Interview With Author Christine Lindsay

Veiled at Midnight
Interview With Author Christine Lindsay

Today I am interviewing my Canadian friend and colleague Christine Lindsay. Christine and I met several years ago at an ACFW conference and had a heart connection immediately. Unable to attend the next year she asked me to step in for her just in case she should win the Genesis award. Well, she did, and I was so honored to accept that award for her. I know you’ll enjoy reading about her and her writing life.

Don’t forget to leave a comment with your email address below and be entered to win a free Ebook of her latest release Veiled at Midnight! We will announce the winner next week.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your family.

I’ve been happily married to David for the past 32 years, but realistically we also know what it feels like to fall out of love and back in again. There is hope for marriages if you stick with it. David and I have 3 grown kids, Lana, Kyle and Rob, and I am also a reunited birth mom with my first child, so that makes me the mother of 4 kids. Sarah is my firstborn who I relinquished to adoption in 1979 and was reunited with in 1999.  David and I are also the proud grandparents of 4 grandsons.

Tell us about your latest book, and how it came about.

I never thought that I’d write a series of historical novels when I wrote my first book Shadowed in Silk, but I fell in love with the characters like so many of my readers did, and I received lots of emails asking for more about these characters. The exotic setting of British Colonial India begged for more books too, since it was such a politically tense time with Gandhi and the Indian fight for Independence. So Book 2 Captured by Moonlight came out, and this autumn the final book to the series Veiled at Midnight.

But I have to add that each of these books centers around a spiritual theme that I either lived through, or someone close to me did. I try to deal with hard subjects such as spousal abuse, human trafficking, but believe it or not, in a non-offensive way, and offering hope and light on each page. I also love humor, so there’s lots of that in my books.

To purchase or read reviews of Veiled at Midnight on Amazon CLICK HERE. Also, to read the first 2 chapters for FREE CLICK HERE. 

 

Share about your genre and why you write in this style.

I fell in love with great big thick romantic historical novels in exotic settings as a kid when I read the famous MM Kaye books. If I ever wrote a book, I decided, then I would write in that genre only from a Christian point of view. I want a book that takes me away for a few days to a brand new setting, full of beauty, excitement, adventure, a touch of mystery, danger, and of course a BIG LOVE STORY.

What inspires you?

The life struggles of my loved ones and friends inspires me, and seeing how God works those sad things around for good. God does not want us to fear, so I try to write the stuff of life, but show the happy endings of which I am a firm believer in. I can’t follow God and not believe in happy endings.

Tell us about your writing process.

If I am not working at one of my two part-time day jobs, then I start writing in the early morning. However, I have come to believe that I must live my life too, so if my mom needs to go out for a coffee—I go. If my husband wants to nip out for an ice-cream cone—I go. If my daughter wants to go shopping because she needs some mom and daughter time—I go. Family and friends must come before writing. Otherwise, I would feel a fraud in my Christian faith.

What are your writing goals?

It’s the same as from day 1—to write stories that entertain readers but also encourage them in their faith, to help them believe in a happy ending for themselves.

What do you wish someone had told you about writing?

That you do not make any money at it. Or if you do it is very, very small. That it takes a long, long time to become a writer, and that it takes up so much more of your life even after you have been published, and it’s a struggle to fit everything into an extremely busy schedule. Also, marketing is a killer of joy. Ooooooh, I hate marketing. But I love writing, and I love communicating with my readers.

 

Tell us something about yourself that nobody knows.

After I relinquished my first child to adoption and was reunited with her 20 years later, I struggled big time with jealousy of her adoptive parents. I wished at that time that I had never given her up in 1979. But God was good and brought me through those broken emotions, and nowadays I am grateful for all the Lord has done to sooth my wounded heart over losing my first child in this way. And now Sarah and I are a part of each other’s lives, and I am Nanny Chris to her little baby boy.

What hobbies do you enjoy?

Gardening, home decorating, reading, talking walks with the dogs, and going camping with my husband in our tiny little travel trailer. Oh yes, and checking out thrift shops with my mom and daughter.

Thank you, Christine, for being with us today. It’s always fun learning about the writing process and lives of other authors.

Thank you Golden for having me as a guest on your blog. It is always a delight to connect with you. Hugs for now.

Every reader who leaves a comment with their email address in the next 7 days (Nov 18-Nov 24, 2014) will be entered to win a FREE Ebook of Veiled at Midnight, courtesy of Christine Lindsay. The winner will be announced next week. 

Where can your readers contact you?

Please drop by my website http://www.christinelindsay.com/ or follow me on Twitter and be my friend on Pinterest , and Goodreads.

Biography:

Christine Lindsay was born in Ireland, and is proud of the fact that she was once patted on the head by Prince Philip when she was a baby. Her great grandfather, and her grandfather—yes father and son—were both riveters on the building of the Titanic. Tongue in cheek, Christine states that as a family they accept no responsibility for the sinking of that infamous ship.

Stories of Christine’s ancestors who served in the British Cavalry in Colonial India inspired her multi-award-winning, historical series Twilight of the British Raj, Book 1 Shadowed in Silk, Book 2 Captured by Moonlight, and now the new-ly released Veiled at Midnight.

Londonderry Dreaming is Christine’s first contemporary romance set in N. Ireland.

Christine makes her home on the west coast of Canada with her husband and their grown up family. Her cat Scottie is chief editor on all Christine’s books. 

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