Today we are interviewing author Diana Brandmeyer. Her most recent book, Hearts On The Road, is available through Heartsong Presents.
Diana Lesire Brandmeyer has a background in education and psychology. Her credits include My Devotions, The Metro East Family Gazette, Little Visits Family Devotions and The Lutheran Witness. She received her degree from
She’s married and has 3 grown sons all on their own now, each of them bringing someone special to join the family. Yay! Daughter-in-laws!
Diana loves having pets, right now there is only one in the house, a cat named Wendell and an occasional granddog named Rusty.
Hearts on the Road:
Love cannot be trusted.
Abandoned by her father, betrayed by her fiancé, and forsaken by God, truck driver Randi Davis crisscrosses
Soon Randi and Matthew find themselves at cross-purposes. His life on the road has just begun. Her eight-year-old niece needs a parent to come home to every day. Is this the end of the road for Randi and Matthew’s romance?
Which road leads to God’s ultimate plan?
Diana took a few minutes to talk about publishing from a writer's perspective with Tiffany Colter.
Tiffany Colter: What do you do other than writing? How do you maintain balance.
Diana Brandmeyer: I like to sew, quilt and digi-scrap. To keep my life in balance I try to plan on one day a week that is not for writing but for doing other things I enjoy. It doesn’t always work out that way though. I am fortunate to be able to have time to write during the day so I attempt to work on writing in the mornings and the afternoons are for errands, phone calls and family. Doesn’t always work so don’t get frustrated when it doesn’t work. The best you can do is start with a plan, a checklist for the day and try to get through it.
TC: Upcoming projects?
DB: I’m co-authoring a book on blended families for Concordia Publishing House that should come out in 2011.
TC: How do you market yourself and your writing?
DB: Let’s just say it’s the one thing I dislike the most about writing. I send out postcards, blog, play facebook games to get to know people, I’m on a weight loss site…if you do these things please realize they do take time away from your writing and it doesn’t do any good if you don’t reach out and post! Just reading posts doesn’t build relationships with readers. Always list your website under your signature.
TC: Who has really influenced you?
DB: Julie Lessman without a doubt. She never gave up on her story and now I think she’s about to publish her 6th book. She had over 40 rejections on her first book and yet that book won book of the year at ACFW. She is determined to write and she keeps her schedule, she doesn’t answer her phone and yet she has maintained friendships and her bubbly personality.
Read more of Diana’s interview here at WritingCareerCoach.com
Other books by Diana Brandmeyer:
A Time To Dance
The Trouble With Ralph
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Leave a comment on this posting and you could win a copy of Hearts on the Road. The drawing will take place on December 28, 2009. This give away is for US residents only. There is no fee to enter.
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