Shelia E. Bell (formerly Shelia E. Lipsey) is an award-winning, national bestselling author with 20+ books published in Christian fiction, women’s fiction, nonfiction, and young adult genres. Her books have garnered numerous awards and accolades, including the 2017 Christian Literary Readers’ Choice Award, 2015 Rosa Parks Award, 2014 Christian Literary Award, AAMBC Nate Holmes Honorary Award, Kindle Award, OOSA Book of the Year, numerous SORMAG awards, and more.
Shelia began her publishing career in 1999. Since then, she has set the literary industry ablaze with her dynamic, true-to-life stories that she calls “perfect stories about imperfect people like you…and me.”
Shelia is passionate about helping others and encourages and promotes people to ‘live their dreams now.’ In 2012, she founded a non-profit organization “Black Writers And Book Clubs (BWABC) Literacy Association” with a mission to promote literacy one community at a time. Shelia is also a well-respected freelance book editor.
A much sought-after inspirational speaker, Shelia travels near and far sharing her inspirational messages of how to overcome the adversities of life. Having had polio since the age of two, she accepts no excuses and is determined not to let her physical imperfections keep her from her life’s purposes.
What inspired you to write this book?
This latest book release is book 11 in the “My Son’s Wife” series. It was never my intention to write a sequel to a booklet alone eleven books, but that’s exactly what I’m doing. This series has been my bestseller and readers seem to always want more. I’m already working on installment number 12. I’ve come to love the characters and see them in a realistic aspect. It’s a fun entertaining series with lots of drama.
What can we expect from you in the future?
I’m working on more “Shorts by Shelia” These are smaller, books under 125 pages that are meant to give readers a short, entertaining read while they’re sitting in a doctor’s appointment, standing in a long line, or just taking a lunch break.
Are your characters based on real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
My characters are totally from my imagination, however, because I’ve been writing this series for a number of years, the characters seem real to me and have lives and personalities of their own.
Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story?
I would say my characters hijack the story. For me, this is a good thing. It pulls me totally outside of ME and allows my characters free rein to act, do, speak as they so choose. I don’t like holding the reins because it might restrict what the characters have to say and it would put more of ME into the story when it’s not about me. I’m just the messenger.
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About the Book
Thicker Than Water My Son’s Wife Book 11 by Shelia E. Bell
Genre: Inspirational Romance, Drama
Synopsis
“Thicker Than Water” is book #11 in the dynamic, page-flipping continuation of the “My Son’s Wife” series. The church drama surrounding the Grahams and the McCoys continues to thicken. Khalil and Xavier are dealing with the turmoil surrounding their individual life choices. Khalil, a newly married pastor moves farther away from his bride when he learns some unsettling news about his First Lady. Xavier is torn between two lovers; well torn between his lover Ian and his mentally ill wife, Pepper. Pepper is fighting to get on the mend so she can reclaim her family. But this can be harder than she thinks.
Pastor Hezekiah McCoy has plenty of new tricks up his sleeve and he uses Minister of Music, Sista Rianna Jamison, to help him settle scores. Will his sneaky tactics work for him or will he start reaping some of the mess he’s sown along the way. Can his brother the ‘unlucky in love’ Pastor Stiles Graham be of help or does he need help to find a love of his own?
Book 11 is filled with more revealing secrets and lies of these two families. Continue the saga and discover what really is thicker than water.
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Thankyou Plain Talk for hosting me on your blog! I appreciate the shower of literary love. Readers, book clubs, bloggers purchase a copy of one of my books… They are Perfect Stories About Imperfect People Like YOU…and Me! Thanks a bunch.
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