{"id":4667,"date":"2013-09-04T00:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2013-09-04T03:13:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T03:13:42","slug":"author-hannah-alexander-mothers-only-weak-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/author-shares-story-of-strong-woman\/author-hannah-alexander-mothers-only-weak-spot","title":{"rendered":"Author Hannah Alexander & Mother’s Only Weak Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cheryl<\/a><\/p>\n

My guest today is my longtime friend Author Hannah Alexander. Hannah is going to tell us about her mother’s weak spot and her latest Love Inspired Historical Keeping Faith.<\/em><\/span> And remember to leave a comment to enter the drawing for a copy. <\/em>Here’s Hannah:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mom Faced WWII<\/h2>\n

“My mother had a tendency to faint at the sight of blood. That, however, was her only weak spot. Everything else about her was strong, independent and determined. She worked at Hughes Aircraft as a machinist during World War !!, and farmed alongside my father while they both worked full-time jobs to dig their way out of the poverty that followed them from the Great Depression. Mom chose to drive a school bus in California in an era when folks thought driving a bus was a man\u2019s job. She took the harassment that came with the job without complaint. Mom also often drove alone halfway across country if a family member was ill and needed her help’ however, she protested when I followed in her footsteps years later.<\/p>\n

Mom\u2019s example was why I had no trouble writing about strong heroines when I began my writing career. The irony is that, though I base my female leads on the strengths of my mother, most of my characters can\u2019t afford to faint at the sight of blood, because they work in the medical field!<\/p>\n

\"Keeping<\/a><\/p>\n

To purchase, click here. Keeping Faith (Love Inspired Historical)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dr. Victoria Fenway, my heroine in Keeping Faith<\/em>,<\/h2>\n

is an unusual character because she not only learned her late husband\u2019s skills in medicine in a time when it was taboo for a woman to practice medicine, but she also incorporated herbal remedies she\u2019d learned as a child. And she continues treating patients after her husband\u2019s murder. As my mother would have done in 1855, Victoria joins a wagon train to head west. Secretly, she intends to hunt down her husband\u2019s murderer and stop him from killing others, but in order to gain entry as a single woman, she practices her healing skills on her fellow travelers, who have no choice but to accept her skills–since she\u2019s the only physician traveling with them.<\/p>\n

Even strong, independent women, however, can be weakened by the power of love, and Victoria\u2019s weakness is the wagon train captain, Joseph Rickard, whom she nearly married ten years earlier. Her battle becomes more real when she discovers he has never stopped loving her.<\/p>\n

My mother wasn\u2019t often accepted in the social groups<\/h2>\n

available to her in her lifetime because, much like Dr. Victoria Fenway, she walked a different pathway from most women. Mom\u2019s been in heaven for 1\u00bd years, where I believe she\u2019s accepted and loved as she is, and no longer has to struggle to fulfill her destiny.<\/p>\n

As for Dr. Victoria Fenway, you can see her more clearly, and read about her in Keeping Faith<\/em> if you pull up the first chapter at www.hannahalexander.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook:
\nfacebook.com\/author.HannahAlexander<\/a><\/p>\n

Leave a comment for a drawing to win a copy of Keeping Faith\u00a0 Here’s the QUESTION: What’s your weak spot? Or what was your mom’s weak spot?–Lyn<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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