Fabulous Feature-Lynette Eason-The Wonderful People God Gives Us

Today we welcome author:

Lynette Eason

A commenter will win a copy of
Lynette's Book:
Always Watching

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Mary here. I'm so happy to welcome Lynette. We are simpatico in writing interests. The thrill of adventure, mystery, suspense. Staying up late reading books by flashlight. The surprise. The twist. Ahhhh the very core of a memorable story. This is what Lynette writes. I'm so excited to share with you Lynette's inspirational post. God's leading, gift, provision. Yes. You simply must read her response to my question, how has God led you on your writing journey. Here is what she said: 

The Wonderful People God Gives Us

When I was a young mother of one, my husband travelled quite a bit with his job as a fund raiser and I often found myself home alone with an infant. Needless to say, I also found myself quite lonely.

Ever since I was a teenager, I had the idea to one day write a book, but had never made the time to do it what with school, then more school then a full time job. But now I was a stay at home mother and had the time.

I pulled out an old laptop and started pounding out a story I had running around in my head. And I loved it! I was totally hooked on this writing thing. Unfortunately, I didn’t really know what I was doing.

In the meantime, I was also reading anything I could get my hands on—especially in the Romantic Suspense genre. One day while browsing the Christian Fiction section at my local Christian bookstore, I came across a story by Dee Henderson. Danger In the Shadows really inspired me and I decided that, “I want to write like her!”

Dee was relatively new on the publishing scene at that time, but she quickly grew to be one of the top Christian fiction authors in the publishing world. I emailed Dee and told how much I loved her book and wonder of wonders, she emailed me back! Through our correspondence, she answered a lot of my writing questions, encouraged me to keep chasing the dream and even edited one of my manuscripts that she used as a teaching tool. Thanks to Dee’s willingness to mentor me, I learned how to write a lot faster than if I’d had to rely on simply going to conferences and reading writing books!

Anyway, eight years later after several writing conferences, and three completed manuscripts, I finally submitted to the Women’s Contemporary Fiction line that Love Inspired used to have. I got the manuscript back with a four-page revision letter and the offer to resubmit after I completed the revisions.

I did this, resubmitted and on February 16^th, 2007, received an offer from Love Inspired to publish it with the shorter line. I was fine with that since the line I originally submitted it to was being discontinued!

I can look back now and see, through this entire journey to publication, God’s hand on each and every step. The people that he placed in my path were there because He put them there. Not only were they there to teach me, they were there to encourage and push me when I wondered if I should just give up.

Again, looking back, I can see that God knew exactly what I needed each step of the way. And truly, if we seek to follow Him, we can trust that He will do exactly what He promises. He is faithful and He’ll never let us down.

How about you? Can you think of a time that you wondered if you were doing the right thing, but look back now and see God was moving and working the whole time?

Thank you so much for having me on you blog!

Lynette

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Lynette Eason is the award-winning, bestselling author of over thirty books.

Lynette writes for Revell and Harlequin’s Love Inspired Suspense line. Her books have finaled or won awards in contests such as The Maggies, Inspirational Readers Choice Award, The Carol, ECPA Book of the Year, The Selah, and others. Her most recent wins are the Selah Award in 2015, the Golden Scoll Award in 2015, a Carol nomination in 2015 and the Inspirational Readers Choice Award in 2014. 

She and her husband began a new venture in 2015 called Weekend With The Writers. It is a writers’ conference that is small and intimate, allowing attendees to have one on one instruction, ask questions in a round table type discussion and be mentored by the faculty of six. For more info go to: www.weekendwiththewriters.com The next weekend is Jan 29-30 and there are still four spots left! 

Lynette began her teaching career in the public school classroom and has since moved to teaching at conferences all over the country. Lynette often speaks at women’s conference and retreats, but finds her first love is teaching writing. In her spare time she can be found hanging out with her family, loving on her nieces and nephews, traveling, and…um…writing. Lynette and her husband Jack live in South Carolina with their two teenagers. Life is never boring, that’s for sure! 

Lynette loves to connect with readers. You can find her at her:

  

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