Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

It's only just a matter of room.

Welcome, welcome to Sissy Larson Live.

Always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, if you listen often enough to the show, you know that I read through

a handful of books every week, about five every week. I read about 70 to 80 percent of every book

every single day. So I read a lot. Would you believe that it's still my favorite pastime?

One of the things that I love to do is just read when I get a little me time. And I love biblical fiction because for me, it brings scripture

alive. And just to be clear, I'm very clear on one being the written word of God and the other being

an entertaining, thought-provoking story. But not everyone embraces biblical fiction, but that is what

we're talking about today. Not only biblical fiction, but a particular novel today.

My guest today is award-winning author and friend of mine, Tessa Afshar.

She writes both fiction and non-fiction, and today we're talking about her novel,

Daughter of Rome, which explores the lives of Priscilla and Aquila, and we're going to dig

into their stories from Scripture and then just talk about how she wove a story around that story, just so amazing.

We have a stack of different Tessa novels to give away today.

If you are good, you love novels and specifically biblical fiction, text the word book to 877,

933-2484.

I'm right now at the moment having a hard time pulling up zip-wip on my,

the text line on my computer. I want so much to see your text, but bring them in and when I can,

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