I am very pleased to welcome Angelique Conger to this blog.
Angelique researches, thinks about, and prays on her interest in writing
ANCIENT MATRIARCHS, biblical-era
historical fiction about the women who helped populate Earth. Check out Eve and
other books listed below. Also, please read and enjoy today’s guest post.
Everything that has
been written and believed about Eve came from men. Through the ages, men have
reported the history. Men have taken responsibility for the knowledge we are
all taught.
For some reason, (I
have my suspicions why, but won’t go into that here) these men have determined
that the cause of the problems of our mortal existence are a result of Eve’s
actions in the Garden of Eden. They have even suggested she lured Adam to participate
in a sexual act.
This is beyond
understanding for me. Why would a loving God place two people he knows on this
earth and give them a command to populate it, then damn them because they do
the things necessary to obey that command?
I have read and thought
about this conundrum for many years. I even tried to write this story before,
though I tried to write as a narrator, telling the story. It would not work.
The story would not come for me.
Only when I looked to
Eve, writing her story as she told it to me, did the story come. I wanted to
know the story from her point of view, and it came. During the months and years
when I worked on her story, it felt that she sat beside me, whispering her
story to me. For that reason, it feels to me to be an autobiography, rather
than a fictional story. I cannot prove this, so I call it a historical/biblical
fiction.
I wanted to know how
Eve managed, with Adam, to give birth that first time. I wondered if heavenly
angels came to help, if they had been given instructions before they left Eden,
or how they knew what to do. Giving birth is a natural event, if you know how
to handle it. But, did they?
Eve was my companion for the 3 years it
took to get her story ready for publication. I’d reach a knotty point in the
story, and wonder how they would solve the problem. I’d walk away for a time,
then when I sat at my keyboard, the answer came. I transcribed her thoughts,
her answers, her resolutions to her problems.
I asked what kinds of
challenges a couple alone in a new world would face. That led to a search for
the resolutions to them. My editor insisted I cut many chapters, because they
didn’t help the book tell the story of her as a mother. I needed to write them,
because I needed to know.
I miss the connection we had and look
forward to the day we will meet again, in the next life. I will fall into her
arms, as I do my own dear mother, and thank her for her help. Then, I will ask
her if I managed to get any of it right.
Links:
Eve : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU4KRWT
Into
the Storms: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06ZZ2WY8H
Finding Peace: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071KD9Y56
Now Available: Eve, First Matriarch
Angelique Conger discovered the wonders
of writing books later in her life. For years, the stories of ancient women
enticed her, challenging her to tell their stories. No one knows or tells the
stories of these women, unknown in history, not even most of their names. Many
of the stories of their husbands are unknown. Angelique tells their stories as
though they sat beside her, whispering their stories into her ear in her series
Ancient Matriarchs.
Angelique lives in southern Nevada with
her husband, a bird, and two turtles. She looks forward to visits from her
grandchildren, and their parents.
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