This Is Not Your Mother’s Christian Fiction!

I’ve got a really fun treat for you today, O ye fallible ones!

If you’ve been hearing about a wonderful new author named Claudia Mair Burney, and you’ve wanted to learn a little more about her, this is your chance. Plus, we’ll be giving away not just a single novel, but a two-book set—-the Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries.

Now maybe you’ve read only a few mysteries, or maybe it’s your favorite genre. Whatever. I guarantee you Claudia Mair’s stories are more than mere whodunits. There’s enough humor, romance, and sass to keep nearly any genre reader stuck to the page. Plus, these books are smart. Intelligent, too, but really…smart.

Katy: Claudia Mair, let me see if I can sum up Amanda Bell Brown’s predicament. She’s a forensic psychologist and amateur sleuth in your companion novels Murder, Mayhem & A Fine Man and Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz. And she has issues. She’s nearly thirty-five, she wants a man (but not just any man) and she’s craving a baby. Why does she have such a hard time making progress with her goals when she’s obviously brilliant, cute, and wears adorable shoes?

Claudia Mair: Amanda is really a very broken person and I’m going to say the s-word: She’s a sinner. The fact is, no matter how bright and even accomplished we are, some of us take a long time to cook in God’s oven before we’re done. We might think we’re done, but we aren’t. She tries very hard, but she’s really her own worst enemy, and that’s like so many of us.

Katy: I know we’re not in the same room, but are you looking at me?

Claudia Mair: You know what I mean. It’s that whole thing that St. Paul spoke so eloquently about in Romans 7:15. “What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.” Amanda doesn’t like to make such bad choices, but she’s a mess. If she were a real person, I’d ask you to pray for her. Hey, pray for me! I’m a mess, too.

Katy: Okay. I confess. Me, too! Now, besides Amanda, we’ve got Detective Jazz Brown—no relation to Amanda, though she sure wishes there were. He feels that he’s not free to see another woman, even though he and his wife are divorced. He usually exudes self-control and Amanda usually respects his decision—although she has a hard time understanding it. Does Jazz really believe as strongly about divorce and remarriage as he seems to, or is he scared of women like Amanda?

Claudia Mair: Amanda would see this from the point of veiw of a person who goes to a relaxed Evangelical Emergent church. It has a very different flavor from what Jazz is tasting and seeing over in the land of the Magisterium. Jazz is conflicted about dating because he’s Catholic, and the matter of divorce and remarriage would have consequences that would affect his ability to participate in the sacramental life of the Church. And there’s the whole annulment thing if he wants to remarry.It’s a complicated process.

Katy: So his reluctance to date is all about his religious beliefs?

Claudia Mair: Not completely. He also doesn’t want to be hurt and embarrassed again. But he’s crazy about Bell (he calls her by her middle name) despite his reservations.

Katy: About this “crazy about Bell” thing. Let’s just say there’s no pretense in your books that chastity comes easily.

Claudia Mair: None!

Katy: Some of us like to pretend (especially when we think about our young adult children) that sexuality is not activated until the wedding night—that there’s a Sizzle Switch that isn’t flipped until then.

Claudia Mair: You must be a talented pretender!

Katy: Yes, well. Why did you decide to tackle the issue of the struggle, and how did you manage to do it in a way that makes us laugh while spewing coffee on the upholstered chairs in Starbucks?

Claudia Mair: Ha! My Sizzle Switch got flipped waaaay before its time. Lord, have mercy! The fact is we live in a culture that’s highly sexualized and we’re affected by it. Some of us stumble. We’re carnal and embodied and it’s difficult to say no to sex when the culture says it’s okay to make love if you’re responsible.

Katy: As long as we’re “safe” and everyone consents, it’s okay, right?

