“Valerie Banfield paints the hills and the people from them with gentle grace. I can hear the whippoorwill and feel the breeze through the sycamores . . .”
CHRIS FABRY, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF A PIECE OF THE MOON AND THE DOGWOOD SERIES.
“The presentation of the Costa Rican involvement in WWII was fascinating. It’s a new perspective that I suspect few people have. ”
Jane Kirkpatrick, New York Times and CBA bestselling author
ABOUT
I like to think of myself as a talespinner to the lost, the loved, and the found. My stories reveal a lot about love and relationships—love between people, and the perfect love of our Creator.
I think most folks own a creativity gene, but each of our gifts and methods of achievement are unique. My younger sister paints with lines of color as delicate as an eyelash, while my older sister shapes minute swipes of cloth, picks up needle and thread, and joins the fabric together in a glorious sea of quilts. I love taking sturdy, dry reed, rendering it soft and pliable, and reshaping it into a useable form. Basket weaving seems to draw a flock of gentle, loving, and generous people who have an uncanny ability to know when it’s time to talk, listen, be silly, encourage, laugh, or cry. In the midst of fellowship, a steady stream of lovely baskets emerge.
One of the genes my Creator slipped into my being encourages me to put pen to paper. Instead of paint and canvas, He gives me words to render the rising of the sun while the moon still rests in the awakening sky, and adjectives to describe the blending and contrasts of a prism’s rainbow. He tenders verbs to awaken the heart of my characters and make them so real, I regret when they’ve breathed their last, or a final scene completes their story. To paraphrase the words attributed to the 1924 Olympian and missionary, Eric Liddell, God gave me words, and when I write, I feel His pleasure.
Characters in a well-spun tale can take us to myriad places and circumstances that pique our senses and our emotions. When you lose yourself between the pages of one of my stories, I hope you find pleasure in the undertaking and a glimpse of our Father in the offering.
BIO:
VALERIE BANFIELD is the author of twenty novels, co-author of three West Virginia-themed tales, and recipient of the Cascade Award.
She counts her participation in international short-term missionary campaigns among her life’s most blessed and humbling journeys, and firmly believes that when we give our Father control, He rocks our world.
When she isn’t making up stories, she might be found tangled in a basket weaving project, with a book in her hands, or maybe walking the dog.
This Midwest gal wandered to Florida, took a short jaunt to West Virginia, and then moved westward. These days, she’s counting the stars in Indiana and making new memories with her Hoosier kin.
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