“So how did it all start?” Might be a good question if we all do that you know, check for why we are here on earth, in terra firma, and see if we had a beginning. The classic argument about what came first, the egg or the chicken. We all have a story to tell [...]
NOTE: Here’s the beginning of a fun fanciful story of Christmas magic for children of all ages from 5 to 95. “Can two lowly fishermen save the Queen, her daughters and Christmas?” * Caryn’s Magic Towne – Chapter One * A small village in a remote corner of Caryn’s imagination where, once a year, the [...]
In Winning the Highlander’s Heart, Malcolm MacNeill can’t marry Lady Anice. She’s the ward of King Henry I, who had numerous mistresses, including a Welsh princess, and he’s targeting Anice next. But she’s determined to get out of the quagmire she’s in. Her only living relative, her uncle, has died, and now some of her [...]
What inspired you to write The Phantom Lady of Paris? I believe there is an unseen substance in all of humanity that unites most of us. It shows itself when we see a news story of a child born with a malady that doctors declare will kill him by the age of three. The mother [...]
Chapter Two Philip Bernstein stood foursquare in the centre of his den, his own personal room, in his chalet in the remote Alps of Switzerland. He was a multi-millionaire known mainly for his generous philanthropy. The chalet was many times the size of the normal Swiss home. Outside it was clean and bright, with the [...]
The tragic deaths of her mother and two younger siblings have left Grace Harmon responsible for raising her sister Miriam and protecting her from their abusive father, Luther, a zealot preacher with a penchant for speaking in Biblical verse who is on a downward spiral toward insanity.
What is your book about? Flower Child is about a mother who loses her first pregnancy to miscarriage but can’t quite let go of the child she thought she was bearing. How long had the idea of your book been developing before you began to write the story? My first pregnancy ended in miscarriage and [...]
As a reader you get drawn into a storyline by what its characters do or say. As a writer, the same process applies. When you are writing a story you have a vague idea where it may go. But as the story develops, it changes direction at a sometimes frightening speed. You write a sentence [...]
1. What is your book about? Merry Go Round is about Tracy Jones Tomlinson, the youngest of three sisters in my Maple Valley trilogy. Tracy married her childhood sweetheart, is a minister’s wife, and has three lovely children. In the first two books, Rachael and Michelle’s mother brags about how perfect Tracy and her husband [...]
How long had the idea of your book been developing before you began to write the story? I worked on the idea for Donations to Clarity for about two or three years. My original intention was to write a very different book which included more mythical creatures, such as the Loch Ness Monster, but when [...]
