Fabulous Feature-Meghan Carver-Waiting For God's Timing

Today we welcome author:

Meghan Carver

A commenter will win a copy of
Meghan's Book:
Under Duress

International Readers Invited to enter!

Scroll down to see how.

Mary here. I'm so happy Meghan is here today. Have you seen all the flutter on FB about this new book!! I'm especially happy because I was at that conference Meghan mentions in this post and I met her. She is so friendly!  You simply must read her response to my question, how has God led you on your writing journey. It'll warm your heart. Here is what she said: 

Waiting For God's Timing

I fell in love with writing in the sixth grade during an all-school essay-writing exercise. Perhaps, at first, I just loved the scratch of the pencil across the paper and the fact that the paper was stapled into a cute little Blue Book. (Who remembers those?) But I also loved being able to express myself in a thoughtful way. Then, a few days later, a teacher handed it back to me with an encouraging comment written in red, and I was hooked.

I continued to write poems, short stories, miniature books, all through school. I was also a voracious reader. So when it came time to choose a college major, English Literature seemed a natural fit. 

After college, I got a couple of freelance writing gigs, but jobs that required an English degree were few and far between in my area. So, what does an English Major do? Go back to school! I put my writing dreams on hold and entered law school. 

Mary here: Law school?? Wow!

Within a little more than a year after graduation, my husband and I had our first child. Within the next eleven years, we had five more children. Yes, six altogether!

My novel-writing dreams hadn't disappeared, but they certainly weren't a priority in the day-to-day of diapers, discipline, and the delightfulness of motherhood.

I may not have been writing, but I was reading as much as I could, all sorts of genres and plenty of children's books! Better yet, the Lord was using this time to grow my faith and increase my devotion to doing His will, no matter what.

By the time my youngest was born in 2011, I knew it was time to get serious again about writing. 

I began scribbling out my first novel, sometimes pecking one-handed on the laptop while I nursed my newborn. I also attended a local Christian writing conference. Over the next couple of years, I tried my hand at a few different genres, developing my voice and praying about where I fit in the publishing landscape. 

In 2013, I attended my first American Christian Fiction Writers conference. There, I met a Love Inspired Historical author who not only became a dear friend and a wonderful encourager but also clued me in to the possibility of submitting to the Love Inspired lines. The Lord had put her in my life, and when the search for stories for the Love Inspired Suspense line came, I knew it was an opportunity I'd been waiting for.

Although I've wondered what my life would have been if I had kept writing since college, I think the Lord knew I needed that time for my faith to grow so that when I did write it would be words that would glorify Him.

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Meghan's children at the State house

By sixth grade, Meghan Carver knew she wanted to write. After earning a degree in English from Millikin University, she detoured to law school, earning a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University. She then worked in immigration law and taught Comp 101 at the local college. Now, she homeschools her six children with her college professor husband. When she isn’t writing, homeschooling, or planning the family’s next travel adventure, she is active in her church, sews for her kidlets, and reads.

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

  

Website | Facebook
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UNDER DURESS

Criminals are trying to kidnap attorney Samantha Callahan’s adopted daughter, Lily—and she has no idea why. So when bullets start flying, Samantha and Lily speed off in her car…and crash right into help.

Ex-cop Reid Palmer is shocked when former law school classmate Samantha rear-ends his car and then climbs in with her daughter and begs him to drive. Now they are on the run, and Reid will do anything to protect them and figure out why kidnappers are after Lily. As they struggle to evade capture, Reid begins to realize that Samantha is more to him than just a woman in trouble. But with the enemies closing in and their motives finally revealed, will Reid be able to make sure justice is served?

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Meghan Carver's Book:

Under Duress
International readers invited to enter!
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Thank you, Meghan, for joining us this weekend!

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