Ruth Marlene Friesen

About the Author

Ruth returned in 1983 to Hague, to be a full-time caregiver to her aged parents. Her mother's frail health made her house-bound until her death in November 1997, but this gave Ruth time to write. Her creative imagination and broad interests leads her to try many things, including crafts, making gift books by hand, family history books, tile-laying... you name it, she's not afraid of work. Sometimes she compares herself to the Rebecca in the Bible, who not only gives a cup of water when asked, but waters all your camels too!

She loves to read and write most of all, and finds working on the internet and by email custom-made for her. It's a place where she can finally be prolific and share out of her very full heart and mind. Ruth has patiently worked on this novel of spiritual fiction for many years, believing it will be her major accomplishment in life. However there are more books in her imagination than she can write in one lifetime. "Maybe things will go faster after this one flies," she says.

Ruth has for many years been busy in church and Children's ministries. In London, Ontario, besides being the part-time church secretary, while working as a receptionist at Philips Electronics, she was the first woman on her church's Executive Board. She has taught Sunday School since she was 17, and for four years was the Superintendent of Sunday School at her present church at Neuanlage Grace Mennonite in Saskatchewan. Now she's teaching again.

When Ruth lived in London, she was Coordinator and Chief Guide of Pioneer Girls Clubs, and wrote and directed an original summer program for church kids, Then she was AWANA Clubs Director and Secretary at the Neuanlage church for eight years, and for four summers, both directed the Vacation Bible School, and designed/prepared all the crafts. All the while she was secretly writing this novel.

Her current priorities are, caring for her father, and her many internet ventures, including an inspirational bi-weekly ezine, RoseBouquet, aimed at those who want to follow her writing career, and keep up with all she's doing on the internet.

She has worked full-time since January 1999, at learning to explore and use the internet, designing websites, making friends, all with the ultimate goal of publishing this book, and the ones that will inevitably follow, and in finding ways to help people and in giving all the profits of the book to the God, as she awaits the Lord's morning glory, when we shall see Him face-to-face who loved us and gave Himself for us!

Writing Credits:

Though Ruthe's Secret Roses is Friesen's first novel, she has written and self-published a number of family histories and genealogies, including, Grandpa's Stories, (1996, 1998) A Godly Inheritance, (1988), and some old diary translations from the old handwritten Gothic German script.

From 1977-1997 she freelanced articles and short stories and was a correspondent for The Mennonite Reporter. Since 1991 to the present Ruth has written book reviews for the Provident Bookfinder.

There are also some children's picture books she created as gifts, (which may find their way to be published some day too), and if you get on her Christmas card list - you get Ruth's annual story-gift in her Christmas card.


You may reach Ruth right from here: The Reach Me Form

Or by regular post using this address:

Ruth Marlene Friesen, Author
Box 208,
Hague, Saskatchewan, S0K 1X0
Canada

Naturally, you are invited back to the book site often.
More resources are added continually. It is getting to be like a huge garden, with nooks and crannies full of interesting and helpful things.
http://Ruthes-SecretRoses.com

Look for the Resources Gate if you are interested in working at Affiliate Programs for an internet income.

Go to the Arbour Gate for helps with mentoring and learning to write and self-publish.

Head for the Sharing Library for book reviews Friesen recommends, e-books to download, and a growing archive of articles she has written or collected. (If you are an ezine editor you may help yourself there, as long as you include the Resource or Bio box at the end of each article).

Find the RoseBouquet blog area to find personal notes and inspirational articles. Subscription to the ezine edition is FREE!

Ruth would also appreciate it a great deal, if after you've read this book, you would filled in the Reader Survey at the end and send it to her with your comments.