Annalists keep trying to compare the present financial crisis in the United States with the depression in the 1930's. Can't be done. The facts and figures may be similar, however the mind set of the American people is different.
The 1930's-40's and even 50's was a time of great sacrifice. American soil was threatened at the same time we were struggling to feed our families. We were weakened and unprepared for the battle ahead of us.
Yet, we pulled together, we sacrificed, we trusted each other and we trusted our government. We didn't second guess our officials. The media reported not commented. Their agenda was to inform not to manage the news.
We emerged from that time as the leading nation of the world. We had a common goal and we did the impossible.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
I'm on the 7th chapter
I really meant to write a sequel to Beyond the Shimmer Gate as my next book. I've even written 5 chapters. Grace's granddaughter is in this one. Through no fault of her own Grace escapes from men with guns through a shimmer gate pulling her granddaughter, Honey Jo, behind her. She didn't mean to. She didn't want to. It just happened and as she ran through the gate dragging the terrified girl with her she whispered, "Her mother is going to kill me for this."
But...I kept thinking about the trick or treaters and Mrs. Campbell's dark house. I thought about her blood soaked body laying inside the door they were knocking on. Then there was poor Virgil Abbot and his dog. Something needed to be done about these people and the tragic way they died.
Their houses were locked. No outside enterance. And yet someone or something had scratched and gnawed the poor souls to death. Detective Mark Soddard needed help. No way he could handle this one in the usual way.
So I got involved.
There had to be a setting. Readers want to visionalize where the story is taking place. I knew it was in Mossouri because of their soil and their history. I knew it had to do with the Ozarks. Had to be a place where there were thick woods, forest even. The only place this town could be located was Near Salem, Mo. I looked it up on a google map. Sure enough...I could tell that Archer City was right there...and I marked the area with a big star.
There's no name for the book yet. There are 7 chapters. And that's how I write a book. This town and the people living and dying in it will stay on my mind. Just below consicious thought and as if my thought pattern is liquid, they surface ever so often to be taken further.
More later, ya'll, Shelly
But...I kept thinking about the trick or treaters and Mrs. Campbell's dark house. I thought about her blood soaked body laying inside the door they were knocking on. Then there was poor Virgil Abbot and his dog. Something needed to be done about these people and the tragic way they died.
Their houses were locked. No outside enterance. And yet someone or something had scratched and gnawed the poor souls to death. Detective Mark Soddard needed help. No way he could handle this one in the usual way.
So I got involved.
There had to be a setting. Readers want to visionalize where the story is taking place. I knew it was in Mossouri because of their soil and their history. I knew it had to do with the Ozarks. Had to be a place where there were thick woods, forest even. The only place this town could be located was Near Salem, Mo. I looked it up on a google map. Sure enough...I could tell that Archer City was right there...and I marked the area with a big star.
There's no name for the book yet. There are 7 chapters. And that's how I write a book. This town and the people living and dying in it will stay on my mind. Just below consicious thought and as if my thought pattern is liquid, they surface ever so often to be taken further.
More later, ya'll, Shelly
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
It took awhile, but I did it.
Hi guys,
Remember how...in high school...I was always going to write a novel?
Well, finally in my senior years, I did it!
It's not the book I wanted to write or the one I thought I would. I wanted to do something that would rock the world, help mankind, win a Pultizer Prize.
Instead I wrote a tea and cookies novel for the fastest growing segment of our society. Seniors. Few novels center a heroin of advanced years, who thinks life has passed her by and finds, instead, that a second life is possible.
This book is for the reader who wants adventure but not blood; romance but not erotica. I give them a world of intelligent, university educated magical creatures that power their world with water instead of gas and their bodies with natural foods instead of fast food. The heroine, Grace, notes the contrast between the humans who destroy their world and the gnomes and fairies who care for theirs.
Grace gains these insights as she travels through the magical realm on a quest to find the Brittany Druid’s Books. The ancient knowledge in these books could end both worlds. She is threatened, and frightened and injured but day-by-day she realizes that she is experiencing the most exciting time of her life. She finds love and most important the ability in herself to accept the wonder of it.
The book is available on Amazon just put Shelly Heskett Harris or Beyond the Shimmer Gate in the Amazon search. Then if you want to buy one from them you can or wait a bit until I get my website up and I'll send you an autographed copy. Price at my website will be $20.00 which includes shipping. The publisher set the price at 18.95.
If you pull up my full name on Google you can see a video of me talking about the wild turkeys and Nutmeg being her usual charming self.
I hope this finds ya'll well and happy. I'm having a ball contacting people and fooling around with this book. Who'd have thought one of the high points of life would be when I had a full head of white hair.
Much Love to each of you. shelly
Remember how...in high school...I was always going to write a novel?
Well, finally in my senior years, I did it!
It's not the book I wanted to write or the one I thought I would. I wanted to do something that would rock the world, help mankind, win a Pultizer Prize.
Instead I wrote a tea and cookies novel for the fastest growing segment of our society. Seniors. Few novels center a heroin of advanced years, who thinks life has passed her by and finds, instead, that a second life is possible.
This book is for the reader who wants adventure but not blood; romance but not erotica. I give them a world of intelligent, university educated magical creatures that power their world with water instead of gas and their bodies with natural foods instead of fast food. The heroine, Grace, notes the contrast between the humans who destroy their world and the gnomes and fairies who care for theirs.
Grace gains these insights as she travels through the magical realm on a quest to find the Brittany Druid’s Books. The ancient knowledge in these books could end both worlds. She is threatened, and frightened and injured but day-by-day she realizes that she is experiencing the most exciting time of her life. She finds love and most important the ability in herself to accept the wonder of it.
The book is available on Amazon just put Shelly Heskett Harris or Beyond the Shimmer Gate in the Amazon search. Then if you want to buy one from them you can or wait a bit until I get my website up and I'll send you an autographed copy. Price at my website will be $20.00 which includes shipping. The publisher set the price at 18.95.
If you pull up my full name on Google you can see a video of me talking about the wild turkeys and Nutmeg being her usual charming self.
I hope this finds ya'll well and happy. I'm having a ball contacting people and fooling around with this book. Who'd have thought one of the high points of life would be when I had a full head of white hair.
Much Love to each of you. shelly
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