September 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Join me as I talk with author Joan Fields Long about her book "Depart from Evil"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tune in and ignite your day with Daily Spark with
Doctor Angela, where inspiration meets faith.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello everyone, and thank you so much for joining me
for Daily Spark with Doctor Angela. I'm your host, Doctor
Angela Buschester. You guys know who I am, and you
know what I'd like to do on my joe say
it with me. I want to enlighten, inspire and empower
you to become your beast self. Now. Scripture reminds us
(00:37):
that the tongue is a small thing that makes brand speeches,
but a tiny spark can set a great forest on
a fire. And that's what we want to do today.
We want to get you fired up about my guests.
I'll be spending time today with Joan Fields Long and
we'll be talking about her book Depart Evil. So you
(01:01):
know what I'm gonna tell you to do. Go get comfy,
get cozy, get your coffee or get your tea because
we are about to get started. Hello, miss A Song,
thank you so much for joining me here on Delbly
Spark with Doctor Angelo.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to talk with you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, ma'am, I am so glad that you are here today. Now,
we do have a little bit of a tradition here
on the show. We realize that there may be some
people listening in that are unfamiliar with you or unfamiliar
with your work. So first question is, tell us a
little bit about yourself. What makes you you?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay, I'll tell you. I am ninety four years old.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Now I wasn't when I wrote the book, but I'll
just tell you a little bit about me. I grew
up on a farm in Randolph County, North Carolina. I
graduated from Rendleman High School as a salutatorian of the
(02:11):
class of nineteen forty nine. I was married to Cecil
Long for sixty two years before he passed away. I'm
the mother of two children, a girl and a boy,
and I studied writing under the author Manly Wade Wellman
(02:35):
at the University of North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So thank you, thank you so much for that. Now,
when it comes to being an author, was that something
on your to do list? Or was this another way
to share with the public.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well ways like to write. Even in school. I liked
the English classes, you know, And I have written many
plays and skits and things like that for church and
(03:19):
for my when my daughter was in school and my
son who I would write things for their teachers, you know,
and little plays and stuff like that. But after my
husband had passed away, I decided that I was going
(03:41):
to write a book, and so I did. I wrote.
First of all, I wrote Daisy's Hope for her Journey,
and then I wrote Depart from Evil and I had
them my self published. And I just always have like
to write.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Miss Joan. Let me ask you about the inspiration about
writing the book. So many people, other interviews that I
have done with authors, they see that there has been
a nudge, a knowing if you will, that now is
the time to write the book. Now. I realized that
you didn't write the book last year. But when you
(04:26):
were in that writer's mode, did you know that now
is the time? How did you know that it was
time to write this book?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, it was my second book had written. And there's
a dog in this book. And we had had a
new pastor to come to our church that had a
dog that was strange. I think that's really oh wow,
(05:03):
Maybe you know just came in came into my head
to write a book. But there there is a dog
in the book, and uh, and these other people, the
people that came to be in our community. Are their
(05:24):
dog boys are strange dog.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's so funny because animals do have a way of
making uh an impact on us. You know. We we
remember that the really beautiful, the really beautiful pets of others,
but we also remember, you know, we remember the good boys,
but we also remember the bad boys, those those mean
old dogs too. So you are so you are so right.
(05:51):
You know, animals really do make an impression upon us.
I love that. Now, when you were in the in
the process of writing, I find that every character in
a book has a particular personality, and I love how
authors are able to use their creative mind to give
(06:16):
that personality to each character. How did you come about
creating the personalities of your characters?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, it just came into my head while I was writing.
I don't consider myself to be, you know, a really
great writer or anything like that, but I just just
I don't know how to answer that, hardly because I
(06:48):
just start I was in a Christian writers' group and
we had to write something every month and read it.
And so that's one thing that inspired me to get
busy and write books.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh I love.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That, and I kind of understand what you mean. For
so many of the things that we do, it isn't
that we are trying to create something new. It's that
we already understand what we have to do. And it
sounds like the characters weren't something that you were sitting
(07:31):
in the corner one day saying, let me see, okay,
so this woman needs to do this and do that,
And you were simply writing what was in your writer's heart,
what was in your author's mind, and you wrote what
you saw or what came to you. And it simply
was that simple. It wasn't hard, It wasn't a hard
(07:53):
work to come up with the people. You just simply
wrote what was there. And I love that, the the
simplicity of it coming together. I find sometimes when we
have to work too hard at something, we're going in
the wrong direction, like we're forcing, like we might be
forcing something to happen. But when it comes to us,
(08:15):
then sometimes it comes to us easily because that's what's
proper and true for us at that time. So I
love that. I love that. Now, would you say that
this is the type of book that would also be
okay for a woman's book club? I find that that's
(08:39):
starting to take off more and more that we're starting
to come together and say, what's a really good book
for us to read? Would you say book club or
is this more of an individual person read.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think it'd be more of an individual yes, ma'am.
