette Romance. I really enjoyed her stories because there were no untoward shenanigans in them. They never got much critical acclaim but I read them all. She was my type of writer. I later discovered that she had written several faith-based books for Silhouette’s inspirational line. Now some of those books were such a muddle of sentiments that could not be called Christian by any stretch of imagination but there were a few like Arlene’s that showed the characters praying and leaving things up to God to work out.

What I’m trying to say here is that, no, she didn’t name her characters as Christians in her Romantic line but they still lived in general by Christian principles. She is now writing for Love Inspired. Some of those are reprints, and perhaps revisions, of some previous books. But she did not “advertise” her faith in the Romance line either.

I haven’t read “Bands of Gold” yet though it’s somewhere with my stuff as is at least one of the others in that anthology. I’ll have to look into finding the other one though it may well be here, just not catalogued.