It's something that is exciting every single time - that moment when an author gets to open the box of author copies and set eyes on the books for the very first time.

It happened to me again this week, when Christmas for the Home Front Girls arrived.

It's amazing to think this is my 20th published book in 7 years. Yes, the 20th!

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Here's the blurb:

Sally can't wait for her first Christmas as a married woman. Starry-eyed Betty knows this will be her first truly happy Christmas since her darling mum died. And Lorna, finally feeling settled in Manchester, has every reason to look forward to the future.

But on the two nights before Christmas, death and destruction rain down from the skies, and Lorna meets an unexpected figure from her past...

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This week I'd love to share with you the photos I took on a visit to the railway that runs alongside Lake Bala in Wales, where I recently went on a research trip.   The main station is at Llanuwchllyn, which is where these pictures were taken.

Who remembers these? I'd forgotten cigarette machines existed.   Incidentally, those "cigarette packets" are actually just pictures.

Another important machine for the raolway station - the one dispensing platform tickets.   Do you remember Harry in book 3 of the Railway Girls books, The Railway Girls in Love, buying platform tickets for all the wedding guests?

Gorgeous use of an old telephone box.

Don't forget the dog's ticket!

I'd never been inside a signal box before. It was easy to imagine Bob working here.

That's a small water-tower on the right next to the coal wagons. A larger water-tower plays an important part in book 8, Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls.

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Link to the Railway Girls series on Amazon

The series in order:

1. The Railway Girls

2. Secrets of the Railway Girls

3. The Railway Girls in Love

4. Christmas with the Railway Girls

5. Hope for the Railway Girls

6. A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

7. Courage of the Railway Girls

8. Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls

9. Springtime with the Railway Girls

In last week's blog, I shone the spotlight on the social background and issues that inform the plot of my Edwardian stand-alone saga, The Poor Relation.   This week, I'm taking a look at the book's viewpoint characters.

Many authors write from a single viewpoint, but I like to tell my stories through several viewpoints. I think this adds richness to the telling and it can also provide an effective way of building the tension. There's nothing quite like it for racheting up the suspense as having the story switch back to Character B, just when you're dying to know what happens next to Character A!

Here are the viewpoint characters in The Poor Relation. Let's start with the poor relation herself...

MARY MAITLAND

MARY is an attractive, intelligent girl of 23, who has worked as a Town Hall clerk since leaving school at the age of 13. Mary is happy... up to a point. Being a dutiful daughter and conscientious worker is all very well, but she feels stifled. When she gets a new job at a women's employment agency, it causes ructions at home, but it expands her world and gives her the chance to develop her outlook and her initiative.

LADY KIMBER

As a girl, she had a passionate affair with her cousin GREG RAWLEY, but their elopement was scuppered by their mutual aunt, HELEN RAWLEY. Emotionally, Lady Kimber never recovered from this. Pushed into a suitable but dull marriage by her parents, she was widowed young and then set her sights on marrying SIR EDWARD KIMBER, not for her own benefit, but to provide the best life and opportunities she could for her beautiful daughter, ELEANOR. She wants Eleanor to marry CHARLIE KIMBER, the heir, and succeed her as the next Lady Kimber. When it looks like Mary might derail this plan, Lady Kimber sets out to destroy her.

HELEN RAWLEY

Aunt of Lady Kimber and Greg Rawley. A lonely, prickly old spinster, she has lived a life of being resentfully beholden to the men of her family. Long ago, her father left her in his will to her brother's care. Now, thanks to her brother's will, she faces a future of being beholden to Greg, the nephew whose life she ruined. All she wants, even after years of being cold-shouldered by Lady Kimber, is to be reunited with her once-beloved niece.

NATHANIEL BREWER

A successful and committed doctor who is on a personal crusade to bring affordable medical provision to the slums of Moss Side. A serious individual with high standards of personal and professional conduct, he lives for his work. He married IMOGEN, the girl from up the road, largely because everyone expected it, including himself and Imogen. She is the perfect wife, magically appearing with the clothes' brush whenever he is about to leave the house and specialising in stews and hot-pots that will bubble away happily if he is late. Nathaniel finds that Mary Maitland and Helen Rawley between them challenge his ideas about women.

