Second Edition Buy Warrior on the Western Waters is...an emotional roller-coaster of a story and the author effortlessly captures the intense emotions that each character is feeling, which reminds me of the emotional rumination of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. Still’s writing has a simple eloquence to it. It has a way of leading you through a …
Mary and her family flee to Kentucky territory ahead of angry loyalist who will hang her papa if captured. But danger lurks in the shadows ahead.
“Defiance on Indian Creek transports readers to the days of the American Revolution to follow the heart-stirring story of young Mary Shirley, who struggles to find her place in a turbulent world.” —Charlene Whitman, author of The Front Range series “...Mary is a fun protagonist to follow as the story progresses, because Still is able …
When I began writing Defiance on Indian Creek in 2008, all I found on Michael Shirley’s land came from a Google Book copy of Oren Morton’s book, A History of Monroe County West Virginia. Listed on page 82 under Surveys under Botetourt County in 1774, in the following format: Shirley, Michael–527–Indian—L—Mar 24. However, I didn’t …
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I found this interesting article: Why Do We Sigh? | Psychology Today My question: Should a first-person character tell us they sighed? Sighing is an audible and visual reaction. But maybe a first-person character would only observe this in others. Would a first-person character just express the frustration in dialogue (internal and audible) and in physical actions? …
