When Jennifer at Clean Romance Reviews asked what’s the most rewarding thing about being a writer, I struggled to identify just one thing.

Regardless of how writing work develops, or not, is published, or not, finds readers, or not, the real answer is that the gift remains within the experience of writing itself. If I am faithful to it, it is twice as faithful in the ways that it invites — and requires — that I go deep into an interior “waiting room”. There, I listen and watch, and do my best to shape what I encounter and discover into something that might be able to attract others’ hearts – and bolster them. Because that’s always my ultimate goal, in writing, and in living.

My big thanks to Jennifer and Clean Romance Reviews for the interview, and also for the chance to offer another giveaway in connection with Snow Fence Road. This one includes a pair of lovely hand-painted earrings from New Hampshire artist Diane Kirkup of D. Kirkup Designs.

Find the interview and giveaway by scrolling to Jennifer’s Jan. 2 post at:http://www.cleanromancereviews.com

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Snow Fence Road  A village on the coast of Maine holds painful secrets – the kind only the miracle of new love can heal.

More about the book at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDVB106/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DDVB106&linkCode=as2&tag=leaofthetre-20″>Snow Fence Road<