text: Fiction Hero Features: Captain Daniel Conway
  kayspringsteen April 1, 2013 at 1:02 AM
  Thank you so much for featuring Dan! I fell in love with him myself when I wrote his story - he took on his own life. And many, MANY thanks for the potential donation to the Wounded Warrior Project.
  Nancy Kimball April 9, 2013 at 12:53 AM
  My pleasure, Kay. You've written a phenomenal hero in a novel that entertains and makes you think. I'm a fan!
  happygret April 1, 2013 at 1:51 AM
  Heartsight is excellent! Thank you Nancy for featuring it. I fell in love with Dan and devoured Operation Christmas Hearts, Camp Wedding, and Heartfelt. And for all Dan's fans, I think Heartfelt is even better than Heartsight.
  Dan has several moments that got me "right there". The restaurant scene comes to mind as an example.
  That's also the way I felt about Dan's answer to his most marked characteristic. The answer is so raw because it's true and unfair.
  Nancy Kimball April 9, 2013 at 12:55 AM
  I know. I can't wait to get to the other books in the series. I'm laughing at how you plowed through them in days. This is truly one of those "sleeper" novels I'm so glad to have discovered. And yes, I agree it's unfair but my hope is readers will really think about Dan, and Bella, and how we see those around us.
  Tracy Krauss April 1, 2013 at 8:18 PM
  I loved this book and you're right - Dan Conway is a hero among heroes!
  Nancy Kimball April 9, 2013 at 12:56 AM
  Thanks, Tracy, I did too. And YES, yes he is. It's why he's here. =)
  Whitney April 1, 2013 at 8:26 PM
  Well, Miss Nancy, you know I don't typically read contemporary fiction, or secular, at that, but your observations about what this book really is -- "the cleanest of the secular world" -- made me want to give it a chance. Then, of course, the excerpt... well, helloooooo. lol. Whatever the story, era, etc., it's a beautiful scene, and I dare say that Dan has already made a hero's impression on me.
  My mom is legally blind, which I think you know, so I know A LOT about the feelings, the struggles, the lack of funding for equipment for the blind, the way the world does NOT cater AT ALL to the visually (or hearing) impaired. And I totally understand Dan's excitement about "Computer equipment with modifications for the blind, for things like reading mail, going on internet." ZoomText software and equipment like CCTV's have made simple tasks for the seeing doable for the visualy impaired. And there are still so many improvements to be made.
  A buck is hard to pass up. Going to amazon now.
  Thanks for sharing! Glad your back, dear friend!
  Nancy Kimball April 9, 2013 at 12:58 AM
  Me too, Whit, me too. Both times. And again this is what I love about this blog. Broadening horizons, busting through genre preferences, and finding the great heroes.
  Whitney April 1, 2013 at 9:43 PM
  It's funny... when you have a disabled person or handicapped person in your family, you really don't think of them that way, but my oldest sister was severely handicapped. Although she was born disabled, she was able to eat french fries and even say "mama", so I'm told. When she was two years old, she had kidney failure. Unable to talk, walk, or eat except through a feeding tube, she lived a life riddled with pain that was blatantly "unfair." Yet, she had such a joyous spirit. We often found her looking up and laughing, and we feel sure the Lord had special angels about her, ministering to her spirit, despite the confines of her physical body. She and my mom spent months in children's hospitals over the course of Courtney's twenty-six year life. My courageous, legally blind mother, and my perpetual-baby big sister.
  Court finally got to dance with Jesus in a perfect body in April 2006.
  The threads and tones of this book resound with me in special ways, and I just thought that I'd share a little of that with whoever can take something good from it.
  Nancy Kimball April 9, 2013 at 12:59 AM
  Thanks my friend for sharing that. So many things about this novel resonated with me and it's part of why I really wanted to help get it into the hands of new readers.
  April Gardner April 2, 2013 at 8:43 AM
  Oh, oh! I've read this one. Kay is a fantastic writer. Dan is most definitely FHF material, but then again, I have a soft-spot for a man in a military uniform! ;-)
  Nancy Kimball April 9, 2013 at 1:00 AM
  Ha, I know this about you, April, hehe. Thanks for popping in and yes, Kay is an amazingly gifted author and Dan is for sure Orange Heads.