After publishing the 4th story in my Gwen Andrews mystery series last summer, I decided to try my hand at a different genre…. women’s fiction. Perhaps you savvier writers out there will have a different genre suggestion after reading the following first pass at the book cover blurb.
Working title: The Life We Leave Behind
It’s mid-October, and thirty-something Morgan Stone finds herself driving from New England to Delaware for her 20th high school reunion, the perfectly-timed destination chosen to flee yet another disastrous relationship. When plans to stay with her mom fall apart, Morgan rents a cabin in a local vineyard. Enchanted by her surroundings, she seizes the opportunity to extend her stay through the end-of-the-year holidays. A simmering high school flame, his jealous wife, an attempt to improve her mother/daughter relationship, and a surprise visit from the Boston heart-breaker add interest to Morgan’s days and nights as she searches for the perfect place to call home.
As always, creating the characters and settling on their relationships is challenging but fulfilling. How do they talk to each other? Where do the scenes take place? Does every word, sentence, and paragraph move the story toward its final conclusion?
As with my previous mysteries, when I finally type “The End” after many months of re-vamping, re-sequencing, and re-editing, I wonder why I didn’t write the finished story just that way from the beginning!
P.S. if you’re wondering why I haven’t posted in this blog recently, my WordPress dashboard was locked up with no apparent way to unlock it. But smarter heads to the rescue, and I’m back online!
Debi Graham-Leard 