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I sit down with author Angela Ruth Strong — flight attendant, breast cancer survivor, and multi-published, award-winning writer of Christian romantic comedy — for a candid conversation about the real road from unpublished to multi-published.
Angela shares her “victim ladder” framework for processing rejection, the moment a rejection nearly broke her, how she kept writing through chemo brain, and what she's learned about redefining success on her own terms.
About Angela Ruth Strong
Angela Ruth Strong is a multi-published, award-winning author of Christian romantic comedy (rom-com). Her books have earned a TOP PICK in Romantic Times, a Christy Award nomination, and the Cascade Award, and she has landed on Amazon bestseller lists more than once. Her novel Finding Love in Big Sky was adapted for film (aired on UPtv). Angela writes while working as a flight attendant, is a breast cancer survivor, and founded IDAhope Writers to support aspiring authors in Idaho, where she lives. Her newest release, Claire Holloway Is Winging It, is book one in her High-Flying Romance series.
What You'll Hear In This Episode
- The “victim ladder” — Angela's eight-step framework for moving through rejection, from denial and blame through acceptance, ownership, and forward motion
- The rejection that “broke her” — and how that same publisher later became her publishing home
- Why her most enjoyable book to write, Husband Auditions, came together during breast cancer treatment and chemo brain
- How Angela wove comedy into her romance writing after the chick-lit market dried up
- Her four examples of “spending styles” — enjoyment, stability, status, or control — and how each can shape what success looks like for a writer
- What she wishes someone had told her: that writing is more about the personal arc than the finish line
💎Favorite Moments
"I felt like I had to prove myself. I felt like if I didn't become published soon enough, I'd give up on my dreams, and then they'd never happen."
"Success for me is really enjoyment. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy meeting people. I enjoy the process."
"It's more about my character growth, my personal arc, my personal story, than it is about success — than it is about getting to the end."
🔖 About Claire Holloway Is Winging It
Book one in the High-Flying Romance series, Claire Holloway Is Winging It, draws on Angela's real experience as a flight attendant — including, by her own admission, at least one real-life rogue orange juice carton.
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