Wedded to War by Jocelyn Green Ends August 6th

Jocelyn Green is an award-winning author and freelance writer. A former military wife, she authored, along with contributing writers, Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives and Faith Deployed . . . Again: More Daily Encouragement for Military Wives. Jocelyn also co-authored of Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq & Afghanistan, which won the Gold Medal from the Military Writers Society of America in 2010, and Stories of Faith and Courage from the Home Front, which inspired her first novel: Wedded to War. She loves Mexican food, Broadway musicals, Toblerone chocolate bars, the color red, and reading on her patio. Jocelyn lives with her husband Rob and two small children in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Visit her at JocelynGreen.com.

I'm pleased to have Jocelyn Green on my blog this week. She is giving away a copy of Wedded to War. Leave a comment to be entered.

Where are you right now (LVR, DR, Bathroom) and what are you wearing? You have to tell the truth.

I’m in my office, still in my pajamas at 6:30 in the morning.

What is the funniest, strangest, or most interesting thing you have learned when doing research?

I found so many interesting things while doing this research, the first big one being the fact that nursing was considered a man’s job before the Civil War. Women who wanted to nurse were, at the beginning, seen as scandalous.

As for a funny story, I laughed out loud when I read that one soldier who was wounded in the thigh yelled at the field surgeon that if the surgeon had taken off his leg after his injury during the last battle, he wouldn’t have been hit! The surgeon said he found the logic hard to argue with. J

If you were told you were being sent back to live in the 19^th Century, and you could bring one thing from today, what would that be?

Deodorant for everyone. LOL! Good choice!

What is something that very few people know about you?

I used to play and teach piano lessons.

What is your favorite material item that you own (examples: ipod, Gone with the Wind book, grandmother’s rocking chair)

I love my Kindle, but if there was a fire (or a flood, which is at least as likely here in Iowa) I would grab our family scrapbooks first.

If you could live in any time period other than the one we live in, when and where would that be and why?

The 1950s. Right after World War 2, it seems like the country was full of hope and opportunity.

Do you think birth order affects the way you write?

What a great question! I have never considered this before. I don’t know if it affects the way I write, but I can imagine it affects my inclination to write. (I have one older brother.)

If you were writing a book about your life what would the title be?

The Long Way Home. Growing up here in Iowa, I used to think I would never, no never, want to live here again. I left after high school and lived in Indiana, Mexico, London, Austria, Washington, D.C., and then Alaska before deciding the Midwest is actually a great place to have a family. And my parents live here, which means they can have a close relationship with my children. Honestly, if we didn’t live here, 20 minutes from my parents, I don’t think I’d be able to write. They are so supportive by watching the kids when I’m on a deadline.

What one novel did you read that made you want to be a part of the story?

Little House on the Prairie. I loved those books.

 

When war erupted, she gave up a life of privilege for a life of significance.
Tending to the army's sick and wounded meant leading a life her mother does not understand and giving up a handsome and approved suitor. Yet Charlotte chooses a life of service over privilege, just as her childhood friend had done when he became a military doctor. She soon discovers that she's combating more than just the rebellion by becoming a nurse. Will the two men who love her simply stand by and watch as she fights her own battles? Or will their desire for her wage war on her desire to serve God?

Wedded to War is a work of fiction, but the story is inspired by the true life of Civil War nurse Georgeanna Woolsey. Woolsey's letters and journals, written over 150 years ago, offer a thorough look of what pioneering nurses endured. This is the first in the series "Heroines Behind the Lines: Civil War," a collection of novels that highlights the crucial contributions made by women during times of war.

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