Marilyn Freeman's Blog
September 29, 2023
The Life-Enhancing Benefits of Writing in later life
Creative writing holds immense value for the older writer as it provides numerous benefits that can enhance overall well-being. It can boost confidence and provide a sense of fulfilment. It allows you to tap into your creativity and express yourself in unique and imaginative ways. Writing fiction or even memoirs can transport you to different worlds or relive cherished memories, adding depth and meaning to your life today.
September 3, 2021
Coalbrookdale – Where it all began
Forgive me if I speak to you with the benefit of my three score years and fifteen! I’ll try not to patronise, but it’s difficult not to feel a certain smugness having reached this time in my life with my intellect more or less in tact. I have reached a plateau of contentment, where I … Continue reading "Coalbrookdale – Where it all began"
May 25, 2021
Learning Curves by Marilyn Freeman
You would think that at my age, I would have learned enough to get me through life, but maybe not quite – yet! My whole life seems to have been one long learning curve. When I left school and entered the world of work as an experimental officer in the Research Department of I.C.I. I … Continue reading "Learning Curves by Marilyn Freeman"
May 9, 2021
Bringing My Story to Life!
As I was writing Karma, in my imagination, I was strolling through the streets of Paris, surrounded by all the unique sights, smells and sounds of that exciting city. I had hoped to be able to convey to my readers all that my senses were experiencing in my imagination, and to make my story as … Continue reading "Bringing My Story to Life!"
April 1, 2021
The nerves are kicking in!
I spent eight months or so during the past year of lockdown revisiting the Paris I knew on a school holiday in 1962 – the most exciting week of my life up to that point. I poured many precious memories of that wonderful city into the creation of Karma: A Mystery in Paris. I’ve polished … Continue reading "The nerves are kicking in!"
March 21, 2021
Forget Lockdown - Escape to 1970's Paris!
My husband and I are fortunate to live by the beautiful river Ouse in Bedford and taking our walks along the Embankment most days has been a life saver for us during the pandemic. Also helping me to keep my sanity during lockdown has been my writing. For many years I have been editing and self-publishing books for my husband and private clients but had had an idea for a novel in my head for a long time. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck last year and we were forced to isolate, I decided it was finally time to get down to writing that novel.
I have discovered that the greatest joy in writing is the freedom it gives me to be anyone, do anything and go anywhere in the world, while still sitting at my computer. The process of writing for me starts with a situation which I people with characters. Once my characters are developed they begin to act out the situation seemingly quite outside my control. I have tried starting with a plan, but somehow my characters never quite stick to it!
My debut novel, Karma: A Mystery in Paris tells the story of a young woman, Adrienne, twenty two years old, who is determined to find out what happened to her mother, who left the family home ten years previously and never returned. Her quest takes her to Paris in 1972 where she is accompanied by a man claiming to be the father she had never known. Spanning three decades, the story she uncovers has its roots in the Nazi occupation of the city and the evil those events unleashed. There are many twists and turns along the way culminating in a shocking conclusion.
Having decided to take the self-publishing route to bring my work to a waiting world, I am spending much of my time on marketing at the moment, and also working on my next book. This is a domestic thriller, Secrets and Lives, which will be released in June 2021. It is about the unintended consequences of a young woman giving up her baby for adoption in the 1970's, and how that decision affects not only her own life and that of her child, but also her future family.
Apart from my literary efforts, I have twenty grandchildren and four, shortly to be five great grandchildren, and a husband who also writes, so I'm kept pretty busy!
The ebook of Karma: A Mystery in Paris will be released on 3rd April and can be ordered now at Apple iBooks, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and Amazon Books at a discounted price, with printed books to follow shortly.
Contact me: inbox@marilynfreeman.org Website: "https://www.spellbrooktales.com/about..."
Facebook: "http://www.facebook.com/marilynswriting"
Karma: A Mystery in Paris
Marilyn Freeman
I have discovered that the greatest joy in writing is the freedom it gives me to be anyone, do anything and go anywhere in the world, while still sitting at my computer. The process of writing for me starts with a situation which I people with characters. Once my characters are developed they begin to act out the situation seemingly quite outside my control. I have tried starting with a plan, but somehow my characters never quite stick to it!
My debut novel, Karma: A Mystery in Paris tells the story of a young woman, Adrienne, twenty two years old, who is determined to find out what happened to her mother, who left the family home ten years previously and never returned. Her quest takes her to Paris in 1972 where she is accompanied by a man claiming to be the father she had never known. Spanning three decades, the story she uncovers has its roots in the Nazi occupation of the city and the evil those events unleashed. There are many twists and turns along the way culminating in a shocking conclusion.
Having decided to take the self-publishing route to bring my work to a waiting world, I am spending much of my time on marketing at the moment, and also working on my next book. This is a domestic thriller, Secrets and Lives, which will be released in June 2021. It is about the unintended consequences of a young woman giving up her baby for adoption in the 1970's, and how that decision affects not only her own life and that of her child, but also her future family.
Apart from my literary efforts, I have twenty grandchildren and four, shortly to be five great grandchildren, and a husband who also writes, so I'm kept pretty busy!
The ebook of Karma: A Mystery in Paris will be released on 3rd April and can be ordered now at Apple iBooks, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and Amazon Books at a discounted price, with printed books to follow shortly.
Contact me: inbox@marilynfreeman.org Website: "https://www.spellbrooktales.com/about..."
Facebook: "http://www.facebook.com/marilynswriting"
Karma: A Mystery in Paris
Marilyn Freeman
