I began working with Rick in his business. Rick and I began hosting a home Bible study. My love for writing and reading novels waned and my passion for reading and studying God’s Word grew. God first, husband and children second (we had three children by then) and third - work. (Hardly!) My priorities were all wrong and needed to be put right. It was the place I ran to escape, the one area of my life where I thought I was in complete control. God was trying to open my eyes to how writing had become an idol in my life. I struggled against God over that because writing was my “identity.” It took that period of suffering “writer’s block” to bring me to my senses. When I turned my life over to Jesus, I couldn’t write for three years. They are all now out of print, are never to be reprinted, and are not recommended. I was hooked! I followed with eight or nine more (of what I call my B.C. My first manuscript sold and was published. Romance novels were booming in the general market, publishers were on the look-out for new writers. On a dare (from Rick) I decided to write a combination of my favorite genres and wrote a “western-gothic-romance”. Mom Edith loaned me novels and I loved them.
Rick’s family loved all kinds of books – and lots of fiction. My parents had always been non-fiction readers. Because I didn’t know what I would write, I majored in English (emphasis in literary writing) and minored in journalism (emphasis on who-what-when-where-why). Rivers: From the time I was a child, I knew I would be a writer. You may find out more about my new book and more by visiting my web site at Read an excerpt of Her Mother's Hope There are numerous family and personal details woven into both books and I plan to share those things on my blog. Her Daughter’s Dream will follow in September. Her Mother’s Hope was released on March 16, 2010. This was intended to be one long novel dealing with the different ways generations have lived out their faith – but became so long it needed to be divided. Rivers: I have just completed the second in a set of two books about mother-daughter relationship over four generations. Tell us about your current work, Her Mother's Hope. Join me for a conversation with popular Christian fiction author, Francine Rivers.
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