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June 2024 Update:

Wow! Has it really been 14 months that I’ve ignored this blog?!?!? We’ve had some serious medical issues in our household over the past year, so writing and publishing got pushed to not only the back burner, but a few rooms behind the stove! Things have stabilized a bit: not really better, but at least manageable. Looking forward to getting some of my novels published w/o spending the kids’ inheritance doing it! Stamina and “want to” are at a low ebb, so on the days I feel pretty good, I either go to the water park or work on the computer. The water park wins most of the time! It’s a great excuse: water therapy/exercises that insurance ran out on. If you didn’t know, WATER IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER for those of us who have mobility issues! Plus SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS MAKES ME HAPPY! (Hmmm… sounds like a song! Thanks, John Denver! Sure hope you found JESUS before you crashed! You certainly appreciated our Creator God in all of His Majesty!) Not talking to the dead for those of your worried about that: just thinking out loud on paper. Soooo many that I hope found the Lord in their final moments!

Besides being a rough medical year, two of my best friends, godly ladies who taught me what it’s like to be Christ-like, went HOME in the past year. Kinda jealous! That glorified body sounds better every day! Both were editors for me. One is in a few of my books. Gotta get those published to honor Shelly Sue Smith Morales!

I think I’ll put a reminder on my Google calendar to update this blog every month. Not sure how productive that will be, but it’s worth a shot, right?!

Until my alarm dings to tell me to blog, have a blessed summer, and remember, “WHATEVER YOU DO, DO EVERYTHING FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!” (1 COR 10:31)

April 2023 Update: Final Flight

I started Final Flight a few weeks ago, after reading a Christian Romance Suspense featuring some limited medical pieces. I’m a pantser, so my novels just “happen,” but this one, I fleshed out a bit first to help get the timeline and connections right.

Predictability will kill any writing, and I’m anything but predictable!

Chief Mel Wu, the main character, is a petite female MedEvac pilot with Ninja moves and an attitude to match! She carries more emotional baggage than most commercial airplanes can handle, stuffed deep in various compartments. Her skill as a chopper pilot is renowned, honed as a MedEvac pilot in Afghanistan.

Not only is the male character, Nurse Paul Shepherd, not a super buff, Navy SEAL type guy, but his injury early on in the book renders him more of a liability than asset in fighting bad guys. Or so it seems. He carries his own hurts, with little interest in forming a relationship.

The antagonist is a vet who suffers from PTSD and grief over the loss of his little brother, apparently at Mel’s hands. He’s a sniper whose intent is to kill her after several attempts to harm others involved in the Afghanistan pullout debacle meet minimal success. He has a secondary motive that sucks Paul into the melee.

Paul’s brother, a detective, is not only hog-tied by the protocols he must follow, but limited by the resources he has access to. Mel’s friend, a colonel with CID, becomes a vital part of the investigation, gaining access to files only a military inquiry could afford.

Not only are there multiple attempts on both Paul and Mel’s lives, but the antagonist also kidnaps Mel’s special needs little sister in an attempt to draw Mel out of hiding. Little does he know that the place he chooses as the backdrop for his final assault will create the perfect opportunity to derail his nefarious plans.

In the midst of the chaos, Mel finds her carefully erected walls melting at Paul’s tender caring and support. She unpacks most of her baggage, feeling lighter for it because of Paul’s encouragement, but keeps the secret compartment sealed. A comment made by their antagonist threatens to rip the lock off that steel safe, laying bare Mel’s most feared past. Will Paul continue his pursuit once that dragon is loosed?

Health Update:

For those of you following my health saga, the 2nd Cochlear Implant was a BUST! The implant site abscessed, causing the device to erupt out of the skin behind my ear. The surgeon did an emergency removal, intending to try again later, after everything healed. Since the vertigo and tinnitus was worsened by the CI, and my hearing not improved with it, and my body TIRED of being assaulted by multiple surgeries, I asked him to just remove it all! The vertigo has almost completely ceased! HALLELUJAH! Tinnitus overwhelming most days!

Recovery has been slow, with my hips deciding they want attention now.

Appointment w/audiologist (a wonderful, sweet Spirit-filled Christian lady!) this week to see what we can do to address deteriorating hearing in both ears.

Cardiologist says I’m fine! (He doesn’t live in my body!)

Face planting is my new hobby. Not a good one! Tore muscles in shoulder on last fall! Getting a Rollinator soon. Hate that, but better than continued injuries from falls!

Writing is my escape, especially since Joy and Larry are both working, and I’m fighting the “useless, unproductive” feeling after 35 years as the hyper control freak mom and teacher. I can’t believe I wrote Final Flight in about ten days! Now to find an agent when most want me to have thousands of followers first!

Latest Update: December 29, 2022

Wow! It’s been almost a year since I added or updated anything to this blog! (Told you I wasn’t a blogger!)

During that gap, I’ve re-read and edited three of my four Christian romance novels, started another one (more intense, like Lynnette Eason, Dee Henderson, and Lynn Blackburn’s, all of whose I’ve read), and done scads of research on how best to capture an agent’s attention.

Misty Mansion: My first novel, written 3o years ago, about saving a historic mansion on the Gulf Coast from the nefarious schemes of a greedy developer.

Trust & Forgive: A child kidnapping with a bizarre twist, lots of good, old-fashioned police legwork, and an unexpected romance.

Pirated Plot: Trying to uncover the mystery of how her novel got published under someone else’s name, with parts of it poorly rewritten, by a publisher she’s never heard of, Bernie falls for the Editor-in-Chief of the guilty publishing company, a seemingly honorable man.

