Tag: literature
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The Walshwick Papers — The Ivy Series — No. 4
Ivy in now in London and residing in the home of Charles Spurgeon. If you should need a refresher before beginning the fourth serial edition of Ivy’s tale, read the links below in order. Then, scroll below the links to read of Ivy’s time in London in the 1880s. Ivy and Mrs. Spurgeon As the…
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Crow’s Nest Chronicles: Adaleigh’s Secret, Danger, and Romance at Water’s Edge: A Morning at Character Cafe with Adaleigh
Welcome to Character Cafe, Adaleigh. I’m thrilled to have the heroine of Confessions to a Stranger here for tea and a treat. Your author, Danielle Grandinetti is amazing, both as a wordsmith and a woman of God. I’m thrilled to be working with her in a multi-author series — Our House on Sycamore Street. Thank…
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A Morning at Character Cafe with Faith from Rocky Mountain Journey
Good morning, Faith. Welcome to Character Cafe! I am so excited to have you here today since your novel contains one of my favorite tropes — woman disguised as man. Tell us why you had to become “Frank” for a time. My sisters and I made a promise to my father that we’d return a…
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A Morning at Character Cafe with Kensi
Good morning, Eve. Oops, I mean Kensi. It’s hard to get used to using your other name. It’s really neat to see you making changes in your life, though. I hope you’ll be able to move on… Thanks, Amy. After six years of being in survival mode after my fiancé died, when my bestie Ezra…
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Mornings at Character Cafe — Welcome, Eliza Ellis!
Good morning, Eliza! It’s so good to have you here in Character Cafe. Oh my goodness, from the first page of your story, I felt like we had so much in common. Like you, I spent a large portion of my childhood exploring forests and allocating names to boulders. My brothers and I had a…
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A Novel Museum — Voices in the Sanitorium
A Glimpse of the Voices in the Sanitorium Mini-Museum Though the 2009 components of my novel are fictional, as far as characters and some of the settings, the diary excerpts from 1931 are based on actual characters I “met” through interviews with relatives, photographs donated to me, trips to local historical societies, and hours reading…
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A Roman Visitor in Character Cafe — Redemption’s Promise
Welcome, Antonius Marcos! This is our first time having a soldier from biblical times visit the cafe. I’m not sure if I should feel honored or nervous… No need to fear. Yes, I am a Roman centurion stationed in Jerusalem, but I am not the enemy of Jews or Christians my fellow soldiers would be.…