Writing by Faith

If you look at my profile on Twitter, @SJWellsAuthor, you will see that I describe myself as a Christian author who writes historical fiction. But how does a blind girl from the hollers of West Virginia do that?

First, that blind girl had to persevere against all those who said she could not. Second, that blind girl learned to trust in Jesus instead of others or her own strength. Then, the only thing left to do was to sit down and write.

Ok, so things were a bit more complicated than that. Still, if one wants to become the impossible, then one must believe that nothing is impossible.

My first book "Wild Heart" was published in 2009. It's a Western. I wrote about it on this blog several years ago. Here is what the book is about.

Gage Colton, ex-gunman turned Christian is searching for the man who killed his father.  After witnessing a gunfight in Tombstone, he feels God urging him to change his plans.  If he obeys the Holy Spirit, it may cost him dearly; possibly even his life.  Shewana Christy, a young Cheyenne woman, is bent on revenge, in the hope that it will finally bring peace, something she has not known in a long time.  She has already avenged her mothers death and is looking for her father's murderer, when she is kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to hit the trail in the middle of the night.  With a posse in hot pursuit behind them, unknown dangers lurking ahead, and constant friction between them, will Gage and Shewana find what they were looking for, or will they answer that still, small voice of God, leading them in another direction?

It's available in print, ebook and on Audible as an audiobook. Just go to

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0187RJLES

I posted an excerpt of it on this blog, and the link to it is

http://sjwellsauthor.blogspot.com/2016/09/excerpt-of-wild-heart.html

In all I have written and published 1 children's book and 6 novels. I'll be writing about all of them in the coming weeks, so be sure and subscribe so you won't miss a post.

Thanks for being with me today, and enjoy the rest of your week.

But First Coffee Now Featuring Author, S. J. Wells

The teens at my church are raising money to go to the Nazarene Youth Conference next summer. One of their endeavors is a coffee shop in the basement of our church. They make lattes, sell cups of coffee and tea, and they have sweets always on hand.

As a mom with 2 teenagers in the group, I want to help them in any way I can. So, I asked if they would like to try and sell some of my books. Half of the money they get from my books will go toward their trip. Excited to try anything to raise the money, they made a post for their Facebook page and shared the picture with me.

Here's what they said.

 

These girls are hard workers, so keep them in your prayers.

If you'd like to donate to their cause, be sure and let us know.

Our church's website is

http://southeastnaz.church

Blessings

My Chicken Soup Story   CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: 101 TALES OF FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP AND FUN Life lessons from the dog. Did I have a story to fit that description? Yes, indeed. In 1998 I went to The Seeing Eye in Moristown, NJ to train with my very first guide dog. Life lessons: I had plenty. So, I submitted the short story that I wrote and nearly forgot about it. A few months later, I opened my email program and got a big surprise. My story was chosen as one of those 101 tales. I laughed out loud. My story, “A Miracle Named George”  isn’t the only one in this book, of course. There are 100 others that will warm your heart, and it’s available from Walmart, Barns & Noble, christianbook.com and Amazon

My Chicken Soup Story

Ducking into UEB

UEB or unified English braille is the new standard for braille in the United States. Braille is the system of raised dots used by people who are blind in order to read. My friend, Anita Adkins, a braille teacher at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind, needed a curriculum to teach UEB to her students. So, she wrote one. During the writing, she asked if I had any fictional material laying around that she could use. As it happened, I did have a fictional story written for children. It is called, "A Quackin' Adventure", and I gave it to her for her book. Through emails, phone calls and texts, we collaborated on several other shorter stories and songs to use for the exercises in the book, and in January 2017, we published "Ducking into UEB", a textbook that teaches unified English braille to students in grades 4-12 and older readers.

You can find it in print and ebook on Amazon.

 

To promote our book, Anita and I kept a blog for several months. It has tips and tricks for navigating a sighted world as a blind person, ideas to help your child or student who is blind and much more. Check it out at adkinsandwells.blogspot.com.