Feeling Witchy - What I'm Reading Now

Fall has finally arrived in Oklahoma, and this season always finds me feeling a little witchy! I wanted to share with you two books I’ve been reading whose female protagonists have inspired me to look at time and our place in it in a different way.

I’ve been reading A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers and Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. Two fascinating and well written books about women moving through time in unusual ways.

Life after Life is about changing the world the heroine lives in as she moves back and forth through the time of both world wars in England. Does she change it, or doesn’t she? As the book progresses (if moving back and forth through time is progressing) she learns more about who she is and what she can do as circumstances change her, too.

A Witch in Time is about changing the heroine. Helen moves through several lives. Lives she forgets every time, until she begins to remember. She lives under a curse she doesn’t know about and discovers two different kinds of love and the different pain that comes with each. Both of these books are fascinating and not your ordinary time travel books.

You can get both of these books on Amazon - I highly recommend them for these cool fall nights!

Writing Interrupted

On the Wednesday night before turkey day, I invite everyone who is in town plus some other friends and in laws to my house for tamales (formerly pizza). There were only about twenty-four, I think. Then, Thursday morning I cooked a turkey and dressing and made gravy. So you can see I didn’t have time to post anything here that week.

Then, as I was recovering from that, someone snuck into my house and poured Gorilla Glue into my sinuses. I was pretty much down for more than a week, and I’m still snuffling and blowing and coughing. But I’m alive. It wasn’t a terminal cold after all. 

So today I’ll post two chapters, four and five. I’m working hard on finishing book two. It’s with my editor now, and I’m waiting with fingers crossed that he doesn’t have much ink left in his red pen. Or has forgotten how to use Track Changes in Word. How likely is that? 

I also have an idea for the first scene in Book Three!!!! Yay. And my (prize-winning mid-grade novelist sister) Alice V. Brock—check out River of Cattle—made me sit down and try to plot it at our Sisters’ Writers Workshop. She stayed for four days after Thanksgiving and we worked. So I have a start. Sometime in January we’re planning a One Brother and Two Sisters Writers Workshop at her house. Brother Phil Vincent is writing an adventure-diving-drugs novel. A great plot! Phil is the adrenaline junky in our family and has had lots of adventures. No drugs—well, except when he was very young and driving the requisite Volkswagon Van. Pot doesn’t really count anymore, does it?