It is my great pleasure to shine the
spotlight today on author Sandy Nadeau, and her book Rescue
Me.
Hi, Sandy, welcome to Whispers in Purple.
It’s a delight to have you visit.
What five words best describe you?
Thank you for inviting me.
Five words...hmmmmm. Christian, Wife, Author, Mom and Grandma.
Tell us something few people know about you.
I would eat popcorn for a meal once a
day every day. If I could. Well, I could, but I shouldn't.
If you were a book, what would the title be?
God's Work in Progress
When you’re not actively writing, what do you like
to do? Hobbies, etc.
We recently moved from Colorado to
Texas to be near our daughter and family. Back in Colorado, I would have said:
camping, hiking, day trips in the mountains, woodworking, gardening. Now, living
in Texas, I would say: playing with my two grandkids (soon to be three),
exploring the great state of Texas, finding new friends, camping, and then play
with grandkids more.
What do you say to people who ask how you come up
with ideas?
I'm a writer. My brain is
weird.
LOL! I think that comes with the territory, Sandy.
The ‘normals’ in our lives just don’t get it. 
What was/is the most difficult writing obstacle
you’ve encountered and how did/do you overcome it?
Facebook. Shut it off! LOL At this
point since moving almost 5 months ago, it's just been hard to feel settled
enough in our new house. We're close to done now, so I'm hoping I'll find my
groove again and get busy.
Plotter, panster, or hybrid?
Panster . . . on a wing and a
prayer
Tell us a little bit about Rescue Me. How did
you come to write it?
My husband was a volunteer
firefighter and also worked on the rescue squad back in our days in Minnesota. I
could write a lot of books on the things that happened during those five years.
I helped out on the auxiliary, so we experienced a lot of emergencies that
fueled the story line.
Then living in Colorado for 30
years supplied the location ideas. Rescue Me was originally written as
a novella that was grouped with three other writers. We had this idea to do a
four in one series of stories about emergency workers. We tried to sell it to a
few places, but never got a contract, so the four of us took our stories and
went our separate ways.
I believe three of us got contracts.
But before that happened, I had to pretty much rewrite the book. It was just
under 20,000 words, and I needed it longer to sell it elsewhere. Adding to the
middle of a book was the hardest thing I've done yet in writing. It seemed to
take me forever. While doing that, I managed to get my first book, Red
Gold, published. Then Pelican Book Group accepted Rescue Me when it
was finally done. Well, done is relative. Edits happen. So far, since
the book released 3 days ago, I know of two people that lost sleep when they
couldn't put it down, so I guess I might have successfully added.
You received an exciting endorsement for Rescue
Me. Thanks for letting me share it here:
“Romance is often
complicated by life and Sandy Nadeau's RESCUE ME takes the reader through the
obstacles that surround two people who have been wounded by those complications.
Sandy pens a beautiful story of love overcoming all obstacles and God's perfect
love healing all wounds. It's my pleasure to recommend RESCUE ME.” Tracie
Peterson, best-selling author of over one hundred novels including the Brides of
Seattle and Lone Star Brides series
That is so special, Sandy! I know and admire Tracie.
An endorsement from her is quite a feather in your cap. Makes me even more eager
to read your book! Congratulations!
Please complete the following:
- · Book Title: Rescue Me
- · Publisher: Harbourlight an imprint of Pelican
Book Group
- · Release Date: June 1, 2016
- · Genre: Romance
- · Series/Stand Alone: Stand Alone
- · Target Audience: Women 25-50
· Back Cover Blurb:
First Responder Ronnie Spencer has
a no-dating-firefighters rule. She lost her father to a fire, and won't risk the
heartbreak of losing someone else. But when Steve McNeal returns, Ronnie's heart
is tested. How can she swear off dating a firefighter when she has to work with
the one man she used to love? When the unthinkable happens, Ronnie has doubts.
How can a loving God allow tragedy to stalk her life again? As her faith wavers,
Ronnie must decide. Will their blossoming relationship be quickly extinguished
by the very thing she feared, or will Ronnie trust God and allow her heart to be
rescued--even if that means giving it to a firefighter?
· Purchase Link/s:
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Sandy Nadeau loves
to go on adventures, photograph them and equally loves to write about them. She
and her husband did a lot of four-wheeling in the back country of Colorado for
nearly thirty years. Sandy wrote a column about her community for a local newspaper
for twelve years, she also has had several magazine articles published. She
loves to write novels about adventure, mystery, romance, but most importantly
sharing God’s love. Her first novel Red Gold, released in March of 2014. Her
latest, Rescue Me, draws from their years of involvement with a volunteer fire
department in MN. She is currently a member of the American Christian Fiction
Writers. Married for 39 years, she and her husband are loving life as
grandparents to their two grandchildren and recently moved to Texas to be
closer to them. Travel is their favorite thing to do and they don’t get to do
it as often as they’d like. Adventure awaits around every corner, over every
hill and mountain.
Thanks, Sandy, for being my guest today. It’s been
great getting to know you.
It's been fun, Peg. Thank you.
Blessings to you.
