with Jill Elizabeth Nelson

September 7, 2007

Hosted by: Anne McDonald

Dancing Word Publisher/Editor

Anne McDonald: We're ready to start. I'll open in prayer, go over protocol and then introduce tonight's guest

Lord, thank You for Your loving intervention in each of our lives. Thanks for all You provide for us on a daily basis. Please be with us this evening as we learn more about writing, and how to use our gifts to glorify You. Especially bless each of the participants and our guest. In Jesus name, Amen

Protocol reminder: To keep us from running over each other, please type ? for questions, ! for comments and wait to be called on in turn. So we don't step on each others' toes, please type ga when you have finished typing. ga = go ahead

Tonight I'm thrilled to introduce a women who knows how to keep readers glued to the pages of her stories. Please give a warm welcome to Jill Elizabeth Nelson.

* Annie leads the applause

* Ley applauds loudly

* Batty claps

Anne McDonald: Jill, please give us a brief blurb about your latest release.

* Annie hands the floor over to Jill

Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Reluctant Runaway features a feisty museum security expert teamed up with a savvy, intense FBI agent on the trail of a killer cult. It came out in March. This is the second book in the To Catch a Thief series.

The third one is due out in January. Reluctant Smuggler takes our hero and heroine south of the border pitted against a vicious gang.

Anne McDonald: In the opening for Reluctant Runaway, your heroine breaks into a museum. Where did you come up with the idea for that scene, and how difficult was it to write?

Jill Elizabeth Nelson: I love writing my opening capers. Each book starts with one. They are not hard to write. I mix imagination in with my research so I'm not actually showing someone how to commit a crime. Though I think perhaps there are some very feasible methods, so I hope no crooks are reading my books. Lol

writersheep: What helps you keep going with a story, to see it through to the end, keeping it interesting?

Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Sheer, dogged determination under the title of DEADLINE! I'm a goal-oriented person. Sometimes cranking the chapters out is like squeezing one word in front of the other.