March 16, 2010 and I am really excited! Today is launch day for Page From a Tennessee Journal. This morning I woke up to a beautiful card and a bottle of Veuve Cliquot from my son congratulating me.
At last I ama bonnafide, honest-go-goodness PUBLISHED AUTHOR. I’m not only an author, I’m an Amazon Encore author. As far as I know, ther are only eight of us in the world.
Most of you already know the story of Amazon’s venture into the publishing world. My novel was picked, along with three others, from the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest–all previously unpublished works. Mine is the first to be released.
I like my novel. Page is loosely based upon my grandmother’s story of her liaison with a white farmer in 1913 Tennessee. Her husband had deserted her and their three children. Unable to feed, clothe or house the without additional help, the woman had to use her wits. Then along comes the white farmer and . . . well to find out the rest of this story, go to Amazon and key in my name.
I love to have your feedback on the major theme of the book–Jim Crow (and slavery before it) impacted all participants negatively. Obviously, not in the same way. There can be no real comparison to the injustices committed against African-descended people, but European-Americans didn’t get off scott-free either. I’d like to know what people thing of the plight of the farmer’s white wife, Eula Mae.
Eula, ala Elin Woods, was betrayed by her husband. But unlike Elin, Eula couldn’t garner sympathy from her world because the rules of her world required her to pretend the event never happened. I wonder how modern day Americans would have handled the same situation in 1913. Any ideas?
