Do I have control of the story…
When I start drafting a manuscript, I have a tagline and blurb to start with. In the past, I’ve tried plotting, but it never works for me, because the characters always hi-jack the plot. For this novel, I simply let Collin and Rosemary say their piece. I must admit, they did a great job, especially when it came to the ending. I also must give props to Mr. Tahoma, the Navajo hataalii who Rosemary and Collin meet at the powwow. And the same for Collin’s mishoomis (grandfather).
I don’t have anything against plotting. I think plotting is great. But for me, I can plot all I want, but the characters make the final decision. They know who they are, and they have a good idea which way the novel should go. I always like to say I’m taking dictation while the characters relate to me their tale.
So I didn’t write the novel. Collin and Rosemary did. LOL.
Title: She Talks to Eagles
Author: Maggie Blackbird
Genre: Paranormal Time-Travel Romance
He’s shocked that the beautiful girl in the picture is alive…
Maybe the stories of the notorious Route 66 are true. Road trips don’t result in encountering ghosts, but they do for Collin Bird. When he spies a beautiful girl hitchhiking during a thunderstorm, he can’t believe his eyes. It’s Rosemary, a young woman from his Ojibway community who went missing over forty years ago.
Rosemary Kakeway is dead. Her only hope to reach the spirit world is Collin. Before departing to the place of her ancestors, she seeks vengeance against her killers, and Collin is the man to help her do just that.
A ride with Rosemary through pea-soup fog brings Collin to 1977, where he meets a very much alive nineteen-year-old Rosemary. The bold and wild girl is nothing like he imagined her to be as she introduces him to a time he embraces. Knowing they are meant to be together, neither wishes to say goodbye, but that’s up to Rosemary’s spirit in the twenty-first century to decide.
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An Ojibway from Northwestern Ontario, Maggie resides in the country with her husband and their fur babies, two beautiful Alaskan Malamutes. When she’s not writing, she can be found pulling weeds in the flower beds, mowing the huge lawn, walking the Mals deep in the bush, teeing up a ball at the golf course, fishing in the boat for walleye, or sitting on the deck at her sister’s house, making more wonderful memories with the people she loves most.
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