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I never know where my next inspiration for a book is going to come from. Ideas hit me all the time about stories and characters, situations and circumstance that I can relate to and feel. But I choose the stories that I’m going to write about very cautiously. I may sit on it for awhile, write a paragraph or two, but usually it all comes down to: Is the book passionate enough, provocative and inspiring and compelling me to write it. Well this book definitely fits these feelings I have for it, when I thought of it and as I was writing it.
You know the feeling you get when you’re deep into a story and its characters, your expectations to be fed from an amazing read are riding so high that you can hardly wait to open the cover, only to find when you reach the books conclusion there’s no ending or resolve. Your feelings of being let down and disappointed come crashing down all at once. Well, not this time. Pride and a Prayer delivers every endearing and touching emotion that even the most hardened of hearts can feel. A story filled with characters so close to your own heart they compel you to turn each page, with a read that takes you all the way to the end of the prolog to find out its ending, an ending that you won’t soon forget or have seen coming.
Pride and a Prayer is an idea that I got one morning when I was watching the Today show, on NBC. It featured an interracial couple’s fraternal twins, the boy was born with a white complexion and the girl was born with a black complexion. I remembered the same thing on the hit TV show, The Jefferson’s. Their neighbors were an interracial couple who had fraternal twins under the same conditions. I thought, what a great idea for a book. Being a Mexican American, I’ve unfortunately experienced prejudice on a personal level for myself. I wanted to touch on a story that dealt with such issues and at the same time found peace and resolve. A story that, not only touched on interracial relationships, but also held a trust and faith in God, when the worst and unthinkable seems apparent. I wanted to add such controversial topics as, abortion and Plan B contraceptive, with religion and abortion laws to reflect in the readers thoughts, yet write it in a theme of a love story, with characters I developed that we all can relate too, making you, the reader, wonder what you would do and how you would react under the same conditions. Pride and a Prayer is a story that touches each of us, man or woman, with an ending that no reader will soon forget.
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