A warm welcome to author R.J Scott visiting Love Bytes for her new release Retrograde book 1 in her new series.
R.J talks about a moment that changed her life and she also brings with her a giveaway you can enter !
Welcome R.J 🙂
Moments that changed my life – A diagnosis – of autism
The idea of one event changing a person’s life is not a new one. Most films, books, in fact all stories, have some kind of moment where the path of a life changes. This could be a big event, like a loss (or a gain!) or it could be something small, like taking a different bus home! I was watching something on the TV, I don’t even know what but I am sure it was one of those *disaster* shows, like one about plane crashes. What I do recall is turning to hubby and saying I wanted to write a book about what happened after an event, how it impacted the lives of people who were involved, or who observed. Not just one person in the middle of it, but more than one story. Then I had the inspiration of asking other authors to write a story in the same vein, all based around characters impacted by a plane crash in Ireland and Flight HA1710 was born.
So, it got me thinking about the events that have shaped my life, and in the Retrograde blog tour I will talk about some of them. Don’t forget there is a competition as well to win a $15 giftcard and free books. Tell us about an event, big or small, after the post!
This is how it went…
“And, as to the autism part of all this, that is something very different.” The specialist was so matter-of-fact, like he was telling us it was a sunny day outside.
“Wait, what? You’re saying our son has autism?”
“You mean no one told you that already?”
“No. No one told us.”
And that is how we found out. And just those few words was enough to change our lives forever. For me and the husband, it was a label on something we had no idea how to handle. For Matthew it was a label that would allow him to access all kinds of support, including specialised education. But… it was such an abrupt change in direction for my life. One day I have a son who was, as we described him, hyper and stubborn, but who would grow up to love Formula 1 (car racing) with his dad, and who would marry a girl and be a strong confident man who would take control of his own life. The next I have a diagnosis and people telling me that everything would be different. I struggled with this, and I won’t waste your time telling you the paths we had to go down until we found the right one. But, one single word and our whole lives changed. I thought it was for the worst, I will be honest and say I couldn’t see how we would get through.
Until I realised that although the path wasn’t the one we’d hoped for, it was the one we’d been sent down, and we would make it work. Matt may not like F1, he may not get married, but he is happy, and that is the best value of all.
Do you have a moment like this when your expectations were stopped in their tracks?
Flight HA1710
Book #1 Retrograde
Blurb:
Co-Pilot Lachlan Donaghue wakes up in hospital, a survivor of the crash of Flight HA1710, with memory loss and the suspicion that he could be at fault for the tragic accident. When everything becomes too much he goes home to hide, back to the small Scottish town he grew up in and to his family home. Rory Kendrick watches the news, sees every hour of the disaster unfold but never thinks that Lachlan was in the middle of it all. Or that his friend will be forced to come back home to hide and to heal. What Lachlan needs is a friend, not a lover, but sometimes the lines are just too blurred to make any sense.
Buylinks: http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.com/2015/06/retrograde-flight-ha1710.html
About RJ
RJ Scott has been writing since age six, when she was made to stay in at lunchtime for an infraction involving cookies. She was told to write a story and two sides of paper about a trapped princess later, a lover of writing was born.
As an avid reader herself, she can be found reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror. However, her first real true love will always be the world of romance where she takes cowboys, bodyguards, firemen and billionaires (to name a few) and writes dramatic and romantic stories of love and passion between these men.
With over seventy titles to her name and counting, she is the author of the award winning book, The Christmas Throwaway. She is also known for the Texas series charting the lives of Riley and Jack, and the Sanctuary series following the work of the Sanctuary Foundation and the people it protects.
Her goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.
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I just purchased two of you books but this wasn’t one of them. I look forward to it. Thanks.
When I had my first child.
Sounds amazing – love the blurb. My moment was when i was told I would need major surgery.
Getting accepted to my top college pick was one!
When I had my children. My life was for sure changed forever. I love the sound of the book!