Q. Tell us about your book and how readers can pick up a copy. Where is it available?A. Sanctuary is the first of three long historical novels in the Faith of Our Fathers series and is a fast-paced romantic inspirational adventure story set in France in 1740. The novel is about the Huguenots, persecution and forgiving the unforgivable, and Tsaba House published Sanctuary on September 15, 2007 in trade paperback.
Steeple Hill published The Winter Pearl in trade paperback in 2004, and Love Inspired put it out again in 2007 in mass-market paperback. The Winter Pearl is a long, romantic, inspirational, “woman in distress” novel about forgiveness and set in Colorado in 1888.
Both Sanctuary and The Winter Pearl were given good reviews at www.christianbookpreviews.com.
If you visit my website at http://www.mollynoblebull.com/ you can see my covers, learn more about my books and read excerpts from Sanctuary and The Winter Pearl. Simply scroll down my main page and click Molly’s Books. Several of my novels can be ordered from Amazon via my website, and they are easier to locate that way. Sanctuary and The Winter Pearl can also be ordered from Barnes and Noble, ChristianBook.com, Books a Million, Target, Borders, Wal Mart and from Christian books stores around the country. My books might not be in stock; so prepare to order them.
And if you like any of my books, please let me know. My mailing address is
Molly Noble Bull
PO Box 404
Kingsville, Texas 78364.
Q. Many CBA publishers feel that historicals set outside America or before 1800 are hard to sell—that there aren’t enough readers in that subgenre. Was this ever any concern when you wrote Sanctuary?
A. No. I write what I feel God is leading me to write. What is popular with editors today is like the weather. It can change in an hour. Years ago western novels, movies and TV shows with western settings were super popular. Just about everybody liked them. But there is, what is known as too much of a good thing. Soon people wanted something different, and westerns were put on the back burner for a long time.
Q. How much research did you do? Did you have to travel?
A. I do as much research as I need to do in order to write my book. Sometimes, in the middle of a novel I am writing, I realize I need to do a little more study in certain areas. So I often do my research as a go along. And when I travel, I collect any information I might need for future books.
Q. How long did you write before your first book was published?
A. When I started writing to sell, I was teaching kindergarten in an elementary school, and I had been writing for about a year or so. I sold two magazine stories for children and was writing a short novel for children nine to twelve when a friend convinced me that there was no future in children’s literature. Romance Writers of America (RWA) was just getting started, and she insisted that the future of fiction was writing romantic novels for women. She was right, of course. But kiddy lit is doing well, too.
Q. What is the most significant thing that God taught you while writing this book?
A. The Lord taught me to listen to Him and not the news media.
Molly Noble Bull
PO Box 404
Kingsville, Texas 78364.
Q. Many CBA publishers feel that historicals set outside America or before 1800 are hard to sell—that there aren’t enough readers in that subgenre. Was this ever any concern when you wrote Sanctuary?
A. No. I write what I feel God is leading me to write. What is popular with editors today is like the weather. It can change in an hour. Years ago western novels, movies and TV shows with western settings were super popular. Just about everybody liked them. But there is, what is known as too much of a good thing. Soon people wanted something different, and westerns were put on the back burner for a long time.
Q. How much research did you do? Did you have to travel?
A. I do as much research as I need to do in order to write my book. Sometimes, in the middle of a novel I am writing, I realize I need to do a little more study in certain areas. So I often do my research as a go along. And when I travel, I collect any information I might need for future books.
Q. How long did you write before your first book was published?
A. When I started writing to sell, I was teaching kindergarten in an elementary school, and I had been writing for about a year or so. I sold two magazine stories for children and was writing a short novel for children nine to twelve when a friend convinced me that there was no future in children’s literature. Romance Writers of America (RWA) was just getting started, and she insisted that the future of fiction was writing romantic novels for women. She was right, of course. But kiddy lit is doing well, too.
Q. What is the most significant thing that God taught you while writing this book?
A. The Lord taught me to listen to Him and not the news media.
Q. What advice do you have for other writers?
A. Do not be discouraged. Write the book of your heart. At the same time, keep an eye on the wave coming instead of the one flooding the bank. Markets can change in a heat-beat. When the economy is good, books sell well. If hard-times come and money is tight, markets dry up. If publishers buy new books during hard-times at all, they will purchase books from the biggest of the big-name authors. New and mid-level authors are often lost in the shuffle.
A. Do not be discouraged. Write the book of your heart. At the same time, keep an eye on the wave coming instead of the one flooding the bank. Markets can change in a heat-beat. When the economy is good, books sell well. If hard-times come and money is tight, markets dry up. If publishers buy new books during hard-times at all, they will purchase books from the biggest of the big-name authors. New and mid-level authors are often lost in the shuffle.
The exception to that rule might be what happened in World War II. Though money wasn’t tight as it had been during the great depression, people were dying all over the world. Everybody was stressed to the limit, and Americans swarmed to movie theaters to be entertained—to forget for two hours that their loved ones were on the other side of the world and in harm’s way.
So current conditions at home and around the world has everything to do with whether or not new books are purchased.
So current conditions at home and around the world has everything to do with whether or not new books are purchased.
I would suggest to Christians everywhere that if they want the current, inspirational “book boom” to continue, they should pray for our nation daily and also pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Q. What do you want to do next? Are there any other books on the horizon?
Q. What do you want to do next? Are there any other books on the horizon?
A. I have a short inspirational romantic comedy titled Runaway Romance, and Tsaba House will publish this novel in trade paperback in 2008 or 2009. Runaway Romance is actually two short novels under one cover and will be written by Molly Noble Bull and Teresa Slack.
My novel is called Alyson. God willing, I am also contracted to write two non-fiction books and two more long historical novels about the Huguenots in the Faith of Our Fathers series.
Q. What would most readers be surprised to know about you?
A. That I am dyslexic. In fact, along with four other dyslexic Christian authors, we are contracted to write a non-fiction book on that very topic.
A. That I am dyslexic. In fact, along with four other dyslexic Christian authors, we are contracted to write a non-fiction book on that very topic.
Molly, thank you for joining my blog today. I hope and pray the best for your success.
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Prayer Request: We have an author friend, Kristy Dykes, who is having serious brain surgery this morning. Please remember her in prayer. You can read about her journey at http://christianlovestories.blogspot.com/.
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1 comments:
Very interesting interview ladies! Thanks.
By the way, I love your book covers, Molly!
Missy
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