Claudia Mair: It’s gotten even worse. Nowadays, the culture gives us permission to have sex and not be responsible. It’s awful! Even what’s on television! There’s stuff on the air that wouldn’t fly when I was coming up. But the Bible is totally counter-culture! We really are called to chastity, whether we are married, single, or even gay, and I do believe that there are people who are just bent toward same-sex attraction, for whatever reason. They’re called to chastity, too, and that’s gotta be hard. I find it so distressing that we don’t tell the truth about this in our fiction.

Katy: About sexual temptation, in general?

Claudia Mair: Yeah. We have to have characters that are so good, but what of the Scripture that says nobody is righteous, not one of us? We find our propensity to sin after conversion distressing, but I believe conversion is ongoing. I hope so, because every day, every moment, I’m in that process. It wasn’t an event, getting saved. I’m still being saved.

Katy: The Bible mentions working out our salvation.

Claudia Mair: It’s an all-the-time thing. For us to ignore the vital issues, the fact that too many of us are engaged in sexual sin, and it’s putting a stranglehold on the Life that is in us, well that’s just a sin and a shame, as my great-grandmother would say.

Katy: Your stories are definitely not ignoring this issue! And you’re making us laugh in the process.

Claudia Mair: Sometimes our struggle is genuinely funny. It’s true. If you look closely, the things we do to stay faithful can be hilarious. I’ve read that when St. Francis of Assisi was sexually tempted he rolled around naked in the snow! Now if that don’t cool a brotha off, I don’t know what will.

Katy: I’m dyin’ here.

Claudia Mair: My sister had a “God Squad” to keep her accountable. It was hilarious, and wonderful. You know, I never expected to write “funny”. I used to see all these books by Christian women who were funny and I wanted to be deep and profound, but over and over again, I don’t care what book it is, people say my novels are funny.

Katy: Trust me, they’re deep and profound, too. But Very. Extremely Funny.

Claudia Mair: I read that in every saint there’s a bit of a clown. I’m a lot of clown and a teensy bit of saint, but I’m working to shift the balance there. Give me a few decades.

Katy: Praise the Lord, you’re still young! About your writing process: Is it similar from book to book, or do you reinvent yourself as a novelist with every new title? Are you one of those disciplined authors who’s up at 5, exercises, has devotions and is working by 6? Or do you do something…else? Does what’s worked for you (as far as getting writing done) in the past necessarily work for you now? Do you have one of those desks that’s really, really obsessively neat and an ergonomic chair?

Claudia Mair: I wouldn’t know what discipline as a writer was if it appeared before me like a fiery angelic visitation saying, “I am discipline as a writer!” I had so many books and deadlines to work on last year that I worked between being sick, crazy, or trying to raise a family. It was not good as far as writing processes go, or living an effective family life. I did what I had to do. I finished the books, but goodness gracious, the first drafts I turned in must have driven Lissa and Lisa (my editors) to strong wine.

Katy: Actually, that sounds like a type of writing discipline to me. You showed up. You got the work done.

Claudia Mair: I was more writer than wife and mother last year, and that sucks. Don’t do that, y’all. There really is something to the phrase “too much of a good thing.” Publishing will demand more of you than you know. Multiple book contracts had its own little cross and complications that came with it. I’m grateful, don’t get me wrong, but five books coming out in one year meant I worked like a machine.

Katy: Writing circles are forever debating whether ‘tis better to be (if we can even help such things) a plotter or a seat-of-the-pantser. Which one are you? Do you get any help along the way with developing your story? Do you have a brainstorming group or a critique group? (Can I join? Just kidding.)
Claudia Mair: Seat of the pants, though in the mysteries I always know who did it from the start. And generally, though not always, I’ve turned in a synopsis so I know where I’m going, but I have incredible surprises when I write.

Katy: I gotta think the surprises would be the best part for an author.

Claudia Mair: With Wounded: A Love Story, the ending totally floored me. I was like, “Whaaaaaat!?!?” And with Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White, I got so exhausted that I put a placeholder ending on it just so I could turn it in. I knew I wouldn’t use that ending, but it was deadline time. I had to let it go, and I didn’t have the real ending yet. I put it in in the second draft, and it worked out. But for awhile there I had no idea where I was going with that.

