butterscotch
butterscotch-a collection of stories will be available on Amazon.com sometime this coming week.
The volume of ten adult stories and one children's story (included because it is a real story, unpublished, that I wrote for Kelly in the mid-1990's when she was very sick and having trouble sleeping.) I use the story in the fiction story The First Publicity Tour, so decided to tack it on at the end because it's one of Kelly's favorite stories first told orally as the humidifier puffed vapor in the nightlight lit den where we were sharing the double bed so I could keep an ear on her breathing- she used to get bronchitis really bad. Thankfully, she outgrew that!)
The title came about this way- I couldn't think of a title for this collection and was getting desperate and frustrated. My eyes chanced to fall on a glass jar of butterscotch buttons (hard candy) that sits on the kitchen table. When Kelly and I write we sometimes have a candy while we tap away on the keyboards of our computers. Butterscotch is a favorite of mine, so I decided to name the book butterscotch. Also, yellow was my Dad's favorite color. Since the book is coming out around what would have been his 88th birthday (he's been gone for 6 years now), I chose it as a tribute to him.
The butterscotch buttons pictured on the cover came from Richardson's Candy Kitchen, 500 Greenfield Road, Deerfield, MA- a favorite candy shop since I was a child. My parents used to go out to dinner in Greenfield and sometimes Keene, NH when we were kids, and they'd always stop for candy on the way home in Deerfield. I had a little excelsior stuffed giraffe from the store for years, and later a plush beaver-and he smelled like chocolate for YEARS! 50 years later, Richardson's is still a favorite stop, and my exclusive source of butterscotch buttons. Kelly and I ran up there two weekends ago to buy the butterscotch candies (4 bags) and some root beer barrels, another favorite. I dumped the butterscotches out on the kitchen table and took some pictures. One of those pictures graces the cover of the book.
Keeping it local...butterscotch will be available in a few weeks at Blue Umbrella Books, my local indie bookseller. It will also, as previously stated, be available on Amazon.
Moving on to the next project- the vampire novel that's been "in the works" for nearly two years now! Just finished the second big edit and revision.
The volume of ten adult stories and one children's story (included because it is a real story, unpublished, that I wrote for Kelly in the mid-1990's when she was very sick and having trouble sleeping.) I use the story in the fiction story The First Publicity Tour, so decided to tack it on at the end because it's one of Kelly's favorite stories first told orally as the humidifier puffed vapor in the nightlight lit den where we were sharing the double bed so I could keep an ear on her breathing- she used to get bronchitis really bad. Thankfully, she outgrew that!)
The title came about this way- I couldn't think of a title for this collection and was getting desperate and frustrated. My eyes chanced to fall on a glass jar of butterscotch buttons (hard candy) that sits on the kitchen table. When Kelly and I write we sometimes have a candy while we tap away on the keyboards of our computers. Butterscotch is a favorite of mine, so I decided to name the book butterscotch. Also, yellow was my Dad's favorite color. Since the book is coming out around what would have been his 88th birthday (he's been gone for 6 years now), I chose it as a tribute to him.
The butterscotch buttons pictured on the cover came from Richardson's Candy Kitchen, 500 Greenfield Road, Deerfield, MA- a favorite candy shop since I was a child. My parents used to go out to dinner in Greenfield and sometimes Keene, NH when we were kids, and they'd always stop for candy on the way home in Deerfield. I had a little excelsior stuffed giraffe from the store for years, and later a plush beaver-and he smelled like chocolate for YEARS! 50 years later, Richardson's is still a favorite stop, and my exclusive source of butterscotch buttons. Kelly and I ran up there two weekends ago to buy the butterscotch candies (4 bags) and some root beer barrels, another favorite. I dumped the butterscotches out on the kitchen table and took some pictures. One of those pictures graces the cover of the book.
Keeping it local...butterscotch will be available in a few weeks at Blue Umbrella Books, my local indie bookseller. It will also, as previously stated, be available on Amazon.
Moving on to the next project- the vampire novel that's been "in the works" for nearly two years now! Just finished the second big edit and revision.
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