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| Pamela S. Thibodeaux |
Greetings, friends! Marianne here, wishing you all the best as the new year kicks off! In this month's edition of Monday encouragement, I wanted to introduce you to Pamela Thibodeaux. Pam is a gifted author with an encouraging message to share. Hope you enjoy her insight and wisdom! Pam, take it away!!
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When I
began writing more than thirty years ago,
I had no clue what I was getting myself into. All I knew was I’d been
disappointed one-too-many times. Based on what I read, I figured it couldn’t be
hard.
I can do better than this!
With the
niavette of the uninformed, I figured all I had to do was write a good story
and BAM! I’d be published. So I did. I poured my heart out in page after page
of five-subject notebooks. By the time I’d filled several and started
researching how to get published, I found out the manuscript had to be typed.
I didn’t
own a typewriter nor could I afford to rent one. Then came the blessed day eleven
years later I purchased a used word processor. Just when I thought I’d
be able to really embark on the glamorous journey, submissions became electronic!
I’d put
off buying a computer for lots of reasons, the main one ~ all I do is write. After
getting connected, I figured the voyage to being in print was just an email
away.
Wrong again.
My first
novel was accepted as an Ebook, my first short story in an Ezine. What’s with
this E-industry? I wanted to hold a book in my hands – after all, being
Epublished isn’t really published.
That’s what ‘they’ say (anyone ever figure out who ‘they’ are?).
In my
article on Success, I make a statement…as
beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so is success. It is, in and of itself,
success.
In
addition to numerous articles and essays, poems and devotions, I now have 7
published novels available in ebook
and print as well as 6 short stories and 2 nonfiction books.
Guess this
means I’ve finally arrived……or Have I?
We all
have our own definition of success, our own idea of what it means to ‘arrive.’
I’ll arrive when I can make a living doing what I love most – bring glory to
God through my writing.
When will
you know you have ‘arrived’? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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Set at the tail end of the Vietnam War era, Circles of Fate takes the reader from Fort Benning, Georgia to Thibodaux, Louisiana. A romantic saga, this gripping novel covers nearly twenty years in the lives of Shaunna Chatman and Todd Jameson. Constantly thrown together and torn apart by fate, the two are repeatedly forced to choose between love and duty, right and wrong, standing on faith or succumbing to the world’s viewpoint on life, love, marriage and fidelity. With intriguing twists and turns, fate brings together a cast of characters whose lives will forever be entwined. Through it all is the hand of God as He works all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.
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Award-winning author, Pamela S.
Thibodeaux is the Co-Founder and a lifetime member of Bayou Writers Group in
Lake Charles, Louisiana. Multi-published in romantic fiction as well as
creative non-fiction, her writing has been tagged as, “Inspirational with an
Edge!” ™ and reviewed as “steamier
and grittier than the typical Christian novel without decreasing the message.”
Website
address: http://www.pamelathibodeaux.com
Face Book:
http://facebook.com/pamelasthibodeaux
Twitter: http://twitter.com/psthib @psthib
