Tag: Civil War fiction
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By the Shores of Solon Pond (8)
Dan’s secret is exposed. “And what of the slaves…” Dan began. “My boy, you read one novel,” Joel said more heatedly, “and you’re a raging abolitionist—it’s a disgrace.” “I’m not ashamed of it,” Dan said. “The injustice of selling families and such. I’m awake to it.” “Oh, wide awake this, wide awake that! If you…
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Massive Christmas Sale on ALL eBooks!
All books either FREE or $.99 from now until Christmas! About The Tenafly Road Series: “Characters so deep you follow them into the abyss, hoping to come out unscathed, but never returning the same. They will haunt me forever.” “Rich and colorful page turners. Morris has a fine sense of time and place and brings…
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What’s Your Mission in Life?
How do you start with a tiny spark of inspiration and end with a six book series? I’ve just released THE ONE MY HEART LOVES, the fifth book in THE TENAFLY ROAD SERIES so I thought it would be fun to walk down memory lane. My writing mission that I didn’t know I had at…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” John Banville, The Sea The Tenafly Road Series
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Civil War Art
Boys without fathers … some heroic men come home broken or not at all. Some battlefields are revisited from one year to the next. Veterans tease new recruits on spring campaigns with the bones of men left to winter over in thick forests. “About 625,000 men died in the Civil War. That’s more Americans than…
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5 Types of People You’ll Meet at Civil War Re-enactments
Whores, Thieves and Militants of the Civil War I may have mentioned before that I love men in uniform (I think because my father was in the army and then became a police officer but who cares? Men just look great in tailored outfits). So when my best friend’s husband suggested I come with him…
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America’s First Addiction Crisis
LINK: America’s First Addiction Crisis Had Some Striking Parallels To Today
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Novel Inspiration (3): The Scapegoat
INSPIRATION: Every addict needs a scapegoat. Captain Simon McCullough’s motto: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die. This gets John Weldon’s goat. How unfair it is that Simon coasts through life suffering nary a scratch while drinking, womanizing and joking all the way? Weldon fails to note the fatalism in Simon’s motto.…
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Novel Inspiration (2): The Enabler
INSPIRATION: Years of the culture telling me men were monsters who would trample my timorous soul if I let them. The character Katherine McCullough came from a dusty unfinished diary in a university library. While doing missionary work (which at the time I thought was savaging a culture) her young son died of lockjaw after…
Author Adrienne Morris 