Contessa
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Anna Faversham:
CONGRATULATIONS on both beginning a blog as well as staying committed to writing...as most of us know, life seems to get in the way of our dreams, but if we persevere, we can make them come true, right? I love to hear those stories! Sounds like you've had an interesting life and I'd love to read more about it. What are the titles of your books?
Anna Faversham
Hi Contessa, thank you for your question. It's making me think of several quotations about perseverance all agreeing with what you say.
When we moved house recently I found some old diaries and noticed that in a 2007 one I had written 'Write a book.' Not once, but scattered throughout several months. As I had a full time job and various other responsibilities this was, as you say, a dream. I must have finally obeyed myself because in 2012 my first book was published.
In order, as requested, these are the titles of my books with little 'stories' attached:
Hide in Time - Time Travel Romance. It was conceived in St Paul's Cathedral on New Year's Eve when the Dean kept repeating the words 'Past and Future' and on the journey home my mind fleshed out the bones of what became my first published book.
One Dark Night - Book One of The Dark Moon Series (smugglers and love in Regency times on the UK coast.
Under a Dark Star - Book Two and some of the characters bear the names of unsung heroes - nobody seems to have spotted them yet.
One Dark Soul - Book Three of The Dark Moon Series might bring tears to your eyes. I had to move the box of hankies closer as I wrote it.
Immortality: This is Probably a Novel. A complete change of genre from historical to Sci Fi or Speculative Fiction or as Amazon have plonked it in: Metaphysical and Visionary. They're right, of course. After I looked up exactly what that genre was, it did describe my book, those Algorithms are smart - or maybe an Amazon employee read the book... hmm... yes we can dream.
Quite a bit of my life oozes into my books.
Thank you, Contessa, for making me think.
Anna
When we moved house recently I found some old diaries and noticed that in a 2007 one I had written 'Write a book.' Not once, but scattered throughout several months. As I had a full time job and various other responsibilities this was, as you say, a dream. I must have finally obeyed myself because in 2012 my first book was published.
In order, as requested, these are the titles of my books with little 'stories' attached:
Hide in Time - Time Travel Romance. It was conceived in St Paul's Cathedral on New Year's Eve when the Dean kept repeating the words 'Past and Future' and on the journey home my mind fleshed out the bones of what became my first published book.
One Dark Night - Book One of The Dark Moon Series (smugglers and love in Regency times on the UK coast.
Under a Dark Star - Book Two and some of the characters bear the names of unsung heroes - nobody seems to have spotted them yet.
One Dark Soul - Book Three of The Dark Moon Series might bring tears to your eyes. I had to move the box of hankies closer as I wrote it.
Immortality: This is Probably a Novel. A complete change of genre from historical to Sci Fi or Speculative Fiction or as Amazon have plonked it in: Metaphysical and Visionary. They're right, of course. After I looked up exactly what that genre was, it did describe my book, those Algorithms are smart - or maybe an Amazon employee read the book... hmm... yes we can dream.
Quite a bit of my life oozes into my books.
Thank you, Contessa, for making me think.
Anna
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