Once I knew who he was, I started developing a heroine who would compliment and challenge him. With Shadowed by Grace, Scott Lindstrom showed up first. When a hero or heroine arrives, I play with them until I know what his or her journey will look like. But as I play with an idea, eventually characters show up. Still a fascination won’t be enough to fill one page let alone more than 300 pages of a novel. Some came in as privates after basic training, others as officers because they’d already been in one of the services. Many of these men were not soldiers, but others had been in the reserves. What would it be like to be a sculptor, museum curator, or architect who joins the army to help protect art and architecture? As I read some of the stories of the Monuments Men, my imagination began spinning questions. All it took was the cover photo: a clearly WWII soldier holding a painting. Somewhere, somehow, I have to find 90,000 words that will communicate a story that will captivate me…my editors…and eventually readers.Īnd it all starts with a blinking cursor on a blank screen.įor Shadowed by Grace, that spark came when I saw a non-fiction book at the library. As an author, I sit at the computer with the germ of an idea, a blank document page, and a blinking cursor. When a book is born, there’s a scary moment, hour, or week.
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