I'll think about the title of it. It might, you know,
help someone to think, oh, I'd like to read that.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Absolutely, And you know, thank you for that answer, because
I find that there's nothing worse than reading the wrong
book in book club, So we really do need to
make sure that we are reading the right book. If
it's more of a personal read, then that's great to know.
(09:38):
This is a book that's for me when I'm traveling.
I can read it during the layovers. So many people
perhaps take the train or the shuttle into work if
they perhaps live in the suburbs and they work in
the city. Many times you take the shuttle in. It's
a great thing to kind of keep your mind occupied
(10:00):
those individual little trips that you have to make. So
thank you for that clarification. Now I want to ask
when you were when you were thinking about the message
that you wanted to share, how did you come to
that determination. How did you decide what little nuggets of
(10:25):
wisdom to share along the pages of the book.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, it's hard to put into words, I think, but
once you once I got started writing, it just came
to me. I didn't ask anybody or anything like that,
but I did belong to that writer's group, and I
(10:53):
would read. I'd try to be ready to read a
whole chapter two of them each time. I critique short
of it, and most of them liked it very well.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Mm hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That must have been both exciting and a little bit
nervous at the at the same time, to to to
not the reading the loud part, but just having the
critique and hoping that they were able to get the
little points that you were trying to make along the storyline.
(11:32):
So ooh that that must have been exciting. I love it.
I love it. Oh, Miss Joan. It is time for
us to take a very short break. But don't you
go anywhere, and we don't want you listeners. Don't you
go anywhere either. We're going to take a short break.
And I don't forget this book is available on Amazon
or whatever books are sold. We'll be back right after this.
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Thank you everyone for joining me for Daily Sparker, Doctor Angela.
I'm your host, Doctor Angela but Chester. Now, I am
speaking with author Joan feels Long today about her book
Depart from Evil Now. Miss Joan, I love that you
have written this book for us to read in our
(15:22):
own independent time. I love that I am a busy person,
and I always don't get to enjoy the book club experience.
But I do enjoy a book that I can read,
like I said before, on my layovers or in between,
when I have just a little bit of downtime. So
thank you for including or thinking about folks like me. Now,
(15:46):
I understand that writers sometimes experience writer's block, or perhaps
they come to a point in the book where that
section might be a little harder to rate for whatever reason.
Then another I want to ask you about the challenges
(16:06):
Do you remember having any challenging parts in the book
for you to write? For whatever reason? Did you have
any what were the hardest parts to rate and what
were the easiest parts to rate?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, I don't know how to answer to that. Hardly
I didn't write it, you know, sit down and write
it all at once. I would in the writers' club
that I was in, I had to write something, you know,
(16:41):
every month, and I would just really you know, concentrate
on reading a child, making me in making a chapter
to read at my meetings, you know, And so that's
it took me a while to do it, to write
(17:03):
the book, because I, you know, would not just sit
down and write the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And so.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Anyway, uh, And I don't know if I think the
Lord Jesus Christ gave me the inspiration to write the book.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yes, I can definitely understand what you're saying. So it
wasn't like a what we think of as a traditional
UH novel being written, you know, someone at the typewriter
just banging away on the keys trying to write this,
you know, two hundred page novel.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And and with this intensity where you were able to
take your time because it was write this chapter for
the presentation, and and you you had a little bit
more leisure in the in the time. I I love that,
and perhaps that's why there weren't those those challenges there. Unfortunately,
(18:07):
we still hear about people trying to write a book
in such a short period of time, you know, due
to the deadlines of the publishing companies and so forth,
and it really does put a stress on them. I'm
glad that you didn't have to deal with them. Now, yes, ma'am. Now,
(18:28):
when you when you were putting it all together, and
you decided that you were going to present it uh
in book form to us as as the as the
general public, not as your reader's club, did you find
that you omitted any parts, Were there any bits and
(18:49):
pieces that your that your book club were only privy to,
or did you give us the entirety of what you wrote?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's like say, all is uh, you know, encouraged me
to keep writing, and then they would like the you know,
the next chapter. And I wrote in shorthand, I mean
and uh, I just wrote it with a pen, you know.
