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A Place Called Iowa
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In addition to characters that we can love, the second thing a good book needs is a place. A setting. I have always loved small towns – which to me meant 15,000 people or so. I remember road trips in California and Montana and Idaho and driving past dinky little towns in the middle of nowhere with a population of 1,203 and I would feel so sorry for the people and think, “Who would ever want to live in a town that size? And why would anyone EVER want to move there?”
So when my sister and best friend asked me to meet her in a tiny town in in the middle of nowhere in Iowa to check out a house she found online, my first thought was, “Yay! We’ll live close to one another – only seven hours apart!”
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Hazel & Me
If you could write any story you wanted to write, something you would enjoy reading, what would it be? For me it would involve things I love. I would intertwine fact with fiction – and sometimes what is fact and what is fiction might be just the opposite of what you’d expect.
I’ve been collecting composition dolls for a long time. These are dolls from the 1920s to the ’40s or so, the first inexpensive dolls that nearly everyone could afford because they were made of sawdust and glue. These dolls speak to me. Literally. They tell me their stories and beg me for clothes and ask me to make them presentable once again so that someone new can love them. Some of them are quite picky; choosing fabrics can take almost as long as sewing their dresses and coats. Some of these dolls have years of grime on them. One poor girl even survived a fire!
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D5 Creation