GREG RAWLEY

Cousin and former lover of Lady Kimber, who is the love of his life; nephew of Helen Rawley. A debonair man-about-town, his livelihood relies on his skill/luck at the card table. He is up to his ears in debt to the sinister, silver-tongued money-lender, MR JONAS, but he has a safety-net, namely the certainty of inheriting from his uncle ROBERT RAWLEY (Helen's brother). But when Robert's will is read, it plunges Greg into unforeseen difficulties....

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Link to The Poor Relation on Amazon.

I check my website stats every week to see which pages are currently the most popular, how the blog is faring, and so on. h Recently, a page that has received a ot of attention from visitor is that for The Poor Relation, my Edwardian saga.

So this week I have decided to put the book under the spotlight, partly for the benefit of anyone who hasn't yet read it but who is interested in it, and partly for those who have read it, so you can get my take on it and see if you agree.

Let's take a look at the background to the novel.

Set in Edwardian times, The Poor Relation is about the two branches of the Kimber family. There are the Kimbers themselves - they have the title, the money, the family seat, the social standing; and there are their lower-middle-class relations, the Maitlands. John Maitland, a Town Hall clerk, is Sir Edward Kimber's cousin. The Maitlands live their lives walking on social eggshells. They have to be ultra-respectable so as not to bring the mighty name of Kimber into disrepute. The flip-side of this is that they also have to be aware of what the neighbours are thinking, because they mustn't seem to be trading on their grand connections and getting above themselves.

The Kimbers and the Maitlands see one another once a year when the Maitlands are invited to Ees House for Sunday lunch. On that day, the Maitlands have to be ready extra early because not only they must not keep the Kimbers waiting, they mustn't keep the Kimbers' coachman waiting either; and as they walk down the garden path to the carriage, they have to be careful not to smile too broadly in case the neighbours think they're showing off.

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The story shows the social extremes of the time, so we have the Kimbers with all the privileges of rank - the mansion, the servants, the posh dinner parties - as well as the deprivation of the slums in which Doctor Nathaniel Brewer sets up his clinic for the poor. Social reform provides part of the backdrop - the means test, the upper-class charity committees and the women's movement to improve the lot of lower-class women and working women.

The story also touches on the place of women in society - the changing role of the female gentry and the push for better working conditions for women, as well as the forcible feeding of suffragettes. In Edwardian times, modern-thinking women sometimes chose to 'love, honour and cherish' in their wedding vows, instead of saying 'love, honour and obey,' and articles were written questioning the legality of these marriages.

It is against this background that the heroine, Mary Maitland, John Maitland's daughter, is inspired by her social-reforming friends to embark upon a journalistic career. But is it possible to spread her wings at the same time as being a duitful daughter and obedient poor relation?

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Link to The Poor Relation on Amazon.

This week I'm taking a look at Nancy Pike, ther heroine of book 3 in the Surplus Girls series, Christmas for the Surplus Girls.

Here's what readers say about Nancy in reviews:

"a sweet and wonderful character"

"Nancy's happy and caring nature shines throughout the book and what she lacks in office skills she makes up for with a huge, warm heart.

"I fell in love with Nancy as she is one of those characters who always gives of her best, even if things don't always work to plan!"

Aged 19 when the book opens, Nancy was never that bothered about school. She wasn't particularly gifted academically so she concentrated on the practical lessons – needlework, cookery and housework. She was lucky: her school was one of those with a nursery attached so that the older girls could have childcare lessons, and she enjoyed those. When she left school in 1916, hers was the last year of girls that did mothercraft. Even then, the authorities knew they were going to have a generation of surplus girls on their hands after the war ended.

Nancy lives with her parents and sisters in a crowded flat. Mum MARJORIE is a worn-out invalid suffering from pernicious anaemia. The family never has enough money and life has been a struggle for as long as Nancy can remember. Dad PERCY, for all that he is such a decent bloke and so hard-working, has somehow never managed to provide adequately for his family.

Nancy works in the pie-shop. It is an early start and she is on her feet all day, but she loves the customers. Percy takes the wind out of her sails by telling her she needs to better herself and he has arranged for her to attend a business night-school. Nancy tries to wriggle out of it. Learn office skills? Her? You must be joking. But Percy is adamant. Not only must she attend but she has to live in. Nancy is distraught. Does Percy want to get rid of her?