(19:23):
And then I have this friend of mine to type
it because I'm not the best typeist in the world,
but I I did it by hand writing.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh and I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That is.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Many many of our writers today have no idea what
it's like to write a book longhand you know, to
have pen to paper and to write it literally, to
write it out, as opposed to doing it on their
laptop or doing it on their phone. So I love
that little that's a little bit of trigia that that
(20:03):
we can that we now know about the book, that
it was originally written long hand and then it was
taped and then presented.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So, when you were in the process of deciding on
the cover of the book, did you have something in
your mind's eye of what you wanted the cover to
look like or would you say that that was more
a collaborative effort of the team two to determine what
(20:37):
the cover of the book would look like.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Well, the publisher gave them some different pictures to look at.
And a lot of this story is on a farm,
and and so that's why uh I chose a barn.
(21:04):
Uh and uh yeah, m that.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That farm motif, that that feeling of being on on
the farm, yes, ma'am uh huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
A lot of it is uh about the farm. Uh
far uh l happens on a uh farm, and uh
I have characters that are r uh running the farm.
And anyway, uh uh the uh the the publisher let
(21:40):
me choose one of the pictures. So so I did.
It has uh a barn on it, a red barn.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And you know, I think that even if uh you
one happens to be a a city kid, uh, when
you think of farm, we all think of that traditional
red barn.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I think if you if you live on the East coast,
or if you live in the Midwest, and you would
ever go on uh summer vacation or summer travels, then
you probably have seen a barn or two uh in
your life, you know, going from city, from from city
to city. And it's interesting that barns come and all
(22:30):
can come in different colors, that beautiful red color that
we're used to. Sometimes they're brown. Uh, sometimes the paint
is peeling. But when you think barn, you're so right.
There's that traditional color that we that we think of
and that setting and it's so peaceful. It really does
kind of bring a sense of serenity to you, uh,
(22:52):
just quite quite naturally. I love that. Now when when
you sold your very first copy of this book, now
I remember that you are a seasoned author, this is
your second book. Well, when you sold your first copy
of this book, Ms Joan, how did you feel in
(23:15):
that moment? Were you just as excited for this first
sale as you were for the very first sale of
your book?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes? And I remember when it came in the mail
to me, I grabbed it up and I said, did
I write this? Did I really do this?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Oh? My goodness. I love that. I love that, And
I tell people that just because it's a different book,
it doesn't mean that it isn't just as exciting it
could be, you know, book five, When when you make
that first sale, you are so excited to know that
(24:04):
a book has sold. So I'd love that you had
that experience as well. Now, when it comes to the
the overall message of the book, what is one thing
that you want for a reader to make sure that
they understand or that they pick up once they get
(24:28):
to the very last page when they are done reading
this book, what do you want to make sure that
they have understood.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That, uh, that there is evil in the world and
that they better watch out for it. And a lot
of times in this particular book I had, it was
(24:57):
kept sacred kind of until well, we till the families
and U and all discovered well, and actually her hu
uh the it's a preacher's wife that her husband finally
uh realized that there was something going on in her
(25:21):
life that he did not know about. And uh and
he well, can I say he cast out the demons?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Then?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Okay, yeah, he h uh Yeah. This preacher's the the
preacher that's prominent in the BIB in the book. I
he he didn't realize what was going on, and then
when he really did see what was happening, uh, he
(25:59):
cast out them out of her mm.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah. And I thank you for for saying that that
might actually pique the interest of a lot of people.
We are finding out through uh movies, through conversations, through
documentaries that this is very much real, that this that
casting out of demons is is very much a real
(26:28):
thing that has happened in history, and that it's it's nothing,
it's not just something that you see in the movies,
but that this, this has really happened, and that the
people who have been relieved, who have been set free
of this, are are so glad that someone finally took
(26:50):
them seriously and applause to the to the pastors, the priests,
the preachers who step up and who are able to
do that, who have called to do that, that really
is is needed. Our world is getting a little wonky nowadays.
