{"id":192,"date":"2024-08-11T21:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianablackauthor.net\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T16:40:56","slug":"waiting-for-gabe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dianablackauthor.net\/?page_id=192","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Gabe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"192\" class=\"elementor elementor-192\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31a0e218 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"31a0e218\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;full&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-248dbf44 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"248dbf44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dianablackauthor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/NEW-COVER-WFG-June-2024-qsf1blhncaijbr9n9gpfxtd2iccl9v5czjnhfcuhjk.jpg\" title=\"NEW COVER WFG June 2024\" alt=\"NEW COVER WFG June 2024\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-574c0d4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"574c0d4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gabe Hart\u2019s day is planned down to the last minute. Until it\u2019s not.<\/strong><\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The young widower bolts out of bed at 3 a.m. like a corpse come to life in a morgue. He\u2019s overlooked a key detail in his meticulous plan.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is just the beginning, however, of multiple revelations that will challenge Gabe the next fourteen hours\u2014the time he has to honor two promises, both made after the tragic loss of his nine-year-old daughter Leesie three years before.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the course of the day, Gabe vows to keep his word to his beloved late-wife Irish and to himself, but with every unexpected twist and turn imaginable\u2014and unimaginable, he\u2019s tested within an inch of his life by his inner demons and loved ones near and far.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author Diana Black\u2019s\u00a0multilayered\u00a0portrait of the human condition fuses her passion for character-driven fiction with her professional experience in hospice and foster care. Poignant passages\u00a0and memorable characters draw on the reader\u2019s empathy and explore the evocative nature at the core of us all.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 8, 2024!<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Praise &amp; Reviews:<\/strong><\/p><p>\u201cIn <em>Waiting for Gabe<\/em>, talented writer Diana Black weaves together a moving story of tragedy, love, redemption, and an unexpected spiritual element that successfully asks us to suspend our disbelief and instead, believe in the possibility of intuition, premonition, and connection beyond death. Don&#8217;t many of us wish that the angels in our lives \u2013 those we\u2019ve loved and lost \u2013 could guide us, communicate with us, help us feel better on our darkest days? In <em>Waiting for Gabe<\/em>, that hope is wonderfully woven throughout a beautifully written story and within characters you feel for, root for, cry for, and ultimately, cheer for.\u00a0You will be thinking about the possibilities of heaven and the lives and emotions of these characters long after you finish reading the book.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Ginger Emas<\/strong>, author, writer and speaker coach<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDiana Black\u2019s\u00a0<em>Waiting for Gabe<\/em>\u00a0goes straight to the question that gives rise to art: How can we continue to embrace Life in the face of great suffering and loss? The novel offers no easy answers. But it does tell a beautiful tale of complicated people trying, and trying again, to let the great mystery crack open their hearts.\u201d <strong>Matthew Sharpe<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>The Sleeping Father<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>You Were Wrong<\/em><\/p><p><i>\u201cWaiting for Gabe\u00a0<\/i>is a story of the great unraveling done by grief, how it accrues in the body and ripples outwards to all it touches. But it is also a story of how hope can find us in the most impossible of ways. Stitching together life and afterlife, Black takes readers on an emotional journey both moving and unforgettable. \u2013<strong>David Valdes<\/strong>.\u00a0author of\u00a0<i>Spin Me Right Round<\/i><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis skillfully-written novel, by Diana Black,\u00a0captures one man\u2019s loss and his difficult journey of\u00a0healing and redemption. <i>Waiting For Gabe<\/i>\u00a0will bring a flood of tears and a ray of hope to the reader.\u201d\u2013<strong>Mary Cunningham<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<em>Andi Anna Jones Mysteries<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBlack masterfully brings to the page all of the elements of grief\u2014the real and the surreal\u2014and molds them into a tender tale.\u00a0<em>Waiting for Gabe<\/em>\u00a0illuminates the endurance of the human heart.\u201d <strong>Cathie Beck<\/strong><em> Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship<\/em><\/p><p><em><strong><a 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