by Laura | Feb 20, 2020 | Aunt Truly's Tales, Fiction, Short story, Storytelling
I mentioned in my last post that I thought this story could be improved with the addition of some specifics about sightings of the dogs and anecdotes told about them. I did add some details and think the story is improved. The trick is to add detail but not so much...
by Laura | Feb 8, 2020 | Aunt Truly's Tales, Fiction, Short story, Storytelling, The Kiminee Dream
Buster, a tri-color husky-sheltie dog with a lopsided grin and only one ear, is a character in my forthcoming novel, The Kiminee Dream, and Aunt Truly, the enigmatic elderly woman who tells stories in the novel, tells a tale about his origins. I want to include it in...
by Laura | Jan 19, 2020 | Aunt Truly's Tales, Fiction, Short story, Storytelling, The Kiminee Dream
Aunt Truly is a character in The Kiminee Dream, my first novel, which is slated for publication in May 2020. Aunt Truly, a woman so old nobody knows when she was born, takes in Carly Mae Foley, a teen who has escaped an abductor and is far from home. She cares for...
by Laura | Oct 6, 2019 | Fiction, The Kiminee Dream
It’s no secret among authors that writing book descriptions is challenging. Extremely challenging. It’s easy to assume that after spending months or years working on a novel, writing a short description of the book would be a snap. That may be for some...
by Laura | Jul 9, 2019 | Fiction, Flash fiction, Just in Case
Creative projects have a way of growing. What I thought would be a quick revamp of the ebook I give to folks who join my readers group has turned into a new collection of flash fiction. I created the majority of the 21 stories included in Just in Case this year...
by Laura | Jun 7, 2019 | Fiction, Flash fiction, Just in Case, Poetry, The Ice Cream Vendors Song
Poetic devices can help stories convey emotions, relationships and scenes in few words. I plan to include “Drifting,” a story from “The Ice Cream Vendor’s Song,” in my collection, “Just in Case,” because I think it’s a...
