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Novelist Next Door #3: Hurricane Alley
Novelist Next Door #3: Hurricane Alley It's good to be back at the NND blog after a long hiatus during which I've been...well...writing a novel. I started writing Yellow Sky, Emerald Sea three autumns ago during calmer times, meteorologically speaking, on the Atlantic...
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Halt at X has been out in the world for a month now. Thanks to you early-adopter readers! I would love to get your reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, if you are so inclined.
And so….next? A novel set on the Weekapaug Coast of Rhode Island eighty years after of the Hurricane of ’38.
On a short research jaunt there in May I met a talkative old local (Bill) from Pawcatuck, RI, who told me stories I hadn’t found in the books and old newspaper articles I’ve read so far. All while I was tripping over the briars and picking off ticks while stumbling around the hulking remains of Ft. Mansfield at Napatree Point. I did not see Bill stumble once! The plovers were piping loudly, the gulls were crabbing, and the cliff swallows were dive bombing me to steer clear of their nests in the abandoned fort! Great fun was had by all, except, I suppose, the crabs….
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Novel writing tools circa 1985 (left) and 2015 (right). I’ve been at this for a while….ET_2in1
In this NND blog, I’ll be musing about novels, novel writing, and novelists next door. We’re out there. Right in your own neighborhood! Reading and writing novels.
A little about me to get going….
I have degrees in English (always a good excuse to write fiction) and Conservation Biology (always a good excuse to wander around in the woods or explore the low tide line). Art, Science, and Literature have encircled my life for decades.
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I also write essays. You can check out a sampling of my published essays by clicking on the hyperlinks. Topics range from: Learning to play the saxophone Mother henning bluebirds to creches that have seen better...
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