My parents and I visited a lot of ghost towns during vacations and they always fascinated me.
And I always knew I would use a ghost town in one of my books. Using that for background for Thea, the diva romance writer witch seemed more appropriate. After all, she’s the one who thrives in haute couture, who stays in 5 star hotels and prefers not to look back on her time living during those centuries where there wasn’t indoor plumbing, central heat and air, and spa services.
I thought “easy peasy”. Send the arrogant witch to a ghost town where she’s back in the late 1800s. I have lots of reference books on ghost towns, so that’s a help.
Uh huh.
But there’s a lot more to it than just dumping her in a long deserted town that holds a lot of secrets. A town that’s basically frozen in time and hasn’t moved past 1872.
That means anything I write for that town has to work for that time period. I spent a lot of time on line making sure the guns I mentioned were around during then, clothing styles were correct, song titles, even trying to find slang for then. I wanted to do everything I could to make sure I remained in the correct time period and that no reader would say, “hm, she didn’t do her research.”
The book has been fun to write, surprises even popped up that I didn’t expect, and it proved to be a real challenge.
I just hope my readers will enjoy my efforts.
Linda
And I always knew I would use a ghost town in one of my books. Using that for background for Thea, the diva romance writer witch seemed more appropriate. After all, she’s the one who thrives in haute couture, who stays in 5 star hotels and prefers not to look back on her time living during those centuries where there wasn’t indoor plumbing, central heat and air, and spa services.
I thought “easy peasy”. Send the arrogant witch to a ghost town where she’s back in the late 1800s. I have lots of reference books on ghost towns, so that’s a help.
Uh huh.
But there’s a lot more to it than just dumping her in a long deserted town that holds a lot of secrets. A town that’s basically frozen in time and hasn’t moved past 1872.
That means anything I write for that town has to work for that time period. I spent a lot of time on line making sure the guns I mentioned were around during then, clothing styles were correct, song titles, even trying to find slang for then. I wanted to do everything I could to make sure I remained in the correct time period and that no reader would say, “hm, she didn’t do her research.”
The book has been fun to write, surprises even popped up that I didn’t expect, and it proved to be a real challenge.
I just hope my readers will enjoy my efforts.
Linda
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4 comments:
How could we NOT love it? I think ghost towns are very cool! :)
Good on ya for doing the work and research to make it a quality read! I look forward to reading it.
You two remember that next March, okay? :}
You'll also meet some new and "interesting" creatures that hang out with Thea.
Linda
Sounds like an interesting premise. What seems easy usually turns out to be anything but. Those little surprises pop up and you have to deal with things you never suspected. I'll look for this book.
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