Burns author to sign novel Dec. 19 at Virtually Unlimited Bookstore
Release Date: 12/12/2008. Expired: 12/19/2008
Burns resident Betty J. Hale will sign copies of her novel Mystery of the Secret Tunnel at The Virtually Unlimited Bookstore at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 19.
The Virtually Unlimited Bookstore is located inside The Renaissance Center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson.
“Mystery of the Hidden Tunnel is about an era set in the backwoods of a small farming town,” says Hale. “A time that has long passed: working other’s land for a portion of the crops. One teacher for grades one to eight in a one-room schoolhouse, and the whole school drinking water from a bucket with the same dipper. Outdoor toilets with catalogs hanging just in reach. Trading hens’ eggs at the country store for coffee, sugar, flour, or maybe material for a new dress. Although the times have changed Christian values haven’t.”
The story follows the adventures of Mary Sue, a girl growing up as a sharecropper’s daughter in the early 1950s. She and best friend Louise set out in search of gold coins that local legend claims were hidden on a nearby plantation. Maps of riddles, boys planning to steal the treasure and a spooky cemetery predating the Civil War are just a part of their journey.
Hale says she had a dream she would someday write a novel and the publication of Mystery of the Secret Tunnel by her company Joyland Publishing in 2007 brought that to reality. She has written many inspirational poems, Christmas poems, birthday poems, and gospel songs, some of which are included in bonus pages in the novel.
Ordained by the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Cedar Grove, Tenn., she is now pastoring Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Burns. She and her husband of 51 years have three children and three granddaughters.
Hale says she has “tried to instill in others the faith that no matter the storms of life, God will see them through and that He’s the only one who can give peace in the midst of the storm.”
“Betty Hale has written a good mystery novel set in a time period of the past,” says Mell Meriweather in an endorsement of the book. “It is realistic in portraying events that could have happened while it also has romantic overtones. It reflects Christian values without being ‘preachy.’”
Hale says she has considered writing a mini-series based on Mystery of the Secret Tunnel and picking up with the characters’ lives where the book ends.
For more information on the author or book, visit www.bettyjoycehale.com. For information on Hale’s book signing Dec. 19 at The Renaissance Center, call (615)740-5512 or visit www.rcenter.org. Copies of Mystery of the Secret Tunnel are available at The Virtually Unlimited Bookstore.
The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville off Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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