“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”
~ E.M. Forester
This is my goal as a writer: to connect prose with passion; to write stories that do not merely entertain, but that tell the Truth, bring us higher and closer to the Good, and pull together the fragments of our fractured world so that Beauty might be experienced.
My two Young Adult novels–OUT OF NOWHERE and TIME KEEPERS–are represented by Irene Goodman of the Irene Goodman Literary Agency. Both pre-pubished manuscripts have dual contemporary and historical story lines. Irene Goodman is actively pursuing publication so stay tuned!
OUT OF NOWHERE
“Titanic was one of the first disasters of the 20th century, but she was not the last… Some say violence is the result of clinging to the past, but I say it is the consequence of forgetting it; of forgetting who we are. We cannot avoid calamity merely by looking ahead to the rosy glow on the horizon, we must also peer into the darkness if we hope to see lighthouses amidst the jagged rocks. If we are to survive the storm, we must first defeat forgetting.”
TIME KEEPERS
Think moving to foreign country is hard? Try a whole different time period.
Lily Adams hates being the new kid, but that status pretty much sums up her life. Only this time, Uncle Sam has gone too far. Lily has already been to five schools in fifteen years, and now her dad gets stationed in Germany. Living overseas is nothing unusual for an “army brat,” but what makes Lily strange is that she’s a Traveler…as in Time Traveler.
All Lily wants to do is survive her sophomore year in a boring country of sauerkraut and leather overalls. A few friends would be nice, but when Lily meets her oddball neighbor, Nik—a half-German kid whose after-school activity happens to be traversing through history with a secret society of Time Travelers—she gets way more than she bargained for. After a Halloween dare in the village cemetery ends in disaster, Lily and Nik must travel back to 1462 Romania to rescue their school’s biggest snob. Katelyn is the last person Lily wants to get stuck with in the past…except for maybe Vlad “the Impaler,” her stake-happy captor! Lily and Nik quickly discover that the real count Dracula is far more terrifying than the myth, making this one history lesson they won’t soon forget.
Ashlee- It was really great to meet you yesterday. Your book sounds awesome, and I can’t wait to pick it up at the bookstore one day.
Best of luck! – Olivia
Thank you, Olivia! It was nice to meet you too! All the best on your screenwriting project(s). If you end up having an awesome website like Danielle’s, let me know so I can follow it!:)
“Think moving to foreign country is hard? Try a whole different time period.”…I really like this, as I live in a foreign country and I am writing about a different time period! It is a great sentence that resonates with me. -Stephanie Renee dos Santos, http://www.stephaniereneedossantos.com
Thanks, Stephanie! I find that writing about the past can also be like exploring a foreign country.
It is. And that I believe is why I am drawn to the genre of historical fiction, the writing and the reading– because I Iove to explore the unknown and to learn about places and their histories, just like one can on a trip to a foreign country. When I first started writing historical fiction I had no idea it would be another way to “travel”, but it is, and with just as many wonderful surprises and challenges of physical travel, strangely enough. I remember the moment I realized this, a definitive “ah-ha”.
I am guessing you feel a similar/same way about this…
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