Tag Archive for: Friends
Mary Ryan Jones
Andersen Light’s Georgie Jones' relationship with her mother, Mary Ryan Jones, isn’t complicated. It’s understandable. After all, people are multifaceted, and their relationship continually reshapes with life situations. Georgie’s…
Write from Here
I write from here in southern New Mexico (neither new nor Mexico, as they say around here) about characters in a made up town on the west coast of the United States. I’m calling the location southern Oregon.
How do I write…
Close Connections
What close connections pull fictional characters Georgie Jones and Luther Andersen together, aside from the little matter of a prophecy?
Grandma and Grandpa Jones
Luther is a lighthouse keeper, professor, and Georgie’s eventual mentor. He's…
Face to Face
Coming Face to Face with Your(My)self
You may not expect to come face to face with yourself when writing fiction. After all, it is fiction. Though some writers may not come face to face with themselves, I’ve come to learn many do, and I’m…
Search Is On!
The Search Is On!
The search is on for the right agent and publisher to bring young Georgie Jones, her mentor Luther Andersen, and their friends and family to the world!
On behalf of Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel (as in lighthouse),…
Character Origins – More Revealed
Greenhouse Memory
I’ve learned more origin info about my characters since my last post. My mom and paternal aunt independently corroborated history of the greenhouse I remember as a child. It actually belonged to my grandmother’s sister-in-law,…
Real Life Luthers
The Missouri Luther
A man called Luther was a friend and helpmate of my grandparents in a little town in southwest Missouri. I met him while visiting them as a very young child. I’m not sure how I actually remember Luther, but he made a big…
Carriage House – Both Workshop and Garage
Back in the day, people rode in carriages instead of automobiles and parked them in carriage houses. The original carriage house on the novel’s fictional Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel estate was quite large. Luther Andersen eventually…
Maria Elena
Like everything and everyone else in the story, we see Maria Elena through the eyes of Luther or Georgie.
From Georgie’s perspective, Maria Elena is Josefina’s mom and a most excellent cook. She is keeper of the greenhouse and plant…
Georgie, Josefina & Shawn – BFFs
Georgie Jones meets her new BFFs Josefina and Shawn on the school bus. It is her first day as a freshman at Mystic Creek High School. Josefina somehow knows who Georgie is, and offers to show her around school. The two girls and Shawn end up…
Meet Katie, Canine Coworker & Officemate
Katie, a perpetually shedding, half Beagle/half Shiba Inu, is my friend, canine coworker and officemate.
She follows me from room to room and stations herself somewhere between the door and me, either to guard or keep me in place.
Early…