Final Flight: The MedAir chopper pilot and ER nurse find themselves the target of a vengeful family member of some patients they couldn’t save during their military careers.

Hoping to access Living Again, based on the diary I would’ve written were I a diary girl (never was!) when my son was born w/a severe cleft lip/palate 33 years ago. I wrote it as a novel when he was about five. The technology is so old, I’m having trouble retrieving it. (That’s the one that got the “medical journal” critique from an editor! See below)

That along with dealing w/various medical issues. Thanks to my cardiac meds, I’m essentially DEAF now! Hearing aids are of little to no help (especially on the phone!). My Cochlear implant, which worked GREAT the first few months (July 2021), quit working, so they’re replacing it day after tomorrow! The insane dizzyness, vertigo, and imbalance, none of which I had before the Cochlear implant, have dramatically limited my activities.

I’m bionic, for those who are interested:

Titanium hip installed due to arthritis (and kneeling to catch for my kids who were pitchers! Don’t laugh at those coaches sitting on buckets! Smart!) I walk like a drunk crippled penguin! (thanks to vestibular issues mentioned above)

Scoliosis aggravates sciatica. Best exercises: lie flat on floor, feet on chair, do various knee bending exercises to stretch nerve. Great! Only problem: can’t lie flat on floor cuz of scoliosis (pillow required); can’t lie flat on floor cuz of CHF (can’t breathe!); can’t get UP off the floor!!! Solution: do the exercises on the floor w/a pillow, then take a nap there and hope I can breath! (Can I take this show on the road? Comic strip live, here I come!)

Pacemaker (AFIB for 5 years: 13 cardioversions; 4 ablations; no RX helped; they finally gave up and put in a pacemaker “to make it all better”! As I told the cardiologist, “You put a very small bandaid on an arterial bleed!” He didn’t appreciate that. He’s convinced he solved the problem and said I’d live another 20 years! (I’m 63.)

Cochlear implant: magnet in skull; implant computer in “pocket” of skin above right ear. Lotsa cool toys go with it, but none work when the device itself doesn’t work! They’re replacing w/a longer, stronger electrode Friday. Nobody will admit “catastrophic failure,” but what else do you call it when it just QUITS WORKING!!!?

Explanation of the vestibular issues (which none of the exercises to retrain the brain seem to help!). Testing showed that NONE of the brain’s normal balance functions are working! That’s hard to believe, since that would basically render me a JELLYFISH!! My EENT did show me my brain CT: at the base of the cerebellum are two pockets of Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) that control balance. One of my pockets is EMPTY!!! No wonder I walk like a DRUNK CRIPPLED PENGUIN!!! I’ve asked if they can refill it. Waiting on response, but probly not. No clue when that happened. I’ve never been the most coordinated person on the planet, but the SEVERE IMBALANCE only started w/Cochlear. Wonder if previous CT’s (pre-Cochlear) show the same problem. Hmmmm. Time to investigate! So this explains why I am, officially, an “empty-headed, dizzy blonde”!

I’ve been accused of including too much medical information in my writing, and even advised to write for a medical journal/magazine (laughed hysterically over that one!). When you have 3 kids with craniofacial issues (mostly cleft lip/palate) and their surgeon is world-renowned craniofacial surgeon who separated the Egyptian twins 20 years ago (Dr. Ken Salyer), and you’ve been a Paramedic for 10 years, your world naturally includes lots of medical info! Kinda funny, since the only science I’m NOT certified to teach is Biology!

Starting the New Year with a new Cochlear. Hoping for some SERIOUS IMPROVEMENT! I’ll keep you posted!

Blog Update

I’m not a blogger, so this will be SHORT. It’s been a busy past few months, and I’m on the verge of submitting my second Christian romance medical novel to various publishers. Trust and Forgive is finished in my head, but I haven’t had time to get it on paper yet. Tying up some loose ends and making some reasonable connections is harder than I thought!

I’ve spent the past year reading almost all of Lisa Tawn Bergren’s books, and greatly enjoying each one. Recently, I’ve segwayed (a word we never used to use, but now use for EVERYTHING! Yes, I know I “spelled it wrong,” since it’s actually a NOUN, “segue,” which means you can’t make it past tense, but hey: This is English, where we break all the rules and create a new word!) into Dee Henderson’s law enforcement novels. Honestly, they make my head hurt! There are so many twists and turns that I have a hard time keeping up! Like a few of the Love Inspired Suspense novels, the intensity is not what I consider enjoyable. Mine are far more laid back, but I was accused of “gore” by one critic for describing the scene at a rollover crash. There are those who consider the word “blood” offensive! Wow! Guess they don’t appreciate THE BLOOD OF JESUS THAT WASHES ME CLEAN!

I’m rambling, so it’s time to wrap this up. Can you tell how ADD I get when I’m tired?! Just needed to have something new posted. Until next time, BE A DOER OF THE WORD! (James 1:22)

About the Author

Raised on the Texas Gulf Coast as a Navy brat, Wynne Loveless earned her Bachelors in Chemical Engineering, then Paramedic certification and multiple Texas teaching certificates. She taught secondary math and science in public and private schools for 25 years. Her love for writing originated with her mother, who taught her to proofread, and wrote several of the Texas Historical Markers in the Rockport area. Wynne wrote numerous articles about local organizations for the Rockport Pilot’s Special Edition in late ’70’s.

Wynne loves serving King Jesus, spending time with her wonderful family, swimming and sailing, and traveling to explore new wonders of God’s magnificent Creation. She wrote this first book at 30, but didn’t pursue publishing it until she retired recently. She now has five completed Christian romance novels, two of which classify as “suspense,” all with vivid medical scenes.

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