Christmas in July, unwrap a summer ebook
blog blitz, welcomes Dorothy A. Bell
An Oregon Historical Romance
Fiddle playing, hard drinking Royce O’Bannon believes he’s
worthless like his old man, no woman should have anything to do with
him.
Music teacher Cleantha Arnaud, her virtue long spent,
believes her life is over; crippled and barren, no man would want
her.
When the two outcasts become lovers, hopes and dreams blossom
within their parched souls.
Royce’s vengeful daddy begins a campaign of
retaliation against his traitorous sons and the town that gave
them a second chance. Now Royce, feeling the weight of responsibility
thrust upon him, follows his daddy into the dark tunnels beneath Pendleton’s
streets to stop his old man from his path of destruction. With a
swift crack on the head, all of Royce’s newly found hopes and dreams
could be shattered like candied glass.
Some thoughts from Dorothy:
Where do I find inspiration to write?
Music and
names—names of people, first and last names, the names of roads and
creeks. I love to look at old photos. Do I constantly
write, no, there’s a movie going on in my head almost all the
time. In my head, I am all my characters on the screen. I become them one
by one. I speak as they would, I move as they would and I know how they would
respond. I know where to begin the story and how to tell it as the
scenes unfold, and I know where it will lead. I don’t believe
that sitting, doing nothing and going into my story a waste of time, it is
the beginning. The hard part is transferring what is in my mind to paper
or my computer. I have to allow the story to unfold, wrinkles and all and
organize it later.
Author Bio:
Dorothy grew up in southern Iowa, moved to Oregon’s
Willamette Valley at the age of eleven. She picked strawberries and
beans in the summer to earn money for school clothes. In high school, she
loved history, geography, speech class and school plays. She made the
honor roll because she didn’t take geometry or trig; Dorothy stuck to
art and literature courses. Dorothy played the snare drums in the
high school band.
At the age of sixteen, the boy that had pestered her
from the moment he saw her that first day of school in the sixth
grade, asked her, one wintry, November day to go for a scooter ride
up into the coastal range. After that, they became inseparable, and here
they are, fifty years later, very close partners in everything we do.
Dorothy started to write Regency Romances to entertain
myself. Dorothy sent them off to publishers now and then. She
facilitated a writer’s critique group for several years and learned a
lot from fellow writers. She took writing courses at
a community college. But, she thought she learned the most by
submitting her work to publishers, editors and agents, and getting
feedback.
Laid low for nearly twenty-five years with arthritis,
forced to use a battery-powered cart, Dorothy took up aquatic exercise and
became an instructor. she retired after eighteen years of
instructing, and now goes to the pool and do her own thing. After two
surgeries to replace her knees, Dorothy went to work on
herself and lost eighty-five pounds, which she has kept off. With
renewed energy, Dorothy put more into her writing, submitted her
work, then rewrote and kept submitting, which she will continue to do.
Her husband and she live in Central Oregon with two West
Highland White terriers and one big, angora tuxedo cat. Dorothy
enjoys gardening and landscaping.
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