{"id":720,"date":"2011-02-17T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=720"},"modified":"2011-02-15T23:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T23:27:02","slug":"british-author-veronica-heley-her-strong-heroines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/british-author-veronica-heley-her-strong-heroines","title":{"rendered":"British Author Veronica Heley &#038; Her Strong Heroines"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\"><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-720 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\/01\/Veronica-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-1-121x150.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 landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-amazon.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-amazon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-amazon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-amazon.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">My guest today is British Author Veronica Heley. She was my guest last year and I inadvertently misspelled her last name. But she forgave me. If you like a good British mystery, I think that you might want to try one Veronica&#8217;s!<\/span> Here&#8217;s Veronica:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I write two series of gentle  crime stories, the Ellie Quicke Mysteries and the Abbot Agency series.  The women in these stories are not at all alike \u2013 one is a home-builder  who helps to run a charity, and the other is a business woman who runs  a domestic agency. Both have family problems to deal with, which cause  them much distress at times. One worries about her weight and never  bothers with makeup unless she feels she ought to. The other is tall  and believes in manicures, and good clothes.<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">Perhaps  the only thing they have in common is that each tries to act as a Christian  in a secular world, and they both pray in times of distress. One goes  to church \u2013 she used to sing in the choir \u2013 and the other reads  her dead husband\u2019s bible and tries that way to learn more about Jesus  and what he can mean in her life.<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">The  latest book out \u2013 in February in the USA \u2013 is FALSE MONEY, where  Bea\u2019s well-meant advice to her daughter-in-law has led to a breakdown  in their relationship, while at the same time she tries to find the  missing star of an art-house film \u2013 who also has strong Christian  values. None of the girl\u2019s friends seem able to tell the truth behind  her disappearance and Bea\u2019s investigation only brings danger to her  much-loved grandson.<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">A  grandmother holding the balance between common sense and panic in family  situations is all too familiar a problem today, I\u2019m afraid, though  my own mother was a good example to us all. She had seen enough of the  world to know when to speak and when to keep silent. A rare accomplishment,  and one which Bea has to learn the hard way, and with much prayer. For  the sake of her little grandson, she puts aside her own hurt feelings  . . . and it works.<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">Ellie is faced with a different problem.  Her first husband and her daughter had carefully trained her to fall  in with their wishes, but when she\u2019s widowed, she has to learn to  say \u2018No\u2019 on occasion. This means making some difficult and even  agonising choices, but as she grows in faith, so she becomes\u00a0 stronger  and better able to cope with everything that life throws at her. Her  latest story is MURDER BY MISTAKE, also from Severn House.&#8221;&#8211;Veronica<\/p>\n<p>Author Bio<\/p>\n<p>Veronica Heley celebrates the publication of her 67th book this summer,  having been \u00a0in the business for over 30 years. Apart from the two  gentle crime series she&#8217;s currently writing and some short stories,  she&#8217;s also produced a straightforward biography of St Paul, some  historical fiction, many articles and reviews, masses of children&#8217;s and  resource books, and learned how to write story-boards for cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s involved with her local church and community affairs, likes to  break for coffee with friends and does the garden when she has time. She  has been a member of a book reading club for 40 years, but has decided  that life is too short to read depressing literature any more.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, drop by<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veronicaheley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.veronicaheley.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> And sign up for her a monthly newsletter by clicking  the button on her home page.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veronicaheley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> Or also on her publishers\u2019 website: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.severnhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.severnhouse.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thanks for telling us about your heroines, Veronica. They sound like my kind of strong women!&#8211;Lyn<\/span><\/ul>\n<p><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 British Author Veronica Heley. She was my guest last year and I inadvertently misspelled her last name. But she forgave me. 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