Today I have the lovely Nana Prah talking about her new release with the Decadent Publishing Ubuntu Line. The book is a medical romance called Midwife to Destiny. Over to Nana:
The birth of Midwife to Destiny
I’m so happy to take over Kathy’s blog
today. She asked me to talk about the origins of Midwife to Destiny.
A couple of years ago my friend introduced
me to the Afro Romance
Writing Competition on Facebook where people would post a chapter of
their work and have it critiqued. There were eliminations of participants after
each chapter. One of the requirements was that the romance had to be set in
Africa. I didn’t have such a book written at the time so I decided to be a
reading participant.
It took me all of a week to realize that I
could write just as well as those who had taken the time and courage to enter.
So I set off writing. Instead of writing a chapter or two to enter, I wrote the
whole novel within three weeks. Granted, it wasn’t phenomenal work on my part,
but it wasn’t horrible either and it got better when the participants critiqued
the work. It was like having eight beta readers for the first four chapters.
The competition was fierce and I won third
place, made a few fantastic friends, and later on got a publishing deal from
Decadent Publishing (a whole other story).
The moral? Even when you don’t think you
have a story, you do, so sit down, write, and then take the risk to share it.
Who knows what will happen?
The
Blurb
Ghanaian nurse Aurora ‘Ora’ Aikins never
expected to find the love of her life while on vacation in South Africa. Engaged
to another and believing that love has no place in her life, she returns to
Ghana, and puts duty and honor first.
Three years later, Dr. Jason Lartey still
can’t get Ora out of his mind or his heart. After learning she never married,
he takes a risk and moves to Ghana hoping to rekindle what they started. His
sudden appearance in Ora’s Emergency Department sends sparks flying all over
again.
They’re in the same country, working in the
same hospital, and together but distance creeps between them. Can they make
their destined love one for the ages?
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About the Author:
Nana Prah was born in Ghana, West Africa,
raised in the US and currently resides in Ghana where she loves her job as a
writer and nurse educator. She has been writing since she can remember (in her
journal) and has been an avid reader of romance novels since the eighth grade.
She has finally been able to utilize the years and years of inadvertent
research into writing her own romance novels where love always conquers all.
Contact Details:
Blog : www.nanaprah.blogspot.com
Twitter: @NanaPrah
Facebook: Nana Prah, Author
Enjoy the following excerpt for Midwife to Destiny:
Ora focused on
putting one foot in front of the other as if she were a one-year-old learning
how to walk. After turning the corner and seeing the back of his head, she
froze. She would know that head anywhere. He’d grown his hair out a little, but
his adorable, Will Smith ears gave him away. Initiating the process of pivoting
and sprinting out of the ED unnoticed sprang to mind when he turned around and
his gaze caught hers.
The air became
charged with tension and neither of them moved. Her heart threatened to pop out
of her chest with the force of each beat. The nurses stood between them,
looking back and forth as if they watched a tennis match. They didn’t bother to
hide their expressions of curiosity.
They’d never seen
Ora behave in such a manner. Not cool as a cucumber super nurse. Like herself,
they kept looking at the new doctor just because of his tall, broad-shouldered,
gorgeous stature. The past three years had matured him, adding a few lines
around his eyes and the new feature of a goatee with a moustache changed his
countenance a little. But otherwise, the same man she’d met three years ago, at
least in the physical sense, stood before her.
After an eternity,
Ora snapped back to attention. “Akwaaba,
Dr. Lartey. Welcome to the ward.” Madam Professional stuck out her hand for a
handshake.
Her words seemed
to drag him out of his own stupor. “Uh….”
She had rendered
the man speechless. Ora’s gracious nature—that’s what she blamed it on,
anyway—took pity on him and she touched his shoulder. The contact sent sensual
awareness through her and she recoiled her hand.
“Hello, Aurora.
Please forgive me. It’s just that I’m a little surprised to see you.”
“Not as much as I
am,” she muttered, attempting to squash both the joy bubbling up inside of her
at seeing him again and the overwhelming sadness of what she’d been missing for
so long.
“Pardon me?” he
asked.
“I didn’t expect
to see you here. It’s a surprise to me, too.” She tried to smile, but it came
out contorted, as if she’d been able to have a painful, rocky bowel movement
after being constipated for seven days.
I’m
giving away a $20 Amazon gift card.
Thank's for having me on your blog Kathy. I enjoyed sharing the story of how Midwife to Destiny came into existence.
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