A Love-Hate Relationship

Ready for another author takeover? Today, Heather Greer is here to chat about a character too easy to hate. Do you like Love-Hate relationships?

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Have you ever had a love-hate relationship with a character? Maybe you see their potential, but their personality rubs you the wrong way?

Will Forrester was that character for me when I wrote Cake That!. He was rude and abrasive. Arrogance seeped from every pore. Will was a great baker, and he knew it. He also managed to alienate himself from every other competitor in the contest.

But as much as Will wasn’t the nice guy in the competition, just under the surface of what he allowed everyone else to see, I saw something more. Will wasn’t just a jerk. There were reasons he’d adopted those attitudes. And while I gave insight into those reasons in Cake That!, I wanted to give Will a chance at redeeming himself. 

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That chance came in the Love Delivered novella collection. After all, a bakery makes the perfect backdrop for a story about deliveries. Who doesn’t like having fresh cupcakes or cookies delivered to their place of work? Sweet Delivery is Will’s redemption story.

Will’s spiritual redemption takes place outside the pages of Sweet Delivery, but readers get to see the difference a personal relationship with Jesus makes in his life. Not that Will is cuddly and soft now. God gave Will his personality, just like He gives us ours. There’s a reason for it.

God doesn’t want to undo what He gave Will to begin with. He wants to mold the negatives of Will’s personality into positives He can use. Will’s arrogance, when under the Holy Spirit’s guidance can become confidence to step out boldly in faith when others might shrink back in fear. Will’s tell-it-like-it-is attitude can be reshaped into a person who doesn’t skew truth to fit their current desires.
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As He does in our lives, God is taking Will on a journey. There are times of failure and times of growth. And I’m so excited to be able to share some of those times with you through Sweet Delivery. I hope the hate in your love-hate relationship with Will Forrester is erased by the end of his story. I hope you come away seeing Will as a hero-in-the-making, a work in progress you can understand and even relate to. Because after all, Will isn’t too different from the rest of us in that. 

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Sweet Delivery (Heather Greer)

After winning Cake That!, Will Forrester thinks his Pastry Perfect Baking Dreams have come true. The sweetness fades when a chain bakery moves to town, and Will must adjust his plans to keep his customers. Hiring Erica Gerard is one of those changes. As they work together, Erica challenges Will and offers new ideas to improve the bakery. Soon, Erica and Will start bringing out the best in each other. But Erica harbors a secret, and if it’s discovered, Will might never be the same.

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​Born and raised in rural southern Illinois as a preacher’s kid, Heather was well acquainted with ministry life before her husband became a pastor fifteen years ago. She started serving in youth and children’s ministries when her daughter was still a child. Now, those ministries and wrangling the schedules of her three teenage boys takes a lot of her time and energy, but Heather still tries to carve out a little time for herself. Like many of you, her favorite way to relieve the stress of the day is spending time with a good book. Of course, if she wants the time to be really special, Heather will add a warm blanket and a mug of hot cocoa to her reading time. If she isn’t reading to relax, you can either find her baking in the kitchen or binge-watching her favorite television shows.
Heather has been active in youth ministry for several years. She has led children’s and youth groups for many years. She also directs a Christian youth camp for teenagers every summer. While most of her ministry work has involved children and teenagers, Heather has a heart to see women of faith encouraged and growing in their relationships with God. As believers grow closer to God and begin living out His truths in everyday life, others will see their need for the Savior and long for relationship with Him. It is Heather’s prayer that God will use her love of writing to foster this encouragement and growth in the lives of Christian women.
Heather’s book Grasping Hope is a 2020 Selah Awards in the Women’s Contemporary category.
You can learn more about Heather by visiting her website: https://heathergreer.com/