Everything's Coming Up Josey

ISBN 0-373-78561-5
Tyndale Contemporary
Romance/Chic lit

It’s just a year. One year in Russia. Russia? But this Minnesota girl knows all about cold and she’s ready for her big adventure serving God in Moscow. But is Moscow ready for her? And what about the man she left behind? It’s not just about shoes and looking good in a shopka. Really.

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Awards

2007 Christy Award Finalist!
A Romantic Times Magazine TOP PICK – 4½ stars

Reviews

Romantic Times Magazine:
TOP PICK 4.5 stars! –Warren's fantastic book combines humor, romance and superb spiritual insight. The first-person narrative allows the reader to really know Josey and experience life right alongside her. Filled with life lessons, this book is not to be missed.

www.ARomanceReview.com:
A 5 Rose Review
...sure to please Susie’s fans. Josey is a wonderful, three-dimensional heroine and one that women will be sure to relate to...I highly recommend Everything's Coming Up Josey...a page-turner and will hold the reader’s interest until the end.

Endorsements

“Warren's characters are well-developed and she knows how to create a first rate contemporary romance...” —Library Journal

Behind the Pages

“Why don’t you write your life story?” During my eight years as a missionary in Russia, friends from all over the world, in response to my letters, would pose that question. I’d shrug, saying….I’m not sure how to do it.

Fast forward three years. Chick lit is beginning to hit the shelves. An insightful editor at Steeple Hill challenged me to try my hand at this new genre. I thought –what would I have to write about– missionary stories?

Thankfully, she had vision, and when I proposed an idea about a single missionary headed to Moscow for a year, she embraced it. Finally I’d found a venue for my story…although fictionalized…mostly.

I laugh that finally, I got to write about all the fallacies, all the frustrations, and all the foolishness of being a freshman missionary. Mostly, I got to write about the one thing that God taught me – that He’d been at work in my life to bring me to this place, and the places beyond, all my life. And that I didn’t have to be perfect. I just had to surrender and trust.

Just like Josey.