New Book...Celeste, Women of the Drifting Anchor Ranch

I don't know if I've even posted the fact that you can now purchase my new BOOK, as in old fashioned pages to turn.  We have not yet finished the process to offer the book in Nook or Kindle.  That will be coming.  Lulu.com is the company that carries my books. 

Celeste, Women of the Drifting Anchor Ranch is a character that I have fashioned after so many, many women.  I envision her as looking like a young Naomi Judd, with Reba Macintyre around the edges.  She's also patterned after a beloved friend who helped me to become an "Indie Writer."  That's Independent Writer if you do not understand that particular abbreviation.  I took all of my favorite red heads and put them together, and SHAZAM, out came Celeste.

Then there is the detail that I call the "Celeste," factor.  In high school there was a girl that stood out to me from the crowd as though there were a spotlight over her head.  She was quirky (which usually is a BAD thing in high school, and a COOL thing in college), and she didn't seem to be phased by the persecution of her peers.  We weren't close friends, but we were friends.

Forty years passed, a 27 year marriage was ended by my husband's death, and many moves later I wound up living a block away from Celeste.  THE Celeste that astonished and inspired me by her ability to just simply be who she was, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE DID!

The day that we first became friends I told her about finishing the first draft of my novel Celeste.  At this point we had figured out that she was the High School Celeste that I had admired, and that had inspired me to choose the name Celeste for my character in the first place!

Isn't life interesting with it's canyons of twists, turns, and hair raising drops?  There I was meeting a friend that I had not seen in forty years who had inspired me to name my character Celeste, on the day that I finished my first draft of the book?  That seems a little more than coincidence.   However what some would call coincidence I prefer to see as "Synchronicity."  A moment when the past and present aligns to give you a new start for the future.

Celeste (the book) does begin in a rather raw way.  At the tender age of 14 Celeste is trapped into sexual slavery.  All my tales are stories of redemption.  I know that life has the gift of redemption waiting...right there...but sometimes we have to reach...just a bit higher...and then higher...AND THEN HIGHER STILL!  The important thing is to know that none of us is beyond redemption!

Please enjoy the book Celeste, Women of the Drifting Anchor Ranch.  Soon it will also be published in digital format.