Welcome, Danele! Thank you for being a guest on Everything Writerly. Please tell our readers and blog visitors when you began writing.
Danele: I’ve always loved to write, but my dreams of being an
author died when I became ill.
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| Danele Rotharmel |
Andrea: Will you share with what happened and how your illness affected your life, specifically your writing?
Danele: I’d been poisoned by carbon monoxide from a faulty furnace in my home, and this led to extreme Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. My illness triggered partial amnesia, trouble concentrating, and a shutdown of the creative part of my brain. When I tried to write, the words wouldn’t come.
Eventually, I ended up quarantined in my home for seven years. As time passed, I began to feel my brain unlocking. My memories came flooding back, and I was able to write again. My body was in intense pain, but I used writing as a way to escape. On the worst days, I’d lie in bed and think up plot twists for Time Tsunami. Concentrating on my characters helped me combat the loneliness of quarantine.
And when questions about God haunted my thoughts, I explored my feelings through dialogue. I believe God used Time Tsunami as a way to help me through my illness. I believe He used it as a way for my faith journey to be recorded.
In chapter forty-one, my characters discuss “walking through the why” when bad things happen. “Walking through the why” was what I had to do during quarantine. And like my characters, in the end, I came to believe that God is trustworthy no matter what happens in this life. God loves us, and He can turn anything into something good—even seven years of quarantine.
Andrea: Wow, Danele...that is a moving testimony of God's grace, goodness, and healing powers in your life. I'm encouraged by it and reminded me that nothing is impossible with God!
Your book's official release date is tomorrow, January 15th. Congratulations!!! Where can readers find your novel, Time Tsunami?
Danele: Here is the Amazon link:
It's also available for purchase as a paperback and a Nook eBook.
Here's a book blurb:
Time Tsunami (Book 1 of The Time Counselor Chronicles)
To stop a cruel serial killer, she must travel twenty-four years into the past…
Gil Montgomery, a cadet in the Temporal Counseling Program, can’t wait to pass her field exam and become a professional time surfer. The TEMCO program targets death-row offenders for time-based counseling while they’re children.
For her exam, Gil will travel twenty-four years into the past to counsel ten-year-old Danny Winston before he murders his abusive babysitter, Rick Olsen. Preventing the stabbing should stop the chain of events leading to Danny’s eventual execution.
Will she return from the deadly mission…
Time Tsunami is a fast-moving thriller with time travel twists that keep the reader guessing until the very last page.
To stop a cruel serial killer, she must travel twenty-four years into the past…
Gil Montgomery, a cadet in the Temporal Counseling Program, can’t wait to pass her field exam and become a professional time surfer. The TEMCO program targets death-row offenders for time-based counseling while they’re children.
For her exam, Gil will travel twenty-four years into the past to counsel ten-year-old Danny Winston before he murders his abusive babysitter, Rick Olsen. Preventing the stabbing should stop the chain of events leading to Danny’s eventual execution.
Will she return from the deadly mission…
Time Tsunami is a fast-moving thriller with time travel twists that keep the reader guessing until the very last page.
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Andrea: Sounds like a thrilling story.
Danele: In celebration of my book's release, I would love to giveaway a blue butterfly journal and a set of 22 note cards with envelopes.
Andrea: What an awesome prize! I love journals and note cards. I'm sure the blessed winner will appreciate them too.
Readers and Visitors, please leave a comment to enter the drawing for the journal and note cards. The winner will be announced Tuesday, 1-19-16 here on Everything Writerly.
Danele, where can readers find you online?
Danele: Find me on the sites listed below:
Facebook: CLICK HERE
My website: CLICK HERE