Katy: They let you turn in stuff with “placeholders”? Placeholders happen to be my forte! So, you’re saying your characters can tend to get away from you?

Claudia Mair: Sometimes, I have to let my characters do something because I want to see how it feels, but they let me know if it doesn’t work (my editors are pretty good at that, too!). But really, your story itself will reveal its weaknesses if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. So, yeah, I will write the crazy first, and then see what the real story is.

Katy: Do you write a lot of stuff you don’t end up using?

Claudia Mair: I’ve thrown out hundreds of pages, but I wrote them because I needed to explore something. Explorers may have some idea of what they’ll find, but they don’t know for sure until they “go there.”

Katy: Okay, now you’re scaring me a little! Who reads for you before you submit?
Claudia Mair: Sometimes a friend or Ken and my daughter Abbie will help me brainstorm, but it’s not a formal thing. I have a few readers that tell me if I’ve written a story they can connect with. They read all my rough drafts, and lemme tell ya, they are rough, baby! But they don’t do involved critiques. Their job is to tell me if I wrote a story that held them till the end. Sometimes they tell me a little more, but mostly it’s about helping me discern if I wrote with heart.

Katy: Heart. Oh, yeah. That’s the most crucial thing of all.

Claudia Mair: I do a lot by instinct and flying blind. Maybe I should be in a group. We can start one, Katy. The Saint Francis De Sales Society. He’s the patron saint of writers.

Katy: My eyes saw that last phrase wrong. I thought you said, “He’s the patron saint of whiners.” Which would also work for me.

Claudia Mair: Get your saints straight, Katy.

Katy: I’ll work on that. You have a whole bunch of books coming out around the same time, which is fantastic for your eager readers. Can you tell us what you’re working on now?
Claudia Mair: Right now I’m working on my second Young Adult novel, The Exorsistah #2: The Return of X, and then I’m going right into the third one as soon as I’m done.

Katy: Are these about what I think they’re about?

Claudia Mair: I’m telling you, Katy, writing about demons is a trip. They don’t like it.

Katy: The demons?

Claudia Mair: They try to kick my butt in a big way. I have to become an exorsistah myself just to finish writing the books. I’m not kidding. Never do I encounter such difficulty writing a novel, such resistance, as I do with those.

Katy: You’re talkin’ spiritual warfare?

Claudia Mair: I have to keep a copy of the Bible, some kick-devil-butt exorcism prayers, and the book The War of Art by the bedside. Have you read that one, Katy? Talk about getting you going when you’re stuck! In fact, I should have picked it up about three months ago.

Katy: I will check out the book! Lord knows I need all the help I can get getting unstuck. It’s been a joy and a privilege having you here on fallible, my friend. I know that one of my fortunate commenters is going to blessed winning a two-book set of the Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries. Thank you!
Claudia Mair: Thanks for having me, sis. You’re incredible. I still have the prayer beads you made me! Never met a rosary I didn’t like.

Posted by Katy on 06/27/08 at 11:52 PM

Fallible Comments...

Who knows, maybe I'll win this time... :)
Love the book covers, by the way.
Posted by Bridget on 06/30/08 at 06:09 PM
I'm always up for a good book and two are even better.I haven't read a mystery probably since Nancy Drew and that's been a long time ago. How's your mother doing, by the way?
Posted by Mary Anne Green on 07/01/08 at 12:10 AM
They sound like winners Claudia. Can't wait to dig in!
Posted by Kathryn on 07/01/08 at 11:58 AM
Glad you are back. I missed you, and obviously, I have been off too. This is a new writer for me. Can't wait to read her stuff. She is a courageous lady to confront the enemy head on. I will definitely add her to the prayer list!! Keep it up Katy!! Glad to meet Claudia.
Posted by Sandi Thompson on 07/01/08 at 02:55 PM
Add my name to the pot for these books. They sound great! ....How's your mom doing? How are you doing?
Love you much,
Posted by Nancy Wood on 07/01/08 at 07:09 PM
These books sound wonderful! And I think it's hilarious the way you both describe "The Sizzle Switch." Amen.
Posted by Jennifer on 07/01/08 at 11:08 PM
I found Claudia some time ago through Lisa Samson's used-to-be blog, and then lost track of her.

