Saturday Morning (52 page)

Writing about real issues within a compelling story is a hallmark of Lauraine’s style, shown in her contemporary romances and women’s fiction, which have probed the issues of forgiveness, loss, domestic violence, and cancer.
The Healing Quilt
explores the relationship of four diverse women who come together to supply their community with a much needed mammogram machine. In
The Way of Women
, three families cope with the aftermath of a volcanic eruption.

All told, she has had over fifty books published—she thinks. She’s not sure. She’d rather write them than count them. Lauraine’s work has been translated into Norwegian, Danish, and German, as well as produced as books on tape.

Awards have followed Lauraine’s dedication to telling a good story: the Silver Angel Award for
An Untamed Land
and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart for
Song of Laughter.

Helping others reach their writing dream is the reason Lauraine teaches both at writer’s conferences across the country and at her home in the California Tehachapi Mountains. She mentors others through book doctoring and with her humorous and playful Writing Great Fiction tape set. Lauraine also produces material on query letters and other aspects of the writing process.

Her readers clamor for more books more often, and Lauraine would like to comply, if only her ever-growing flower gardens didn’t call quite so loudly over the soothing rush of the water fountains in her backyard, or if the hummingbirds weren’t quite so entertaining. Lauraine and her husband, Wayne, have two grown sons, a cockatiel named Bidley, a basset hound named Chewie, and a possible Rummikub addiction.

a cognizant original v5 release october 16 2010

SATURDAY MORNING
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New King James Version.
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Copyright © 2005 by Lauraine Snelling

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Snelling, Lauraine.
   Saturday morning / Lauraine Snelling.—1st ed.
      p. cm.
      1. Women’s shelters—Fiction. 2. Female friendship—Fiction. 3. Abused women—
Fiction. I. Title.
   PS3569.N39S28 2005
   813’.54—dc22

                                                                                                      2005012228

eISBN: 978-0-307-55110-8

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Table of Contents

Praise for Saturday Morning

Acknowledgments

Epilogue

About the Author