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With the help of my husband Rod Mann, a photographer with works in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France and the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA., I have self-published two books: Parisian by Heart, and Stories from the Other World.
I wrote Parisian by Heart from 2009-2011, and in 2011, it was a quarter-finalist for Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award. "A longing for Paris, France, leads a budding writer into her past lives to discover the genesis of this desire."
Written in 2014, from the perspective of both a hungry reader and a lucid dreamer who has gone out into the world and experienced many of those dreams in life. These short stories take you into that Other World, the one that we feel as children and dream of as adults.
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My third book, written but not yet published, is called Father We Go. Living on an island off the coast of North Carolina, 50 miles from Roanoke, feeds my interest in the early colonists. Nearby, in the office of the Mackay Island Refuge, is a map from 1923 that shows an interesting feature whose outline looks like that of an early fort. John White, who famously left his pregnant daughter and the other "Lost Colonists" on Roanoke in 1587, spent the winter of 1585-86 in this area- they most probably built a fort. Could this be it's remnants?
A work in progress, titled Coyote Moon, sprang from my interest in archaeology and time spent on a dig in southeast Utah. We dug Anasazi artifacts during days of over 100 degree heat, and shivered in our tents at night. Coyotes sang us to sleep, pack rats, tarantulas and lizards were our daily companions. For a person who has lived most of her life along the East Coast, I was a stranger in a strange land in the Southwest.
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