Readers took to Nancy right away, one of the reasons being that they liked the fact that she wasn't any good at office work! For reasons that she doesn't find out about until later on in the story, Nancy is plucked from her comfortable life behind the counter in the pie shop and dumped in the secretarial school run by Prudence and Patience Hesketh. Readers - I suppose being accustomed to heroines who are good at what they do - really loved it when Nancy couldn't get to grips with the new skills that she was obliged to learn.

Although she feels overwhelmed and inadequate in her new environment, Nancy has her strong points. She is a well-meaning and caring person with a kind heart, who would do anything to help make life easier for her beloved mother. Working in the pie shop, chatting to customers from all walks of life, has given Nancy a certain knowledge of the world and while she might not be academically clever, she isn't a fool. Above all, she is hugely loyal to her family and will put her own safety at risk in order to help them.

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Link to Christmas with the Surplus Girls on Amazon.

In my news on my Welcome page last week I told you there are going to be more books in the Home Front Girls series, so here is a little taster for you.

Above are the covers of the first three, of which Christmas for the Home Front Girls will be published at the end of September. I have signed a contract to write two more, which will both be published in 2025. Please note - they aren't available for pre-ordering yet.

I don't want to sound mysterious but I can't share the titles just yet, as they have still to be confirmed. What I can tell you is that the viewpoint characters for book 4 will be Sally, Lorna - and Deborah, Sally's friend whom you have already met. It's interesting to see the world through Deborah's eyes. Book 4 also introduces a new resident to Star House and I hope you'll enjoy getting to know her as well.

You may like to know that I have already finished writing book 4. I'm having to be very careful how much I say about it here, because book 3 hasn't been published yet and I don't want to give anything away!

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As for book 5, well, Sally and Deborah will be viewpoint characters - and I'm hoping that dear Betty, who is so popular with the readers, will be the third viewpoint person, but that all depends on discussions with my editor.

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Link to The Home Front Girls series page at Amazon.

“There’ll Always be a Dustbin…”

A Look at Salvage and Recycling on the Home Front

When I was invited to write the Home Front Girls series, I gave a lot of thought to its background. I settled on salvage – what we today know as recycling – because it played such a huge part in the nation’s ordinary everyday life.

Salvage was a massive part of the war effort on the home front. Everything was in increasingly short supply as items vanished from the shops, never to be seen again until after the war – ordinary things like hair-pins, paper-clips (a bag of paper-clips was once offered as a prize in a raffle), hair-pins, needles, pencils, coat-hooks…

During the war, re-using was essential. Many items were re-directed into another purpose. Three or four layers of wool fabric for the soles, with a piece of old curtain, tapestry or even old carpet for the tops, and hey presto – a pair of slippers. The shirt-tails could be cut off a man’s shirt and made into a new collar and cuffs when the old ones wore out. Old shirts and blouses were turned into baby-clothes, and many a blanket found a new life as a winter coat. The WVS (Women’s Voluntary Service) ran clothes exchanges, where you could choose something ‘new’ in return for a good-quality donation. Women’s magazines were full of clever ideas for giving clothes a new lease of life, such as turning a full-length coat that was past its best into a hip-length coat and using the left-over fabric to make a smart new collar and pocket-flaps.

But it wasn’t just in the home that salvage and recycling worked wonders. ‘Saucepans into Spitfires’ was the popular and inspirational slogan for a national drive to collect aluminium throughout the summer of 1940, when the Battle of Britain was being fought in the skies. The housewives of Britain proudly gave up their pots and pans, vacuum-cleaner tubes, coat-hanger hooks, and anything else metallic they could find around the house.

In the words of Lady Reading, the leader of the WVS, speaking to women in a wireless broadcast in July 1940, ‘Very few of us can be heroines on the battle-front, but we can all have the tiny thrill of thinking as we hear the news of an epic battle in the air, “Perhaps it was my saucepan that made part of that Hurricane!”’

Throughout the war, everything was salvaged – paper, string, metal, glass, rubber, rags, wood, even rabbit fur after Bunny had been killed for the cooking pot, often to appear on the Christmas dinner table as mock-turkey. Food-waste went into the pig-bin, except for the bones, which went in the bone-basket to end up as glue, explosives, soap, fertiliser and animal-feed. Silver-foil milk-bottletops were kept and given back to the milkman – or more likely to the milk-lady, who had taken over the job when the milkman was called up.

