Writing “The End”

Today’s post will be short because I’ve been burning the midnight oil (which for me, is really the nine-o’clock oil 😉 ) trying to get a book ready to go to press. I finally, finally wrote “The End” on the first book in a new series and sent the final chapters off to my editors and proofreaders (who have already been working on the early chapters).

The idea for this series’ titles came (as many of my ideas do) while listening to our pastor’s sermons and noticing so many references in the Psalms and elsewhere to God being referred to as “the God who…” Who touches the mountains, who names the stars, who stirs up the sea, and so on. I hope this series will demonstrate what it looks like for ordinary people to live lives of faith, seeking God and His Word to know how to honor His name by the way they live. Here’s the back cover copy for Who Touches the Mountains.

Traveling all across the country is exciting…until it isn’t anymore. Liesl Bachman enjoys success as a travel writer, but that success comes at a price. Now she feels isolated and stuck in a way she never expected in the “cool” job she always wanted.

Zach Freylan is bound by an unspoken promise he made to his beloved wife before her death in a mysterious one-car crash. For two years, he’s run The Inn at Rosebud Lane that belonged to Jenny’s grandparents, but he finds little joy in maintaining what was always her dream.

From the moment Liesl checks in for an extended stay at the inn, something begins to shift inside Zach, letting him dare to hope that his life could be different. Liesl feels that same promise of hope, but the clock is ticking for them both as circumstances only grow more complicated. 

Is thirty-seven days enough to know for sure that this is God’s yes?

I don’t want to sign off today without saying a huge thank-you to all the veterans out there on this day set aside to honor you! America owes such a debt of gratitude to you, and on behalf of Inspired by Life…and Fiction, we are grateful from the bottom of our hearts for your service and sacrifice! May God bless and keep you.

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Deborah Raney

DEBORAH RANEY's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Forty books later, she's still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. Her novels have won RWA's RITA Award, the ACFW Carol Award, the National Readers Choice Award, and the HOLT Medallion. She is also a three-time Christy Award finalist. Deb is on faculty for several national writers’ conferences and served on the executive board of the 2,500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for 18 years before retiring in 2022. She is a recent transplant to Missouri, having moved with her husband, Ken Raney, from their native Kansas to be closer to kids and grandkids. They love road trips, e-biking, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.

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