The Heart Behind the Hope Chronicles
It started out with a simple e-mail from my friend Joanne:
Would you be interested in a blog hop?
Historical writers, she said. All writing from their story’s heroine’s point of view. What a creative approach to the hopping-of-blogs! I was in.
And so the Hope Chronicles was born. I won’t go into details here about what the project actually is, because both Joanne Bischof and Sarah Sundin have done a wonderful job of that on their blogs. But do let me give you a little more of a peek behind the scenes.
As five historical fiction authors that span a century of settings and every stage of publication, the common thread that ties us together is our desire to offer hope from the Master Author, our Lord and Savior. Our goal is to join together as storytellers and to connect with each other and our readers in a meaningful way through the Hope Chronicles event.
“Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts…”
Romans 5:5
Regina Jennings was the first stop.
…and a sweet note to the other 4 collaborators on our instruction page:
…then came Joanne, inscribing for her book’s heroine, Lonnie:
Joanne’s message to the other 4 collaborators– pretty much sums up our desires!
Then it landed in my hands, the third state along the journey, to be inscribed “on behalf of” my book’s heroine, Georgianna:
Imagine my joy when I stumbled upon this antique post card in the middle of thousands upon thousands of goods in an antique store! It’s from just about the right time period (the back says it costs 2 cents to send it. Can you imagine?), and exactly the right location. Talk about a needle in a haystack:
That verse– “Hope as an anchor for the soul”– isn’t it wonderful? I cling to it, and my *hope* is that it’ll encourage you, too. It emerged quickly as the theme of my journal entry here, and so my prize bundle is centered around it, too. On that same trip to the antique store, I spotted this: