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The Scriptures Are Real

Heather B. Moore on Lessons from Esther (week of July 25, second to listen to)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

4.8539 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Heather B. Moore, who wrote a historical fiction novel about Esther, helps Kerry explore both what it takes to think through the life of a biblical character and some lessons from the Book of Esther and her actions.

We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for Jacob Muhlestein, who edited this episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast.

0:13.0

This is the podcast where we talk about things that have made the scriptures become more real to us because we believe that there's a lot of power in the scriptures and the more real they are,

0:21.2

the more we can draw it out and apply it to our lives, and we need that power.

0:25.0

I'm your host, Kerry Milstein, and I'm so excited about my guest today.

0:29.3

This is Heather B. Moore, who I've known just casually for a long time.

0:34.2

I knew her father, better Kent Brown, but Heather is a really well-known, maybe like the best well-known, well, I don't know.

0:43.6

Who can say best?

0:44.6

But one of the best well-known LDS fiction authors and historical fiction and things like that.

0:50.3

She writes some, correct me if I'm wrong, but we've got some LDS kind of romance stuff,

0:55.2

but also some historical scriptural stuff. I know I was recently at a book signing, and she was

1:01.3

by far the biggest name there and who people were, I mean, they were, I don't think anyone really

1:07.0

cared to see me, but there were some other romance authors that people were excited about. But

1:10.7

Heather's the known comment. I think you have like more than 30 books. Is that right?

1:14.7

Yeah. So thanks so much for having me. I was excited when I talked to you, you told me about this

1:18.9

program. Yeah, I've been writing for Covenant for just over 20 years. So obviously it adds up

1:25.3

when you're doing a book a year and sometimes more than one.

1:28.7

I also, and I mostly write for Covenant. I mostly write historical fiction, scripture fiction.

1:33.5

And it's under H.B. Moore. And then I also do some inspirational nonfiction. And like you mentioned,

1:39.1

I've done some women's fiction and sweet romance as well. then i write for shadow mountain which is an imprint

1:45.6

of desert book and i write historical fiction not necessarily uh religious base but i but

1:52.4

so far all the characters or the books i've written have um religious characters in them so

1:58.6

just a happenstance.

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