Norma Davis

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                                                                 "PICK UP THE BROKEN PIECES"

 .....An Inspirational Novel

by Norma Davis

                                                    

     

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 Background Information

I was born (child number ten) thirteen hours after my twin brother into the Watson family at Granby, Missouri.  My twin brother and I celebrated birthdays on different days. After high school graduation, I began a forty-year career as secretary in various jobs.  I live with my  husband of 43 years in Southeast Texas and have one son, two daughters, and an English Bulldog..

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     I inherited my father's musical talent, as did several of my siblings. Although I only play piano, he played guitar, mandelon, fiddle, and piano -- all by ear.  At the age of three, I remember daddy playing folk music in our living room with five or six other musicians.  I listened for chord changes and patted my foot to 'The Missouri Waltz', 'The Tennessee Waltz', 'Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon', and many more. 

     I taught piano a total of 32 years.  Since age thirteen, I have played the piano at church and still do.

     I love Southern gospel music and was blessed to accompany a gospel quartet while in high school.  At the age of twenty I played for another male quartet, The Ambassadors, from Galena, Kansas.  We performed in the Joplin, Missouri area in the early 1960's. Three years later I married my husband, Gale.  He took me away to Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.  Most of our twenty years in the Air Force was spent in Arkansas. 

     Eleven years ago my husband bought me a digital baby grand piano on which I produced two cassette tapes of old hymns. The soft easy listening sounds are a combination of piano, soft strings, some choir voices, an occasional oboe, and bass.  

     I also taught a ladies Sunday school class for several years.

CHECK OUT MY BLOG -- All these stories are true! NORMA'S BLOG

 

 Additional Information

 

BRONCO,the mild-          mannered     English        Bulldog       

  

                                               

I love my lazy, snoring, drooling, English bulldog, Bronco.  My son, Chris, says   Bronco has me trained but I deny the accusation.  Bronco surfaces in a couple of chapters of 'Pick Up the Broken Pieces'.                                                        

 

Why I Wrote...

"Pick Up the Broken Pieces"

                                

                                                                                  

      When I was diagnosed with breast cancer eleven years ago, one of my first thoughts was that I wanted to write a book before I died.  In the following years, when the preacher asked the congregation if there was something God wanted them to do, I  would think -- write the book.

     Last year I wrote 'Pick Up the Broken Pieces' to illustrate the life-changing power of God.  It took a year.  I had no idea how to do it and it wasn't easy, but I asked God to show me how and he did. 

     I bought a book off the internet -- 'How to Write and Sell a Christian Novel' by Gilbert Morris.  After reading the book three times, I plunged into Microsoft Word and began writing.  I also reviewed English protocol from my daughter's college text books.  I reread and revised the book nine times, trying to get it right.  It was an exciting and uplifting experience.

      It is hard to get published in an extremely saturated market.  I was thrilled when Publish America offered to publish 'Pick Up the Broken Pieces.' 

   I would love to hear from you -- Norma

 

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