I received my editors first
draft notes and the manuscript of Casa de Naomi: The House of Blessing Book Two
a week ago, and reviewed the comments and text. Happy to discover that I had
successfully applied what I learned while editing book one, I knew I needed to
think through the comments and speak with Hillary before I began working on the
edit of book two. So yesterday was my ‘Get to It Day!’ I say that because as a
scribe for God, I wait until I know (and I cannot tell you how I know) that
this is exactly the moment to begin. And since all things have a beginning
including God’s Word, I felt that you might like to know about my Genesis. If
you’re wondering why I say Genesis, it’s because that word means beginning.
That title is taken from Genesis 1:1, which says, In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
Being a stickler for wanting
to know what happened before the beginning, or what motivated a person or
character to act as they do, I thought you’d like to know how God prepared and
helped me edit book one and book two, so today I’m looking back and forward. So
let’s return to yesteryear, which would be April 2011 when I fell and broke my
hip while working through the edits to the first novel in the Casa Saga. Though
dealing with pain might sound like a part of the Jewish lifestyle, I can attest
that I never have enjoyed pain, nor am I fond of being housebound. Yet the ten
days I stayed home before I became a pin-up-girl (the surgeon pinned my hip),
and the subsequent weeks I spent learning to walk, getting up stairs, and
discovering what works best proved to create a sort of vacuum where I could
devote myself to the editing process. I say that because my missionary husband
was traveling and the friend that was taking care of me went to work, returning
to fix meals, shop, spend the night, etc., sometimes throughout the weekend
since she owns a personal app company.
This time nothing’s changed.
Well almost nothing…I say that because it’s true that I haven’t slipped on a
grape at a potluck and broken my other hip like I did in 2011. But I have,
praise the Lord for gifts that seem like anything but, been ill. In fact this
is my eight or ninth week (I’ve lost count) of being almost housebound. Yes,
I’ve dragged myself to book events, spoken at libraries, and orchestrated book
signings for me and many of my Laguna Beach Chapter of Pen Women friends.
However, by the time I received Hilary’s edit, I was so done in that I needed
to take a break from all the activities that populated my world since Casa de
Naomi: The House of Blessing Book One released on December 20, 2011. And God,
knowing me better than I know myself, did not ask me to do what I could not, he
orchestrated things in such a way that I am blessed once more to discover that
the lover of my soul, loves me and knows what I need and when.
