Rebecca Connolly: Believing in Happily Ever After

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Connolly is an author of stories but she is well aware of who the Author of the best stories is and it is in Him that she has placed her trust. From choosing to quit her job in order to write full-time to writing love stories and continuing to believe in them despite having yet to find a love story of her own, Rebecca has placed her pen firmly in the hand of God. On this week’s episode, we talk with Rebecca about discovering her own story as she tells the stories of others, some fictional but some real heroes whose stories are worth telling.

1:53- From Hobby to Published Author
7:25- Receiving Negative Feedback
12:46- Jump to Full-time Writing
17:36- Finding Little-known Heroes
23:35- A Remarkable Discovery
33:00- The Author of the Best Stories
39:01- Unseen Wounds
46:24- Temple Covenants For Every One
52:23- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

“Walking the path of discipleship and following in His way is going to give us blisters and it is going to tear up our sandals and it’s going to put a lot of travel dust on our feet. But the Savior is the One who washes our feet and our blisters will become calluses.”

Link:

Hidden Yellow Stars: https://www.deseretbook.com/product/P6024759.html?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=All_In&utm_id=pod240605-6024759

Rebecca’s Titanic historical fiction: https://www.deseretbook.com/product/P5259247.html?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=All_In&utm_id=pod240605-5259247

Rebecca’s website: https://www.rebeccaconnolly.com

Rebecca on Jason Wright’s Book Drop Mic: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rebecca-connolly-hidden-yellow-stars/id1708237456?i=1000648677447

Transcript

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0:00.0	Rebecca Connolly has written some of the most beloved fiction books sold by Deseret Book in recent years.
0:06.5	Inspired by a love for the work of Jane Austin, many of the stories Rebecca has written include romance.
0:14.0	She, however, hasn't found her own love story yet,
0:17.4	but remains a believer in Happily Ever After's
0:20.5	and trust that a God who loves us wants to give us and will give us every good thing in the end.
0:27.0	Rebecca Connolly is the author of more than two dozen novels.
0:31.0	She calls herself a Midwest girl having lived in Ohio and Indiana.
0:36.7	She's always been a bookworm and her grandma would send her books almost every month so she would
0:41.6	never run out. Book fairs were her carnival and libraries are her happy place.
0:47.4	She received a master's degree from West Virginia University and athletic training and prior to deciding to write full time she worked in
0:56.2	sports medicine. Her newest book, Hidden Yellow Stars, tells the true story of two World
1:02.3	World War II women who've risked everything to save Jewish
1:06.2	children by hiding them throughout Belgium. This is All-In an LDS living podcast where we ask the question what does it really mean to be all in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
1:20.0	I'm Morgan Pearson and I am so honored to have Rebecca Connolly on the line with me today.
1:25.6	Rebecca welcome.
1:26.6	Thank you Morgan.
1:28.2	It's great to be here.
1:29.2	Well this is so fun for me.
1:31.8	I told Rebecca before we started
1:33.8	that I had to kind of thoroughly stalk her
1:36.8	before we did this interview
1:38.5	because when somebody is a fiction writer,
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