About the Release
Are you a single who has been in this singleness journey a little longer than you anticipated? This week is the release of Amanda Tero’s contemporary fiction novella, “Wedding Score.” Main character Stephanie is there with you as she’s suddenly thrown into a season of discontentment and impatience. Told in a whimsical, honest style, “Wedding Score” is a 1-2 hour short read that leaves readers feeling understood and hopeful.
About “Wedding Score”
Most girls dream of their wedding days. Except me. I’m too busy practicing piano and being the live soundtrack for everyone else’s weddings to think about my own.
I’ve survived most of my twenties with harmonious chords and pleasant days. So why is it that now, at twenty-seven, a discordant feeling presents itself?
Is there a solid solution to loneliness when there is absolutely no potential husband on the horizon?
A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN SHORT READ
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My Review:
I loved many things about this novella-length story. Stephanie is a 27 year old single young lady who has played the piano for many weddings but has no prospects for a wedding of her own. Most of the time she’s content with her single life, but when her best friend, her cousin Caiden, finds a girl with whom he’s ready to enter into a serious relationship, Stephanie finds herself struggling with being single.
I loved how we hear from Stephanie herself all throughout this book. She communicates very well what it’s truly like to be a single Christian woman watching her friends, some of them younger, get married while she’s still waiting. I loved how the author shared some of her own journal entries so we can see Stephanie’s spiritual journey as she seeks to find peace and contentment in the place that God has for her. And I loved that this story did not end the way the reader might think that it will.
Whether we’re married or single, we all have either faced or will face times of waiting in God in a situation and wanting to see answers to our prayers. There’s some great counsel in this book about those times. Amanda Turo is a good author, and this story is both entertaining and encouraging. I’m looking forward to reading more of her stories.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
About Amanda
Amanda Tero began her love for words at a young age—reading anything she could get her hands on and penning short stories as young as age eight. Since graduation, she has honed her writing skills by dedicated practice and study of the writing craft. She began her journey of publication with a few short stories that she had written for her sisters and continued to add to her collection with other short stories, novellas, and novels. It is her utmost desire to write that which not only pleases her Lord and Savior, but also draws the reader into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.
Guest Post from Amanda:
Marriage was God’s design. To have a stoic, “single-only” mentality was to degrade the calling God placed upon men and women to marry and raise a Godly seed. My desire was completely Biblical. To marry and have my own kids—even to raise my children in the Lord. I was grateful for this woman’s high calling, yet here I was—needing to be content as a single businesswoman and wait on God’s timing for this God-given desire.
This seems to be the quandary of many single women. If you’re like I was as a teen (and… *ahem* … early twenties), I went through a stage where being single was almost something in which to take pride. I was an independent woman who didn’t really need a guy to make her happy—or a guy on which to emotionally lean. But the Lord convicted me that such an attitude was not the appropriate way to handle singleness. Because, as Stephanie ponders in “Wedding Score,” there is nothing wrong with marriage, raising a family, and desiring such. To squelch that desire with an attitude of “women don’t need to be married” not only adopts the world’s viewpoint, it also dishonors God and His beautiful design.
This brings up the question, “What should our attitude be, then?” For me, personally, I see this season as one in which to be joyfully content and satisfied in the Lord. Do I master it every day? Not hardly. But it is my goal—and God in His grace shows me how to better live with an attitude of the meek and quiet spirit He calls us women to have.
How do you “handle” singleness? What type of attitude do you find to be Biblically-based? How do you apply it to your life?
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Giveaway
Amanda is giving away paperbacks, yes…
But she really wants to share this story with as many readers as possible. So, for release week, she’ll be sending eBooks to anyone who wants one! So hop over and submit your email for a free eBook!
Sounds fun! I don’t know how you have time to read all these books, Patti. 🙂