One of the most difficult challenges was choosing the best location in the city for my characters to experience the storm. I needed an actual home and surviving family, one that would allow me to show the devastation as fully as possible.
Even more challenging was the emotional toll this story took on my day to day life. I needed to stay true to even the smallest details, though it meant living with the grisly effects of this storm for a full year.
From the onset of this project, hundred-year-old photos and heartrending personal accounts haunted me every day, and they were the last thing in my thoughts before falling asleep each night. These were real people, caught up in a real disaster, something that could still happen to any one of us today, and more than anything, I wanted to stay true to their stories. Could you tell us a bit about this book? The Truth about Sparrows was my first historical fiction and a story very close to my heart.
It follows Sadie, a twelve-year-old girl who loses her Missouri home during the Great Depression and is forced to start all over in a one-room tarpapered house on the Texas coast. One turning point for me was learning to trust my own instincts and allow myself to become each character.
Love the characters, the words and the images they evoke, and yes, even the revisions. Look at each revision as another chance to bring more clarity, to make some part of your story touch your reader more deeply and hopefully linger long after your book is back on the shelf. We take a few good books and CDs, grill fish, veggies, and stuffed jalapenos, and open a nice bottle of wine. My next book, untitled at this time, is another historical fiction set in Canton, Texas, and again, partially derived from old family stories.
Mercy longs to be free, far from the threat of being saddled with kids, dirty laundry, and failing crops the rest of her life. When the deadly flu epidemic sweeps through Canton, she gets what she wants in a way she never imagined and soon finds herself employed by the newly widowed Cora Wilder. I am I just found Marian Hale's books and enjoy them very much. After reading "Dark Water Rising" I looked for others.
I just purchased "The Goodby Season" which is on my list to read next. As far as I am concerned…she writes for all ages. What made you decide to write for young readers? What was the timeline from spark to publication, and what were the major events along the way? What were the challenges literary, research, psychological, logistical in bringing it to life? I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising.
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