I love creating towns. Especially towns I can revisit in a series. When I wrote my Secrets of Ravenswood trilogy, I built Ravenswood from the ground up, a small town set in the High Sierra. For my cowboy Trouble books, I created Redemption, Texas. I got pretty elaborate with that one, making a map with a paint program so I could keep locations and street names straight. When Margo and I decided to reclaim our rights to our Class of '85 books and republish them ourselves as anthologies, we knew we had to change the location of the reunion. We moved the setting from New York on the shores of Lake Ontario to Serendipity, Vermont overlooking Lake Champlain. I love this area--absolutely beautiful! A lifetime ago I spent a summer on Stave Island, a private island smack in the middle of the lake up near the Canadian boarder. I cleaned house and mowed lawns and helped prepare meals for the people who owned it. Fun memories. This is the area where we dropped our fictional town of Serendipity. I insisted on the name. I've always loved the way the word rolls off your tongue.
In our lovely Vermont town, old classmates from Serendipity High are reunited at a twenty year reunion. These are stories of love rediscovered and second chances. Each is a stand alone book with three stories included in each anthology. Here's the good news! Right now both our books are absolutely FREE through Sept. 19th. I hope you'll grab your copies of both books and fall in love with Serendipity, too!
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SATURDAY IN SERENDIPITY by Margo Hoornstra Click HERE to download Margo's book from Amazon for FREE!
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Jannine. Thanks for being the driving force in this endeavor. I, for one, had a blast! Check us out, Everyone.
Somehow driving force sounds better than bossy! LOL I had a lot of fun working on this project, too!
I grabbed them both!! Thanks, Jannine and Margo!
I have them both on my Kindle and can't wait to dig in. I love the idea of a Vermont setting. I am so intrigued with that area (Newhart, hello!), and I would love to visit. Since I can't at the moment, I'll just take a trip in your books. :) I also love creating new towns. Usually, my town names have some kind of hidden (or not so hidden meaning). For example, my Reapers live in Boon Springs, a town drenched in tragedy, yet 'Boon' is supposed to mean good fortune. See what I did there??? :)
I finished Lonely Road to You last night and loved it! Their road trip reminded me so much of our trek from Minnesota to California last year - but in reverse. I can't wait to read the other two stories, and now I have to pick up Margo's, too!
Enjoy, Donna!
Love it, Ally. Reverse psychology for your killers, or do you just have a twisted mind! LOL
Alison, glad I could stir up some good memories for you. That story was the reason we couldn't change the setting too drastically. I just inched them east a couple of hundred miles further!
Haha, Jannine. I think I have a twisted mind. :)
I love creating towns for my books. Yet I base them on something familiar. In One Red Shoe, the heroine lives in a small farming community that is also the county seat. I used to live in such a community. My newest book (not yet released) takes place in a fictitious Lake Michigan resort town. Similar but smaller than where I live now.
I have both your & Margo's books. Can't wait to read them.
Jumping in here on my 'driving force' friend to thank you all for me too! Enjoy!
I tend to do the same, Diane. Create a town that's similar to one I'm familiar with and then elaborate. Enjoy the books!
Downloaded both and am looking forward to reading them!
Thanks, Leah. Enjoy!
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