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Victoria Kahler

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Victoria Kahler loves novels (reading and writing them), vacations, and the ocean. She chose cruise ships as the setting of her first two novels, Seven on the Blue and Capturing the Sunset. Both are available on Amazon. For her latest novel, Their Friend Scarlet, she stayed closer to home and set the story in her native state of California, in the fictional towns of San Marino and Nieman Beach (yes, there's an oceanside scene!). This story--about two sisters who share one best friend--is also available in Kindle edition.

In the fall of 2010, Victoria joined the 408 Writing Gang, where she enjoys discussing her own work and the fiction, biographies, and poetry of other writers. These friends, as well as her family, inspire her and encourage h...more


Whenever I miss my dad, who passed away a few years ago, I put on his old pair of glasses. Most of the time, they lie next to a framed picture of him on my bookshelf, but every now and then, I unfold their temples that creak slightly on unused hinges and put them on. His vision was terrible! Looking through the lenses, which are as thick as the glass of a Coke bottle, the floor is a deep gulch,... Read more of this blog post »
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Published on March 02, 2012 21:51 • 145 views • Tags: dad, dads, father, fathers, glasses, keepsakes
Average rating: 4.40 · 25 ratings · 7 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Seven on the Blue
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Capturing the Sunset
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
Their Friend Scarlet
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012

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Slow to start, this was a two at first. Once it got going, a five! But the meandering pointless ending left it with just my average three stars.
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“Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.”
Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet

“She felt just like that girl in that book with the
letter A on her chest. Only her A signified Alone. She
was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an
outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have
been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only
knew the thorny side.”
Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet

“He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . that tartness was part of the allure all along.”
Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She thoroughly felt the pitch and roll of the ship as it traveled southerly across the ocean. It was a pleasant feeling, an ancient one that every person who had ever loved the sea had felt and cherished--to be rocked to sleep, as if in a mother's arms or in a cradle.”
Victoria Kahler, Seven on the Blue

“The morning was on fire as the sun rose, seemingly from the ocean depths. The great, glowing orb came to the surface and set the horizon aflame. Many minutes passed, and it floated fully into the sky to light the day and gently warm the sea below.”
Victoria Kahler, Seven on the Blue

“It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”
Francis Drake

“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.”
Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

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Victoria Taznim wrote: "hi Victoria,
i really enjoyed Capturing the Sunset!
looking forward to more of your books..."



Taznim,
Thanks for your encouraging words. Your feedback means a lot to me!


Taznim hi Victoria,
i really enjoyed Capturing the Sunset!
looking forward to more of your books...


Monique Thank u for the add:)


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