I'm so impressed with her courage to write what's in the world, then show how we struggle and rise above it, plow through it, or let it fall over us and then move on.

Can't wait to read her books. Awesome interview. Thanks to both of you.
Posted by Christa Allan on 07/02/08 at 05:29 PM
Love this!!!
Posted by lisa on 07/02/08 at 06:08 PM
I love Claudia Mair's writing!! You probably shouldn't include me in this drawing, as I've already bought and read the first Amanda Bell book. The next one is high on my list of books I want to purchase next. I've shared the book I have with lot's of other people already, as well, and it's been a blessing to many!
Posted by Chris Anderson on 07/09/08 at 07:21 PM
And now I see that I was days late to enter the contest anyway - so I didn't need to say "don't enter me!" :)

I'm still catching up on blog reading after being on vacation for a couple of weeks...
Posted by Chris Anderson on 07/09/08 at 07:23 PM
Finally!
Posted by alison on 07/11/08 at 04:23 PM
I'd love to be considered.
Posted by Sally on 07/22/08 at 11:13 AM

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Personal blog of christian writer & fallible mom Katy McKenna Raymond in Kansas City, Missouri Katy is represented by Greg Johnson at WordServe Literary Read more Katy at LateBoomer.net Follow Katy on Twitter Follow Katy on Facebook 123 Recent Posts Try Becoming Brenda Starr Off Beat Scattered That’s It So I’ve Finally Signed With An Agent. Now What? The Spoon Sciatica Sweetheart A Woman’s Train of Thought Has No Caboose However much we own, we are all still living on borrowed time After all, when restaurants shrink portions, they don’t shrink prices. As with everything in life, balance is key. Slow down, you move too fast… Yeah, I know. I have issues. Search Advanced Search Syndicate Login E me at katy @ ngenius.com	This Is Not Your Mother’s Christian Fiction! I’ve got a really fun treat for you today, O ye fallible ones! If you’ve been hearing about a wonderful new author named Claudia Mair Burney, and you’ve wanted to learn a little more about her, this is your chance. Plus, we’ll be giving away not just a single novel, but a two-book set—-the Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries. Now maybe you’ve read only a few mysteries, or maybe it’s your favorite genre. Whatever. I guarantee you Claudia Mair’s stories are more than mere whodunits. There’s enough humor, romance, and sass to keep nearly any genre reader stuck to the page. Plus, these books are smart. Intelligent, too, but really…smart. Katy: Claudia Mair, let me see if I can sum up Amanda Bell Brown’s predicament. She’s a forensic psychologist and amateur sleuth in your companion novels Murder, Mayhem & A Fine Man and Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz. And she has issues. She’s nearly thirty-five, she wants a man (but not just any man) and she’s craving a baby. Why does she have such a hard time making progress with her goals when she’s obviously brilliant, cute, and wears adorable shoes? Claudia Mair: Amanda is really a very broken person and I’m going to say the s-word: She’s a sinner. The fact is, no matter how bright and even accomplished we are, some of us take a long time to cook in God’s oven before we’re done. We might think we’re done, but we aren’t. She tries very hard, but she’s really her own worst enemy, and that’s like so many of us. Katy: I know we’re not in the same room, but are you looking at me? Claudia Mair: You know what I mean. It’s that whole thing that St. Paul spoke so eloquently about in Romans 7:15. “What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.” Amanda doesn’t like to make such bad choices, but she’s a mess. If she were a real person, I’d ask you to pray for her. Hey, pray for me! I’m a mess, too. Katy: Okay. I confess. Me, too! Now, besides Amanda, we’ve got Detective Jazz Brown—no relation to Amanda, though she sure wishes there were. He feels that he’s not free to see another woman, even though he and his wife are divorced. He usually exudes self-control and Amanda usually respects his decision—although she has a hard time understanding it. Does Jazz really believe as