The saying goes like this: Truth is stranger than fiction. As I’m working away each day at my little manuscript about Bible Women in India I find myself thinking about that a lot. The women I’ve interviewed and those I’ve read about, the ones who served as Bible women years ago and still work in the churches of India, have stories that the Western world will find hard to believe.

Who will believe that a child born as a twin was ostracized because her twin brother died and she lived? Who will believe a family that offers a baby girl to the gods to be used in horrible ceremonies as a means of gaining the health of an older brother? Who here in America can believe that a woman will pour kerosene on herself and burn herself to death because she is the third daughter and there is no money for a wedding dowry? All of these things happened to women I know and have personally interviewed.

These and other facts need to be woven into my story of a little girl who moves from her Hindu village when sold into an arranged marriage and finally comes to know the Jesus way. I’ll need all the support I can get from the writing community to be able to tell this story and make it believable. Suggestions, writers?