About the Book

Book: MOVING to The Peaceable

Author: Grami McAdoo (Caryl McAdoo)

Genre: Children’s Animals Picture Book

Release Date: December 22, 2022

Moving can be hard for any age, but the wise old hens might make it easier for the little ones in your life! Follow their journey!

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Author Interview

Do you pen down revelations and ideas as you get them, right then and there?

Well, I don’t but I should! I keep saying I need to learn how to use my phone for remembering things like that. A grandsugarSon showed me, but he went to fast and I didn’t do it myself, he did it, so it didn’t stick at all. Next time he comes, maybe I’ll get him to walk me through it taking baby steps!

Do you need to be in a specific place or room to write, or you can just sit in the middle of a café full of people and write?

No, ma’am, I don’t need to be anywhere special, I can write anywhere.

How long does it usually take you to write a book?

So that totally depends on how long the book is. I wrote MOVING To The Peaceable in a couple of days. I can write a book that’s less two hundred pages in three or four weeks. To write a full-length novel, it takes two or three months.

I average writing a thousand words a day. On the average, that’s four pages a day, twenty-eight pages a week, one hundred twenty pages a month. Then there’s editing and proofreading and formatting and dealing with the cover!

Where do you get your ideas for your books?

Most ideas come from life. Things I hear or read or experience. For MOVING To The Peaceable, it was the experience of moving twenty-one hens from the home where they’d lived eight years to my home, The Peaceable, about fifteen miles away. Getting them settled in and on their new routine.

What is your work schedule/routine when you write?

I almost always write in the early morning after I’ve spent an hour or so with the Lord. Sometimes maybe only five hundred words, sometimes two thousand or more. I write through to the end of a scene usually. That’s a daily routine, seven days a week. It never seems like work, and I never get writer’s block. I only miss writing when I’m traveling or in the hospital or something like that—I don’t write when I have company . . . Those are about the only days I ever miss.

About the Author

Award-winning, Christian author Caryl McAdoo prays her story brings God glory. Of her best-selling novels, readers love her historical Christian romance family sagas most, but also enjoy their contemporary cousins, Caryl’s Biblical fiction, her new historical mystery series, and tales for young adults and mid-grade booklovers. The majority of reviewers award her stories five-stars and praise Caryl’s writing style and the depth of her characters, feeling as though they get to know them well.

The prolific writer loves singing the new songs God gives her almost as much as penning new novels—hear a few at YouTube! She’s been married to Ron fifty-four years, and they share four children and twenty-four grandsugars. The McAdoos live in the woods south of Clarksville, seat of Red River County in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.

More from Caryl

This is the story of how I became a Chicken Lady from start but not the finish! I have two more “chicken”! books planned based all on the true story! Before we had “backyard birds”—except mine are also front and side yard!—I called our back in the woods twenty acres in Red River County The Peaceable. After the chickens, I added “Farm & Bookery”.

My husband of fifty-five years Ron and I now incubate purebred chicks and raise them to laying age—usually four to five months—then sell them. We both love being around our flock, and the supplemental income is nice as well. They grow so fast; watching them is both so much fun and also relaxing!

I know each hen and rooster by name, and they all are so affectionate! They come running whenever I head out the door (mostly because they want to see if I brought any food! ) I love thinking about what they are saying to each other with all their clucking and purring and cackling!

This is why the books are partially written from the hens’ point of view as our first animals’ series, The River Bottom Ranch Stories featuring horses and goats and dogs among other wild animal characters. And all those farm animals were real ones that we owned and loved, too—like the chickens!

This series ‘Grami’s Stories for Children’ also has a narrator’s story throughout, and that’s me, Grami McAdoo! I talk to the children through a few pages full of dialogue to teach them about poultry and things of God. In MOVING to the Peaceable, I talk about changes and how they can be scary, but God is always with us wherever we go.

The illustrations are photographs of our real chickens and The Peaceable Farm & Bookery. In the back of the book, there are a few pages of “Chicken Terminology” and fun “Chicken Facts” to teach the little ones more about the wonderful world of chickens!

I pray they will love the story and be blessed by it!