Last summer in the midst of editing Michal and writing Abigail, I couldn’t shake the idea for another biblical series that I’ve pondered for quite some time. So I toyed with the thought and mapped out a synopsis for the first book. Then I wrote the first chapter. That’s as far as I got when my editor and I went to lunch last September.

At lunch we talked about the series idea, and she asked to see a proposal. So I wrote a few more sample chapters, polished the proposal, and sent it to Wendy Lawton, my agent, who forwarded it to my editor at Revell.

By Thanksgiving, Wendy called me with the news that they wanted the series, and by Christmas I knew a contract was forthcoming. What a wonderful gift! One more example of God’s great blessing!

Of course, contracts take time to process so I didn’t want to announce it here until the ink was dry. Well, that day has finally come! The signed contract for a new biblical series came in the mail today!

So after the final book in The Wives of King David series is complete, I will have the privilege of writing The Wives of the Patriarchs series! Three books are planned, no titles are yet given, but the featured wives include Sarai, Rebekah, and Rachel. I’m already looking forward to writing Sarai’s story. What a fascinating woman!

A friend told me the other day that she wished she could have shown me two years ago where God planned to bring my career today. I doubt I would have believed her. After 20 years of waiting, discouragement tends to crowd out hope. But I realize now, in Christ, with or without book contracts, there is always hope, and looking back, seeing all that God has done, I wish I’d never doubted that. I wish my faith would have been stronger, more trusting, less despairing.

As I work on these stories of these women of the Old Testament, I pray I can do them justice, can bring them to life in such a way as to inspire those of us who now follow in their footsteps. May we learn from their struggles and not repeat their errors in judgment. Most of all, I hope my readers will come away loving these stories as much as I do.

Shalom~