Tag: adventure
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Mornings at Character Café — featuring Luke from The Newton Chronicles
Welcome to Character Café, Luke. It’s great to have your friends here, too. Thanks! This is Lydia and and Nathan. If you want to find out about drinks and desserts from all over the world, just ask Lydia. She also speaks multiple languages. How impressive! Nice to meet you, Lydia. And what about Nathan, what […]
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Chronicles of Courage — Episode 4
Christmas at the West Mountain Sanitarium In the 1930s As I researched Voices in the Sanitorium, I spent many hours poring over old newspapers. What an adventure each edition of The Scranton Republican and The Scranton Times became! The most mentions of the hospital on West Mountain always happened during the months of November and […]
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Mornings at Character Café
Meet BLAIRE BEECHY from WAGONS WEST How would you describe yourself?Well . . . I am . . . a widow. I hate the word, I can’t stand the thought, but that’s what I am. When Howard passed so suddenly and, uh . . . Well, I was a bit lost. For my adult life, […]
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Welcome to Character Café!
Featuring Francis Lee from New Beginnings Good morning, Francis! It is so good to see you out and about. I am so sorry about all of your losses a few months ago when scarlet fever went through town. You got hit so hard, losing your parents and your husband all within a few days. Are […]
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Chronicles of Courage – Episode 1 Kristin Heller – “A Life Restart at Fifteen” I met Kristin Heller in one of my Facebook groups. I asked for some favorite childhood memories on one of my posts. Kristin commented that she didn’t have any childhood memories. My interest was captured! Tell us about what happened, Kristin! […]
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Wisdom from a Wordsmith – Episode 20
Welcome to Writing on Walsh Mountain, Jodie Wolfe! I recently began reading Protecting Annie, and contacted Jody about an interview. And, it didn’t register until a couple days ago that Jody was one of the blog stops on the Celebrate Lit tour for my novel Elsie Whitmore. I think it is fun that I am […]
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Wisdom from a Wordsmith — Episode 5
As I sought beta readers, I tried to get a wide variety of people so I could have multiple perspectives reacting to A Cursed Enchantment. I intended the novel to be a book for all ages — and both boys and girls. Liam is my youngest beta reader, just coming out of the 3rd grade. […]
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Wisdom from a Wordsmith – Episode 4
Just like every snowflake has its own pattern and each person has its own fingerprint, each author has his or her own voice and style. I have always been an avid reader, but since I became an author, I have come to appreciate the diversity in writing even more. Reading other authors’ works calls me […]
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A Cursed Enchantment
I have been falling in love with quite the family of characters. Miniatures brought to life by the greatest magician in all Crepundia, they have been abandoned and must find their way in a world full of perils. I can’t decide which character I like best: Nana, whose quirky sayings are full of wisdom? Livia, […]