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Cheryl Wyatt

Story Starter Scene Prompts-14 critique contest

Let me know in the comment section of this post whether you find these prompts helpful. As incentive, everyone who leaves a comment on at least one Story Starter Scene Prompt this month will be entered into a drawing to receive a free critique/assessment of one of your scenes written from one of my prompts. This critique does not guarantee you will be published. This is simply a published author offering kind but honest feedback on the drawing winner's scene.

AND...you will receive 1 entry for each comment entered on separate weekly prompts during the course of the current month. I post prompts every Tuesday unless I'm guestblogging elsewhere. In that case, still leave a comment and I'll count the comment as another entry. Be sure to leave a valid e-mail address. I suggest you put [brackets] around the "@" sign so Net Spiders don't phish your address.

Onward to this week's prompt....

Story Starter Prompt
OBJECT:
• Write a 500-3500 word scene using five of fifteen Prompt Words.
• Begin each scene using one of three Scene Starter Sentences.
• Use any combination of (1) sentence/(5) words.
• Do three separate scenes with each prompt sentence if you want.
• Or if you’re really brave, try using ALL 15 prompt words in their proper usage and incorporate all three sentences into your scene hook ins or hooks out.
• Most of all, have fun!


Prompt Words:
1. diaper
2. loaded
3. gun
4. water
5. slide
6. base
7. brick
8. sky
9. pilot
10.light
11. sound
12. meet
13. meat
14. swim
15. dive

Scene Starter Sentences:
A. "Did he fall for it?"
B. "It happened again."
C. "We have one last chance to get this right."


Happy Writing!

Cheryl Wyatt

Monday Book Mania-Enduring Justice by Amy Wallace

Welcome to Monday Book Mania on my blog where I tell you about books I recommend by authors I love.

This week's feature:

ENDURING JUSTICE by Amy Wallace
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1601420145

Secrets Can’t Last Forever

A PAINFUL PAST

Hanna Kessler’s childhood secret has remained buried for over two decades. But when the dark shadows of her past threaten to destroy those she loves, Hanna must face the summer that changed her life and the man who still haunts her memories.

A RACIALLY-MOTIVATED KILLER

As a Crimes Against Children FBI Agent, Michael Parker knows what it means to get knocked down. Difficult cases and broken relationships have plagued his entire year. But when the system fails and a white supremacist is set free, Michael’s drive for retribution eclipses all else.

A LIFE-ALTERING CHOICE

A racist's well-planned assault forces Hanna and Michael to decide between executing vengeance and pursuing justice. The dividing line between the two is the choice to heal. But when the attack turns personal, is justice enough?


Q and A with author Amy Wallace

Q. Where did the idea for the stories in the DEFENDERS OF HOPE series come from?

A. The Defenders of Hope series started with a literal dream about an FBI agent with a wounded heart and a mom on a dangerous quest for answers. That dream became the book Ransomed Dreams. During the research for Ransomed Dreams, I met with a federal agent and asked the question—what would happen if an FBI agent found out he had cancer? His answer became the second book, Healing Promises. And the third book in the series, Enduring Justice, grew out of a secret one of the characters, Hanna Kessler, struggles to keep hidden.

Q. Your current release is Enduring Justice, book 3 in the Defenders of Hope series. Is it necessary to read all the books in order?

A. I’ve been told by many readers and read reviews that have said the Defenders of Hope books can be read in any order as stand-alones. The cases and suspense story-lines are self-contained, no cliffhanger endings until the next book. But the characters’ friendships and relationships grow and are challenged in each book, so I’d say it’s best but not necessary for the stories to be read in order.

Q. You’ve said that Enduring Justice contains the shards of your once-broken heart. What do you mean by that?
A. Fifteen years ago, God placed me in a safe place and used my future husband’s hands to hold me together while my heart shattered. David was the first person to hear about my being date raped when I was a teen. For five years I’d denied what happened or blamed myself. So when my walls of secrecy started to crumble, I felt alone and terrified.

But God met me there. He covered my shame with His grace and we started down the painful path of healing. Even though this isn’t the same circumstances as what Hanna Kessler faces in Enduring Justice, a lot of my personal story went into the writing. And while this subject may qualify this story as “gritty,” the focus is not on the past experiences, but on the healing an adult woman finds as she opens up to her family and the man she loves.

Q. One of the key themes running through Enduring Justice is racism, as Hanna’s love interest, FBI Agent Michael Parker, is investigating a white supremacist. Why is this topic near to your heart?
A. I grew up in the military and had friends of all skin colors and nationalities. One of my best friends was African American. We never talked about our skin color, but I remember one time she made a comment about how people treated her differently because of her skin. She wouldn’t explain. It wasn’t until years later after hearing some ugly words from extended family members about people of other skin colors that I started to understand racism still exists. And it breaks my heart.
Through Hanna and Eve and Michael and Lee, I wanted to highlight some of the challenges I’ve learned about from friends of other nationalities and also to show that it’s not skin color that matters, it’s who we are on the inside. We truly can be color-blind.
Q. Where can readers learn more about you, Enduring Justice, and your other books?
A. I enjoy and value email from readers! So please visit me on the web at the Dark Chocolate Suspense site: www.amywallace.com and leave a note in the guestbook, drop me an email, or join the Dark Chocolate Suspense newsletter community: http://www.amywallace.com/Newsletter.html.

Readers can also check out a very cool book format and read the first two chapters of Enduring Justice online: http://www.amywallace.com/ej_chapter.html
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Amy's other books:

Ransomed Dreams - Multnomah - April 07
Healing Promises - Waterbrook Multnomah - April 08
Enduring Justice - Waterbrook Multnomah - April 09

Visit this author's website

Cheryl Wyatt

Saturday Book Stroll-Ruby's Slippers by Leanna Ellis

Welcome to Saturday Book Stroll where I tell you about books I recommend by authors I love.

This week I'd like to highlight a woman I met at an ACFW conference one year. We had a precious time of prayer together and she's been dear to my heart since. Her books are so very unique. If you haven't tried one, GO FOR IT!

Featured book and author: Ruby's Slippers by Leanna Ellis

Publisher: B&H
Released April 2009

Hope you will consider picking up this week's featured Saturday Stroll book.

Ruby’s Slippers:

Wizard of Oz meets Cinderella

When Dottie Meyers loses her ‘no place like home’ during a Kansas tornado, she wakes up to find a pair of ruby slippers left by her father who abandoned his family thirty years ago. With her sister hot on her trail to find the treasured ruby slippers, Dottie travels a yellow brick road with three friends to find her father. No wizard can solve her problems. Only the love of a heavenly father can heal her wounds and give her the desires of her heart.

There’s no place like … the heart for God’s healing touch.


Winner of the National Readers’ Choice Award, Leanna Ellis writes quirky women's fiction. When she’s not busy writing, taxiing her kids to and from dance and fencing, or taking the dogs in and out, then she’s contemplating some new weird plot. Visit her website here.


Cheryl Wyatt

Blogging at Novel Journey Today

Hey Blogees,


I am a guest on Novel Journey today.

Hope you will come by and say hey!

Novel Journey is one of my favorite writing blogs.

Cheryl Wyatt

In Seekerville Today

I'm blogging in Seekerville today.

Zip on over and join in the fun.

Thanks all!

Cheryl Wyatt

Saturday Book Stroll-Tour De Force by Elizabeth White

Welcome to Saturday Book Stroll where I spotlight books I'm recommending by authors I love.

This week's highlight:

TOUR DE FORCE: A Love Story by Elizabeth White
May 2009, Zondervan

A Passion for Dance

Gilly Kincade is a rising star on the New York ballet scene. Dancing is her life's passion, second only to her love for Jesus, and she believes her faith sets her apart--but hasn't held her back. Chosen for a plum role in a new ballet choreographed for her, it seems the sky's the limit. Then she meets Jacob Ferrar....

A Passion for God

Jacob Ferrar has left behind the glittering temptations of stardom in New York ballet. He has established a reputation as a brilliant, innovative artistic director of a regional dance company in Alabama, with a vision for choreography that glorifies God and encourages the audience. In fact, he's certain nothing could make him go back....

Becomes Love's Tour de Force

When Jacob offers Gilly the lead in his original Easter ballet, she begins to reevaluate what she's willing to sacrifice for dance. And he sees exciting potential of shining light on the world's dark stage. But their brilliant first performance is destroyed by a terrible accident, and Gilly and Jacob find themselves facing an uncertain future. Together, they dance the fine line between personal vision and God's will, listening for the beat of the Father's heart.

Romantic Times BookClub says:
“White takes readers behind the scenes into the competitive dance world. It's refreshing that Gillian befriends and respects people living different lifestyles while still boldly living out her faith.” (4 stars)

Elizabeth White invites readers to meet her on the Web at Elisabethwhite.net. You can buy Tour de Force at your favorite Christian bookstore or at Amazon, Christianbooks.com, or Lifewaystores.com.

An interview with Beth about Tour de Force:

Q: What inspired you to write a novel about ballet dancers?
A: Too much cold medicine? JUST KIDDING! Actually, Gillian Kincade was a character in last year’s Off the Record.. As the off-beat teenage sister of Judge Laurel Kincade, Gilly took on such a distinct personality (as characters often do) that she demanded a story of her own. Readers have written to ask if she follows through with her crush on musical heartthrob Tucker McGaughan…To be blunt, no. Too easy. But rest assured, Tucker makes his appearance in Tour de Force.

Q: So were you ever a dancer yourself?
A: If you could see the bruises on my knees just from trying to make it across the Wendy’s parking lot, you wouldn’t ask that question. But since you did…I once took tap, jazz and rudimentary ballet as a child. I learned just enough to pick up elements of the dance language. Everything I know about professional ballet has come from interviewing and observing real dancers, notably the exquisite Kathryn Morgan of New York City Ballet and Kathy Thibodeaux of Ballet Magnificat! in Jackson, Mississippi.

Q: What spiritual take-away is involved in a story about dancers?
A: I was interested in exploring challenges to Christian artists in general. The Scripture I kept coming back to is Luke 12:48: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” Debates have gone one for decades (probably centuries, for all I know) regarding Christian art. For example, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, the story goes, discussed whether the world needs more “Christian writers” or “writers who are Christian.” The only way I knew how to tackle the subject was to create characters who must face those questions, take a stand, and either live for God—or not.

It’s my belief that flawed people are more interesting than perfect ones. They’re also more real. Though Gilly and Jacob aren’t “real” in the obvious sense, they do struggle to cope with universal issues. How much overt “witnessing” should a Christian performer or teacher do? What’s the line of grace between acceptance (“tolerance”) of the lifestyle choices of non-believing friends and sticking up for morality and truth? How should we respond when God seems to pull the rug out from under our dreams and desires? Are Christians allowed to feel disappointed?

My job as a novelist is not to preach the answers to those questions, but to draw pictures of possibilities and to point readers back to God’s Word—the only place to find answers. If I succeed in making readers think and pray, then I’m happy.

Q: This book has a subtitle, “A Love Story.” Is there significance to that?
A: Well, I’ve always considered myself a romance writer, but this one is truly focused on the development of relationships—not just between the hero and heroine. Tour de Force explores friendship, family love, and God’s love. It was a very satisfying book to write. I hope readers will like it.

Hope you will consider picking up or ordering this week's featured Saturday Stroll book!


Cheryl Wyatt

Free Book Friday!

Welcome to Free Book Friday on my blog! I'm giving away books most Fridays, so stay tuned!

Leave a note WITH A VALID E-MAIL ADDRESS in the comment section of this post to be entered into the drawing for a chance to win a Steeple Hill book.

I suggest you insert [brackets] around the "@" sign of your e-mail address so Internet spiders don't phish it.

Deadline for entry is Midnight CST this Thursday-six days from today. Winner will be notified privately via e-mail then announced in the comment section of this Free Book Friday Blog post. So if you don't want your win announced, please say so in your comment.

This Friday's pick:
A surprise!

Cheryl Wyatt

Support Sarah Mills! Order Miss Match

Fellow author Sarah Mills recently lost her husband. She is the author of the Allie Fortune Mysteries. A bunch of her author friends are helping to promote her books as a kindness to Sarah during this difficult time. She is also a young mother.

Please pray for Sara and her children. And consider buying one or both of Sara's books.

Here's a little about the books, and an interview with Sara:

Q: Miss Fortune and Miss Match are delightful books set in NYC in 1947. Tell us how you got the idea for Allie and these books...

A: I got the idea for Miss Fortune in the middle of the night, when all good ideas come to me:
One sleepless night I was watching The Maltese Falcon and I started to wonder how different the story would be if Sam Spade had been a woman. She'd never have fallen for Miss Wunderly's charms and lies. She'd have been smart and tough and she would have solved the case in half the time it took Sam because she wouldn't spend all of her time smoking cigarettes and calling her secretary Precious.

The thought of a hard-boiled female detective got my mind whirling.

I paused the movie and sat in my darkened living room thinking about how much fun a female Sam Spade could be. Intrigued but not yet ready to dash to my computer, I changed disks and put on Casablanca (my all time favorite movie ever). The sweeping love story, a tale full of hard choices and sacrifice was what finally made the whole idea click in my mind. If I could just combine the P.I. detective story of the Maltese Falcon with the love story from Casablanca, and make Sam Spade more of a Samantha, I could have the best of all worlds.

Q: These books are so good, I wish I'd written them. How did you set the stage to capture that gritty PI feel without being dark?

A: I find that a lot of PI stories are gritty and dark, focusing on the worst of the humanity, and while I wanted the Allie Fortune mysteries to be exciting and tension-filled I didn’t want them to be stark and hopeless.

One of the things I tried to do to counteract the darkness was to give Allie a multi-layered life. She has cases, relationships, friends and family, all of which I hope combine to make the stories textured, rich and full of life.

Q: Allie is a character I'd love to have coffee with. What did she teach you while you wrote these books?

A: Allie was a great character to write. One of the things I learned from her was that human relationships (man/woman, mother/daughter, friends) are complicated and full of unspoken rules and expectations. Allie is a rule-breaker at heart and it complicates her life on a regular basis. One of the storylines I loved most is Allie’s relationship with her mother and how it grows and changes and how it’s shaped her.

Another dimension of Allie’s character that really taught me a lot was her willingness to do whatever was needed to help those she loves. There is no price on that kind of friendship and it’s a characteristic I’d like to see more of in myself. Okay I admit it, I’ve got a bit of a friend-crush on Allie. LOL.

Q: One last question: If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would that be and who would you take with you?

A: If I could go anywhere right now I’d head to Monterey, California (I’m writing a book set there right now) and I’d plant myself on the beach with a notebook, writing my story as the waves crashed. Sounds like my idea of heaven on earth. There’s something about the wind-shaped Cypress trees and the crash of the surf in Monterey that calls to me. I don’t know why, it just is.


About the books:

Miss Fortune, Allie Fortune Mystery Series #1

By Sara Mills / Moody Publishers

In 1947 Allie Fortune is the only female private investigator in New York City, but she's kept awake at night by a mystery of her own: her fianci disappeared in the war and no one knows if he's still alive. Until Allie finds out, she will have no peace. When there's a knock on her office door at four in the morning, Allie suspects trouble as usual, and Mary Gordon is no exception. Mary claims someone is following her, that her apartment has been ransacked, and that she's been shot at, but she has no idea why any of this is happening. Allie takes the case, and in the process discovers an international mystery that puts her own life in danger.
Meanwhile, the FBI is working the case as well, and she is partnered up with an attractive, single agent who would be perfect for her under other circumstances-if only she knew whether her fianci was still alive.






Miss Match, Allie Fortune Mystery Series #2

By Sara Mills / Moody Publishers


FBI agent Jack O'Connor receives a letter from Maggie, a woman he used to love, saying she's in trouble in Berlin. The FBI refuses to get involved, so Jack asks Allie Fortune to help him investigate. Allie and Jack pose as a missionary couple who want to bring orphans back to the United States.
A child finds important documents that everyone in the city - Soviets and allies alike - want for themselves. Maggie refuses to tell Jack what the documents are, saying if things go wrong, they are better off not knowing. Through the course of the search, Allie's past is brought back to her, half a world away from home.

These books are available on any online bookseller or in stores, or have the clerk order your copy/copies today.

Help us help this young mother through a difficult season by supporting her by purchasing her books.

Feel free to take this post and paste it on your own blogs and include purchase links to Sarah's books if you like.

Thanks all!

Cheryl Wyatt

Story Starter Scene Prompts-13 and critique contest

NEW NEWS! Let me know in the comment section of this post whether you find these prompts helpful. As incentive, everyone who leaves a comment on at least one Story Starter Scene Prompt this month will be entered into a drawing to receive a free critique/assessment of one of your scenes written from one of my prompts. This critique does not guarantee you will be published. This is simply a published author offering kind but honest feedback on the drawing winner's scene.

AND...you will receive 1 entry for each comment entered on separate weekly prompts during the course of the current month. I post prompts every Tuesday unless I'm guestblogging elsewhere. In that case, still leave a comment and I'll count the comment as another entry. Be sure to leave a valid e-mail address. I suggest you put [brackets] around the "@" sign so Net Spiders don't phish your address.

Onward to this week's prompt....

Story Starter Prompt
OBJECT:
• Write a 500-3500 word scene using five of fifteen Prompt Words.
• Begin each scene using one of three Scene Starter Sentences.
• Use any combination of (1) sentence/(5) words.
• Do three separate scenes with each prompt sentence if you want.
• Or if you’re really brave, try using ALL 15 prompt words in their proper usage and incorporate all three sentences into your scene hook ins or hooks out.
• Most of all, have fun!


Prompt Words:
1. college
2. children
3. play
4. room
5. triplets
6. single
7. dad
8. date
9. dinner
10.teacher
11. doorstep
12. kiss
13. exhume
14. alive
15. wife

Scene Starter Sentences:
A. "I'm sure there's a good reason why he's late, sweetie."
B. "Welcome girls."
C. "Where's the last place you saw it?"


Happy Writing!

Cheryl Wyatt

Saturday Book Stroll- Tamera Alexander's Beyond This Moment

Welcome to Saturday Book Stroll on my blog. Each Saturday I feature books I highly recommend by authors I love.

This Saturday's feature is Tamera Alexander's latest release: Beyond This Moment, a Timber Ridge Reflections novel.


About Beyond This Moment:

Lives are made up of tiny steps. Some are chosen for us; some we choose.
All hold the power to change who we become—but only if we let them.
When Dr. Molly Whitcomb, Professor of Romance Languages, steps off the train in Colorado Territory, she makes a choice—one that goes against everything she stands for. Yet it’s the only choice that offers her a chance to regain a fraction of all she’s lost.

Sheriff James McPherson’s instincts about people rarely miss the mark. He senses Professor Whitcomb is hiding something. He just doesn’t know what. When James learns Molly’s secret, his own reputation is undermined. But when Molly Whitcomb’s reinvented life begins to unravel, it threatens his job, the stability of Timber Ridge, and what he always knew to be true about himself.

What others are saying about Beyond This Moment:

"Pull up a comfy armchair! The main and secondary characters in Beyond This Moment instantly become people to care about, and the plot twists will keep you turning pages long into the night. The themes of racial tolerance and second chances are as timely today as they were back in the early days of Colorado's history." -Romantic Times, 4 1/2 star review

“Tamera Alexander paints scenery with the written word, and makes characters, stories, and insights linger long after the book is read.”—Cindy Woodsmall, New York Times bestselling author

“The characters are charming, engaging, and very realistic . . . a great story that will have readers quickly turning pages . . .”—The Romance Readers Connection


About the author:

Tamera Alexander is a best-selling novelist whose deeply drawn characters, thought-provoking plots, and poignant prose resonate with readers. Having lived in Colorado for seventeen years, she and her husband now make their home in Nashville, Tennessee, where they enjoy life with their two college-age children and a precious--and precocious--silky terrier named Jack.



If you have a minute, you can visit Tamera's website and her blog.

Or read an excerpt of Beyond This Moment here.

And for a chance to win a copy of one of Tamera's books, visit her contest page.




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Places to purchase this book:

Beyond This Moment Amazon Link

Beyond This Moment on CBD






Cheryl Wyatt

Free Book Friday!

Welcome to Free Book Friday on my blog! I'm giving away Steeple Hill books most Fridays, so stay tuned!

Leave a note WITH A VALID E-MAIL ADDRESS in the comment section of this post to be entered into the drawing for a chance to win a Steeple Hill book.

I suggest you insert [brackets] around the "@" sign of your e-mail address so Internet spiders don't phish it.

Deadline for entry is Midnight CST this Thursday-six days from today. Winner will be notified privately via e-mail then announced in the comment section of this Free Book Friday Blog post. So if you don't want your win announced, please say so in your comment.

This Friday's pick:
A surprise!

Cheryl Wyatt

Blogging at Craftie Ladies Today

Blogging here today. Hope you will drop by and comment.



Craftie Ladies of Romance

Cheryl Wyatt

Story Starter Scene Prompts-12 and critique contest

NEW NEWS! Let me know in the comment section of this post whether you find these prompts helpful. As incentive, everyone who leaves a comment on at least one Story Starter Scene Prompt this month will be entered into a drawing to receive a free critique/assessment of one of your scenes written from one of my prompts. This critique does not guarantee you will be published. This is simply a published author offering kind but honest feedback on the drawing winner's scene.

AND...you will receive 1 entry for each comment entered on separate weekly prompts during the course of the current month. I post prompts every Tuesday unless I'm guestblogging elsewhere. In that case, still leave a comment and I'll count the comment as another entry. Be sure to leave a valid e-mail address. I suggest you put [brackets] around the "@" sign so Net Spiders don't phish your address.

Onward to this week's prompt....

