Author Pat Simmons & Crowning Glory
My guest today is Kensington Author Pat Simmons who shares about her unique heroine in her latest book, Crowning Glory. Here’s Pat:
“In my fifth Christian romance novel, Crowning Glory (Kensington, April 2011), I tackle some difficult issues that some people would prefer not to discuss.
If I knew everything about an individual, I probably wouldn’t like her. If she knew every thing about me, she probably wouldn’t accept me as a friend. Women are the fastest growing prison population and what happens when our sisters (brothers too) are released from prison, and the world knows her transgressions? My character, Karyn Wallace, repented, received her conversion through physical and spiritual baptisms as a result of a church prison ministry. Her daily inspiration after she is released is Romans 8:36: “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
Karyn paid her debts and Christ paid for her sins, so how do we respond to our sister? We have to search our hearts and ask God to help us look beyond another person’s faults and see her needs. This is why Crowning Glory is my favorite novel because we (the reader) have to search our hearts and ask ourselves what if we were in her shoes?”–Pat
Pat Simmons is the award-winning and bestselling author of five Christian fiction novels: Guilty of Love, Not Guilty of Love, Still Guilty, Talk to Me, and Crowning Glory. Her sixth novel, Guilty by Association will be released in January 2012. She is a genealogy sleuth and when she discovers ancestors, she casts them into starring roles in her novels.
Pat is a baptized in Jesus name Bible Believer and describes her Holy Ghost experience as an amazing journey in her salvation walk. She has a B.S. in mass communication from Emerson College in Boston, MA and has worked in various media positions for more than twenty years, most recently as an assignment editor and news writer for TV. Presently, she is the publicist for the annual RT Booklovers Conventions. She has been married for 28 years and has a son and daughter who recently graduated from college. Pat describes her husband, Kerry, as her GPS-guided chauffeur to book events as well as her amateur travel agent, booking those book events.
For more about Pat, check out http://anythinginspirational.blogspot.com/ or http://www.PatSimmons.net Also for Pat’s latest enewsletter, click here.
Thanks, Pat. I admire you for having the courage to tackle difficult subjects. Right now I’m writing a proposal about a former prostitute trying to make a new start in 1869. There is nothing new under the sun, especially in the department of sinners needed forgiveness and healing.
Well, readers, what do you think? Is this a book that piques your interest?–Lyn
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