The book I’ve been researching and writing for eight years, Nellie Cashman, Intrepid Angel, is on her way to an agent I met at Mt. Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference. I have heard that historical biographies are not the rage right now. So I am talking to God about her everytime I think about her. Nellie was an amazing woman, for her time or ours.
My daughters, their children and my students need to know what a woman can do when she follows God. Nellie’s story should be known by everyone. Some know it, but she could motivate so many more. I’ll just tell you one thing: she braved blizzards in the Canadian winter for two months climbing mountains to reach friends she’d left at Dease Lake who had come down with scurvy. She dug herself out of an avalanche during this time, and she made. All 75 miners lived. And that’s only part of the story.
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Jane has loved writing from the time she learned to hold a pencil. Her writing journey moved from that pencil to personal computers through the seventies, she edited for a hospital public relations department. The eighties found her owning a public relations business, publishing newspaper and magazine articles, and directing communications for a large church. In the nineties she published her first book and led critique groups and writers' workshops. In the twenty-first century she became a teaching consultant for the National Writing Project, published several more books, and began an editing business.
Jane also loves raising chickens, dogs and alpacas, gardening, oil painting, swimming and hanging out with her family.
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