Jencey's Writer's Corner

  The House on Prytania is the second book in the Royal Street series by Karen White. I will give you a spoiler alert.  If you have not read The Shop on Royal Street, the first book in the series, there are major spoilers in the second book. I loved the Tradd Street Series.  The Royal Street series focuses on Jack’s daughter, Nola, and her adventures in New Orleans.  Synopsis: “Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she’s spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan’s long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates. Especially when the tempting—yet firmly unavailable—Beau, wanting to mete out justice to those he blames for Sunny’s kidnapping, asks Nola fo...

  Karen White released her book That Last Carolina Summer last year.  Karen is known for her many writing projects, which means multiple book releases sometimes in one year.  This book centers around one family, a mother and her two daughters—a choice made within a family that had devastating consequences for those affected. Also, if you like birds, you will learn a lot from this book.    Synopsis: “As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn to Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing year...

Good morning!   Writer’s Corner presents exclusive access to Karen White’s next book Dreams of Falling .   Readers will get a chance to preview this upcoming book.  Her next book will once again visit secrets from the past. Larkin must find out what happened in the past to save the future. To preorder a copy of Dreams of Falling at these retailers: Amazon         Barnes and Noble       Indiebound Karen White is available on these platforms: Facebook     Twitter      Instagram Caol Ait: Thin Places. Gaelic for where this world and the next are said to be too close. According to legend, heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in thin places, that distance is even closer. Carrowmore, in County Sligo, Ireland, is one of many such thin places found throughout the world, a place where time stands still and the secular world brushes against the sacred. chapter 1 ...

When you spend enough time with Karen White and Beatriz Williams you learn to enjoy their sense of humor.   I very much enjoyed their discussions on what would be the next title of this novel that they worked on with Lauren Willig .   I was bummed when the Memory of Air was not chosen as the title.   The title chosen was The Glass Ocean and it tells quite the tale, of the Lusitania. “ May 2013 Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS  Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago...