{"id":5535,"date":"2014-05-14T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T05:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:53:41","slug":"vannetta-chapman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/new-book-release\/vannetta-chapman","title":{"rendered":"Amish Author Vannetta Chapman & This Imperfect Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Today my guest is Amish Author Vannetta Chapman. She takes a different approach to women and what is demanded of us in this life. Here’s Vannetta:<\/span><\/p>\n

Women and the Imperfect Life<\/h2>\n

My latest release, Murder Simply Brewed<\/em>, is set in Middlebury Indiana. The story revolves around the life of two women\u2014Amber Wright and Hannah Troyer. Hannah is young and has nothing but optimism about the future. Amber, on the other hand, is a bit older. She\u2019s not sure that the \u201cperfect life\u201d she believed in as a young woman will ever be hers. She\u2019s not sure that is God\u2019s plan, though she had once strongly believed it was.<\/p>\n

Though happy in her job,<\/h3>\n

Amber has no personal life to speak of. She\u2019s short on friends\u2014after all, everyone is either busy or paired up! As far as romance, that doesn\u2019t seem to be in her future either. Then one of her employees has a heart attack on the Village property where she is manager. Or was he killed? As the investigation grows more mysterious and the stakes grow more personal, Amber learns to rely on her faith, her friends (new ones that she never would have envisioned as her friends), and her neighbor (Tate Bowman, who is certainly not a love interest).<\/p>\n

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

Quite a bit of biographical details<\/h3>\n

I\u2019ll admit as I wrote this story I included quite a bit of biographical details. At 34, I was a single mom and my life was far from perfect. Like Amber, I had a good job but few friends and no love interests. I wasn\u2019t sure about God\u2019s plan for me.<\/p>\n

But God\u2019s plans are often different than our plans,<\/h2>\n

and He can bring victory out of the most dire of consequences. By the time I was 36, I had met and married Bob. We\u2019ve been married 15 years now, and we\u2019re both good friends and soul mates. I could never have envisioned that at 34. The last 15 years have been fraught with both good times (college graduations, promotions, and special family trips) and bad times (dread diseases, financial issues and family hardships).<\/p>\n

So what of this imperfect life?<\/h3>\n

What\u2019s a girl \u2013 ummm, woman \u2013 to do? If I could speak to that 34 year old I used to be, I\u2019d tell her a few things.<\/p>\n