When I’m not writing, I’m often
reading. Currently I’m enjoying A Wide and Starry Sky, a
fictionalized account of Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island) and
his American wife. Somewhere in this book I discovered that RL
Stevenson was called fearless because of his penchant for
writing not only novels, but poetry, fiction and nonfiction articles
and even song lyrics. I wanted to stand up and shout, YES! I can
imagine he felt the same sort of hemmed-in panic I get at the very
idea of having to do only one kind of writing.
Like Stevenson, I’ve spent the last
thirty years writing such a broad range of fiction it’s impossible
to pen me down. Do I write comedy? Yes, indeed. I cut my teeth on
romantic comedies. Mystery? You bet. I get to flex both my comedic
and my sleuthing muscles in the Southern Cousins (available now) and
the Magnolia Wild series (coming this fall). Straight
romance/women’s fiction? Yes, again. All you have to do is scroll
through my list of more then 75 books to find straight romantic fare
such as The Donovans of the Delta series and The Dixie
Virgin Chronicles. Romantic suspense? Witch Dance and
From a Distance. Song lyrics? You’ll find some of them in
The Sweetest Halllelujah.
That leads me to my first love,
literary fiction. The Sweetest Hallelujah and The Oleander
Sisters as Elaine Hussey. The Tender Mercy of Roses as
Anna Michaels. The Language of Silence as Peggy Webb. All of
them recent books. All of them the very best work I’ve done. Ever!
And yet, writing literary fiction is so
very intense, not at all the kind of story I can whip out in a few
weeks. In fact, it took me more then ten years to write The
Sweetest Hallelujah! And so I balance the intense times by
penning more light-hearted fare and editing/revising my early
romantic classics so you can enjoy them in digital format.
My latest book is Stars to Lead Me
Home, a women’s fiction novel that made me remember why I love
writing. The central characters are three women who have been
friends for so long they can finish each other’s sentences. I have
good friends like that, life-long friends who love me no matter what,
who celebrate the good times and dispense chocolate and hugs in the
bad times. Don’t miss this book! It will make you giggle and make
you cry. You’re going to recognize these women, and I think you’ve
going to love them.
Pub
day is June 4th. You can preorder Stars
to Lead Me Home: Love and Marriage, June, 2015 and
save 50%. Because I love my readers, I’m also offering it at that
price (eBook only) for the first three days after it goes live!
Learn more about it at my website, www.peggywebb.com.
As always, thanks for reading!
Peggy
Webb
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