[Guest Post] The Writing of my Historical Fiction | JudithKirscht.com

 Just in case you missed it, I wrote a guest post on author Judith Kirscht blog last week.

Here's a small snippet about my historical fiction novel, Sweet Song :

Like most authors, I write what comes to me. I had been reading about the Susquahanna River, along which I grew up. Williamsport, the nearest town to our country dwelling in Cogan Station, was a stopping point for those escaping the south through the underground railroad. These books brought me back to my childhood, back to where I’d grown up, and I wanted to explore that place deeper than I had before.Soon, the words to the novel began to come to me. Characters came to me. I could see them in my mind’s eye walking in the woods, meeting with other people. One morning, as it usually is with me, I got up with the sound of a narrator in my head. I went to my desk and began writing about Leon, the mulatto child who was mistaken for white, who had to figure out how he wanted to be seen.Read more at: http://www.judithkirscht.com 
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Description: Sweet Song  

An archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post – Civil War America, Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, finds himself suddenly on his own — and passing for white.

Wrestling with a divided heritage in a world where honesty, even with friends, might prove fatal, he falls in with dispossessed thieves, mill workers, saloonkeepers, musicians, businessmen, thugs, freedom loving idealists and malevolent racists — a vivid panorama from America’s past. This tender, raw, provocative novel speaks from the heart about where we’ve come from and who we are.
 
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Terry Persun writes in many genres, including historical fiction, mainstream, literary, and science fiction/fantasy. His novel,  Cathedral of Dreams  is a ForeWord MagazineBook of the Year finalist in the science fiction category. His novel  Sweet Song  just won a Silver IPPY Award, too. His latest novel is,  Revision 7: DNA , a sci-fi thriller. Terry’s website is: www.TerryPersun.com or you can find him on Amazon HERE.