strongly about divorce and remarriage as he seems to, or is he scared of women like Amanda? Claudia Mair: Amanda would see this from the point of veiw of a person who goes to a relaxed Evangelical Emergent church. It has a very different flavor from what Jazz is tasting and seeing over in the land of the Magisterium. Jazz is conflicted about dating because he’s Catholic, and the matter of divorce and remarriage would have consequences that would affect his ability to participate in the sacramental life of the Church. And there’s the whole annulment thing if he wants to remarry.It’s a complicated process. Katy: So his reluctance to date is all about his religious beliefs? Claudia Mair: Not completely. He also doesn’t want to be hurt and embarrassed again. But he’s crazy about Bell (he calls her by her middle name) despite his reservations. Katy: About this “crazy about Bell” thing. Let’s just say there’s no pretense in your books that chastity comes easily. Claudia Mair: None! Katy: Some of us like to pretend (especially when we think about our young adult children) that sexuality is not activated until the wedding night—that there’s a Sizzle Switch that isn’t flipped until then. Claudia Mair: You must be a talented pretender! Katy: Yes, well. Why did you decide to tackle the issue of the struggle, and how did you manage to do it in a way that makes us laugh while spewing coffee on the upholstered chairs in Starbucks? Claudia Mair: Ha! My Sizzle Switch got flipped waaaay before its time. Lord, have mercy! The fact is we live in a culture that’s highly sexualized and we’re affected by it. Some of us stumble. We’re carnal and embodied and it’s difficult to say no to sex when the culture says it’s okay to make love if you’re responsible. Katy: As long as we’re “safe” and everyone consents, it’s okay, right? Claudia Mair: It’s gotten even worse. Nowadays, the culture gives us permission to have sex and not be responsible. It’s awful! Even what’s on television! There’s stuff on the air that wouldn’t fly when I was coming up. But the Bible is totally counter-culture! We really are called to chastity, whether we are married, single, or even gay, and I do believe that there are people who are just bent toward same-sex attraction, for whatever reason. They’re called to chastity, too, and that’s gotta be hard. I find it so distressing that we don’t tell the truth about this in our fiction. Katy: About sexual temptation, in general? Claudia Mair: Yeah. We have to have characters that are so good, but what of the Scripture that says nobody is righteous, not one of us? We find our propensity to sin after conversion distressing, but I believe conversion is ongoing. I hope so, because every day, every moment, I’m in that process. It wasn’t an event, getting saved. I’m still being saved. Katy: The Bible mentions working out our salvation. Claudia Mair: It’s an all-the-time thing. For us to ignore the vital issues, the fact that too many of us are engaged in sexual sin, and it’s putting a stranglehold on the Life that is in us, well that’s just a sin and a shame, as my great-grandmother would say. Katy: Your stories are definitely not ignoring this issue! And you’re making us laugh in the process. Claudia Mair: Sometimes our struggle is genuinely funny. It’s true. If you look closely, the things we do to stay faithful can be hilarious. I’ve read that when St. Francis of Assisi was sexually tempted he rolled around naked in the snow! Now if that don’t cool a brotha off, I don’t know what will. Katy: I’m dyin’ here. Claudia Mair: My sister had a “God Squad” to keep her accountable. It was hilarious, and wonderful. You know, I never expected to write “funny”. I used to see all these books by Christian women who were funny and I wanted to be deep and profound, but over and over again, I don’t care what book it is, people say my novels are funny. Katy: Trust me, they’re deep and profound, too. But Very. Extremely Funny. Claudia Mair: I read that in every saint there’s a bit of a clown. I’m a lot of clown and a teensy bit of saint, but I’m working to shift the balance there. Give me a few decades. Katy: Praise the Lord, you’re still