This week on Living Inspired: Nancy Williams and Jeanette Windle

Join me on Thursday when I'll be interviewing Nancy Williams, author of Secrets to Parenting Your Adult Children, and political-suspense author, Jeanette Windle. Nancy and I will be chatting about helping your kids make that transition out of the nest and onto the next phase of their life. Jeanette is an amazing researcher and a master story-teller - her 'ripped from the headlines' novels grip and touch the hearts of people world-wide. So be sure to tun in at 3 pm CST and be sure to leave a comment on this post for your chance win a copy of both authors books.

More about Nancy: Nancy Williams, MEd, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and trained life coach. She speaks frequently in both professional and church contexts and is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors. Nancy and her husband live Near Austin, TX, and are the parents of two adult children.

Nancy is an advocate for creating a strong, healthy relationship with your grown child. You're still a parent, no matter how old your child is. Roles change, but your love and your sense of responsibility remain. Maybe he hasn't left the nest as quickly as you expected, or she needs career and financial guidance, or he's bringing new members into your family. Whatever the situation, how can you help your adult child without crossing appropriate boundaries?

Nancy Williams draws from her own professional and personal experience, and also provides insights fromyoung adults. She will help you navigate these transitions with love, respect, and grace. While every family is unique, this book provides practical tools you can use to help your changing family become the best it's ever been. 

For more information, please visit www.nancywilliams.net.

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More about Jeannette: "The countries, people, and issues of which you write are so real they hardly seem fiction." "I get the news now after reading your books." 

If these are comments political-suspense novelist Jeanette Windle routinely hears from readers, it is because she indeed knows firsthand of what she writes. The daughter of American missionaries, Jeanette grew up in the jungles and small towns of Colombia, now guerrilla hot zones. Later, she lived with her husband in Bolivia for nearly two decades, working for a Christian ministry organization while witnessing the emergence of the world’s first true 'narco-democracy'. To date, Jeanette has lived in six countries and ministered in more than thirty. And, though she now makes her headquarters in the States, she keeps abreast of international affairs traveling extensively as a missions journalist and mentor to indigenous writers across Latin America, Europe, Asia and into Africa. 

Jeanette has fifteen books in print, including Kregel bestseller CrossFire and Veiled Freedom, a finalist for both the 2010 Christian Book Award and 2010 Christy Award.  Her on-the-ground experience and in-depth research have made her an expert on political and social realities from Latin America to Afghanistan. She has been questioned more than once by government agencies as to her sources of information because her writing reveals an insider’s look few U. S. officials can claim. 

How does Jeanette handle writing on such gritty issues as Latin American drug cartels, guerrilla insurgencies, terror threats at our borders, Islamic extremism, and the persecuted church worldwide? She shares, "If I did not have absolute assurance that the course of human history and current events as well as my own life lie in the hands of a loving heavenly Father, I would not have the nerve to research, much less write, the

 stories that I do. My ultimate goal in every book I write, however much a 'thriller', is to share with the reader my own heartfelt conviction that for all the turmoil and conflict and pain in our world, this universe does make sense and has both a purpose and a loving Creator."

For more about Jeanette and her books, please visit www.jeanettewindle.com.

For a chance to win a copy of Jeanette's recently re-released, The DMZ,  or Nancy's Secrets to Parenting Your Adult Children, please leave a comment on this post. We'll contact you next week via email if you won!.

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  5. Grace Ajo says: Wow I have to read DMZ by Jeanette. I never heard of her, but she is speaking some real stuff, stuff the news would never show

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