Building New Worlds
I’m super-excited today! Why, you ask? Well, it’s release day for the boxed set of the first three books in my Hometown Heroes series. And isn’t this cover pretty? Dar Albert at Wicked Smart Designs always does such a tremendous job with my book covers.
The Hometown Heroes series takes place in Lindsey Point, Connecticut, a fictional small town on the coast, set halfway between New York City and Boston. It currently has 6 books (4 full-length novels a 2 novellas), and I’ve loved creating this world with quirky characters and story lines.
World building is a challenging thing, and even though I think it’s probably harder for authors who write sci fi or paranormal or fantasy, because they REALLY have to create a brand new world, it’s still hard for us contemporary authors. Sure, most people are familiar with small towns. They’ve probably driven through them, and maybe even lived in them. But I still have to create a whole world of fictional places and names and people. Usually that’s fun. Sometimes it’s a struggle (I mean, how many different ways can you describe a diner or a coffee shop?).
So yes, Lindsey Point is very much like a lot of New England towns. It has a beach overlooking a quiet bay. It has wide streets with Colonial-style homes, a diner, a coffee shop, and a collection of residents that run the gamut from volunteer firefighter to pastry chef to handyman to real estate agent.
What makes it different? Well, it has a haunted lighthouse, for one. It has people who don’t know they’re related...but who will find out. It has a heroic (and very sexy) bartender who dragged people from a burning building when he was barely out of his teens. It’s the home of a famous poet with a secret past, and its college library has a maze of underground tunnels that’s been blocked off for years.
So yes, Lindsey Point is a world of its own. I hope you’ll want to come and visit -- with this new boxed set, you can read the first three books in the series for less than half of what it would cost you to purchase them separately!
The Hometown Heroes series takes place in Lindsey Point, Connecticut, a fictional small town on the coast, set halfway between New York City and Boston. It currently has 6 books (4 full-length novels a 2 novellas), and I’ve loved creating this world with quirky characters and story lines. World building is a challenging thing, and even though I think it’s probably harder for authors who write sci fi or paranormal or fantasy, because they REALLY have to create a brand new world, it’s still hard for us contemporary authors. Sure, most people are familiar with small towns. They’ve probably driven through them, and maybe even lived in them. But I still have to create a whole world of fictional places and names and people. Usually that’s fun. Sometimes it’s a struggle (I mean, how many different ways can you describe a diner or a coffee shop?).
So yes, Lindsey Point is very much like a lot of New England towns. It has a beach overlooking a quiet bay. It has wide streets with Colonial-style homes, a diner, a coffee shop, and a collection of residents that run the gamut from volunteer firefighter to pastry chef to handyman to real estate agent.
What makes it different? Well, it has a haunted lighthouse, for one. It has people who don’t know they’re related...but who will find out. It has a heroic (and very sexy) bartender who dragged people from a burning building when he was barely out of his teens. It’s the home of a famous poet with a secret past, and its college library has a maze of underground tunnels that’s been blocked off for years.
So yes, Lindsey Point is a world of its own. I hope you’ll want to come and visit -- with this new boxed set, you can read the first three books in the series for less than half of what it would cost you to purchase them separately!
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