It's Friday and that means it's time to celebrate. This week I'm celebrating that I got accepted to be part of the 2017 Ohioana Book Festival, which will be held in April. This will be my third time participating in the fest and I love it. I was so thrilled when I got my acceptance confirmation and I can't wait be there again, this time with Baby Moo's Great Escape!
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| Cow kisses! |
I'd love to bring Baby Moo himself with me, but I have a feeling he wouldn't fit too well at the table.
The Celebrate the Small Things hop is hosted by Lexa Cain and co-hosted by L.G Keltner at Writing Off the Edge and Tonja Drecker at Kidbits. Visit Lexa's blog here to find out how join in the hop yourself and to see the list of participants.
Now I want to turn the blog over to the awesome Chrys Fey, who is here as part of her Tsunami Crimes blog tour. Welcome, Chrys!
I asked Chys this question in preparation for her visit:
Have you ever lived through one of the natural disasters you have written about in your series? If so, can you share a little about the experience?
ANSWER:
Hurricane Crimes was strongly based on my experience with
Hurricane Francis and Tropical Storm Fay. Hurricane Francis was one of three
hurricanes that struck Florida, one right after the other, in 2004. As a matter
of fact, while writing Hurricane Crimes,
I imagined Beth’s house was the house I was living in when those hurricanes
hit. Unlike Beth’s house, mine survived. The only damaged was to parts of the
porch and the garage door, which was knocked down.
The flooding in Hurricane Crimes was based on the floods
from Tropical Storm Fay. She made landfall on Florida four times. Many places
flooded. Where I was living, the streets flooded so much that it looked like my
house was floating in the middle of a lake.
Thankfully, I have not experienced
an earthquake or tsunami, but Book 4 (which I will be editing soon) is about
wildfires, and I have experienced those. The fire in that story, which
threatens Beth and Donovan’s home, is taken directly from my childhood
memories. Every part of it: my best friend’s dad saying the fire looked like it
was right next to my house, the moment when I see a crowd of gawkers at the end
of the street and I yell at them, my dad on the roof with a hose, the
firefighter who got burned, the brush truck that got stuck in the fiery
woods…everything.
Even real-life random moments
were used fictitiously, such as my mom coming out of the house with a bag of
potatoes, and one of my cats running toward the fire. She survived, but another
one of my cats, Angel, had also run toward the flames. She came home that
night. Burned. She died a few days later on my twelfth birthday.
I fully believe in using our
experiences in our stories, and that’s what I do.
BLURB:
Beth and Donovan have come a long way from Hurricane
Sabrina and the San Francisco earthquake. Now they are approaching their
wedding day and anxiously waiting to promise each other a lifetime of love. The
journey down the aisle isn’t smooth, though, as they receive threats from the
followers of the notorious criminal, Jackson Storm. They think they’ll be safe
in Hawaii, but distance can’t stop these killers. Not even a tsunami can.
This monstrous wave is the most devastating disaster Beth
has ever faced. It leaves her beaten, frightened. Is she a widow on her
honeymoon? As she struggles to hold herself together and find Donovan, she’s
kidnapped by Jackson's men.
Fearing her dead, Donovan searches the rubble and shelters
with no luck. The thought of her being swept out to sea is almost too much for
him to bear, but the reality is much worse. She’s being used as bait to get him
to fall into a deadly trap.
If they live through this disaster, they may never be the
same again.
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