Join Melody Carlson, author of the Christian fiction, River’s End, as she tours the blogosphere September 4 – 28 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
ABOUT MELODY CARLSON
Melody Carlson is one of the most prolific novelists of our time. With around 200 books published and sales topping 5 million, Melody writes primarily for women and teens. She’s won numerous honors and awards, including The Rita, The Gold Medallion and Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Some of her books are being considered for TV movies and film. Melody has two grown sons and makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. When not writing, Melody likes to travel, bike, camp, garden, and walk her dog Audrey in the great outdoors.
Her latest book is a Christian Fiction titled River’s End.
Visit her website at www.melodycarson.com.
Pick up your copy of River’s End at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Rivers-End-Shining-Water-Series/dp/142671274X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1346430774&sr=8-4&keywords=melody+carlson
Pick up your copy directly from the publisher: http://www.abingdonpress.com/forms/DynamicContent.aspx?id=155&pageid=694
It just so happens that the author is guest posting here today.
Does life imitate art?
I love how my art sometimes imitates life and life imitates art, and I’m surprised at how many times I write a book and later on find almost the exact things occurring in my own life. Or occasionally they are happening even before, but I just never put two and two together. I experienced this recently in the book River’s End.
While writing the final book in my Inn at Shining Waters trilogy, which is inspired by a real location (the Siuslaw River in Oregon) I was trying to find out where the coastal river had originally entered the ocean (back before the late 1800’s when the river’s jetties were built to make smoother passage for ship traffic). I wanted to know where the ‘river’s end’ had been because something very special was happening in the book at the river’s end. I’d tell you, but that would give away part of the story.
Anyway, I drove up and down the road that goes along the river and the jetties, but the best I could do was guess. Then shortly after I finished the book, I was privileged to enjoy a biplane ride and while in the air, the pilot was pointing out various spots of geographical interest. And straight out of the blue (literally) he showed me where the original route of the river had traveled to the sea—and I could see it from the air. To my delighted surprise, I discovered that the river used to end right beside where our little beach cabin is located—right where I’d written most of River’s End.
At the time my husband, who had completely rebuilt this cabin, was just finishing up an addition (a small sunroom) and I decided to call that space the River’s End. To honor the Siuslaw (both the river and tribe) I used Native American inspired décor and photographs to complete the room. Now I don’t want to give too much away, but if you read River’s End, you’ll discover how spot-on that was to the story—and yet I missed it while writing. But there it was life imitating art imitating life....
About the Author:
Melody Carlson is one of the most prolific novelists of our time. With around 200 books published and sales topping 5 million, Melody writes primarily for women and teens. She’s won numerous honors and awards, including The Rita, The Gold Medallion and Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Some of her books are being considered for TV movies and film. Melody has two grown sons and makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. When not writing, Melody likes to travel, bike, camp, garden, and walk her dog Audrey in the great outdoors.
Her latest book is a Christian Fiction titled River’s End.
Visit her website at www.melodycarlson.com.
Pick up your copy of River’s End at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Rivers-End-Shining-Water-Series/dp/142671274X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1346430774&sr=8-4&keywords=melody+carlson
Pick up your copy directly from the publisher: http://abingdonpress.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=7212
About the Book:
In the final story of the Inn at Shining Waters, Anna’s granddaughter Sarah is struggling to find herself. And in an attempt to escape her parents’ dysfunctional lives, Sarah travels away from all that is familiar. But her grandmother’s love and the pull of the river draw Sarah back. Still it’s not an easy journey to find the healing and forgiveness that’s needed to reunite and strengthen this broken family together again.
ABOUT RIVER’S END
In the final story of the Inn at Shining Waters, Anna’s granddaughter Sarah is struggling to find herself. And in an attempt to escape her parents’ dysfunctional lives, Sarah travels away from all that is familiar. But her grandmother’s love and the pull of the river draw Sarah back. Still it’s not an easy journey to find the healing and forgiveness that’s needed to reunite and strengthen this broken family together again.
“In this series it shows the lasting consequences that can happen when we let bitterness poison our hearts and keep us from the opportunity to say our final good-byes to those we love the most. It shows how forgiveness isn’t about letting someone off the hook for the pain they have caused, but more about the healing that happens within our own hearts when we can let the burden go and finally move forward in freedom spiritually.”
– Pirate 2240, Amazon reviewer
Watch out for a giveaway and a review coming very soon. I got a little behind, and it will get posted in a couple days. Check out the entire tour:
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