Grandma Henke

I have been working non-stop editing my book the last week … and I am excited that I feel like it is close to being done. If you are interested in downloading a copy to edit please let me know and I will send you the link. It is really scary for me to let people read it … doh … but I think now that I’ve put all this effort and time into it I need to follow it to the end. (nervously bites fingernails) This book is targeted to a Christian audience and would probably appeal to older children through teenagers, young adults, and grandmas.   I’d like to have it ready to push for next Christmas.

Here is the Introduction:

Nellie is a co-dependent angel who has yet to pass off the training requirements to become a full fledged angel. She has far too much bounce and enthusiasm for her 150 years but also has unresolved issues in her own life she has yet to face before she can advance. She likes to solve everyone’s problems but her own and provides way too much chaos for her heavenly supervisor, who likes things to run smoothly and by the book.

When her great, great nephew dies of a heart attack at a young age and leaves behind a wife and four children, Nellie is distraught when the mother has to take two jobs to barely make ends meet. The children are often left in the care of Gina, her oldest daughter who is fifteen and angry that so much responsibility has been placed on her. Things are quickly getting out of hand.

Nellie manages to coerce her grumpy heavenly supervisor, Horace, to allow her to return to earth for three months but is under strict orders to obey three important rules:

1. She may not tell anyone who she is or where she is from
2. She must always tell the truth
3. She must, under no circumstances, use heavenly powers

Of course, Aunt Nellie crosses her fingers and promises to keep every rule … but are they promises she can keep?

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