Story Starter Prompt
OBJECT:
• Write a 500-3500 word scene using five of fifteen Prompt Words.
• Begin each scene using one of three Scene Starter Sentences.
• Use any combination of (1) sentence/(5) words.
• Do three separate scenes with each prompt sentence if you want.
• Or if you’re really brave, try using ALL 15 prompt words in their proper usage and incorporate all three sentences into your scene hook ins or hooks out.
• Most of all, have fun!


Prompt Words:
1. cop
2. undercover
3. deal
4. bust
5. drug
6. wire
7. watcher
8. gun
9. flare
10.awry
11. tough
12. girl
13. apprehend
14. chase
15. eyes

Scene Starter Sentences:
A. "Are you a good ghost?"
B. "I've never met a female undercover officer."
C. "This is my old beat."


Happy Writing!

Cheryl Wyatt

Saturday Book Stroll-Mary Connealy Lassoed in Texas Trilogy

This weekend's featured books are by a woman I absolutely love. She is truly one of THE funniest women I have ever met in my life. EVERY e-mail she sends me should come with a "spew alert" because she is so outrageously funny.

So I had a feeling that, if her writing was anything like her e-mails, that I would love them. And I SO do.

Today's featured books are Petticoat Ranch, Calico Canyon and Gingham Mountain by Barbour Fiction Author. Mary's book have already garnered acclaim in the writing community as her work has won and or finaled in ACFW's Book of the Year, FHL's Inspirational Reader's Choice Content, AND she is a Christy Award finalist.

I am NOT just pushing these books because Mary is my friend or fellow Seekervillain.


I absolutely loved every one of these stories in Mary's Lassoed in Texas series. I just finished Gingham Mountain.

She often mentions how the opening to my second Wings of Refuge book (A Soldier's Family) has one of the most intense book openeings she's read.

But I tell you...one of her openings starts with a man fleeing men in a storm and running his horse off the side of a river cliff thing. AND the river is rising and the heroine and her daughters are risking their lives to save this man who is buried under rocks and dirt and unconscious. TALK ABOUT INTENSE!

You'd have to read it to get the full effect. Once you read one of these three books, you will want the others, trust me.

Her well-drawn characters will tug at your heartstrings and Mary's vivid, evocative writing will have you hooked all the way through the stories.

I HIGHLY recommend this series. Hope you will pick up your copies today.


For more info about Mary and her books, visit her Web site.


Cheryl Wyatt

Free Book Friday!

Welcome to Free Book Friday on my blog! I'm giving away books most Fridays, so stay tuned!

Leave a note WITH A VALID E-MAIL ADDRESS in the comment section of this post to be entered into the drawing for a chance to win a Steeple Hill book.

I suggest you insert [brackets] around the "@" sign of your e-mail address so Internet spiders don't phish it.

Deadline for entry is Midnight CST this Thursday-six days from today. Winner will be notified privately via e-mail then announced in the comment section of this Free Book Friday Blog post. So if you don't want your win announced, please say so in your comment.

This Friday's pick:
A surprise!

Cheryl Wyatt

Blush & Cringe-Nearly Took Out Driver's Ed Instructor

Oh man...if my niece "Gidge" reads this, she is SO not gonna let me live this down. She forgot her learner's permit and she had one hour until she had to be back to the school for her driver's ed class which is, as you know held in a car most of the time.

So we pull up with like thirty seconds to spare and she points out her driver's ed instructor who I suddenly realize looked strikingly similar to the man I'd nearly ran over last week leaving the parking lot. The one who not quite but nearly had to dive for cover and my car careened and bumped across potholes toward him.

Well! He was in my blind spot and I accidentally peeled out because of the gravel. Then I started laughing today and almost backed into the gym because I was backing out of a narrow alley type thing, trying not to run over pot holes because I didn't want to get my new car (new for me since my wreck) dirty.

Well, I almost scraped paint off my new car in a concentrated effort to stay out of mud holes.

And my niece was oblivious the whole time. LOL!

The instructor wasn't however. I'm pretty sure he will be giving my niece a few driving pointers to pass along to me.

But, to my credit, I DID use my blinker because I knew he might be watching.

Wrong blinker since I was backing out. But hey...at least I used my blinker.



Menace to society,

Cheryl Wyatt

Blogging at Love Inspired Authors' Blog Today

I'm blogging at loveinspiredauthors.blogspot.com today.

Zip on over and join in the fun.

Folks are TOO quiet over there. Go and stir up some comments. LOL!

Thanks all!

Cheryl Wyatt