If I Had You (Bedford, Deborah)

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Immediately after graduation, she accepted editorship of Evergreen Today, a weekly newspaper based in the small mountain town of Evergreen, Colorado. While serving as editor there, she worked 70 or 80 hours each week, writing stories and cut-lines, sports and features, chasing fire trucks and checking police reports, taking pictures, editing, laying out pages, opaquing the negatives, stacking papers into vending machines and taking out the quarters. It was long before she began to dream of returning to her first love, fiction writing.

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If I Had You has 53 ratings and 9 reviews. Ruth said: It is the story of three generations in the same family. Nora is in her late 40's. Her daughter Tes. If I Had You [Deborah Bedford] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. From bestselling author Deborah Bedford comes the moving tale of an.

For her birthday in the summer of , her husband, Jack, bought her a copy of the Writers' Market, and she began to meticulously send letters to every publisher listed in the book. Rejection letters flowed back by the handfuls. She has a large folder where, for posterity's sake, she has kept these to this day. She has also kept the letter from Harlequin Books she received, which invited her to submit a complete manuscript but warned her that Harlequin did not want books about cowboys, airline pilots, guest ranches or Texans. Deborah laughs now when she tells the story.

Her manuscript was the story of "a woman who marries an airline pilot in Texas. Then, when he dies in a plane crash, she runs away to a guest ranch and falls in love with a cowboy. At that time, her editor told her, "This book isn't a romance, but we're going to publish it, anyway. It earned rave reviews and a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award. During the next seven years, she published six more books for the Harlequin Superromance series and a historical novel, Blessing, before signing a contract with HarperCollins Publishers.

This paved the way for her to move on to write mass-market mainstream women's fiction, where her work garnered numerous awards and appeared on the USA TODAY bestseller list. The word she uses to describe her career is "beguiling. But, along with those words, she admits that she was writing steamy scenes. But I realized that I was giving away lentils in the Lord's battlefield. That's when I became convicted.

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The time had come for a change. It held a spot on the CBA Bestseller list for three consecutive months. While still shopping for the right publisher for her novel-length fiction, she had the opportunity to stand up at the Jackson Hole Writers' Conference, read an excerpt from The Story Jar, and explain to conference attendees about the call she felt to leave mass-market fiction and follow the Lord. In the audience that evening was Jamie Raab, publisher of Warner Books.

The rest, as everyone says, felt like stars moving into place. When You Believe w Books by Deborah Bedford. No trivia or quizzes yet.

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To ask other readers questions about If I Had You , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Aug 02, Ruth rated it liked it. It is the story of three generations in the same family. Nora is in her late 40's. Her daughter Tess is in her late teens. All her life, Tess has felt like nothing she did was good enough for her mom.

She left home, got hooked on drugs and got pregnant.

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She came home, had her daughter with the intention of putting her up for adoption, but then changed her mind. Bedford said this book is her story.

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I won't tell you which of the women she is, but I will tell you that the book has a strong pro-lif It is the story of three generations in the same family. I won't tell you which of the women she is, but I will tell you that the book has a strong pro-life message. I just didn't really like any of the characters, except the little girl. Aug 27, Susan rated it it was amazing. A friend gave me this book and I thought it was just "another fiction book" Now I know it was because she knew I needed the healing this book can give.

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It is about women in the same family who cannot communicate- and what it does to them and to the people who love them. And it's also about how that lack of significant relationships can be healed! Thank You, Deborah, for this. Jul 20, mom2wah rated it it was amazing. Heart felt novel dealing with abortion and decisions.

Handled nicely and heartfelt. Teenage daughter who has been on her own comes back home pregnant. How her family deals with it is what this book is about.

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This aurthor is a must read! This book allows a poignant look at the psychological repercussions of both bearing a child out of wedlock as well as abortion. An excellent read for anyone who is considering their stance on the issue of abortion. Aug 09, Lynette Myers rated it it was amazing. This book was absolutely incredible. I love when a story comes from the heart of an author, and this one did. It also gives GREAT information to the readers that can relate and need more help with their decision. Sep 10, Melissa rated it really liked it. Excellent Christian book with themes about abortion and grandparents raising their grandchild.

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