Happy Friday, Everyone!
I'm so thrilled to have Susanne Matthews back on my blog today. She is here to share her new release, Sworn to Protect with us, but she also left us a wonderful post that I think we all can relate.
"Sometimes, we hang onto those dreams for a lifetime before acting on them. At other times, we just let them fade in to the “just imagine” column..."
I hope you enjoy Just Imagine as much I as did. In my humble opinion, I'm grateful Susanne took the leap beyond just image. I'm off to pick up my copy of Sworn to Protect for my weekend read.
Just Imagine!
Thank you so much for
inviting me to visit your blog today. As I was preparing to write this post, I
thought of a number of different topics before settling on Just Imagine, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized
it’s the perfect topic to introduce my latest novel, Sworn to Protect.
I began my writing career
in the fall of 2012 when I penned my first romance/suspense novel, Fire Angel. Since then, I’ve written 19
novels, 2 novellas, 3 short stories and 3 episodes of a sci-fi series I intend
to finish later this year. Sworn to
Protect is my 12th romance/suspense title. Crimson Romance will
be publishing my 13th, No
Good Deed, in July. I look at the books on my shelf, and I can’t stop
wondering where all the unique and unusual ideas have suddenly come from. I was
a plain old English teacher for more than 30 years. Now, I’m a novelist—a dream
come true. Just imagine how many
books I might have written if I had started two years earlier when I first
retired from teaching, or even 40 years ago before I started my teaching career!
I’ve always wanted to be a
writer and, to be perfectly truthful, I have been a writer for longer than I
have been a novelist. In my teens, I wrote poetry which I shared with friends,
something I continued to do for many years. In the late nineties, I wrote
children’s stories for our local newspaper. One of my dreams is to edit and put
those stories together in an anthology. While it’s true that children’s
interests have changed, many of the stories carry moral lessons and values
still current today. Just imagine
what might have happened if I’d opted to stay with children’s lit. Those
stories are aimed at children in grades 3-8. The closest to that I’ve gotten
now is a YA published last winter called, Prove
It!
Before I retired from
teaching, I wrote curriculum for the Ontario Ministry of Education’s e-learning
courses. Just imagine what could’ve
happened if I’d elected to stay with technical writing instead of going on to
become a romance novelist.
We all have dreams and
aspirations. Sometimes, we hang onto those dreams for a lifetime before acting
on them. At other times, we just let them fade in to the “just imagine” column and smile regrettably, thinking of how things
could’ve been. But for all the dreams we have, we are also plagued with
regrets.
Do I regret teaching? No,
not at all. I have some wonderful memories of my days in the classroom and I
know I made a difference in the lives of my students. But do I regret not
trying to write sooner? Maybe, but the entire landscape of writing has changed
incredibly in the past fifty years. I doubt I could’ve done then what I can do
today. Technology has made an incredible difference in the lives of authors and
I am definitely one. Just imagine what’s waiting out there to be discovered for
the authors of tomorrow.
In Sworn to Protect, my hero and heroine get to do something few of us
do in our lives. They get a do-over—a second chance to fall in love again and
find the happily ever after they lost the first time around. But, like
everything else in life, the price is high. Just imagine how you would feel if
you woke up tomorrow and didn’t remember the last six years of your life.
The
Blurb:
Four
years ago, a car accident robbed Nancy Frost of her child and her mother,
taking what was left of her marriage with it in the process. A forensic
accountant, she agrees to look at a company’s books in a divorce case, trying
to find hidden assets, but her meeting with the lawyer goes terribly wrong when
the restaurant is attacked.
The moment US Marshal Neil Copeland discovers his wife has been shot in a
Baltimore restaurant, he rushes to her side, determined not to let her down
again. As the police investigate, evidence suggests the attack was a ploy to
hide a specific hit. When a professional assassin tries to kill Nancy a second
time, it’s clear that she was the target and whatever’s going on is a lot more
complicated than they think.
When Nancy awakes after a month in an induced coma, not only does she not
remember the attack on the restaurant, she doesn’t remember marrying Neil.
Faced with the challenge of protecting his wife from a powerful, faceless
enemy, Neil must bring her up to date, dredging up all the sorrow that tore
them apart in the first place, hoping something will jar her memory.
As he races against time, can he save her from an unknown assassin and convince
her to give the love they once had a second chance?
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Happy reading and Hugs to All,
Nancy C. Weeks