So this is a book that is right, that is
right on time. Well, missus Joan, I have enjoyed my
(27:12):
conversation with you. Thank you so much for coming on
and sharing your book Depart from Evil with our listeners
here today. Now, of course we know that this book
is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold, but
you mentioned that you also have another book. Can you
tell us what is the title of that book as well?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's Daisy's hope for her journey.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yes ma'am, yes ma'am. And
Tune in and ignite your day with Daily Spark with
Doctor Angela, where inspiration meets faith.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello everyone, and thank you so much for joining me
for Daily Spark with Doctor Angela. I'm your host, Doctor
Angela Buschester. You guys know who I am, and you
know what I'd like to do on my joe say
it with me. I want to enlighten, inspire and empower
you to become your beast self. Now. Scripture reminds us
(00:37):
that the tongue is a small thing that makes brand speeches,
but a tiny spark can set a great forest on
a fire. And that's what we want to do today.
We want to get you fired up about my guests.
I'll be spending time today with Joan Fields Long and
we'll be talking about her book Depart Evil. So you
(01:01):
know what I'm gonna tell you to do. Go get comfy,
get cozy, get your coffee or get your tea because
we are about to get started. Hello, miss A Song,
thank you so much for joining me here on Delbly
Spark with Doctor Angelo.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to talk with you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, ma'am, I am so glad that you are here today. Now,
we do have a little bit of a tradition here
on the show. We realize that there may be some
people listening in that are unfamiliar with you or unfamiliar
with your work. So first question is, tell us a
little bit about yourself. What makes you you?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay, I'll tell you. I am ninety four years old.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Now I wasn't when I wrote the book, but I'll
just tell you a little bit about me. I grew
up on a farm in Randolph County, North Carolina. I
graduated from Rendleman High School as a salutatorian of the
(02:11):
class of nineteen forty nine. I was married to Cecil
Long for sixty two years before he passed away. I'm
the mother of two children, a girl and a boy,
and I studied writing under the author Manly Wade Wellman
(02:35):
at the University of North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So thank you, thank you so much for that. Now,
when it comes to being an author, was that something
on your to do list? Or was this another way
to share with the public.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well ways like to write. Even in school. I liked
the English classes, you know, And I have written many
plays and skits and things like that for church and
(03:19):
for my when my daughter was in school and my
son who I would write things for their teachers, you know,
and little plays and stuff like that. But after my
husband had passed away, I decided that I was going
(03:41):
to write a book, and so I did. I wrote.
First of all, I wrote Daisy's Hope for her Journey,
and then I wrote Depart from Evil and I had
them my self published. And I just always have like
to write.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Miss Joan. Let me ask you about the inspiration about
writing the book. So many people, other interviews that I
have done with authors, they see that there has been
a nudge, a knowing if you will, that now is
the time to write the book. Now. I realized that
you didn't write the book last year. But when you
(04:26):
were in that writer's mode, did you know that now
is the time? How did you know that it was
time to write this book?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, it was my second book had written. And there's
a dog in this book. And we had had a
new pastor to come to our church that had a
dog that was strange. I think that's really oh wow,
(05:03):
Maybe you know just came in came into my head
to write a book. But there there is a dog
in the book, and uh, and these other people, the
people that came to be in our community. Are their
(05:24):
dog boys are strange dog.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's so funny because animals do have a way of
making uh an impact on us. You know. We we
remember that the really beautiful, the really beautiful pets of others,
but we also remember, you know, we remember the good boys,
but we also remember the bad boys, those those mean
old dogs too. So you are so you are so right.
(05:51):
You know, animals really do make an impression upon us.
I love that. Now, when you were in the in
the process of writing, I find that every character in
a book has a particular personality, and I love how
authors are able to use their creative mind to give
(06:16):
that personality to each character. How did you come about
creating the personalities of your characters?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, it just came into my head while I was writing.
I don't consider myself to be, you know, a really
great writer or anything like that, but I just just
I don't know how to answer that, hardly because I
(06:48):
just start I was in a Christian writers' group and
we had to write something every month and read it.
And so that's one thing that inspired me to get
busy and write books.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh I love.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
That, and I kind of understand what you mean. For
so many of the things that we do, it isn't
that we are trying to create something new. It's that
we already understand what we have to do. And it
sounds like the characters weren't something that you were sitting
(07:31):
in the corner one day saying, let me see, okay,
so this woman needs to do this and do that,
And you were simply writing what was in your writer's heart,
what was in your author's mind, and you wrote what
you saw or what came to you. And it simply
was that simple. It wasn't hard, It wasn't a hard
(07:53):
work to come up with the people. You just simply
wrote what was there. And I love that, the the
simplicity of it coming together. I find sometimes when we
have to work too hard at something, we're going in
the wrong direction, like we're forcing, like we might be
forcing something to happen. But when it comes to us,
(08:15):
then sometimes it comes to us easily because that's what's
proper and true for us at that time. So I
love that. I love that. Now, would you say that
this is the type of book that would also be
okay for a woman's book club? I find that that's
(08:39):
starting to take off more and more that we're starting
to come together and say, what's a really good book
for us to read? Would you say book club or
is this more of an individual person read.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think it'd be more of an individual yes, ma'am.
