Awesome Romance Author Linda Tillis

Looking for a great romance author to read? This week my guest author is fellow Wild Rose Press author Linda Tillis. Her inspirational book A Heart Made for Love is being released TODAY and I am so pleased she is here to share it with us.

For my interview, Linda answers questions about her experience in law enforcement, why she writes historical fiction about domestic violence, and why faith is important. And don’t miss her original hat designs!

Please welcome Linda Tillis…

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

I worked for eighteen years in the garment manufacturing field, then did twenty years and a Crime Scene Investigator, then seven years as a 911 dispatcher/call-taker.  Between the CSI and the 911 I took a year off to recuperate. Twenty years of rapes, murders and autopsies had taken a toll on my mind and body. During that year I got into nature and portrait photography. During my last year of 911 I worked night-shift and there would be long down times at 3:00 in the morning, so I started writing.

What do you do when you are not writing?

When I’m not writing I make hats and jewelry. When I started the photography I wanted to do vintage type portraits and could not find the hats I wanted, so I learned millinery and made them.

If you had to go back and do it all over, is there any aspect of your novel or getting it published that you would change?

If I had to start this career over again, I would start earlier!  I’ve been an avid reader all my life, but it just never occurred to me that I could actually write a book until my wonderful husband told me that I needed to do just that.

Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination?

After all my years in law-enforcement, I knew I would have to write about domestic violence, however, as it is still a painful memory for me, I made it easier to deal with by using a historical setting.

Will you have a new book coming out soon?

The sequel to A Heart Made For Love is with my wonderful editor right now. It features Samuel Hinton, brother to the heroine in the first one, and is called A Man With A Pure Heart. The first chapter is included at the end of A Heart Made For Love.  I had a co-worker read the first one for me and when she finished she said, “I’ve always wished I had a brother like Samuel.”  I knew then that I would have to give him his own story.

Is there anything that you would like to say to your readers and fans?

I would like for my readers to take away the message that there is nothing that cannot be handled with faith, and that with faith, we are never truly alone.

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A Heart Made For Love by Linda Tillis

Writing stories about women who have overcome adversity to win the love they deserve

In rural Florida, 1903, Mae Hinton cares for her father and younger brothers, trying to fill her deceased mother’s shoes. Her life is shattered and her faith tested when her innocence is stolen by roving miscreants. Left unconscious, unable to identify her attackers, she pledges to help other victimized women. She pursues an education and learns to deal with bigoted ministers, well-to-do hypocrites, and men with higher regard for their livestock than their women.

Edward Finch is nearly done with medical studies in England when he comes home for the holidays. Love flourishes, and Mae seems close to achieving her dreams of both true love and a haven for victims, once she can explain to him why she carries a pistol. Then her new-found happiness is upset by a murder as one of her attackers returns.

She may settle this herself…or she may find that vengeance truly belongs to God.

 

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Buy Links

Amazon | Barnes & Nobel

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To learn more about Linda Tillis visit lindatillisauthor.com

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If you have any questions or comments for Linda, please post them below, and she will get back to you.