Sunspots by Karen S. Bell Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Sunspots
by
Karen S. Bell
Genre:
Romantic Suspense, Time Travel
Aurora
Goldberg Stein is lost in grief. Her beloved husband, Jake Stein, has
just died in a tragic car accident and her sorrow is overwhelming.
But is this really the end? Perhaps, perhaps not. She hears his
voice. She sees his ghostly presence. She travels back in time to
another life with Jake. What is going on? What is the message?
Jake
Stein, a dashing Texan, sweeps Aurora off her feet and changes her
life. A Brooklyn born actress, she moved to NYC and does temporary
work to pay her bills. On this particular assignment, she
accidentally meets Jake Stein, who is her dance with destiny. Leaving
everything she knows, she marries him and moves to Austin, Texas. No
longer struggling to make ends meet, Aurora wiles away her time bored
and lonely, and trying to recapture the excitement she once had with
this man. And then suddenly, it's all over, her life, her future is
gone. Vanished are all her hopes and dreams.
But
destiny comes in many forms, and when Aurora moves to a new house,
she discovers that the previous owner has never left. The ghostly
presence of Viola Parker looms large and becomes Aurora's guide
through time revealing to her the mistakes she's made with Jake Stein
through the centuries. This time, maybe this time, Aurora can get it
right.
I
get so much satisfaction in the writing process. I take care to
choose just the right word, to make sure each sentence has the right
cadence. I appreciate other writers who respect the craft in this
way, and I hope my readers do so with me. Writing is a need, a desire
for expression, and springs from well within my subconscious mind.
Thoughts rise up, scenes rise up and blend in with the over-arching
story. These thoughts emerge whenever they want to and wherever I am
and probably not when I am at the computer. The computer is for the
craft, the technique. The thoughts come during walks, or while
driving the car, or at the grocery store. I am the willing recipient
of these thoughts and so they seek me out. It's a mystery this
business and art of writing and it keeps me enthralled.
Advice I would give new authors.
Write for the love of it. If you are set on making a living
at it get admitted to the best writing programs at the best universities. Work
the connections you make there. For the rest of us that can’t do that or who started writing after
college like me, don’t
quit your jobs, or live with someone who is willing to pay all the bills. I
guess if you have the money and time go to writing conferences, I didn’t, so you can try to
build connections with agents. Agents are looking for blockbusters or aren’t looking for new
clients so having connections is key. There is a deluge of writer’s out there competing
for the limited audience of readers who will take a chance on an unknown, who
happen to read your genre, who read at all. Name recognition comes with big
marketing expenditures if you self-publish. Some get lucky and get a following.
But if they don’t have
the writing chops, it doesn’t
last.
So try and be touched by the gods or just enjoy the process. I’ve written three books
that most people haven’t
read. I will probably be unknown for my entire writing experiment. But who
knows? Maybe after I’m
dead I’ll hit it big
because as long as Amazon is in business my books will be for sale.
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