young! About your writing process: Is it similar from book to book, or do you reinvent yourself as a novelist with every new title? Are you one of those disciplined authors who’s up at 5, exercises, has devotions and is working by 6? Or do you do something…else? Does what’s worked for you (as far as getting writing done) in the past necessarily work for you now? Do you have one of those desks that’s really, really obsessively neat and an ergonomic chair? Claudia Mair: I wouldn’t know what discipline as a writer was if it appeared before me like a fiery angelic visitation saying, “I am discipline as a writer!” I had so many books and deadlines to work on last year that I worked between being sick, crazy, or trying to raise a family. It was not good as far as writing processes go, or living an effective family life. I did what I had to do. I finished the books, but goodness gracious, the first drafts I turned in must have driven Lissa and Lisa (my editors) to strong wine. Katy: Actually, that sounds like a type of writing discipline to me. You showed up. You got the work done. Claudia Mair: I was more writer than wife and mother last year, and that sucks. Don’t do that, y’all. There really is something to the phrase “too much of a good thing.” Publishing will demand more of you than you know. Multiple book contracts had its own little cross and complications that came with it. I’m grateful, don’t get me wrong, but five books coming out in one year meant I worked like a machine. Katy: Writing circles are forever debating whether ‘tis better to be (if we can even help such things) a plotter or a seat-of-the-pantser. Which one are you? Do you get any help along the way with developing your story? Do you have a brainstorming group or a critique group? (Can I join? Just kidding.) Claudia Mair: Seat of the pants, though in the mysteries I always know who did it from the start. And generally, though not always, I’ve turned in a synopsis so I know where I’m going, but I have incredible surprises when I write. Katy: I gotta think the surprises would be the best part for an author. Claudia Mair: With Wounded: A Love Story, the ending totally floored me. I was like, “Whaaaaaat!?!?” And with Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White, I got so exhausted that I put a placeholder ending on it just so I could turn it in. I knew I wouldn’t use that ending, but it was deadline time. I had to let it go, and I didn’t have the real ending yet. I put it in in the second draft, and it worked out. But for awhile there I had no idea where I was going with that. Katy: They let you turn in stuff with “placeholders”? Placeholders happen to be my forte! So, you’re saying your characters can tend to get away from you? Claudia Mair: Sometimes, I have to let my characters do something because I want to see how it feels, but they let me know if it doesn’t work (my editors are pretty good at that, too!). But really, your story itself will reveal its weaknesses if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. So, yeah, I will write the crazy first, and then see what the real story is. Katy: Do you write a lot of stuff you don’t end up using? Claudia Mair: I’ve thrown out hundreds of pages, but I wrote them because I needed to explore something. Explorers may have some idea of what they’ll find, but they don’t know for sure until they “go there.” Katy: Okay, now you’re scaring me a little! Who reads for you before you submit? Claudia Mair: Sometimes a friend or Ken and my daughter Abbie will help me brainstorm, but it’s not a formal thing. I have a few readers that tell me if I’ve written a story they can connect with. They read all my rough drafts, and lemme tell ya, they are rough, baby! But they don’t do involved critiques. Their job is to tell me if I wrote a story that held them till the end. Sometimes they tell me a little more, but mostly it’s about helping me discern if I wrote with heart. Katy: Heart. Oh, yeah. That’s the most crucial thing of all. Claudia Mair: I do a lot by instinct and flying blind. Maybe I should be in a group. We can start one, Katy. The Saint Francis De Sales Society. He’s the patron saint of