Juliet Waldron talks about "Fly Away Snow Goose" and "A Master Passion"

Welcome to writer Juliet Waldron!

Juliet Waldron was baptized in the Yellow Spring of a small Ohio farm town, and she’s always had a strong connection with the land and nature.

After some years spent in a house with a resident ghost, she began to travel with her mother, a shoe-string globe-trotter, a flamboyant woman who adored history and grand opera. Juliet attended schools in Cornwall and Barbados, before returning stateside for college.

She married her first boyfriend and raised two sons while she worked at jobs ranging from artist’s model and waitress to power-suited Merrill Lynch “girl.” Approaching the Crone-age, she decided to drop out, mentally move to other centuries, and write historical novels. She enjoys putting what she has learned about people, places, and relationships into her stories.  One granddaughter is married to an organic farmer, while another is still in college, pursuing a law degree. The youngest is part of the cohort of autistic children and lives inside her headphones, engrossed in penguins, ponies, and mermaids.

1.           1. My life outside of writing.

I don’t have one. J

I have a husband who, since his retirement, needs someone to boss around, so, lately, that’s me. Besides being the hausfrau, I do lots of yard work. In the summer, it’s mowing, trimming, weeding, and gardening. (We Ohio farm girls are tough.) If it snows, you know who is first out the door to dig out the cars.  Just finished the leaves—which are somewhat my fault, as I’ve planted 25 trees on our small lot since we came here 30+ years ago. Like Treebeard in Lord of The Rings, some I’ve known since “nut and acorn.”

I bike, but not as much as I used to. I volunteer and show up at meetings for local government and stay informed. I love to camp, but only get out once a year. These days’ I stay in a cabin with others who share many of my interests in New Age studies. I’m too old for sleeping on the ground, although I used to enjoy cuddling up on Mama Earth. I do still love to get into the woods and out in the countryside where I can see the stars at night and hang out around camp fires discussing wyrd stuff until late. There is hiking and swimming, but last year, it was mostly trying to stay cool, as the temp was over 100 for most of the time we were there.

I’ve read a lot of history and archaeology over the years, but these days am reading books such as “Humanimal” by geneticist Adam Rutherford and “The Hidden Life Of Trees”by forester Peter Wohlleben, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  I’m also an ardent S/F fan. Anything by Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, etc.

2.      Work in Progress? 

Zauberkraft Green should be the last in my series about the generational adventures of an Austrian aristocratic family who attract all sorts of challenging supernatural attention. Zauberkraft Green concerns a young teen member of the family who is “cursed”(as she often views it) with the ability to see auras and other worldly realities more mundane folk do not. My heroine’s voice comes and goes—so sometimes the process stalls. I hope she’ll spill the beans – the rest of her story – soon.

3.      Was there a person who encouraged you to write?

My Mother encouraged me when I was young. Then, as I got older, her advice changed from the aspirational to a plain “get married.” She wrote for local newspapers back in the day, as did one of my aunts, so the sight of women working at typewriters was not strange to me.

4.      Five years from now, where do you see yourself as a writer? 

Maybe back to poetry, which is where I started. Or, possibly, dead.  You know the I don’t even buy green bananas joke…

     5.     What are you working on now?

Zauberkraft Green, but I am having a vague image forming about a story set in the Neolithic, or possibly, the Bronze Age. Viewing Time Team has been egging me on. That, and a hike I took on the Ridgeway in Wiltshire about a decade ago, refuses to let my imagination go.

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Fly Away Snow Goose

Transport to Fort Providence residential school is only the beginning of their ordeal, for the teachers believe it is their sworn duty to “kill the Indian inside.” All attempts at escape are severely punished, but Yaotl and Sascho, along with two other youngsters, will try, undertaking a journey of 900 kilometers across the Northwest Territory. Like wild geese, brave hearts together, they are homeward bound.

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Alexander Hamilton & Elizabeth Schuyler: A Master Passion

 A Master Passion is the story of the marriage of our brilliant first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler. It begins with a whirlwind Revolutionary War courtship at Washington’s headquarters. Conflict, however, is built into this marriage.

“...And hence one Master Passion in the breast

Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up all the rest..."  

Betsy's passion is Alexander. Hamilton adores his wife and children, but, sometimes, he loves America more.

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Q & A with Juliet Waldron

 Thank you to the lovely Juliet Waldron, a fellow author with Books We Love, for linking up and asking the tough questions today. You can find her information at the bottom of my post. Be sure to check out her website and novels!

1) What am I working on?  Lately, I'm working on moving my oldest back from University and helping him find a job. Writing wise, I'm at work on the third book in the Wild Blue Mysteries series called The Bakery Lady. I am also gnawing on my fingernails while my agent queries another one of my mysteries Death of a Jaded Samurai.

2) How does my work differ from others of its genre?  One of the book series that prompted me to become more serious about writing was Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels. I loved the sense of humor and romance, but wanted something a little more. My Wild Blue Mysteries also has a sense of humor and romance and is a borderline cozy mystery, meaning I use two points of view in each book - a man and a woman.

Death of a Jaded Samurai is a true cozy based in a small down, one protagonist, but set in a martial arts school. Since my whole family has trained in karate for many years, this setting seemed natural, especially after I started working at the school.

3) Why do I write what I do?  Several years ago, I stumbled on a writing contest for a murder mystery sponsored by Wynterblue Publishing. Up until then, I'd only written general women's fiction. After I won the contest with Murder on Manitou, I realized how much I enjoyed working on a whodunnit and went back to one of my novels--The Bookstore Lady--to make it more of a mystery.

I love cozy mysteries for their humor, their small town settings, and their friendly tone. I try to make my main characters people my readers would like to sit and have tea with or even befriend. Having appealing characters is a great way to attract and keep readers!

4) How does my writing process work? My books always seem to start off with a scene that pops into my head or appears in a dream. I have favorite places I sit and write, working on bits and pieces that I will eventually string together into one whole manuscript. Sometimes I manage to follow an actual outline, sometimes my characters or story take over and things go awry from my original plan.

Once my first draft is complete, I'll put the novel away for a couple weeks to detach from the story so it's easier to edit. Even better, I'll send either the whole novel or a few chapters to a Beta reader for feedback. After a few rounds of edits, if I'm happy with the book, I'll submit it to my agent for her approval.

Thanks again to Juliet Waldron. You can find her at:

Musing and Rambling @ 

http://cronehenge.blogspot.com/

http://yesterrdayrevisitedhere.blogspot.com/

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