published August 2024

I wrote a book!

A String of Pearls: Godly Truths for Women with PCOS was published in August 2024. A companion workbook followed four months later.

(If you just want to know how and where to buy a copy, see the bottom of this page for links — or go to Amazon and search by the title.)

Let me tell you the story of how this book came to be.

In June 2012, I went to my very first writer’s conference. It was all the way in Michigan and let me tell you that I was in over my head. I was not nearly ready to be at that conference. I was too new to the idea of writing. I had only just begun to think that perhaps God may have a purpose for me to fulfill with writing. But there I was, in Michigan, with a lot of other Christian writers.

Shortly after I returned home from the conference, the idea for a book about PCOS came to me. Almost immediately, I had the book title and several chapter titles. I had the surreal feeling that this book had been given directly to me — from God.

The was only one problem. I did not want to write a book about PCOS, my wacky hormones, or my body that didn’t work the way it should. Certain topics aren’t really considered to be subjects pursued in polite conversation and I just felt like PCOS fell into that category. The ugly truth is I often felt angry with God for allowing me to have PCOS, so why would I want to write about that?

I already knew what I wanted to write about — funny or heartwarming stories, perhaps a collection of essays on my faith or the crazy things that happened while I was a stay-at-home mom parenting teens, tweens and toddlers.

Unfortunately, God made it crystal clear that He wanted to me to write about PCOS. I’d like to tell you that I hopped right on board with God’s plan and wrote that book lickety-split! But that is not how it went.

For about 8 years, I didn’t really work on writing God’s book at all. Instead, I fought a lot with God about writing it. I wrote other things — mostly blog posts about my life as a mom and portions of chapters for other book ideas I had. For periods of time, I would get discouraged and wonder if maybe I was mistaken about being a writer. Perhaps God hadn’t really called me to write after all. During those seasons, months would pass without me writing a single word.

But over those same 8 years, not a day went by that I didn’t think about the book God had called me to write. God didn’t let it go. He relentlessly pursued me about writing the PCOS book.

In late 2019, I found myself with just 2 of my 5 kids at home. I’d been a homeschooling mom, but now with just a senior and a junior at home and both had part-time jobs. Suddenly, I had lots of time on my hands. I decided maybe it was time to get serious and write the PCOS book. Between October 2019 and February 2020, I wrote seven chapters of my book! I also had outlines and some portions written for the remaining three chapters.

March 2020 — the month covid shutdown the world. While many people wrote books (or gardened or learned how to make sourdough bread) during their time at home, I suddenly got the worst case of writer’s block ever known to mankind. I couldn’t find a single word to write. Just when I had gotten on board with God, now I found myself back to square one all over again. Talk about feeling defeated! For the next four years I struggled with writing anything. I just felt like I couldn’t put words together to form a sentence, much less a paragraph.

June 2024: I signed up to go to the Southern Christian Writer’s Conference. In preparation of going, I began to put together some writing samples to take with me. Before I knew it, I became overwhelmed by the state of my unfinished book. As the emotions took over, I decided I was done writing the PCOS book. Instead, I went to the conference with a chapter of a fiction book in hand.

But God …

In the Bible, you often come across the phrase “But God” which means the story is about to take a turn and the reason for that is solely God. It’s what makes a regular story a “God story.” And this is where my story (which was already a God story) became a God story.

At the conference, God sent me to sessions where speakers talked about not quitting or giving up. They spoke specifically about pushing through just when the going gets tough. I knew they were talking directly to me about my calling.

And God also introduced me to Larke Ready, who became my cheerleader, my editor, and my book designer.

Three weeks after the conference had ended, I had finished the manuscript for the book!

Two months later, A String of Pearls: Godly Truths for Women with PCOS was published!

It is still hard for me to believe this book finally out there for the world to read. I wrote it, but A String of Pearls is God’s book. All rights belong to Him because this book is …

• His idea.
• His title
• His chapters
• His timing (because I think He knew I would balk and then run from His assignment, so even that was taken into account in His timeline for the book)

I am just His author. I’m glad He allowed me to join with Him, despite my best efforts to thwart those plans and go my own way.

A String of Pearls: Godly Truths for Women with PCOS is available on Amazon. There is a companion workbook as well. I am also happy to send an autographed copy to you. Just contact me (angela@angelahamiltonauthor.com) and I’ll get back to you about shipping costs.

If this book has blessed you, I would appreciate an Amazon review.