It's competition time!!
I have two signed copies of Pastures New to give away.
And a very simple competition.
In my writing I often take things that have actually happened to me and use them in the story. Regular readers of my blog may remember, I had a never to be forgotten experience involving an over active imagination and a shillelagh, which reinvented itself in Pastures New with Saffron wielding a shillelagh to ward off an unwelcome intruder. A true life incident involving my husband's wedding ring which he lost in his mother's garden, and which consequently reappeared some months later on a leaf, as been utilized I hope to suitably romantic effect.
So my question to you is this. If you were writing a novel (you may well be), what incident in your own life would you fictionalise and who would you do it?
The best two answers will get sent a copy. Mad Twin, you are allowed to enter, but as you're family you can't possibly be allowed to win!
email your answers to: jccwilliams@btinternet.com or post them here!
2 comments:
Hi Jane :)
I tried to email this but got the failed: no user account at btinternet notice. So...
A long time ago, when I was barely into my thirties, I sheltered a girl from her abusive husband. You know the story: she wanted to leave him but he wouldn't let her. One Friday night she and I and a third girl were doing a foot-tour of the pubs in Walsall when who shoule turn up but hubby. He started in on her and I told him to leave her alone. Having been an amateur dancer I was able to kick ovet my head and the bloke got a stiletto heel in his neck. Not fatal, fortunately, and I was never charged with anything. In my novel "Beasts and Angels" Gillian does the same thing with a silver-tipped heel into the neck of a werewolf. What fun.
Oh that is a GREAT story.... How fantastic to a) do that in real life and b) do the werewolf thing in your fiction... Love it!!
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