I'll think about the title of it. It might, you know,
help someone to think, oh, I'd like to read that.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Absolutely, And you know, thank you for that answer, because
I find that there's nothing worse than reading the wrong
book in book club, So we really do need to
make sure that we are reading the right book. If
it's more of a personal read, then that's great to know.
(09:38):
This is a book that's for me when I'm traveling.
I can read it during the layovers. So many people
perhaps take the train or the shuttle into work if
they perhaps live in the suburbs and they work in
the city. Many times you take the shuttle in. It's
a great thing to kind of keep your mind occupied
(10:00):
those individual little trips that you have to make. So
thank you for that clarification. Now I want to ask
when you were when you were thinking about the message
that you wanted to share, how did you come to
that determination. How did you decide what little nuggets of
(10:25):
wisdom to share along the pages of the book.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, it's hard to put into words, I think, but
once you once I got started writing, it just came
to me. I didn't ask anybody or anything like that,
but I did belong to that writer's group, and I
(10:53):
would read. I'd try to be ready to read a
whole chapter two of them each time. I critique short
of it, and most of them liked it very well.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Mm hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That must have been both exciting and a little bit
nervous at the at the same time, to to to
not the reading the loud part, but just having the
critique and hoping that they were able to get the
little points that you were trying to make along the storyline.
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So ooh that that must have been exciting. I love it.
I love it. Oh, Miss Joan. It is time for
us to take a very short break. But don't you
go anywhere, and we don't want you listeners. Don't you
go anywhere either. We're going to take a short break.
And I don't forget this book is available on Amazon
or whatever books are sold. We'll be back right after this.
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Thank you everyone for joining me for Daily Sparker, Doctor Angela.
I'm your host, Doctor Angela but Chester. Now, I am
speaking with author Joan feels Long today about her book
Depart from Evil Now. Miss Joan, I love that you
have written this book for us to read in our
(15:22):
own independent time. I love that I am a busy person,
and I always don't get to enjoy the book club experience.
But I do enjoy a book that I can read,
like I said before, on my layovers or in between,
when I have just a little bit of downtime. So
thank you for including or thinking about folks like me. Now,
(15:46):
I understand that writers sometimes experience writer's block, or perhaps
they come to a point in the book where that
section might be a little harder to rate for whatever reason.
Then another I want to ask you about the challenges
(16:06):
Do you remember having any challenging parts in the book
for you to write? For whatever reason? Did you have
any what were the hardest parts to rate and what
were the easiest parts to rate?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, I don't know how to answer to that. Hardly
I didn't write it, you know, sit down and write
it all at once. I would in the writers' club
that I was in, I had to write something, you know,
(16:41):
every month, and I would just really you know, concentrate
on reading a child, making me in making a chapter
to read at my meetings, you know, And so that's
it took me a while to do it, to write
(17:03):
the book, because I, you know, would not just sit
down and write the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
And so.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Anyway, uh, And I don't know if I think the
Lord Jesus Christ gave me the inspiration to write the book.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yes, I can definitely understand what you're saying. So it
wasn't like a what we think of as a traditional
UH novel being written, you know, someone at the typewriter
just banging away on the keys trying to write this,
you know, two hundred page novel.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And and with this intensity where you were able to
take your time because it was write this chapter for
the presentation, and and you you had a little bit
more leisure in the in the time. I I love that,
and perhaps that's why there weren't those those challenges there. Unfortunately,
(18:07):
we still hear about people trying to write a book
in such a short period of time, you know, due
to the deadlines of the publishing companies and so forth,
and it really does put a stress on them. I'm
glad that you didn't have to deal with them. Now, yes, ma'am. Now,
(18:28):
when you when you were putting it all together, and
you decided that you were going to present it uh
in book form to us as as the as the
general public, not as your reader's club, did you find
that you omitted any parts, Were there any bits and
(18:49):
pieces that your that your book club were only privy to,
or did you give us the entirety of what you wrote?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's like say, all is uh, you know, encouraged me
to keep writing, and then they would like the you know,
the next chapter. And I wrote in shorthand, I mean
and uh, I just wrote it with a pen, you know.
