Welcome to Wings of Fire!

I'm starting this blog as a way to not only gain more readership as to the series that a friend and I are writing, but also as a way to better get ideas and theories out there for the series. We're in the writing process, and have not yet been able to get an agent for the first book. BY FOLLOWING AND COMMENTING ON THIS BLOG YOU ARE HELPING US GET IT PUBLISHED BY SHOWING THAT WE HAVE AN AUDIENCE! I am hoping to get a hundred people following this blog. Please help me out on this one by having other people you know read it! If they like it...tell them to follow it! Thanks much!

I'm Ruth Rockafield and my co-author is Nina Hansen. All credit goes to her for starting the series and I can't thank her enough for letting me write with her. I try hard to hold up my end of the bargain.

I want to make this blog as much fun as it can possibly be while still remaining on topic. ;) I might be able to get my younger sister to write up an interview and interview Nina and I and then I could post the interviews here... Also, Nina is making book trailers for the books that I'll be able to put on here. She has the cover for the first book, which I really want her to send me.

WHAT IS “WINGS OF FIRE”?

“Wings of Fire” is going to be a three-book period series set in World War II Europe. The theme of the series is courage. Courage to face today, tomorrow, and yesterday.

Book One is “Through a Rain of Fire”, and centers around a nurse (Liz Knight) in London during the London Blitz of 1940-1941.

Book Two is “A Fire is Woken” and is about a young RAF pilot (Peter Standish) who was seriously burned in the first book and his battle to get back to flying. Also, a young woman (Julie Knight, Liz's sister) who joins the SOE (British secret intelligence), trying to do her part for the War. The book climaxes at D-Day. (And yes...between said pilot and said girl there is a romantic story line). The book is set 1941-1945.

Book Three is still in the drafting process, and is called “The Fire Dwindles”. It is about trying to find the captured SOE agents in Germany as the Iron Curtain falls. 1945-1946 or so. It's still just very rough ideas, not even outlined yet.

Right now, we've finished “Through a Rain of Fire” and are almost done with editing. We just went back and did a major re-write of the entire beginning, which was far from satisfactory. I like it now and feel that it better represents the novel. We've been querying agents for almost a year, but have had nothing but rejections. This is actually our second major editing of the novel. We thought it was all done, but went back and looked it over and decided it would never do. So we're doing a complete revamp again!

We're writing the second book, and it is coming out in bits and pieces—not all of them in chronological order! We're only four chapters in, but we have large parts of the end completed. I personally think that it is way, way better than the first book. But the first book has Peter as a secondary character, and in the second book he's one of the two main characters... Peter is my character, and I love him. ;)

I also love Julie. They're both fun characters and it's been very enjoyable to write the book so far. We'll see how it turns out once we're further in. Sometimes the charm of writing gets lost the more time you spend on it. But we've been at it almost six months and the newness and excitements of the story is still definitely there. We didn't write all summer due to working and crazy schedules, and are just now starting to really get back into writing.

I'm going to try and keep you guys updated by not only what we're doing but I'll also post excerpts here. I can't post the whole thing...otherwise we'll loose first rights in publishing. Which would really not be good at all. Otherwise I would probably post the whole thing. But I'll try and post the best parts. Or the new parts. Or just the parts that I like. Like I said, I'll talk to my sister about the interview. That would be fun. I might also be able to have some friends who have read the book write up reviews on it and those could go here too. There are all sorts of pretty awesome stuff I can do. And remember...the more YOU contribute the more I can do!

I'll probably post the first excerpt in a few days. I'll post the prologue for the first book. So we can all be looking forward to that.

So until next time... TTFN!