 Do you know about Nanowrimo? Something tells me if you've been following me very long, you do. Why? Because I love Nanowrimo. What is it? It stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it happens every November. And, up until now, I've only missed it a few years. In fact, except for my novella that came out last month, every single book I have published was written during Nanowrimo. But this year, I am not planning to participate in my favorite writing program. Why? 
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If you've followed me for any amount of time at all, you know Heather Greer and Erin Howard are two of my writing sisters. We have our YouTube channel, Once Upon a Page, which has been going for two years now (almost 100 episodes!). And for the second year in a row, we organized a retreat for other writers to join us for three days of writing, encouragement, and fun. Last year was a blast (here's my post about it), but this year was even better.  First of all, we doubled in how many people attended, which was amazing. We had authors from TN, KY, IL, and AR, too. And it was a blast getting to know them and hear about their stories.
The weather was warm and mostly sunny, so we could spend time outside as well as inside. All the devos and talks were uplifting (I can say that because I led two of them--ha!). And we actually got some writing done as well as recording more videos for the YouTube channel.  It's always a pleasure to have one of my fellow Scrivenings Press authors on here for an interview. Today, Michelle de Bruin is joining us, talking about her newest book, which sounds amazing, and some of the fun research that went into it. Read on!
Michelle, congrats on the recent release of your fourth book. Can you tell us if this book is connected to your last series or is this a completely new series? This book starts a new series, but the characters in this book are people we met in my first series of books. Your characters in this book are older than the ones in your last few. Was that easier or harder to write? Why? Even though these main characters are older than the ones in my first book, they are actually close in age to myself, so creating them and writing their story came pretty easy because I thought about how I would handle the situations that came up in the book. Some of the events, like second marriages and the arrival of grandchildren have happened to people in my era of life. I could develop these characters with an accurate level of maturity because of the realistic responses I've witnessed to these sorts of circumstances. What was one of the most interesting things you uncovered when you were researching for this story? Writing this story required research of the first airplanes ever invented. Here are some interesting facts I learned about the Wright Model B pusher biplane while writing this story: The biplane required 100 yards to take off. It was produced between the years of 1910 and 1914. It had a 39 foot wingspan and a 4 cylinder engine. It's speed was on average 44 mph. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American President to fly. In October 1910, a man by the name of Arch Hoxsey took the President as a passenger on his Wright Model B. |
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