Cup of Comfort Booksigning

Here's the real reason we do book signings...its so a bunch of women, at least two of whom are sanguine personalities (Gee, can you guess who those two might be, does the color PINK give you a clue!?!?) can get together and gab. And eat. Lunch was yummy, and the creme brulee we split three ways for dessert was to die for... Writing is really a solitary event, and if you are totally distractable like me, you have to go away, far away to get serious writing done. My dear husband really doesn't understand why I have to leave the country if I am going to be able to get in touch with God and be His scribe. OK for short stories I don't need to do this, although I must say, it does sound like a good reason or rationalization to have to get away to me...but for full blown books, yes.

Oh, and I am delighted, happy and relieved to report that my editor at Regal was happy with all my rewriting and Connie's rereading of the sixty six stories. After I submitted the rewrites I only had one final story to tweak. I repeated myself a bit too much (I can't imagine...) and I have to admit being initially stumped as to what to do for the last one, but God took care of that too and supplied me with the material for that one, for the book of Luke, and the passage, "Nothing is impossible with God." It had been an infertility story, but turned into one about facing Goliaths in our lives. A timely email and phone call rounded out the story perfectly.

But anyway, writing is solitary, so the gab fest and friendship we share at these events is grand.

I had a story in Cup of Comfort Women of the Bible. I wrote about the widow who gave her two mites and what a sacrificial offering it was, because it was all she had compared to the gobs of money others give when it doesn't even make a dent. I took an example from our service in Honduras, where we were graciously thanked by one local through sacrificial giving of a chick and sugar (which represented a HUGE gift for them) for the time we gave,which proportionally was not nearly as significant, in my view, anyway...

And here I am, actually signing a book. Seated next to me is friend and fellow writer Carolyn Ruch.

But the best part was the outlet shopping after wards. Shhh...I didn't say that!

Peace.