Deborah Raney and Free Books!

Danae and Dallas Brooks have been trying for years to start their family, but with no baby in sight, they’re beginning to wonder why God keeps saying “no” to their dreams.

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And now let's chat with novelist Deborah Raney, author of Women’s Fiction novel, Another Way Home (Abingdon Press, October 2015).

Deborah Raney's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched her writing career after 20 happy years as a stay-at-home mom.

Since then, her books have won numerous awards including the RITA, National Readers Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, the Carol Award, and have three times been Christy Award finalists. Deb's newest novel, Another Way Home, released this month as the third book in The Chicory Inn Novels series for Abingdon Press Fiction.

Deb enjoys teaching at writers' conferences across the country. She and her husband, Ken Raney, recently traded small-town life in Kansas ––the setting of many of Deb's novels––for life in the (relatively) big city of Wichita where they enjoy gardening, antiquing, movies, and traveling to visit four children and a growing brood of grandchildren who all live much too far away.

Please tell us three random things we might not know about you.

— I speak Pig-Latin fluently! (It was the secret language my parents spoke when they didn’t want us five kids to know what they were talking about. My mom was none too happy when Daddy taught us how to speak it!)

— I gave birth to our first son in the ‘70s, a son and daughter in the ‘80s, and an “oops” baby, our youngest daughter in 1990. This means we had kids at home for thirty-three years of our lives! We are really enjoying the empty nest!