Jencey's Corner

Kimberly is visiting Writers Corner to share why you should escape with The Ones We Trust .   This is her most recent novel.   You can see my review of her novel here.   We might also discuss some other ways to escape. Thank you for having me! Why is The Ones We Trust a good novel to escape with? One reviewer described The Ones We Trust as an episode of Scandal mixed with A Few Good Men . I love that! What’s better than a good story to suck you in? Any good book is an escape, a place to lose yourself in for a few hours. A place to forget your problems and the world, and to experience someone else’s drama for a bit, and escape from your own. What would make these concepts of trust and love important to us and your characters? Trust is, as the title implies, an important issue in The Ones we Trust. Love, too. My characters struggle with both, and they find that sometimes the lines between them get blurred. You can’t always help who you love – fa...

I am good at following directions.   My biggest desire was to make sure that I didn’t create any issues at work with the change of my appearance.   Although I had found Bernadette’s Wig shop; We also did a fitting for wigs.   We found out that I have slightly larger head than average so they would have to order a wig for me.   So then the question became how do I keep my hair while I wait for this wig?    I found that I couldn’t wash it like normal because more of it would come out.   I couldn’t brush it, pick it, or comb because gobs of it would come out.   Finally the day of the wig coming in had arrived.   I had the stylist cut it   in the style that I would wear the wig.   I learned how to care for the wig with washing it and then taking care of my own hair or skull area.   Losing my hair was one of the hardest circumstances that I went through.   Now only a few people in my family have seen what my head truly loo...

  Sonya is visiting to Writer’s Corner today How does setting create escape? How do you entice readers with a setting that sucks them into the story in her new novel  The Middle of Somewhere ? Setting is crucial to my stories because until my characters have a real space in which to interact, they aren't alive to me. That said, I never set out to entice readers; I simply tell the story as best I can, and creating a realistic and intriguing setting is part of that. As much as I love my readers, I never think of them while I am writing. That road leads to madness! Instead, I concentrate on telling the truth about the situations and people I've invented. I'm a very visual person, so the particulars of the environment in which the story takes place are a necessary to me as knowing the emotional environment of the characters. If I do my job right, the setting enriches the actions and feelings of the characters, but, like so many aspects of writing, it's not something...

I was not going to seek treatment right away because of the cost.   I had to give up the apartment that I was going to rent because I could definitely afford both rent and medical.   My mother came to me and said we are in this together.   Your sister and I will take care of the financial side of your treatment.   You just get better.   I had been stressing over finances for the past five months at this point in time.   I decided to take a break and trust God. My original oncologist had ordered a bunch of tests.   There is nothing more unnerving to a cancer patient than to have no treatment and all of these tests.   I was assigned MRI of the brain and right breast, CT scan, PET scan, Echo, and Ultrasound.   Then we also got the second opinion from Emory. I decided to switch my care under my current Oncologist Dr. Pakkala.    What really made me switch was when went for chemo training and the nursing staff ignored us at ...

Thank you to Susan McBride for a copy of her newest novel Say Yes to Death . She has given me one copy to celebrate Pink Escape and giveaway.   She is also a breast cancer survivor.   It means everything to me to have her with us this month.      Here is a little about her new novel Say Yes to Death :    Someone old, someone cruel Debutante dropout Andrea Kendricks is beyond done with big hair, big gowns, and big egos—so being dragged to a high-society Texas wedding by her socialite mama, Cissy, gives her a bad case of déjà vu. As does running into her old prep-school bully, Olivia La Belle, the wedding planner, who's graduated to berating people for a living on her reality TV show. But for all the times Andy wished her dead, nobody deserves Olivia's fate: lying in a pool of blood, a cake knife in her throat—but did the angry baker do it? Millicent Draper, the grandmotherly owner of Millie's Cakes, swears she's innocent, and Andy be...