MEADOW SONG

Meadow Song
Interview by Bonnie Swinehart, February 25, 2019

I invited fellow-author Beth E. Westcott to be a guest on my blog.  I met Beth at a writers conference and learned about her book Meadow Song.

Here’s what Beth had to say.

                              
1. When did you discover you wanted to be a writer?

    I’ve loved writing since elementary school, but I didn’t consider becoming a writer until adulthood. When my older daughter became a high school senior, I decided I had to prepare for the “empty nest,” so I took a correspondence writing course.


2. Has the road to publication been different than you expected? How?

   The road to publication has changed a lot since I began. The Christian market is more competitive now, and the Christian fiction market demands a higher quality of writing. I didn’t think much about promotion and marketing.  I just wanted to write and write well. Now I am responsible to promote and market my book.


3. How did you come up with the idea for your book?
     
   Meadow Song began as a short story for a writing contest. The first two characters were the artist Kate and the little girl Blythe. The story didn’t feel complete, and it became a romance novel.   
        
        
4. Tell us about your book.

   Artist Kate Greenway leaves Mountain View after the death of her fiancé, hoping to escape the memories and the pain of her loss. A year after she moves to Millvale she meets Blythe, a little girl who is interested in Kate’s art, and Blythe’s uncle Jack. Kate falls in love with Jack, but he has put up a barrier to more than friendship with her because of his own losses. Kate returns to Mountain View to help care for her ill mother. Will Jack learn that God, the Master Potter, can take the broken pieces of their lives and make them into something new and beautiful?


5. How can readers purchase your book?

           Meadow Song is available on Amazon. I will be having a book signing at the Arrowhead Christian Store in Johnson City, NY sometime in March or April, 2019.

  
6.  Are you going to write more books? Are you working on another now?

          I am still writing, and I hope to have more books  published, including  a  sequel  to  Meadow Song.

7.  What would you like readers to know about you?

          My short story, “Sadie and the Princess” was published in Heartwarming Horse Stories on Amazon and is still available. I live in upstate New York with my husband. We were in vocational ministry for over thirty years. We have three adult children and five granddaughters.

Thank you, Beth