Luana Ehrlich is a fiction author with three books about espionage and covert operations with a faith element. Here's the link to her Show Notes page with show highlights, quotes, links to her books, and links to her websites and social media connections.

Luana read her first spy novel at age 11. After that, she was hooked on that genre. Her start came as a freelance writer for several Christian publications. After her minister husband retired, five years ago, she started writing. Her goal was to simply write a really good spy novel - what she enjoyed reading. She quickly found out that as a minister's wife and housewife without a platform, publishers were not interested in her books. She put her books through Amazon's platforms and like how she has the control and doesn't have to share the profits. Her main character, Titus Ray, is a culmination of lots of people she has known. As a news hound all her life, she calls herself a intelligence junkie. In addition to reading in her genre, she receives news feeds, and reports and briefings from think tanks and other sources. These help with fact checking and make her stories accurate. Her books have a faith thread throughout the story, but it is presented in a balanced non-intrusive way. Luana considers herself more a pantser than an outliner, writing from the seat of her pants. She says it's like watching a movie in her mind and writing it down. She takes us through her character development process. We talk about traditional publishing versus doing it herself and what motivates her to keep this under her imprint. Luana has done a great job at marketing her books and her brand, and shares how her websites, blog sites, devotional site, blessing box site all are designed to drive traffic to her books and help her get established as a writer and build her platform.