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 I absolutely adore Easter. As much as I love Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas, I might even love Easter more. I like the food (we do lamb and cheesy potatoes and peas--and for breakfast, homemade cinnamon rolls). I love the flowers that are blooming like the dogwood tree next door. I love new dresses and sandals and sometimes even a hat. I love the colors and the focus on Jesus's resurrection. Seriously. What's not to love?
So, why, of all my books, have I written none that are actually during Easter?
 Snow White had seven dwarves, but I have my story set in the real world. So, I needed seven male figures to be an influence in Kari's life. At the end of Rendersella, we see Kari receive a note from her uncles in Georgia. As soon as my fingers typed those words, I knew there were seven of them. And that she was a Snow White character.
That said, I had no idea what I was getting into by creating seven different characters who all had to be differentiated enough you could tell who was whom. I ended up having AI create the picture above so I could have something to look at and remind myself what each of them looked like instead of trying to remember it all in my head. My editor definitely made me go back and add more details several places, but I love how they turned out. And to make it more fun, they're all named after apples.
Do you ever feel like you know someone after reading a book she wrote? That's the way I feel about Terri Wangard. I have met her in person, too, but I think I've seen into some of her personality through her work. I'm blessed to have been a content editor for three of Terri's books now, and her newest is about to release. This one wraps up the series and I highly recommend all of them, especially if you love novels set in WWII. Now's your chance to get to know Terri a bit too.  What is it about World War II that makes you want to set your books there?
I didn’t plan on writing so many WWII books. My debut book, Friends & Enemies, was inspired by letters found in my grandmother’s house. Distant relatives in postwar Germany had been receiving care packages from the American family. I was a history major in college and was familiar with different history magazines. I thought one of these would be interested in the letters, but maybe not enough detail was included. Then I had the idea to create the German family’s backstory. That was to be it for WWII, but an editor told me if I hoped for a contract, I’d probably need a series. I had lots of unused research on the B-17 airmen, so I wrote two more books based on the navigators. |
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