Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “The Innocent”
An oxymoron – a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined. (e.g., thunderous silence, sweet sorrow, Shaker romance) I always do seem to do things the hard way. Let me explain. Many years ago when I started writing, romances were the thing. You know what? Romances are still the thing. People love reading about …
Have you ever met a Shaker? Probably not unless you’ve been to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine where two Shakers still reside in the only active Shaker village remaining. The other nineteen villages that once dotted the eastern states and Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana have long passed into history. Fortunately for history buffs, many of those villages …
When I was looking for something to share on my FB author page today where I share tidbits of Shaker history. This morning, I hunted up an excerpt from my Shaker story, The Innocent, about my character, Carlyn, working in the Shaker washroom. The Shakers had much to launder. They believed in clean. The also believed work was a way to …
Since The Innocent is on e-book sale right now for 99 cents for a limited time on Amazon, I found this post written a few years ago for a different blog when the story was newly published. I rewrote the piece to bring it up to date to share how a story can come to life for me. When I’m ready …
In my books, while I never have everything thought out, I do have my main characters. In The Innocent, I begin with my female main character, Carlyn, and her dog Asher. I have the setting. For The Innocent, that was my fictional Shaker Village of Harmony Hill. I knew what some of Carlyn’s challenges were going to be but also …
A first line of a story is the baited hook an author hopes will catch a reader’s interest so they will want to read the second line and on and on until the last line on the last page. Some readers will check out that first line before they decide if the book is one they want to read. I’ve …
To appreciate the sun, you gotta know what rain is. (J. Cole) Or snow or sleet and hail. Or even the gray winter skies that February can sometimes bring. My daughter once insisted that in Kentucky we have more gray skies than sunny skies in February. She doesn’t like long stretches of no sun. I said I don’t think that’s …
I’ve reached into my blog archives again tonight with a reworked post of Shaker sayings. The Innocent on e-book sale has me thinking Shakers and it is Shaker Wednesday or was when I posted this. 🙂 Every week on my Facebook author’s page, I do “Shaker Wednesday” where I hunt up some bit of Shaker history or maybe a picture …
Flower 1 Flower 2 Flower 3 The Innocent is Ready for Readers The Innocent is going out to readers. The internet …
“I don’t want her to have a cat because she’ll end up talking baby talk to the cat. That’s the way it is, and how can a P.I. do that? (Sue Grafton talking about her character in her alphabet mystery series) I can understand Sue Grafton’s point of view. Every character is different and some need a pet and some …