(19:23):
And then I have this friend of mine to type
it because I'm not the best typeist in the world,
but I I did it by hand writing.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh and I love that.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That is.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Many many of our writers today have no idea what
it's like to write a book longhand you know, to
have pen to paper and to write it literally, to
write it out, as opposed to doing it on their
laptop or doing it on their phone. So I love
that little that's a little bit of trigia that that
(20:03):
we can that we now know about the book, that
it was originally written long hand and then it was
taped and then presented.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So, when you were in the process of deciding on
the cover of the book, did you have something in
your mind's eye of what you wanted the cover to
look like or would you say that that was more
a collaborative effort of the team two to determine what
(20:37):
the cover of the book would look like.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Well, the publisher gave them some different pictures to look at.
And a lot of this story is on a farm,
and and so that's why uh I chose a barn.
(21:04):
Uh and uh yeah, m that.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That farm motif, that that feeling of being on on
the farm, yes, ma'am uh huh yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
A lot of it is uh about the farm. Uh
far uh l happens on a uh farm, and uh
I have characters that are r uh running the farm.
And anyway, uh uh the uh the the publisher let
(21:40):
me choose one of the pictures. So so I did.
It has uh a barn on it, a red barn.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And you know, I think that even if uh you
one happens to be a a city kid, uh, when
you think of farm, we all think of that traditional
red barn.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I think if you if you live on the East coast,
or if you live in the Midwest, and you would
ever go on uh summer vacation or summer travels, then
you probably have seen a barn or two uh in
your life, you know, going from city, from from city
to city. And it's interesting that barns come and all
(22:30):
can come in different colors, that beautiful red color that
we're used to. Sometimes they're brown. Uh, sometimes the paint
is peeling. But when you think barn, you're so right.
There's that traditional color that we that we think of
and that setting and it's so peaceful. It really does
kind of bring a sense of serenity to you, uh,
(22:52):
just quite quite naturally. I love that. Now when when
you sold your very first copy of this book, now
I remember that you are a seasoned author, this is
your second book. Well, when you sold your first copy
of this book, Ms Joan, how did you feel in
(23:15):
that moment? Were you just as excited for this first
sale as you were for the very first sale of
your book?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes? And I remember when it came in the mail
to me, I grabbed it up and I said, did
I write this? Did I really do this?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Oh? My goodness. I love that. I love that, And
I tell people that just because it's a different book,
it doesn't mean that it isn't just as exciting it
could be, you know, book five, When when you make
that first sale, you are so excited to know that
(24:04):
a book has sold. So I'd love that you had
that experience as well. Now, when it comes to the
the overall message of the book, what is one thing
that you want for a reader to make sure that
they understand or that they pick up once they get
(24:28):
to the very last page when they are done reading
this book, what do you want to make sure that
they have understood.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That, uh, that there is evil in the world and
that they better watch out for it. And a lot
of times in this particular book I had, it was
(24:57):
kept sacred kind of until well, we till the families
and U and all discovered well, and actually her hu
uh the it's a preacher's wife that her husband finally
uh realized that there was something going on in her
(25:21):
life that he did not know about. And uh and
he well, can I say he cast out the demons?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Then?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Okay, yeah, he h uh Yeah. This preacher's the the
preacher that's prominent in the BIB in the book. I
he he didn't realize what was going on, and then
when he really did see what was happening, uh, he
(25:59):
cast out them out of her mm.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah. And I thank you for for saying that that
might actually pique the interest of a lot of people.
We are finding out through uh movies, through conversations, through
documentaries that this is very much real, that this that
casting out of demons is is very much a real
(26:28):
thing that has happened in history, and that it's it's nothing,
it's not just something that you see in the movies,
but that this, this has really happened, and that the
people who have been relieved, who have been set free
of this, are are so glad that someone finally took
(26:50):
them seriously and applause to the to the pastors, the priests,
the preachers who step up and who are able to
do that, who have called to do that, that really
is is needed. Our world is getting a little wonky nowadays.
So this is a book that is right, that is
right on time. Well, missus Joan, I have enjoyed my
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conversation with you. Thank you so much for coming on
and sharing your book Depart from Evil with our listeners
here today. Now, of course we know that this book
is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold, but
you mentioned that you also have another book. Can you
tell us what is the title of that book as well?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's Daisy's hope for her journey.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yes ma'am, yes ma'am. And
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