Welcome guest blogger, Darlene Franklin, as she shares about her new book.
Blurb: When Mahala Kent’s
tea party honoring her brother’s marriage turns into a brawl over tea, she’s forced
out of her wealthy neutrality. A public debate on the subject pushes her even
closer to her childhood friend and hoped-for suitor, Jothan Stout. Will the
arrival of a tea shipment in Greenwich push Jothan and Mahala further apart—or
give them a common taste for herbal infusions?
How did I come up with the
idea for Infusion of Love? A few
years ago, while Barbour was publishing four-novella Christmas collections, I
discovered that there were at least four tea protests in the Colonies besides
the famous Boston Tea Party. Both the
first and the last tea “events” took place at Christmas time, so we proposed a
collection called A Tea Party Christmas.
The other authors were
very interested in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston, so I took Greenwich,
NJ, by default. I also have an interest in New Jersey, because I attended
college there. Since it was the last of the tea events, and I called my story The Last Tea Party.
Barbour changed its
policies and the collection fizzled until my new publisher, Forget Me Not
Romances, put together a collection called Teacup
Courtships, which are all historical. A
Touch of Sugar by Cynthia Hickey is also available at
this time. They are paired with Mocha
Marriages, which are contemporary. There will be five titles in each
collection.
Of course The Last Tea Party came to mind, but I
had to change the title. The editor and I brainstormed a title, and since the
patriots drank herbal infusions instead of British tea, we decided on Infusion of Love. I confess I fell in
love with the story as I was writing it. Writing a brawl scene with the best of
Greenwich’s ladies in 1774 was a blast—as was imagining what it was like to
steal tea from a warehouse in the middle of town and burn it to the ground.
I hope you enjoy reading
this journey into our beginnings as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Bio: Best-selling
author Darlene Franklin’s greatest claim to fame is that she writes full-time
from a nursing home. She is an active member of Oklahoma City Christian Fiction
Writers, American Christian Fiction Writers, and the Christian Authors Network.
She has written over fifty books and more than 250 devotionals.
Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/Infusion-Love-Christian-Historical-Courtship-ebook/dp/B01AZMYD28/
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