Cindy Bradford's Author Blog
What a great time I am having in the UAE! The weather has been unbelievably pleasant for the desert and the opportunities for me even more unbelievable. The 14 ½ hour flight was uneventful except for having to sit next to a hillbilly in overalls who told me about the many times his kid had the colic. Now that’s a topic you want to discuss over processed chicken in cellophane!!!!!!!! [Read more…] about Having a Great Time in the UAE
Several of you have told me you didn’t like Patrick at the beginning of Keeping Faith, but grew to like him as you progressed through the book. Congratulations, you took the hook. That is exactly what I wanted to happen. Actually, I didn’t even like him at first so what could I expect you to do differently? [Read more…] about Keeping Faith – Growing To Like Patrick
Boston, 1962
Patrick woke, startled, hearing a rustling noise. Reaching quickly to push back the heavy canvas, he found it zipped closed. Darkness swallowed him. In the airless, musty pup tent, he felt trapped. Sweat beaded on his forehead, when suddenly he heard another sound and felt the presence of someone.
“Shh.”
Then Patrick felt a body pressing against him and a clammy hand cover his mouth. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith: Chapter 1 Part 1
If you had told me as a teenager that someday I would have trouble sleeping, I would have told you that you were crazy. After all, in those days, I could easily sleep until noon, eat lunch, and take a quick nap before starting my Saturday. But then, as a teenager, I would have said a lot of things in the future were crazy and not going to ever happen to me! [Read more…] about I’m Not Asleep But I’m Not Awake
By now, you probably know that Faith is the main character in Promises Kept. (If you would like to download the excerpt, you can by subscribing to my newsletter). Faith was such an easy character to develop because I have known a hundred Faiths. She simply evolved from her East Texas setting, and was actually the catalyst for Keeping Faith. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith — Who is Faith?
East Texas, 1991
Faith O’Brien had been looking for her father for as long as she could remember. From a slight glance out of her upstairs bedroom window at a lone passerby to a concentrated scrutiny of familiar faces she saw each autumn Friday night in the crowded wooden bleachers of the high school stadium, she searched. With a single, faded black and white photograph that she took often from a worn little box that held her only other connection to him–a tiny gold ring he had given her mother the first year they dated, she had tried to picture him, studying every tiny detail of the handsome nineteen year old boy with a crooked grin, leaning against an old, but shiny Oldsmobile. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith: Prologue
