#77 Guest Author Candace Simar

Award-winning author CANDACE SIMAR joins hosts Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell for an engaging conversation about her historical fiction novel SISTER LUMBERJACK. We follow a cast of unforgettable characters in a Minnesota logging camp during the winter of 1893. Obstacles abound. Will they survive the harsh and dangerous winter? 

Three lives intersect at Starkweather Timber, a haywire logging camp, where everything goes wrong. Their unique friendship turns their lives in unexpected directions. What a cast of characters! Trouble follows SISTER MAGDALENA, a jolly nun who struggles with rules. A giant of a woman, she is sent to sell hospital tickets to lumberjacks working the forests of Minnesota. It is dangerous work. She travels alone to isolated logging camps in the dead of winter, sometimes by snowshoes. The jacks call her SISTER LUMBERJACK. Widow SOLVEIGH ROGNALDSON is left alone with heartache and a mortgage. Though she feels too old, she musters courage to strike out on her own. She has to save the farm by herself. She has no one else. Bottle fever has NELS JENSEN by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence.   Hosts - Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell  Opening and Closing Music - Hot Texas courtesy of Hot Texas Swing Band  Sponsored by OutWest Shop  Shop ALL Rendezvous With A Writer book titles HERE  Aired March 14, 2024