writers. Katy: My eyes saw that last phrase wrong. I thought you said, “He’s the patron saint of whiners.” Which would also work for me. Claudia Mair: Get your saints straight, Katy. Katy: I’ll work on that. You have a whole bunch of books coming out around the same time, which is fantastic for your eager readers. Can you tell us what you’re working on now? Claudia Mair: Right now I’m working on my second Young Adult novel, The Exorsistah #2: The Return of X, and then I’m going right into the third one as soon as I’m done. Katy: Are these about what I think they’re about? Claudia Mair: I’m telling you, Katy, writing about demons is a trip. They don’t like it. Katy: The demons? Claudia Mair: They try to kick my butt in a big way. I have to become an exorsistah myself just to finish writing the books. I’m not kidding. Never do I encounter such difficulty writing a novel, such resistance, as I do with those. Katy: You’re talkin’ spiritual warfare? Claudia Mair: I have to keep a copy of the Bible, some kick-devil-butt exorcism prayers, and the book The War of Art by the bedside. Have you read that one, Katy? Talk about getting you going when you’re stuck! In fact, I should have picked it up about three months ago. Katy: I will check out the book! Lord knows I need all the help I can get getting unstuck. It’s been a joy and a privilege having you here on fallible, my friend. I know that one of my fortunate commenters is going to blessed winning a two-book set of the Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries. Thank you! Claudia Mair: Thanks for having me, sis. You’re incredible. I still have the prayer beads you made me! Never met a rosary I didn’t like. Posted by Katy on 06/27/08 at 11:52 PM Fallible Comments... Who knows, maybe I'll win this time... :) Love the book covers, by the way. Posted by Bridget on 06/30/08 at 06:09 PM I'm always up for a good book and two are even better.I haven't read a mystery probably since Nancy Drew and that's been a long time ago. How's your mother doing, by the way? Posted by Mary Anne Green on 07/01/08 at 12:10 AM They sound like winners Claudia. Can't wait to dig in! Posted by Kathryn on 07/01/08 at 11:58 AM Glad you are back. I missed you, and obviously, I have been off too. This is a new writer for me. Can't wait to read her stuff. She is a courageous lady to confront the enemy head on. I will definitely add her to the prayer list!! Keep it up Katy!! Glad to meet Claudia. Posted by Sandi Thompson on 07/01/08 at 02:55 PM Add my name to the pot for these books. They sound great! ....How's your mom doing? How are you doing? Love you much, Posted by Nancy Wood on 07/01/08 at 07:09 PM These books sound wonderful! And I think it's hilarious the way you both describe "The Sizzle Switch." Amen. Posted by Jennifer on 07/01/08 at 11:08 PM I found Claudia some time ago through Lisa Samson's used-to-be blog, and then lost track of her. I'm so impressed with her courage to write what's in the world, then show how we struggle and rise above it, plow through it, or let it fall over us and then move on. Can't wait to read her books. Awesome interview. Thanks to both of you. Posted by Christa Allan on 07/02/08 at 05:29 PM Love this!!! Posted by lisa on 07/02/08 at 06:08 PM I love Claudia Mair's writing!! You probably shouldn't include me in this drawing, as I've already bought and read the first Amanda Bell book. The next one is high on my list of books I want to purchase next. I've shared the book I have with lot's of other people already, as well, and it's been a blessing to many! Posted by Chris Anderson on 07/09/08 at 07:21 PM And now I see that I was days late to enter the contest anyway - so I didn't need to say "don't enter me!" :) I'm still catching up on blog reading after being on vacation for a couple of weeks... Posted by Chris Anderson on 07/09/08 at 07:23 PM Finally! Posted by alison on 07/11/08 at 04:23 PM I'd love to be considered. Posted by Sally on 07/22/08 at 11:13 AM Page 1 of 1 pages Commenting is not available in this weblog entry. Next entry: Hey, Christa, Come On Down! Previous entry: Priceless << Back to main


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