The Control of Paper Order 1940 stated that items bought in a shop should not be packed or wrapped if this wasn’t necessary. In the spring of 1943, it became an offence to throw away waste paper. At a time when few people had a telephone at home, the main way to keep in touch was by letter. Envelopes were re-used until there was no space left to write another address and people who had been brought up to write on only one side of the paper now wrote on both, with no margins. If young Billy had been off sick from school and his mother, or his foster mother if he was an evacuee, had to write a note to the teacher to excuse his absence, this was probably done on the reverse of a piece of paper that had already been written on – so it was probably a good idea to check what had been written on the other side, just in case.

A salvaged newspaper could be made into three 25-pound shell cups. One envelope could become a cartridge wad. A mortar shell carrier could be made from half a dozen books, while sixty large cigarette cartons could be turned into the outer container for a shell. One 9-inch enamel saucepan might become a bayonet. Even the ‘snippings’ of cotton or wool from a housewife’s sewing or knitting could end up forming part of a soldier’s winter coat or an army blanket.

As for the humble rag… maps and charts for submarines, bomber crews and tank crews; wipes for cleaning machinery; battle-dress; blankets; roofing-felt for army barracks.

The responsibility for the collection of salvage lay officially with the local corporations, but the work mainly became the job of local women, almost always the Women’s Voluntary Service. This was partly because in the early years of the war, corporation refuse-carts were often needed for clearing up the rubble after air raids.

Salvage also became a job for children. Hundreds of thousands of children joined the ‘cog’ scheme – each of them becoming a small cog in the mighty war machine. Schools, scout groups, guides and brownies competed with one another to collect the most salvage in their local neighbourhoods. Newspapers ran a ‘cog’ page each week for children and a special song was written called ‘There’ll Always Be a Dustbin’, which was sung to the tune of ‘There’ll Always Be an England’. Working towards earning their ‘cog’ badges was an important part of wartime life for many youngsters.

So the next time you’re sorting your recycling, preparing to put it out for collection in the various boxes, spare a thought for our salvage-minded wartime generation, who by the time D-Day came round had provided 1.1 million tons of waste paper, 1.3 tons of metal and more than 80,000 tons of rags to help fight the Second World War.

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Link to The Home Front Girls series on Amazon.

Books 1 & 2 (The Home Front Girls and Courage for the Home Front Girls) are available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.

Book 3 (Christmas for the Home Front Girls) will be published on September 30th. It can be pre-ordered now.

Books 4 & 5 will be published in 2025.

The blurb on the back of the book has a job to do. It has to sell the book. It has to make your story sound so appealing that the person who has picked up your book will want to read it. The blurbs on my Railway Girls books (written as Maisie Thomas) and those on my Home Front Girls books are written by the respective editors. But when I wrote my original four stand-alone sagas for Allison & Busby, and again when I wrote the Surplus Girls series for Corvus, I was asked to write the initial blurb.

I should make it clear that this wasn't with the intention of putting my blurb on the back. It was to give the editor some ideas to use as a starting point.

Here, I'd to share the three blurbs I wrote for A Respectable Woman.

Why three blurbs? Well, once I'd got started, I just enjoyed writing them!

The first blurb was almost all about Nell, the heroine; the second introduced other characters and story elements; and the third concentrated on Nell and Jim, the hero.

I have put them all here. What do you think of them?

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A Respectable Woman - blurb 1

After losing her beloved family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert, believing that with him, she can recapture the loving family feeling she has lost. Five years on, she is just another back-street housewife, making every penny do the work of tuppence and performing miracles with scrag-end. When she discovers Stan's secret, she runs away to make a fresh start elsewhere.

Two years later, in 1924, Nell has carved out a fulfilling new life for herself and her young children in Manchester, where her neighbours believe she is a respectable widow, as do her fellow-workers in the garment factory where she is a talented machinist.

When a figure from the past turns up, Nell has to face a court case. Will the respectable life she has fought for be enough to guarantee her freedom or will her lies mean she must lose everything?

