DeKalb author had her novel LOVE NEVER FAILS on the markets April, 2014.
DeKalb author Carol Hegberg's recently published novel, Love Never Fails, is an inspirational story that encourages people to forgive those who have wounded them. This is the second edition of the novel.
More than half of Love Never Fails is set in Germany.
Several years ago, Hegberg and her family hosted her pen pal's family from Germany, and from that and research, she gleaned ideas into a novel.
Love Never Fails takes place in Munich and its Olympic Park, built for the '72 Olympics.
"The Park contains interesting webby, tent-like structures. They immediately caught my eye, and I knew my protagonist would be a gymnast," Hegberg said about her choice of Germany. "It helped that my daughter studied gymnastics, and Sue Plapp, a former DeKalb gymnast, forced me to find a good reason to allow my character to travel to Germany so close to the Olympics."
She also chose Olympic Park because of the story of the real holy man, Timothy, who at about age 115, died, according to a German source.
"It is said God told Timothy to travel to Munich (from Poland) to build a church on the Oberwieisenfeld, where the city dumped the war ruins, and 'The world would come and see.' He had no money, so obediently he built a church from the war ruins, and when the world held the Olympics in Munich, they left the church intact," Hegberg added.
With a NIU journalism degree, Hegberg wrote for newspapers and went freelance after her children were born. She is a retired book-length editor. She has had published a non-fiction book, anthologies, short stories, plays, skits, and poems.
"I've always been a writer, and it was a natural progression from child writer to adult journalist, editor, story writer to novelist. The hardest part was finding the process that worked for me. While I learned techniques and read about other writers' ways, I had to discover the way the artist developed in me. And with each novel, it is not easier or clearer. Writing a novel takes immense faith in your muse and your writer self, self-discipline, and obsessive delight in writing."
Love Never Fails can be purchased through www.carolhegberg.com or local bookstores.
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