"5 Questions" with Christine Lindsay!

How real have your characters become to you?

Oh I love them like they’re family. As an immigrant to Canada when I was a child, I’ve become used to having relatives live on the other side of the world in Ireland. So the characters in my books are like that—I don’t see them very often, but think of them as (almost) real people, and love them.  This is especially true when they show up in the series. Characters from Shadowed in Silk are a little older and wiser in Captured by Moonlight, and they’ll show up again in Veiled at Midnight.

Do you ever take a break from writing one book and write another book, and then come back to finish it afterwards?

I don’t plan to take breaks, but real life happens. Most writing blogs etc. give us writers the opinion that we must keep writing. Must keep marketing. Must keep striving. Well, I learned that is not what God wants for me. Yes, I must work, but my relationship with Him, and with my husband and family, must come first.  So there are times when I take a lengthy hiatus, or a bunch of short ones from writing.  And if my family needs me, I’ll dump the writing in an instant.  God does not want us to strive, He wants us to trust in Him.

Tell us one thing about you that isn't commonly known.

I was once patted on the head by Prince Philip when I was a baby in my pram, outside the Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland.

What projects are you working on now?

I am currently writing the third and final installment to my series Twilight of the British Raj. Shadowed in Silk is Book 1, Captured by Moonlight is Book 2, and the third book Veiled at Midnight will be released in summer 2014.

Veiled at Midnight is the story of two characters who were only children in Shadowed in Silk. Now, Abby’s grown son, Cam, is a soldier just returning from Burma after WW2, and he is reunited with the Indian girl, Dassah, who never left his dreams. But just as they find each other, the British Raj in India is coming to an end. The Partition of India is imminent, and soon India will be torn apart to create the brand new country of Pakistan.

This is a brutal time in India, and these two star-crossed lovers will feel that pain. As Cam works on the staff of the last Viceroy of India, Lord Louise Mountbatten, with all its gilt, glamour and pomp, Dassah experiences what the poorest of the poor experience in shattered India.    

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