New writing team Virginia Smith and Lori Copeland’s first venture has an intriguing premise: “We all hear that ‘small, still voice’ at times,” Virginia says. “What would happen if we really listened?” Conflict, uncertainty and romance collide in Lost Melody (Zondervan) and the authors will be offering an alternate ending to the book on their website. “We wrote what we thought was a beautiful end to a Christian love story, but all of our first readers felt it was too sad. So we rewrote the ending for the published book, but we plan to offer the original to readers. We’re really interested to hear what our readers think of the two endings.”
Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith: Dynamic Duo
Lori Copeland
Lori Copeland had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing when she was already forty years old. Over the next dozen years, her romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Walden Books' Best Seller award. She has been inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. Despite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, she decided to switch focus. Her subsequent books have been in Christian romance. She has also collaborated with authors Angela Elwell Hunt or Virginia Smith on a series of Christian romance novels.
Virginia Smith
Virginia Smith is a writer of humorous novels, a speaker, and an avid scuba diver. She launched her career as a novelist with the release Just As I Am in 2006, and has been cranking out God-honoring fiction ever since. She and husband Ted divide their time between Kentucky and Utah, and escape as often as they can for diving trips to the Caribbean.
