My crowded (I prefer the term “cozy”) writing area, where with a simple twist of my chair I can move from desk to computer. I use a laptop attached to a monitor and keyboard, so if I have to leave home I can simply unhook, drop the laptop in a carrier bag, and work while I get the car serviced or whatever else comes up. (Jim Bell calls this “snatching time to write.”)
About Richard
A retired physician, Dr. Richard Mabry is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels of medical suspense. His previous works have been finalists for the Carol Award and Romantic Times Reader’s Choice Award, and have won the Selah Award. He is a past Vice-President of American Christian Fiction Writers and a member of the International Thriller Writers. He and his wife live in North Texas. Find out more about Richard at his website.
About Critical Condition and a Giveaway
It began as a quiet dinner party honoring Dr. Shannon Frasier’s colleague, but became a nightmare when a man was shot on her lawn, reviving emotions from a similar episode a decade ago. Then a midnight call from her sister, Megan, causes Shannon to fear that her sister is on drugs again.
Her “almost-fiancé” Dr. Mark Gilbert’s support only adds to Shannon’s feelings of guilt, since she can’t bring herself to fully commit to him. She turns for help to her pastor-father, only to learn that he’s just been diagnosed with leukemia.
Shannon thought it couldn’t get any worse. Then the late-night, threatening phone calls begin, the rough voice asking, “What did he say before he died?”
With everything around her in a critical state, simply staying alive will require all the resources and focus Shannon has.
Critical Condition is available here or from your favorite bookstore.
Richard is celebrating the release of Critical Condition with a Kindle Fire HDX giveaway! Enter the Kindle giveaway here, then enter to win a copy of Critical Condition below! Only those in the U.S. are eligible to win.
I’m blessed to be a stay at home mom/homemaker and a lot of my daytime hours are spent taking care of our home (and garden in the summer), so I occasionally use those quiet hours after everyone has gone to bed to snatch a bit of “me time”.
I’ve read a few of Dr. Mabry’s other books and am looking forward to reading this one as well. Thanks for the chance to win .
Blessings…
My me time is usually in the morning hours, after my husband has left for work and before my daughter gets up for school. The place I work the most in on the sofa with my iPad, though I will also use the kitchen table! I really enjoy Dr. Mabry’s writing style! It is exciting, thrilling and Oh! My soul! The bad guys are so, so BAD! I love it!
Excited to find another suspense author to try.
I am semi-retired and usually get what I need to get done in the afternoons after I get home. This sounds like a really good one and would love to win a copy.
Ann Ellison
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Whenever I can!! i don’t have a specific time 🙂
Either early morning or late at night – when the children are all in bed
While the kids are at school or early before they get up in the summer.
Early morning when my energy level is best!
Love reading medical fiction! I would enjoy this book, I’m sure! I “snatch” time to do necessary things whenever I have the energy, for instance, today I’m “bribing” myself to clean out a closet by going shopping first and having my coffee in front of the computer. When I am done with the coffee, the closet is right here, begging to be sorted out.
I snatch up time any opportunity I get! I have to admit though, I’m in a “lazy” phase where I keep succumbing to my desire to read books in the late evenings when my toddler’s in bed. This could be prime work time instead!
I also work from home, so I have a reserved place “where the magic happens”. It can make it a little more tricky to leave all the business stuff “at the office”, since it’s always in my face even when I’m on my own time.
I’m a stay at home mom and it’s hard to get anything done usually. Forget finding time for work, finding time to just take a nice long and hot shower would be nice.
Whenver I have the gumption. 🙂
at home
I snatch up time in the early morning before the feet of my two little blessings hit the floor. 🙂
Dr. Mabry is on my “Must Read” list. I would dearly love to win!
so glad to find another suspense writer! I like the review of his book as medical suspense is one of my favorites to read, as a matter of fact the one I am reading now is a medical suspense! I enjoyed the interview as well. A Dr. turned suspense writer!…how awesome!!…. I am a retired florist, housewife and mother so my day belongs to me and I read a lot “on the couch” so when I get sleepy, all I have to do is lay over!! Thanks for the opportunity to enter your give away and I certainly would be delighted to be among your winners.
I loved seeing your writing area. I am trying to get organized with a real place to write. Currently I write on the couch and have a perfectly good (though small) desk that is covered in magazines. Magazines that I never had enough time to read. This weekend I began the process in reading and weeding through the mess so when I find time, I can have a place at home to use it.
My work time is grabbed on lunch breaks in the office, I am also attempting to squeeze some in before the rest of the house gets up in the morning. 🙂
My me time is right after I leave the studio. It begins at 3 pm and runs to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday when I hit the gym. 🙂
I write in my bedroom. I can think.
Trish, thanks so much for featuring my palatial writing area. : ) And thanks to everyone for your comments and for entering this giveaway. I hope you’ll check out Critical Condition and all my other novels of medical suspense.
My “Snatch up” time is early in the morning before anyone else is up and while I wait in doctors’ offices or hospital rooms.
This looks like a great book. I try to get my work done while my boys are playing with their legos.
I haven’t been writing in a while, but when I do, it’s in my office. I have an L shaped desk with a large monitor hooked up to my laptop. Like Tricia, I can unhook and go when I need to do so. 🙂
I’ve not read any of Dr Mabry’s books but would like to!
Right now I’m unemployed so don’t have any ‘work’ to ‘snatch up’. Have plenty of housekeeping that needs doing –but I’d rather read. 🙂