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 The Journey to Faithful
For the past 20 years, our family has had a second home in the mountains of Montana. When I’m there, it’s easy to imagine this country as it was 100 years ago or more – raw, wild, and untamed.
Five years ago I had an idea for a story set in Yellowstone National Park, a place of such beauty and yet such peculiarity that it is unique on this planet. I wrote a story about a young girl who finds herself in Yellowstone at the turn of the last century.
Maggie came alive for me. Her story is one of love and loss, of growing up, of discovering family secrets, of learning to become an independent woman at a time when girls and women were treated as property.
I don’t want to spoil the surprises woven through my book, except to say that there is a central mystery, and a romance, and the landscape is, almost, a character in the story.
I’ve also begun work on a second novel that is set in 1906 in Yellowstone and San Francisco. This novel (working title “Indigo Spring”) will be available in 2011.
In my blog (www.kidswriterjfox.blogspot.com) I’ll recount more of Maggie’s journeys and my experiences writing the novel, so please tag along.
View the trailer for Faithful!
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