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Margaret is an award winning, multi-published
author with over fifty books to her credit. She is
writing for Steeple Hill Love Inspired and Love
Inspired Suspense. Next year she has five books
coming out, two Love Inspired Suspense, two
Love Inspired, and one Classic Love Inspired.
Margaret has been writing for twenty-eight years
and has written for Dell, Kensington and
Silhouette. In 2000 she sold her first inspirational
romance to Harlequin's Steeple Hill and hasn't
looked back. She has found an area where she
can combine her family related stories with her
love of suspense and mysteries.
When she isn't writing she is teaching high school
students with learning disabilities. She has a
wonderful, real hero, her husband Mike and they
have one son. She loves to travel, read, especially
adventures and suspense books, and going to
lunch with her friends.
You can contact her at Mdaley50@aol.com. You
can visit her web site at
http://www.margaretdaley.com to read excerpts
from her latest books and sign her guest book for
a chance to win an autographed book. She also
has a blog at
http://margaretdaleyblogspot.com.
Sometimes you don't always hear what the Lord is
saying to you. It took several pushes to get me to
where I am today, writing inspirational romances.
For years I wrote in the secular market but hadn't
found what deeply satisfied me. In 2000 I was
floundering, trying to find a direction in my
writing. I tried several genres, but nothing really
spoke to me. A friend told me about hearing an
editor for Steeple Hill talk at a conference. I had
submitted something to this editor when she was
working on a secular line for Harlequin. She had
been encouraging and positive about my writing.
But even then I didn't think I had what it took to
write an inspirational romance. Yes, I believe in
the Lord. Yes, I have a strong faith. But me write
for the Lord? I didn't see it. I didn't think I was
worthy.
But the Lord had a different plan for me. He gave
me a story that had to be told as an inspirational
romance. It involved a student I had worked with
who had Down's syndrome. His story had been so
inspiring and full of so much faith in the Lord. I
took the idea and came up with something that
was a tribute to the students I worked with who
were special needs. They are filled with so much
love. They are special, not because of their
disabilities but because of whom they are.
The editor bought that book in three weeks. This
was my first Love Inspired called The Power of
Love. But even after this I thought how could I do
this over and over. Why would the Lord use me? I
didn't think I could sustain it in stories after
stories. I might be able to do a couple but that
would be all.
I am writing my twenty-third inspirational
romance at this time and the stories keep coming.
The only thing I can contribute that to is the
power of the Lord. I am continually amazed at
what He can do.
Now when I look back at my writing career, I see
His hand pushing me in that direction long before
the year 2000, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't
ready. Be open to what the Lord has planned. And
listen.
saying to you. It took several pushes to get me to
where I am today, writing inspirational romances.
For years I wrote in the secular market but hadn't
found what deeply satisfied me. In 2000 I was
floundering, trying to find a direction in my
writing. I tried several genres, but nothing really
spoke to me. A friend told me about hearing an
editor for Steeple Hill talk at a conference. I had
submitted something to this editor when she was
working on a secular line for Harlequin. She had
been encouraging and positive about my writing.
But even then I didn't think I had what it took to
write an inspirational romance. Yes, I believe in
the Lord. Yes, I have a strong faith. But me write
for the Lord? I didn't see it. I didn't think I was
worthy.
But the Lord had a different plan for me. He gave
me a story that had to be told as an inspirational
romance. It involved a student I had worked with
who had Down's syndrome. His story had been so
inspiring and full of so much faith in the Lord. I
took the idea and came up with something that
was a tribute to the students I worked with who
were special needs. They are filled with so much
love. They are special, not because of their
disabilities but because of whom they are.
The editor bought that book in three weeks. This
was my first Love Inspired called The Power of
Love. But even after this I thought how could I do
this over and over. Why would the Lord use me? I
didn't think I could sustain it in stories after
stories. I might be able to do a couple but that
would be all.
I am writing my twenty-third inspirational
romance at this time and the stories keep coming.
The only thing I can contribute that to is the
power of the Lord. I am continually amazed at
what He can do.
Now when I look back at my writing career, I see
His hand pushing me in that direction long before
the year 2000, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't
ready. Be open to what the Lord has planned. And
listen.
| MARGARET'S TESTIMONY |