Ragamuffin Burney Breaking In

Gina Holmes has a great interview of our ragamuffin diva, Claudia Burney over at her Breaking In: The Journey of a First Novel Blog. RD talks about the journey of her debut mystery series and the release of the first title, Murder, Mayhem & a Fine Man set for a July 2006 release date.

An excerpt from the interview...

Gina: Is there a particularly difficult set back that you’ve gone through in your writing career you are willing to share?

Claudia: Shame stole years from me. I didn’t feel worthy to write for Jesus. I thought I had to be the perfect, white, homeschooling pastor’s wife who writes prairie romances. I was doomed from the start because I’m not white, if I wrote what I knew, or my own history, I’d have had to put slaves on the prairie, and that would have changed the flavor completely. Beyond that, I didn’t fit the profile I’d imagined a Christian writer to be. Grace liberated me. God used me being a ragamuffin diva to open up my writing for him. I ended up with my book deal in less than a year. It was amazing to watch God show off.

Dee