Behind the Scenes of Angel Sister

My book, Angel Sister is on e-book sale this week. You can grab a copy for your e-reader for less than one dollar. 99 cents on some sites. 79 cents on others. I can’t even begin to come up with a price per word that might be. Way less that 9 cents per chapter. But it’s fun to have the book on sale to perhaps entice some new readers to come visit Rosey Corner.

I’ve talked on here before about how I sometimes start digging around for a new idea for a book by asking what if. So I looked back on my computer to see if I still had my “What if” page. I had two different plotting pages where I was free thinking as I worked through my idea for my Rosey Corner family. So here’s a little of what I was thinking when the Merritt sisters were just whispers of an idea in my head.

Idea – A trilogy centered around 4 sisters in the 1930s and 1940s. Based loosely on the stories Mom and her sisters have told me of their growing up years. A family saga or everyday life events with the backdrop of the depression and World War II. Or it could start with parents earlier with WW I. That would have been 1917-1920 time frame. The first book could go through the parents’ courtship and marriage and birth of the children. The second book could be while the girls were young. The third book could be as they were getting married, etc. Or we could have the first book set apart and then books about the sisters. The sisters part might be better if they’re all old enough to venture into the world on their own. They could recall childhood. But then I want to use all those wonderful characters my mother talked about in her community when she was a kid. I need kids to interact with them. Kids have a special innocence and acceptance that adults don’t. 

So what if?  What if I have 4 sisters? The Merritt Sisters. All born two or less years apart. Maybe the youngest will be somehow different. A child they took in. We’ll have four plus one. It could be three sisters plus one. That would just leave one middle sister and one oldest and one youngest and then one who would be dropped like a puppy on the doorstep. Or on the church’s doorstep and since Nadine’s father was the preacher, Reverend Reece, he gives the child to Nadine. No social services then. Who’s the oldest, etc?  Kate is the main viewpoint character.  The thread to tie all the other stories together. The one through whom all the other stories are told. She’s probably the middle child. The strong one. The determined one. 

So what happens in the year or time of this book?  1936.  Kate is 14.  Evie is 16.  Tori is ten and Lorena is on the church steps.  

It’s interesting for me to go back and read this since some of it stayed the same and some of it changed as I got into the story. Kate is a main viewpoint character in the first book, Angel Sister. There is that fourth sister who comes into the family in a different way. Lorena Birdsong. She was a gift character. Then we had Graham and Fern, the odd characters based on a brother and sister that my mother and aunts talked about in their stories of growing up in the Depression years. Graham was a wonderful character to get to know and Fern? Well, Fern was Fern.

If you haven’t gone to Rosey Corner yet and met my Merritt sisters, you can grab the e-book now at this low price. But the price won’t last long, so check it out soon. You can find out more about the book and buy links here. It was fun to have Angel Sister a featured book on BookBub today and to see it become a #1 bestseller in Christian Historical Fiction and Christian e-books on Kindle .

So if you downloaded the book, thank you. And thank you if you’ve read the book in the past. I so appreciate you taking a trip back in time to Rosey Corner and getting to know my Merritt sisters. Maybe on Sunday I’ll share some more about the Rosey Corner books. Thanks for reading.

If you’ve read my Rosey Corner stories, which character turned out to be your favorite? 

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