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PAMELA S. THIBODEAUX “Inspirational with an Edge!” ™
author, Pamela S. Award-winning Thibodeaux is the Co-Founder and a lifetime member of Bayou Writers Group (http://bayouwritersgroup.com) 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.” Your latest release is CIRCLES OF FATE. How is setting important to the story? Setting is always important because it adds flavor and texture to a character’s life and his or her story. Weather (heat, rain, cold) and terrain (rocks, hills, grass, etc.) can add layers of ambiance and rich detail to any story.
When I had the idea for Circles of Fate, I imagined a young couple thrown together and forced apart more than once, so military life would be one way for this to happen. My husband (now deceased) had been in the Army and stationed at Ft. Benning, GA when he was younger, so I decided to start the story there and drew on his memories as much as I could to provide adequate description. We’re always told to write what we know so the fact that I’m from SW Louisiana, just 40 miles from the Texas border, and am familiar with the other locations mentioned in the book made it easy to write those settings in.
All of my novels and stories to date are set in places I’ve been or fictional towns in states I’ve actually visited. The Visionary is set in my hometown area of Lake Charles, Louisiana on a piece of property that once belonged in my family. It is commercial property now, but memories of that old homestead and a little research made writing authentic setting incredibly easy. The Inheritance begins in the Seattle, WA area where my step-children reside and ends up in the Finger Lakes Region/Hammondsport, NY, both of which I’ve visited. My Tempered series is set in one of my most favorite places of all time—Bandera, TX.
February 2015
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I visited Bandera as a child and the place had such an impact on me, I remembered a lot about it. What I couldn’t recall, I filled in by obtaining travel books and brochures from the Bandera visitors’ bureau.
What led you to write this book? I believe every person has a love they desired but never really experienced. Most of us have at least one special man or woman of whom we dreamed would have been the perfect mate. Someone we wished we’d had the opportunity to date, who moved away, whom we let go, gave up on, or let pass us by. The little tug of wistfulness I felt whenever I’d see the romance that I let slip away, led to this story of unfulfilled love. Many times our choices are what lead to missing out on God’s gifts to (and His plan for) us. We get impatient with His timing or don’t understand His ways and rush headlong into less than His best.
Sometimes it’s just plain old life, or fate, that gets in the way of our dreams and desires. But God has a way of bringing us full circle and back into His promised land. In the case of Shaunna and Todd, it took a lot of years and many heartwrenching moments for God to bring them together with a cast of other characters whose lives are destined to be forever entwined.
Growing up who were your heroes and do they “appear” in your stories? I grew up with three brothers, seven uncles and only a handful of female aunts and cousins so it’s hard to pinpoint a single hero. I’ve always loved horses and you’ll find those in most of my books. However, all of my heroes have many (if not all) of the qualities my husband had…a sensitive, sentimental streak along with a wicked sense of humor, Continued next page
Raphael Cavelli—archaeologist—wanderlust—heir to the Cavelli fortune--wonders why he isn’t in some watering hole in Peru drinking a lukewarm cerveza next to a bosomy blonde. Instead, he’s back in Chicago trying to stay one step ahead of the law for stealing the archaeological find of the century when he bumps, literally, into the reason he left seven years ago--the girl he traveled half way across the globe to forget.
Hope Macklin—quasi-mother—sob sister for The Spectator daily—is asked to cover the high society wedding of Tessia Cavelli. The job would mean a raise to seven dollars a week, but the heiress’s bothersome brother remembers her from St. Roses’ Home for the Friendless, a time she’d rather forget. But being on the lam, she can’t afford to draw attention to herself, even for a carelessly handsome man.
Does fate throw Rafe and Hope together again just to square off with the faceless opponent doggedly threatening their reunion? Or will they risk everything…for what matters most?
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