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A Respectable Woman - blurb 2

Manchester, 1924. Nell Hibbert has a secret. Over the past two years, she has carved out a fulfilling new life for herself and her young children and believes her shameful past is behind her.

Nell's dear friend, Leonie Brent, has a secret. Her overbearing son-in-law is making her life a misery, but she can't speak out because she can't bear to upset her daughter. Besides, what would the neighbours think?

Leonie's young granddaughter Posy also has a secret. Her charming father is really a cruel bully and her mother pretends not to know.

Jim Franks has no secrets. Everyone knows he is a former solicitor who has worked as a window cleaner since the War while coming to terms with deep-rooted feelings of loss. He is in love with Nell, but what can he do to make her notice him?

When a figure emerges from Nell's past, she and her friends face fresh challenges as hidden truths emerge, relationships are strained and Nell is threatened with losing everything she holds dear.

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A Respectable Woman - blurb 3

1924, Chorlton, Manchester. Life is looking up for young widow Nell Hibbert. She and her two small children live with a loving elderly couple and Nell's skill with the sewing machine enables her to get a desirable job as a sewing machine demonstrator in a department store. Discovering a flair for teaching inspires her to think of working for herself. Could a lass from the back-streets really do that? Nell devotes her life to her children and her work, while trying not to fall in love with Jim Franks. He may be the perfect man for her, but Nell Hibbert has a secret.

Jim Franks has no secrets. Everyone knows he was a well-to-do solicitor before the War. Now he works as a window cleaner while coming to terms with deep-rooted feelings of loss. He can't get Nell to notice him. His former fiancée, the elegant Roberta, on the other hand, is eager to get back together.

When Nell learns that the past is hard to hide from, what chance do she and Jim have of finding happiness? 

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So there they are, my three attempts at writing a blurb for A Respectable Woman. Which do you think is best?

Link to A Respectable Woman on Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Canada and Amazon Australia

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about the seventh book-birthday of The Deserter's Daughter. That set me thinking about the very important business of getting a literary agent. Some publishers these days don't require you to have an agent but that was less common back in 2016, and in any case I was very drawn to the 'traditional' route.

At that stage, I knew all about receiving rejection letters. At one extreme I received one that took the term "standard rejection letter" to new heights by being so standardised that it applied to non-fiction writers as well as novelists; and at the other extreme, there was the one that that praised my writing and was nothing but positive about my submission, only to close with the words: "Good luck placing it elsewhere."

In fact I received a lot of positive rejections - that is, a rejection that includes a compliment about the writing. In my case, these were couched in similar fashion; namely, "compliment compliment, but..." Ah, those buts!

At the time I didn't realise how lucky I was to get this feedback. The praise gave me a boost, but it was those buts I concentrated on. The end result was another draft of The Deserter's Daughter, which in June 2016 was ready to be submitted. I sent out email submissions around 4pm one Friday afternoon, intending to send some paper submissions the following morning. On the Saturday morning I glanced at my emails and there were two from literary agents. Automatic responses, of course - and I almost deleted them unopened.

Fortunately for me, I opened them instead. Yes, the first was indeed an automatic "We've received it" message. I opened the second one and my immediate thought, as my finger hovered over the delete button, was: That's a long automatic response.

 nger obviously had more sense than I did, because it didn't hit delete

Well, my finger evidently had more sense than I did, because it didn't hit delete and that gave me time to read the message.... which was a personal email from Laura Longrigg at MBA, sent around 9pm on Friday evening, saying she had started reading my submission on the way home, was loving it and wanted to see the full MS.

Long story short. I ended up with offers of representation from two agents, but while I was enormously pleased and flattered by the second agent's interest, there was never any doubt in my mind. Various writer friends advised me to meet with both agents before deciding what to do, but I didn't feel the need for that. Out of the agents I submitted to, and also those I didn't get the chance to submit to because Laura responded so swiftly, she was always top of my list and I was delighted to be represented by her from then until her retirement.

And now we come to the advice...  

Writing this blog has reminded me of something very important that Laura said to me - or rather, that she wrote to me in an email.

Here's what happened. Laura read The Deserter's Daughter and wanted to meet me. We put a date in the diary. Then the other agent also asked to read the book. I duly sent it off and, as a courtesy, informed Laura after I'd done so. She then told me that it was her intention to offer me representation as long as we liked one another when we met.

I've put that in bold because that's the piece of advice I want to offer to unpublished authors out there who are busy querying and wondering if they will ever get taken on by an agent. Yes, the author/agent relationship is a professional one, but it is essential that you also honest-to-goodness like one another. I know authors who dislike their agent - and what must their professional relationships be like? I've met authors who are scared of their agent.

Trust me on this. I know how hard it can be to secure representation; I know how long it can take; I also understand how a writer would want to grab the first offer that comes along for fear that it might be the only offer they ever receive.

But don't sign up with an agent without meeting them. And don't sign up without liking them.

And if you are querying at the moment - good luck!

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Here are all my books that were published thanks to Laura's representation:

My Susanna Bavin author page on Amazon  

My Polly Heron author page on Amazon 

My Maisie Thomas author page on Amazon  

This week I am delighted to welcome American author Jessica Scachetti to my blog to talk about her favourite book cover. The one she has chosen is Back to the Light, which is book 3 in her Wonder of Light series.

I’m honored to be featured on such an accomplished author’s blog! Thank you, Susanna, for giving me the opportunity to feature the favorite of my book covers. The writing community around the world is so amazing, and I’m truly blessed to have met many wonderful people such as Susanna.

My favorite book cover out of all my books would have to be the cover of “Back to the Light.” It is my latest release, and the third and final installment of my “Wonder of Light” faith-based trilogy. Each book in the series is a standalone romance but is interconnected by its characters.

This specific cover features two people, a man and woman, holding hands and standing on a path that leads to an illuminated cross. Majority of their figures are not pictured. Only enough to let you know, the woman is in a summer dress and the male is in jeans and tee shirt, giving them a youthful appearance. Considering my characters in the book are high school/college-aged it fits perfectly. The photo centers around their clasped hands and the luminous cross. It also appears the two are walking toward the cross, signifying a young couple bound together, not only by love, but on a foundation of faith.

When I discovered this image during publishing, it immediately resonated with the book’s story line, which involves a young apostatic Christian man who has lost his way while grieving the loss of a dear loved one. The male lead has not only turned his back on his faith, but he has broken the heart of his childhood sweetheart and shut out his family. His childhood sweetheart is the female lead of the story and refuses to give up on him. Through faith and forgiveness, she, along with their loved ones, endeavors to lead his young lost soul back to the light.

I’ve always outsourced my book covers, using the same Fiverr gig for all my books covers because they have consistently done amazing work. I provide the gig the licensable image of my choice, and they turn it into a book cover. I have also used this same gig to format my e-book and paperbacks.

An extract from this book that I feel echoes the cover is:

Upon arriving to our destination, we clutch hands as we climb up the front stoop of the Church. Once we make it inside, we are greeted most graciously by members of the congregation.

It’s humbling how easily I transition back into my spiritual element. As Cat and I introduce ourselves to the throngs of attendees greeting us, it’s easy to smile and exchange amiable salutations. When we find our seats, it takes no effort for me to sing along during praise and worship and bow my head when the Deacon leads us all in prayer. Still finding myself angry at God, I have no words or thoughts for him at the moment but convey my respect, nonetheless.

By the time the pastor announces what his sermon will be about today, I know instantly that the message is meant for me. He discusses the topic about being angry with God and relates the story of Jonah and the whale. I listen intently to every word that hits me direct center in my chest. My conviction weighs heavy, and I lose control of my emotions. I try to fight back my tears, but to no avail.

Cat, being ever aware, puts an arm around me and starts to massage me consolably.

Through my thoughts, I speak directly to God. After everything that’s happened and the chaos that ensued from my foolish and sinful actions, I feel an immense amount of guilt befalling me.

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Readers can connect with me through my author website: https://jscachetti.wixsite.com/authorsite

My books are sold exclusively by Amazon and free to read with Kindle Unlimited Subscription:  

US: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0B37SZ3ZX

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jessica-Scachetti/author/B0B37SZ3ZX

The direct link for “Back to the Light” is:

US: https://www.amazon.com/Back-Light-Wonder-Book-ebook/dp/B0BTKB4243/

UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Light-Wonder-Book-ebook/dp/B0BTKB4243