Author Interview tonight: a chronically ill award-winning author, a working single mom, and a college student...

On "Speak UP!" with Scott McCausey of ChristianDevotions.com: Tuesday, March 28th at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time/5:00 p.m. Central time, Linnette R Mullin - author of life-changing romance and the award-winning novel "Finding Beth," will be interviewed on blog-talk radio! God is doing some amazing things in our resident author's life, so tune in for the interview tonight. 

Click here for the link!

If you can't listen to the live broadcast, no worries! The link will remain up for you to listen at your leisure. Either way, tune in! You're not going to want to miss it! Linnette talks a bit about her childhood, teen years, early adulthood and what led her to where she is now - a chronically ill award-winning author, a working single mom, and a college student. (Click here.)

Leave a comment here or on her Facebook wall telling what you found most interesting about her interview and your name will be entered into a drawing for a bookmark and an autographed copy of "Finding Beth." Please be sure to leave your email address, as well, in case you win!

Linnette R Mullin
Author of Life-changing Romance
Award-winning novel, "Finding Beth"
Freelance Writer
Mother of four amazing sons!
College Student
and more.....

This Is How My Writing Began...

A little know fact about this writer: 

This view is very similar to the one I had. It's the view that drove me to writing.

Once super-woman who kept her home and children nearly spotless and very regimented (in a very loving sort of way), I fell into illness from which I've never recovered. After several months, it became clear that I had a long road of recovery ahead of me. I thought I was going to lose my mind if I didn't change up my view and do something productive. So, I dawned my robe and stepped across the hall to my desktop computer and began writing. Since then the Lord has seen fit to use my writing to minister to others. If I never publish another book, I am so thankful to have at least done that much. 

Don't worry! I haven't pocketed my pen, yet! I still plan to publish more stories, but for now God has me in training mode. He's teaching me things that will help "Loving Tiffany" be the best book two that it can be!

Did someone say book giveaway?!?

That's right! I've decide to do an Amazon Kindle giveaway.

In celebration of completing my manuscript for "Loving Tiffany" 

(book 2 in Linnette's "Flying with Broken Wings" series), 

I'm giving away three random Kindle copies of "Finding Beth" 

(book 1 in Linnette's "Flying with Broken Wings" series). 

Here's how it works:

See this #AmazonGiveaway for a chance to win: 

Finding Beth (Kindle Edition).https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/c9378d52ec7cf50b 

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. 

Ends the earlier of Mar 25, 2016 11:59 PM PDT, or when all prizes are claimed. 

See Official Rules http://amzn.to/GArules.

So are you ready? Click to the #giveaway and find out how you can enter to win!

Happy Reading!

I finally typed "the end!"

"Loving Tiffany" is finally complete! Here's my baby girl #2! I'm so excited!!! 

Now the rewrites can begin, but first we need to celebrate.

Do you have any ideas as to how we should celebrate? I'd love to hear them.
Maybe we will do a giveaway! Thoughts?

Two days already gone...

Today was day two of my Spring break and so far I've 1) taken care of my youngest who has been sick with Strep throat, aka scarlet fever; 2) I've been on the mend myself; 3) I've paid bills and gone over my budget (scary); and 4) I finally swallowed my pride or came out of denial or both and applied for some help. Needless to say I haven't so much as opened Tiffany's file. Yet. However, that's going to change come tomorrow. Maybe after I get my hair cut. What do you think about this style? Only brunette, of course, because that's what I am. 

#CollegeGirl #NurseMaid #FullTimeMom #Writer

*Pic found on Google search images.

The countdown...

... was supposed to be over two days ago, but alas we have been ill. For better or for worse, I turned in one of my school assignments last night. Now for the other school assignment. I'll work on it today while home with my son who is down with Strep throat. We'll watch our Church service from home this morning and then I'll get the rest of the day started. Once this assignment is written and turned in, THEN my Spring Break will begin! T'is the life of this #CollegeGirl. 

#LovingTiffany #SpringBreak

Two Days and the Writing Begins!

Two days until Spring break and I get to plan my week of writing!!! For now, I'm ready for the morning with my "light weight" (Thirty-One) bag.

#MathTest 

#ISellThirtyOne

#LovingTiffany 

#AWeekToWrite 

Yours truly,

#CollegeGirl

Three More Days Until I'm #Writing #LovingTiffany

THREE days!!! Three more days until Spring Break starts and I'll be #Writing #LovingTiffany!!! For now, I'm taking a Publix-Neapolitan-with-caramel-drizzle break between exams. I SO NEED A BREAK!!! 

Three more days...

#CollegeGirl 

Four days until Spring Break!

MFour days until spring break and I #AmWriting!

