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Blog postAfter a summer at home working on the next book, it’s time for a short fall book tour. If you’re in NC, SC, or GA, I’d love to meet you and share the real-life history behind Before We Were Yours. For event details, Click Here.
A Bit On Hurricanes and The Dragonfly Principle…
One last thought before I go pack my bags. As I leave on the book tour, coastal areas farther south in my home state brace for the impact of a monster hurricane. Even if the mildest predictions com -
Blog postSometimes, the most colorful bits of a story are the ones you stumble across completely by accident. They’re like brightly-colored wildflowers growing alongside the path you thought you’d take. You can’t help but stop and gaze in their direction and contemplate wandering off course to get a closer look.
Such was the case of Kingdom Arcadia, the Foss family’s little shantyboat home in the novel. Originally, I thought the children in Before We Were Yours might be farm kids, snatched (as -
Blog postFor any story you can write, there’s someone who’s lived it. I’m convinced of that. While writing Before We Were Yours, I often felt that I was inventing Rill’s world onboard the family’s tiny shantyboat, the Arcadia. You see, not that much had been written about shantyboat people, or if much had been written it hadn’t survived the long years since the once-vibrant shantyboat culture faded from America’s rivers. I read Harlan Hubbard’s writings on his experiences, building a shantyboat with h
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Blog postOne of the joys of the writing life is in the lasting friendships formed with other writers. Judy Christie is as good as they come. This interview was originally for Judy’s column in the Shreveport Times. I thought you might like to pull of a chair and sit on in on the conversation, too. — Lisa
Judy Christie: Like you, I enjoy writing about characters who meet the challenges in front of them. And, the idea of home and family is important to me, and I wanted to explore those themes wi -
Blog postOne of the joys of the writing life is in the lasting friendships formed with other writers. Judy Christie is as good as they come. This interview was originally for Judy’s column in the Shreveport Times. I thought you might like to pull of a chair and sit on the porch with us a while, too. — Lisa
Judy Christie: You and I often visit about our writing process, and readers ask me how that process works–do I stare at a blank computer screen and get easily distracted, or am I able to po -
Blog postOne of the joys of the writing life is in the lasting friendships formed with other writers. Judy Christie is as good as they come. This interview was originally for Judy’s column in the Shreveport Times. I thought you might like to pull of a chair and sit on the porch with us a while, too. — Lisa
Judy Christie: Lisa, like you, I’m drawn to strong, resilient characters. In my Wreath Willis novels, I explored the life of a teenager who lives alone in a junkyard. The idea came when I d -
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Blog postWith Before We Were Yours hitting shelves in June, it seems appropriate to talk of sibling bonds—what they mean and how deeply ingrained they can be. As was the case with many children who, in real life, found themselves caught up in the Memphis Tennessee Children’s Home Society’s corrupt system of orphan houses, Rill Foss, the twelve-year-old narrator in the novel, struggles to preserve not only her individual identity, but her collective identity as part of a river gypsy family, as one of s
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Blog postAround here, the weekend started out with a good, slow rain, which we desperately needed. For me, that water song is sweet music anytime. I am a lover of water and have always been. I grew up along a little creek, waking, and sleeping, and playing, and dreaming to its changing rhythms.
After a rain, the man-children and I can never resist checking to see if “their” little creek in the back pasture has risen to temporary river status. These days, we just stand on the bank and look, but -
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Blog postHappy St. Patrick’s week, everyone! Since it’s that time of year again and I am proudly Irish on my red-haired mother’s side, it occurred to me that, aside from “He was the patron saint of Ireland,” I really don’t know that much about St. Patrick or why we celebrate the holiday in the way that we do. I hope you’ll enjoy learning the answers as much as I did. — Lisa
The Legend of St Patrick
Born to wealthy British parents in the year 387, the man who would become St. Patr -
Blog postThere are times when you turn corners in life without quite realizing what’s happened. It’s only when you stumble across the reminders that you realize how much time has passed and how far you’ve come on your journey. — Story Guru
For years around here we’ve been in the busy season of work commitments, man-child activities, book travel, and the general scramble that comes with the transitional years of fluffing out fledgling humans and preparing them to fly from the nest.
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