I love surrounding myself with all the stuff I’ve collected in my travels around the world, researching my novels. Giraffes are a special fondness, and you can spot at least two in this picture of my desk. One of my monitors is crazy-high, but that’s because I sometimes stand when I work. And there’s always a supply of coffee on hand!
About Tracy
Tracy L. Higley started her first novel at age eight and has been hooked on writing ever since. She has authored many novels, including “Garden of Madness” and “So Shines the Night.” Tracy is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Ancient History and has traveled through Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Italy, researching her novels and falling into adventures. See her travel journals and more at tracyhigley.com. Find out more about Tracy at her website.
About The Queen’s Handmaid and a Giveaway
Orphaned at birth, Lydia was raised as a servant in Cleopatra’s palace, working hard to please while keeping everyone at arm’s length. She’s been rejected and left with a broken heart too many times in her short life.
But then her dying mentor entrusts her with secret writings of the prophet Daniel and charges her to deliver this vital information to those watching for the promised King of Israel. Lydia must leave the nearest thing she’s had to a family and flee to Jerusalem. Once in the Holy City, she attaches herself to the newly appointed king, Herod the Great, as handmaid to Queen Mariamme.
Trapped among the scheming women of Herod’s political family—his sister, his wife, and their mothers—and forced to serve in the palace to protect her treasure, Lydia must deliver the scrolls before dark forces warring against the truth destroy all hope of the coming Messiah.
Purchase copy and learn more at Tracy’s website.
Tracy is celebrating the release of The Queen’s Handmaid with a Kindle Fire HDX giveaway! Enter the Kindle giveaway here, then enter to win a copy of The Queen’s Handmaid below! Only those in the U.S. are eligible to win.
If I could travel anywhere I would go to Arkansas! Because that’s where my writing partner leaves and we could do research together!
That would be a hard choice. I would be torn about who and where too travel.
It most likely be to an area where one of my favorite authors lived.
Where I would hope and pray I could meet them.
That would be a hard choice. I would be torn about who and where too travel.
It most likely be to an area where one of my favorite authors lived.
Where I would hope and pray I could meet them!
If I could travel anywhere for research on a novel, it would be Scotland.
My uncle has traced our ancestry back to the clans of Scotland and the rich history behind their lives. My dream is to write a historical fiction about the mysteries of Scotland while using my family as characters!
blessings,
Shan
The How to Guru
If I could travel anywhere to do research for a novel it would be Paris.
Alaska!
I would go to the Queens Palace! She is such a beautiful lady and it would be an honor to meet her as well!! I have read your interviews Tracy and the review of your new book and they both were great! I have read your BROKEN PIECES and been in scavenger hunts with you, both of which I have truly enjoyed!! I also like you on FB and follow you on Twitter and Pinterest. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter your give away and I would be honored to be among the winners.
Any place with a beach!
I’d definitely go back to New Zealand and write a book while there! Sure, why not stay for a year or two. 🙂 (I was born there.) There are so few books written with a setting in New Zealand.
I don’t know I guess it would be Italy. There is so much to learn there I would think.
I would have to pick Nairobi or Kenya to conduct research.
If I could go anywhere I would like to go…I am not sure. There are so many places I would like to travel to. I will pick one and say Alaska.
Thank you for the chance to win a copy of this book.
So many places! Russia, for sure. And Greenland/Iceland!
Lovely office, Tracy! If I could travel anywhere to research a book, I’d spend time in western Montana. I’ve been there once, a few years ago. Talk about beautiful! Those mountains and the big sky… God created a masterpiece there that takes my breath away.
Blessings,
Andrea Cox
andrearenee2004@yahoo.com
Proofreader/Writer
writingtoinspire.blogspot.com
I’d head to Scotland. It seems like such a soulful region. All those castles and rolling green hills. Sign me up for that trip, please!! 🙂
Alaska or Australia because those are 2 places I have not been to yet.
I would like to visit Switzerland and use that as
the setting.
I’ve traveled over most of the United States, but I’ve never visited Maine. I’ve recently read a bit about the people of Maine and it piqued my interest. I think I’d like to learn more.
The military has taken my husband and I to a number of wonderful (and not so wonderful) places. I’m going to Bangladesh for a mission trip in November. Though I won’t write a book when I get back I do plan to share stories of how God is working there when I return.
maybe Brazil
I would love to do research in Ireland. Beautiful area.
I would love to go to England and Ireland if I were to go on a research trip. thanks for the contest. Looking forward to reading your book.
IRELAND!
If I could travel anywhere to research a book it would have to be Great Britain or Israel–there are great stories from both locales still waiting to be told! Love your writing space! It is beautiful! Very inspiring.
Love her books!
A round the world cruise! and write about a tourist on the ship and a romance with someone on board ship. I’d connect the world sites into the plot. sm
If I could travel anywhere to do research for a book I’d have to think pretty hard. There are so many great places I have been to and places I would love to visit as well. I think I would say Scotland, Australia or the Holy Land would be great places. I’ve been to Scotland and Australia and just fell in love with both of them. I would love to see the Holy Land and where Jesus and the disciples lived and walked.
I’ve actually thought about this quite a bit. I would love to go back to my roots, and visit the deep South for research and inspiration for a book! (:
I would go to Ireland, because that is where my ancestors started from what I just found out. We have a bunch of redheads in our family too. Also, Wells or welch is. It sounds like an interesting place to visit. I sure would love to win this book, The Oueen’s Handmaid. It sounds like when she went to Jerusalem that she got right in the Hornet’s nest. It was herod who wanted baby Jesus dead. I have been trying to win this book. Maxie mac262(at)me(dot)com
I have been to one section of the Great Wall of Chins, but would like to research all of it .
I would definitely go to Ireland!!
This is so easy definitely Alaska!
There are so many places I’d love to go! If I had to choose though, I’d either go to New Zealand, Ireland or France
Such a beautiful cover, and what an interesting blurb! I’d love to win! And I would definitely travel to Newfoundland where the Vikings in my novel landed, or Iceland/Greenland where they lived. Thanks for this opportunity to win!
I would travel to Vermont to where the VonTrapps lived.
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I would love to travel to New Zealand.
Alaska sounds like fun.
I’m not a writer, but I’m a librarian. If I had to travel to do research on libraries for work, I’d love to go to England or Ireland. They both have extraordinary libraries and literary history.
If I could travel anywhere to do research for a novel I’d love to travel to the Czech Republic, Germany or Ireland.
I would travel to wherever they have the best variety of good food. Seriously, I would go to Spain or Italy.
I’m not a writer but I’d love to go to Israel and think it would be a great place for research.