{"id":1025,"date":"2011-03-24T01:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T01:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2011-03-16T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:13:06","slug":"author-ann-gabhart-book-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/author-ann-gabhart-book-giveaway","title":{"rendered":"Author Ann Gabhart &#038; Book Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1025 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ann-Gabhart.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ann-Gabhart-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/angel-sister-lg.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/angel-sister-lg-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">My guest today is Author<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ann H. Gabhart who has written a series of Shaker novels. You know of course that I wrote a series of Quaker novels so Ann and I have something akin in common. Here&#8217;s Ann:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">&#8220;My Mom \u2013 What a Character!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">One  of the best things about working on a new book idea is coming up with  new characters. And the very first character I generally think about  is the female lead. I\u2019ve been writing practically all my life, so  that makes for a lot of books. And a lot of different characters. But  one characteristic I like my heroines to have is strength of spirit.  They make mistakes. They\u2019re apt to take off down wrong roads. They  get knocked down by life sometimes. But they always get back up. They  always fight through to the end. They search for ways through their  troubles and don\u2019t just stumble across solutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">That\u2019s  the kind of characters I wanted for <em>Angel Sister<\/em>. But this time,  thinking up my people was different. This time I had my mother\u2019s family  in mind since the background for <em>Angel Sister<\/em> is based on my  mom\u2019s stories about growing up during the Great Depression. While  the characters in the story are only loosely based on my mom\u2019s family,  I did think of my mother while coming up with one of my viewpoint characters,  fourteen-year-old Kate. Kate has a take-care-of-people, can-do attitude  and that\u2019s my mom. The same as Kate in the story, Mom grew up without  money. Her family had a milk cow, honeybees, a garden, and a tab at  the local grocery. So they never went hungry, but there were few extras.  That didn\u2019t bother Mom. She just dealt with it. She tells a story  about when she was in a school play once and they only had one pair  of stockings without a run. Her sister was crying, wanting to wear the  good stockings on a date. Mom was fine with that. She told her mother  not to worry, that she\u2019d keep her legs crossed to hide the run in  the second pair of hose. That\u2019s my mom. Fix things. Keep everybody  happy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">After  they married, she and Dad moved into an old farmhouse where the teakettle  right beside the hearth would sometimes have ice in it on a winter morning.  Thank goodness before I came along, they had a warmer woodstove. She  and Dad worked side by side on the farm and then she came in from the  fields to do all the household chores too. When people in the family  fell ill, she gave up whatever she was doing to take care of them. She  rarely complained and she stayed beautiful \u2013 inside and out. When  I was a child, the greatest compliment I could get was someone saying  I looked like Mom. I didn\u2019t, but I wanted to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Now  Mom is ninety-one and has dementia. Her memory is fading. Pains are  harder to bear and life is harder to live. But she\u2019s still beautiful  and strong. I\u2019m so glad I could bring her childhood years to life  in some small way in <em>Angel Sister<\/em>. The story is fiction, but  Kate is strong like my mom.&#8221;&#8211;Ann<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ann has been kind enough to offer a copy of Angel Sister to giveaway. Please leave a comment to be entered into the drawing (include your email with (at) and (dot) substitutions.)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you&#8217;d like to learn more about Ann Gabhart, here are some links:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annhgabhart.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.annhgabhart.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cOne Writer\u2019s Journal\u201d <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annhgabhart.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.annhgabhart.blogspot.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Facebook Author Page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ann-H-Gabhart\/132862247566\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ann-H-Gabhart\/132862247566<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This book (Angel Sister) will leave you changed as it uncovers  family secrets and draws you into the days following the first World War  and the Great Depression. It will astound you how the characters  persevere while making difficult decisions amidst heartache, and their  determination to make it through the toughest of hard times.&#8221; \u2014 RT Book Reviews, 4\u00bd Stars Top Pick<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is Author Ann H. Gabhart who has written a series of Shaker novels. You know of course that I wrote a series of Quaker novels so Ann and I have something akin in common. 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