Welcome Molly! We are
so happy to have you here this week, and that you have agreed to share a bit
about yourself.
Q: First of all, what
is your pleasure: coffee and donuts, tea and crumpets, soda and chips, or are
you more a fruit smoothie/health conscious gal? J
Molly: I’ll take the
coffee with Splenda. I’d love a donut, but I better not—too many calories.
Q: What causes are you
passionate about, and do they find their way into your writing?
Molly: I am passionate
about the Lord. I am a pro-life Christian activist, and I am passionate about
saving the life of unborn children from conception to birth and beyond. I also
love my former college sweetheart turned husband and our children and
grandchildren with passion. All those passions find their way into all my
books.
Q: When did you first
know you were a writer?
Molly: I am dyslexic.
School was hard for me, especially elementary school. I didn’t really learn to
read until I was in about the fourth grade.
I learned that I was a
writer when I could barely spell the word right much less write.
It happened in the fourth grade. Since I couldn’t spell, I was unable to write
the kind of stories I wanted to write. However, I was pretty good at telling
stories that I made up as I went along. My English teacher and my public school
music teacher must have noticed that I was kind of creative, and they told me I
was talented. Those encouraging words got me going toward becoming a
novelist—gave me a desire to never give up.
To learn more about
this period in my life, please read Christian Authors Who Conquered
Learning Disabilities by Molly Noble Bull and four other
Christian authors.
All five of us had
learning disabilities. All five of us became published Christian authors. You
might have heard of at least one of them. Her name is Margaret Daley, and she
is the former president of ACFW. Apparently, learning disabilities are common
among artists, writers and musicians.
Q: If you could sit
down and interview any person, fictitious or real from any time, who would that
be and what is the first question you would ask?
Molly: I would love to
sit down and talk to the Lord face-to-face for all eternity. But I can’t say
what my first question would be because I have so many.
Q: Who have been your
mentors, and how did they help you most?
Molly: I would have to
say that the two fourth grade teachers mentioned above plus my high school
English teacher were my mentors. They believed in me when I didn’t believe in
myself. Because of their encouragement, I tried harder and harder to overcome
by learning problems. Later, I became an elementary and early childhood teacher
where I tried to encourage my students. As a published novelist, I also try to
encourage new writers. Encouragement makes all the difference.
Q: What do you
hope your readers will take away from your books? And can you hint at any works
to come?
Molly: I can’t go into
all the world to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But my books can go places
I cannot go and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. All I had to do was learn
how to write my stories without preaching. If you read Gatehaven, my
Christian Gothic historical, you can decide if I achieved my goal.
Currently, I am
working on the sequel to Gatehaven.
Stay tuned.
Gatehaven by Molly Noble Bull is a Christian Gothic
novel is set in Scotland and in a haunting mansion in the north of England in
1784 where Ian Colquhoun and Shannon Aimee battle a Frenchman with dark
secrets. Will they learn enough about God’s Words to defend themselves or will
evil overcome them?
Molly entered
Gatehaven in the 2013 Creation House Fiction Writing Contest as a manuscript,
and it won the grand prize. Gatehaven is available to trade paperback and soon
as an e-book. To find all Molly’s book, write Molly Noble Bull in the search
slot at online and walking-in bookstores.
(Kathy here--look for my review here on Wednesday)
Facebook: Molly Noble
Bull
Twitter: Mollyauthor.
Pinterest: Molly Noble
Bull
Blogs:
I also write articles
for
Q: Do you have a question you would like our blog readers to answer?
Molly: Again, I have a lot of questions. It’s hard to decide which one to use. So here is one.
We all buy books written by popular authors. But what would cause you to buy a book written by someone like me—someone you might never have heard of until today?
I hope everybody will answer my question and leave a comment. However, I will give a free copy of Gatehaven in trade paperback to the first five readers who promise to write a review of Gatehaven and post it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Christian Book.com or someplace. If you don’t like Gatehaven after reading it, you don’t have to write a good review, but I do hope you will write a review. I learn even from my critics.
Kathy: Thank you for being
with us this week. I wish you every blessing as you write for His glory!
Molly: Thank you for
inviting me. And may the Lord bless you and yours today and every day.
Gatehaven Update
MOLLY: If I learned anything during my years writing for publication, it is that unforeseen things happen in life as well as in the book publishing world. Such an event is happening right now, and here it is. The publication of Gatehaven, my upcoming Christian Gothic historical novel, was delayed.
Yep, it’s true.
Gatehaven will still be published in trade paperback and later as an e-book, but it won’t be available in stores until late December 2013 or early January 2014. People who promised to review Gatehaven can still get a free copy of the novel, but they won’t have the book in their hands as soon as I first thought.
Life is a series of highs and lows—joys and disappointments. Those that choose to buy and read The Overcomers, Christian Authors Who Conquered Learning Disabilities will discover what I learned as a dyslexic, and it is this. Never, never, never, never, never, never give up.
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