Featured Interview With BetteLou Price
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
BetteLou passed over to the Lord in 2020. We wrote together during our tenure as authors. I, her husband, Wayne, continue to write using her name as my pen name since she was the romance lover. We grew up in sleepy towns in rural Connecticut. We travelled America in a long, full size motorhome with twin daughters and a tolerant cat. Moving numerous times, we often wound up in resort areas; the last one being Aspen, Colorado. Our love of God bloomed during those difficult years financially. In her latter years, we discovered writing romance and the prophetic in the same book fit our style perfectly. Our current work titled A Second Chance to Hope is the latest. We lived to the end of BetteLou’s life in Tillamook, Oregon, a small dairy and logging community on the West Coast close to the waters of the Pacific ocean. I still live there.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
BetteLou always loved to read as far back as she could remember. Her mother always read to her as a child. I was a slow reader and poor in all forms of English in school–reading, writing, grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, the whole thing. I was laughed at for not understanding the difference between there, their, and they’re. But one miraculous day I woke able to do it all. I scored straight A’s and B’s all through high school! Authorship began to fulfill Wayne’s cries to God of wanting to be significant.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
BetteLou loved historical romance while Wayne dove into inventions and prophecy. So many books it’s impossible to count. Wayne’s inspiration comes from his deep faith while BetteLou loved caring for her family. Both of us found inspiration from rivers to oceans and camping with the critters in nature.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
A Second Chance to Hope is set in Colorado with hot air balloons and an opulent resort vacation house in the mountains taking equal shares of romance, God, and the vagaries of life.
Hope O’Leary fell for his cologne, leather with a hint of wood smoke, even before encountering his strong presence and masculine authority. However, unwelcome sparks fly when she unveils the source of her glowing personality and physical beauty.
A seemingly harmless childhood trauma sabotages Neal McGrath’s unbridled attraction to her. The match made in proverbial heaven is driven to breaking until Jesus Christ speaks eight words of divine intervention. The expected happily ever after ties up love and hope in unexpected ways.
One reviewer, an advance copy reader said: “I like the way she kept God in it. I enjoy love stories like this one.”
BetteLou’s sickness and our inexperience pushed the writing and publishing of this book into far too many years. The next one with my wife’s indomitable presence on full display should be ready near Christmas 2022. This book comes with my sincere prayers for you to enjoy and be touched by a little bit of heaven. ‘Till later… Wayne, and BetteLou.
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