Thanks for returning to my site. I'm
still plotting and researching my "flapper"-era
novel--the days of speakeasies and jazz,
the Charleston and prohibition, when
young women rebelled and cast off their physical
and symbolic Victorian corsets to become just
plain naughty in an age of craziness. This is a
long process, but please stay tuned.
Meanwhile, I've resurrected a novel
I wrote about twenty years ago, and I can't
believe how my writing has improved since then.
This novel was composed on a clunky manual
typewriter--all 100,000 words of it, and several
drafts. It's full of grammatical and punctuation
errors, so I welcome the chance to hone my
proofreading skills. I know I can cut at
least 20,000 words from this monster!
I still think this story is worth
pursuing, and I've even taken another look at the
title. Now I realize that what I have here is a mystery,
so I've re-titled it THE GHOST OF CALICO ACRES.
The setting is southwestern Wisconsin . . . and
that's all I'm saying for now.
Here's the good thing about working
on another novel: I'm getting plot ideas for
Jazzbaby while concentrating on something else.
~
The Haunted Igloo, Spirit
Lights,
Down the Memory Hole,
& Footprints in Time
are also available as Amazon Paperbacks
and Kindle
Editions.
Encourage your children to read for
pleasure,
and someday they will thank you!
HTML spider Al Di Meola,guitar,jazz,fusion,PRS,prism,Conde,world
music,latin music,children's books, children's authors, juvenile,
book, jazz, prohibition, Charleston, speakeasy, speakeasies,
flapper, flappers, flapper era, 1925, rebellion, the roaring
twenties, dance hall, Pickwick Club, Boston,meet the author,
children's book
writing, middle grade fiction, scary books,
middle grade novels, reading,readers, young readers, young adult,
student book research, teachers and writers help, dogs, huskies,
fears, fear of dark, siberian huskies, sled dogs, dogsleds,
igloos, the haunted
igloo, snow, cold, ice, Canada, Northwest
Territories, northern lights, auroras, aurora borealis, lewis and
clark expedition, sacajawea, papoose