To Dance Once More by Sherri Wilson Johnson ends August 20th

Sherri Wilson Johnson is an Inspirational Romance novelist, a speaker, social media junkie, and a former homeschooling mom who loves to share God with others, while sharing her life experiences with them. She lives in Georgia with her husband and two children. She loves to dream of romantic places and romance in general. She’s a bird-watcher, loves the ocean, dolphins, roller coasters, tigers, ice cream, her family and her Chihuahua, who faithfully sits by her side every day when she writes. She longs to do something exciting like sky diving one day. Sherri is the author of To Dance Once More (OakTara) and Song of the Meadowlark (due out in August by OakTara). She is currently writing To Dance Once More’s sequel, To Laugh Once More, and is polishing her novel, After the Raging Storm. She enjoys writing Bible Study guides, homeschool resources, and articles on a wide variety of topics.

Sherri is giving away an e-copy of To Dance Once More. 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 the living room on my couch wearing my favorite stretchy pants and t-shirt, watching the Olympics.

What is the funniest, strangest, or most interesting thing you have learned when doing research? I guess I would have to say the most interesting thing I have learned most recently in my research would be how in the first few decades of the 20^th century young women were no longer being betrothed to men they didn’t love or even know well. They went off to the universities to find men of their own. They were bolder in their attempts and not all ladies had a goal of marriage in mind. Women didn’t mind being called a broad, a dame, the cat’s meow, or a doll. And a girl called a “charity girl” was a girl who didn’t save herself for marriage. Of course, the vast majority held true to the traditional family structure.

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? My laptop! It has the Bible on it and all my writing files and many family pictures.

What is something that very few people know about you? Surprisingly, many people don’t know I’m a writer. It’s kind of strange but a lot of folks I’ve known for years still seem shocked when I say I’m published.

What is your favorite material item that you own (examples: ipod, Gone with the Wind book, grandmother’s rocking chair) I guess I would have to say my favorite material item is my mother’s study Bible. It’s marked with notes that I treasure.

If you could live in any time period other than the one we live in, when and where would that be and why? I’d love to live in the Victorian times at the beach in Florida (the setting of To Dance Once More.) I love the simpler times and I love the beach.

Do you think birth order affects the way you write? Birth order affects me as a person so I suppose it affects my writing as well. I’ve never really given much thought to it. I am a second born and very free spirited. I think that free spirit and a creative mind plays into how I write.

If you were writing a book about your life what would the title be? A Pocketful of Posey because my Chihuahua Posey is by my side every minute of the day and makes life quite interesting! Seriously though, I think it would be something like Striving to Be a Refined Woman of God.

What one novel did you read that made you want to be a part of the story? Most recently, Short-Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer.

All Lydia wants is to travel the world before she has to settle down with a husband. But she may not have that choice anymore.

April 1886
Debutante Lydia Jane Barrington lives a carefree, protected existence on Live Oaks Plantation in Florida. But while her sisters happily learn the traditional tasks of women and talk of courting, Lydia dreams of adventure and independence. Even her friendship with handsome Hamilton Scarbrough isn’t enough to hold her back.
Then one day Hamilton opens Lydia’s eyes and her heart to love. But before they can receive permission to court, Lydia overhears a secret conversation about an unscrupulous business deal. Worse, it has everything to do with her and her future. Now she’s faced with the biggest decision of her life—to concede or to fight. Either choice will require great sacrifice…and, perhaps, countless rewards.
Passion. Friendship. A bitter enemy. A life-changing decision.
Set in Victorian-era Florida.

 Sherri Wilson Johnson
Where Faith and Fiction Collide
To Dance Once More (OakTara) September 2011
Song of the Meadowlark (OakTara) August 2012
To Laugh Once More (OakTara) Fall 2012
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