This week I’m hosting Nicole O’Dell with The Shadowed Onyx, Joi Copeland with Hope for the Journey, Virginia Carmichael with Season of Joy, and Marlene Banks with Greenwood and Archer. If you want to enter the drawings for the books, please leave a comment on one of the post during the week with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (December 9th) evening.
Interview with the hero from Greenwood and Archer by Marlene Banks:
1. William Ray Matthias, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
Call me Billy Ray, most folk do. I guess it’s that I am the son of a preacher.
2. What do you do for fun?
Play piano.
3. What do you put off doing because you dread it?
Talking to my father about my dreams.
4. What are you afraid of most in life?
There are two things, my faith not being strong enough to get me through my next test or trial and that I was wrong; the Lord did not tell me Benny was the woman for me to marry.
5. What do you want out of life?
I don’t know yet.
6. What is the most important thing to you?
Living out my faith.
7. Do you read books? If so, what is your favorite type of book?
The Bible is my all-time favorite because of what I get from it; hearing God speak to me through it. The Scriptures anchor my life in Christ.
8. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would try to become a professional pianist instead of becoming a pharmacist.
9. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
I have a dog named Caesar. I think God brought him to me for a very specific reason. We met under unusual circumstances and he just fit right into my life after that. He’s very loyal. It might sound strange but we both seemed to know we belonged together from the start.
10. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
If I could go back knowing what I know now I’d start over in my teens. A lot of the mindsets and decisions I made then unknowingly shaped my entire future up to now. So taking my current wisdom and going back would allow me to eradicate of a lot of the stuff I’d liked not to have happened which embarrassed my family.
