I love historicals, especially those set in Oklahoma (I live in Tulsa), and I got a chance to interview Martha Rogers, new author of inspirational historical romance. I have the ARC and plan to review the book soon, so be sure to check back.
Now, about Becoming Lucy, Winds Across the Prairie, Book One.
Martha, tell us about Lucy Bishop, Becoming Lucy’s main character. Who is she? Where is she from? Why did she move to Oklahoma? Where in Oklahoma does she live? What does she desperately want to hide or run from? And, what does she desperately want to find in Oklahoma?
Lucinda Bishop is a seventeen-year-old young lady from Boston whose parents are killed in a carriage accident. She becomes the ward of her aunt and uncle, Ben and Mellie Haynes, who live in Oklahoma. Lucinda is due to inherit a sizable estate at the age of eighteen. She travels to Oklahoma Territory in 1896 to the town of Barton Creek, north of Stillwater and west of Guthrie. Although reluctant to leave Boston and all she knows there, she wants to be a part of a family again, and her greatest desire is to once again belong in a family. She also has a fear that her father’s brother may have had a hand in the death of her parents, so she wants to get away from him.
What perked your interest in writing this story about Lucy? What drew you to set it in Oklahoma?
Our youngest son and his family lived in Tulsa and Stillwater for 15 years. I became fascinated by the [state's]history, especially when Oklahoma celebrated their Centennial in 2007.
When you were writing Lucy, who did you imagine your reader to be? What do you want to communicate most to your readers? What do you want your readers to gain from your novels?
Mostly I imagined the reader to be like me, a person who loves to read about another time and place in history. . .anyone from their thirties to their seventies. What I most want to communicate is that God has a plan for our lives, and even though tragedy and misfortune may sidetrack us, His plan will play out as He makes blessings for us through our love and devotion to him I also want them to gain the understanding of the bigness of our God to forgive our sin no matter how horrible it may seem to us. Also, that when we believe with our hearts in God’s promises, and are obedient to His will, He will give us the desires of our heart. I also want the reader to see how we can become what God wants us to be when we are willing to listen and be obedient to His calling.
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