All of us at one time or another dream of meeting someone whose craft we admire. Today I was blessed to meet one of my favorite contemporary authors - Brandilyn Collins. Brandilyn writes
incredible suspense fiction. Take it from me, a confessed bookaholic, her books are nearly impossible to put down! Titles to check out are: EYES OF ELISHA, DREAD CHAMPION, BRINK OF DEATH, STAIN OF GUILT, DEAD OF NIGHT, WEB OF LIES and soon to come VIOLET DAWN. If you go to B&N, look under Inspriational or Religious fiction. In Christian stores you will find her under the mystery/suspense genre.
Brandilyn took an hour and a half of her time to sit, drink coffee and chat with me. She was interested in who I was, in Kyle (she agrees, he's one cute baby!), and my aspirations to write. She encouraged me to focus on what I am getting done, as opposed to what I'm NOT getting done. Too often I find myself gritching over the fact another two months have gone by since I've last touched my manuscript. Or that I have yet to come up with some really cool story to querry to some paying publication. BC told me that's okay. I'm a new mommy and babies should be my focus. In the mean time I'm to read, read, read and learn from my reading.
Brandilyn has a really cool blog www.forensicsandfaith.blogspot.com you should click on over and check it out! I also encourage you to make a beeline for you local bookstore and snag her books. I promise you will like them!
In the meantime, I will take care of Kyle, read, blog, and maybe get some writing done.
4 comments:
Hey! How cool is that? You must have been so excited. Did you see she has an interesting new blog that is run by one of the characters from her book. I thought that was a really interesting idea.
I did see that - her Scenes & Beans blog. She gave me an advanced reader copy of VIOLET DAWN last night - the Kanner Lake series the blog highlights. The book isn't out yet, but the buzz and anticipation are growing! BC is a wonderful lady, and it was a blessing to spend time with her!
That is awesome!!!
Congrats! The only famous person I have met is Richard Simmons... YUK
I am a new blogging chick too and came to check out your blog and am thoroughly enjoying it. I need to go get a BC book (when I get some $), I haven't read any of them!
BTW, your writing rocks....keep hanging in there!
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