Tomorrow is do or die. I have two midterms and both are highly demanding on my sick body and fragile brain. Prayers appreciated! This little girl has been doing her best to show me love and comfort me. #HersheyGirl #LovingTiffany #IMissWriting

#CollegeGirl

Seven Days and Counting to #AmWriting

SEVEN DAYS until I #AmWriting #LovingTiffany!!!

And here's the "short list" of all I have to accomplish between now and Wednesday. The long list includes my motherly duties, taxes, FAFSA (by March 1) for three of us,  and regular items/commitments.

Midterms________! 

You fill in the blank. 

I can do this. 

I can do this. 

I can do this. 

(No Winter Jam for me. 😭) 

I must do this. 

I can do this. 

Lord, help me! 🙏🏻

#CollegeGirl

The Countdown to Writing!

Ten...

CollegeGirl is back and it's #countdown time! I apologize for the long absence. The beginning of this semester was horrendous! But everything seems to be under control now.  

#CollegeGirlLunch

So what are we counting down? Days until Spring Break and the work toward writing "the end" for "Loving Tiffany" begins! Now is that something to get excited about or what?!? Ten more days! In the meantime, you can join the countdown! 

Love, 

#CollegeGirl

"Why Do You Write Romance" You Ask?

What a wonderful Christmas break I've had. I head back to the classroom on Monday, January 11, and decided it was time to finish my manuscript for "Loving Tiffany" - book 2 in the "Flying with Broken Wings" series. She's getting close. We'll see if I can pull it off. As I write toward the end of "Loving Tiffany", a friend reminds me of the reasons I write these stories. You see, I'm a hopeless romantic. Have been since the day I was conceived. As I grew up in a Christian home and a church that preached the love and gospel of Jesus, I learned from an early age the pattern for true romance. Why am I a romance writer? Because the gospel of Jesus Christ is the greatest love story to have ever unfolded. Jesus, the groom, desperately loves his bride, the church (those whose hearts belong to him). There is not a day of my life in which I have been unaware of Jesus and his sacrificial love. From my earliest memory at the age of 3 or 4, I have known he loves me with an unimaginable, incomprehensible, unconditional love. Through the years, he has taught me the truth I share with you here. There is no love more wonderful, more unconditional, more romantic than that of Jesus. He is the foundation of my romantic notions. He is the hero in all my stories. He is what fuels every love story I write. Anyone who has read "Finding Beth" should recognize that it's not simply a story of how she meets and falls in love with an amazing guy. It's a story of redeeming love that can only ever be found in Christ. And when you read "Loving Tiffany" (once she's published), you will recognize the very same theme. My stories of romance are not simply stories of how a man and a woman come together, but they are stories of redemption and the greatest love story of all eternity. In my series, "Flying with Broken Wings", I write about broken women overcoming and being made whole through the unfettered love of Jesus. To all the Beth's and Tiffany's out there, here is song is for you. Spread the word!

"Beautiful" by Mercy Me

Back to School! What?!?

Dear Friends,

So many of you have been faithful followers of Beth and have kept after me about "when is book two coming out". I hear you and no one wants book two on the shelves and in your hands more than I do. However, this author's life has taken turns she never expected. Part of those changes is my career. Don't worry! I'm not going to stop writing!

But I have decided to go back to school!  O.O 

This Fall, I enrolled in a community college, taking 12 credit hours. I know! What was I thinking?!? Right now, I'm trying to get my "college legs" under me, but I hope to get back to writing Tiffany's story soon. I've been hovering around the 60/65,000 word count for far too long and wish desperately to reach that 80/82,000 word mark so we can get a date on the publishing calendar.

In the meantime I thought we could do something fun.

I'm going to journal snippets of my college days in the form of writing letters to Beth. This way we can all stay connected and experience some college craziness together. Keeping in mind of course that from time to time there will be updates about Tiffany. I hope you'll tag along for the ride!

Yours truly,
~ Linnette

A Single Rose...

Taken from Pinterest

What is it about a single red rose that melts a girl's heart? 

Running into the grocery store for a few supper items, I pass a man carrying a single rose with a touch of baby's breath. Instantly my heart melts. I imagine the smile on her face as he hands it over and I think, "How sweet!"

As I walk on, it hits me how quickly my thoughts turned romantic - not toward the man, but at the thought of any man purchasing a rose for his sweetheart. Why is that?

Is it the incongruity? We think of men as, well, manly. Is there something about the masculine holding such delicacy in order to please his sweetheart that appeals to us women? Is it the fact that he would take the time and effort to stop and buy her a flower?

As I write this, my thoughts are running in the direction of a scene for Tiffany regarding a single red rose with a touch of baby's breath... Here's a thought. Is it only red roses that make women melt or are there other flowers just as romantic? And if I do write this scene, what single bud do you think a man should give to Tiffany? Your thoughts?