Emilie’s Books
Fiction Friday: Part Four of One Mountain Away
Tuning in late? Every Friday this month I’ve shared the beginning of One Mountain Away , and I’ll conclude next week on August 3. By then the book will be at your favorite bookstore or better yet, on your personal bookshelf. You can read prior excerpts by clicking on Goddesses Anonymous under Categories at the right. Start reading from…
Read MoreA Sneak Preview of One Mountain Away
Shhh. . . Don’t tell anybody, but I’ve just updated my website and added all new pages about the upcoming release of One Mountain Away. You can find an overview, my inspiration, praise from fellow authors and reviewers, an excerpt, book discussion questions, even a recipe. We had hoped to have an entirely new website to launch…
Read MoreThe Little Picture or the Big One? What’s Your Pleasure?
After knee surgery in the spring, I began taking walks each morning. Little by little I’ve increased the distance and speed that I walk, most of it up or down hills, until I’ve gotten back to what’s always been my regular route. But this past weekend I must have exercised with too much resolve, because…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Part Two of One Mountain Away
Tuning in late? You can discover what we’re doing and why here as well as read the first section. Part Two of Chapter One from Charlotte Hale’s First Day Journal: One of Maddie’s friends is on her way to the dome right now to make sure Porter doesn’t push her. This child, olive-skinned and lean, is…
Read MoreFiction Friday: One Mountain Away Begins
What could make more sense one month from the publication of a new book than a preview for my faithful blog readers? So today Fiction Friday begins. For the next six weeks stop by to read the first chapter and a half of One Mountain Away, the first book of my Godesses Anonymous series, one…
Read MoreMy Seventy Book Latest and Greatest Giveaway
My best novels happen when ideas collide. Take two seemingly unrelated but interesting situations, then watch them tango warily around each other until suddenly they’re dancing cheek to cheek, and the plot for a book has begun to form. Today, as I was handling papers and packing books for my move to somewhere this week,…
Read MoreAggie Sloan-Wilcox Wants To Know
Some people can not be ignored. Even if you hope they’ll just go away if you send them a smile and a nod, in your heart you know better. They’ll still be hanging around at the end of the day, until finally, they can slip right in and ask a question or, in this…
Read MoreTidbits
Just a few fun tidbits today. Tidbit One: Some of you have written to learn the fate of Treasure Beach, the “novellini” I wrote last year for Southern Exposure, set between Fortunate Harbor and Sunset Bridge (books two and three of the Happiness Key series.) I’m happy to say that while you can no longer read it at my blog, you…
Read MoreThe Day I Fell For Horatio Alger or My Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture
Somewhere during the first trimester of my sophomore year in college, I realized I was signed up for the wrong major. I was in music education, and observing just one high school music class was like having a bucket of ice water dumped over my head. Me, standing in front of those kids? Trying to teach them…
Read MoreChoosing Asheville
Do you ever wonder how a novelist chooses a setting? Me, too. Really. Because the entire world is open to us, and sometimes all those choices can be daunting. When the time came two years ago to begin planning a new series, I had all the usual options. Should I use a real town (like…
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