Charlie’s eyes shifted to his brother. “Will spits ’bacca juice at me.” “Charlie lies,” Will said. These are the first words we hear from two young brothers in The Girl on the Mountain, the first book in my Mountain Women series. When I introduced these boys, I had no idea how they would impact the story […]
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Writing from scratch is harder than cooking from scratch, unless you’re copying someone else’s recipe. When you write from scratch, you must concoct the ingredients, too. The first ingredient of The Girl on the Mountain grew from my dream about a poor child huddled in bushes at the door of a privileged home. An open
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When I was told several times that my main character’s sidekick was stealing the show, I decided to make her the main character of the next story. In the first one (The Girl on the Mountain) Wanda is 13, abused and homeless, but resilient, wise, and strong-willed. In that story she’s a contrast to the older, somewhat naive main character
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