Hi, it's Lenore! It's been a little while. I've been busy writing, and I'm glad the long hot summer is over. Had a couple setbacks, but now the fun begins!
I like this time of year. It starts to quiet down when the weather gets cooler and it gets dark out at seven o'clock. And there's so much to look forward to - the colorful autumn leaves showing us their art, pumpkins, all that pumpkin spice! crisp apple cider, and of course, Halloween and spooky stuff!
Short stories are my thing. (Although I've also written a novel and a novella.) I even wanted to write screenplays years ago! But short stories are where it all started for me a long time ago when I was a little girl and I told some stories to my mom, who typed them on her typewriter for me. We kept them in a folder that after some time got lost with my childhood relics somewhere in my grandparents' house.
When I grew up I searched for it, but I never found it.
I've written a lot of stuff since I was a kid, keeping the notebooks and folders full of both handwritten and typed pages in plastic storage crates. I finally published a few short stories in 2019 in Storied Existence, a book of stories of different genres, combining new ideas with a couple of my old ones.
And my new collection of short stories, and prequel to my novel The Bellwood Legacy, The Bellwood Wives, will be out on Amazon November 2nd.
The Bellwood Wives have arrived!
Five stories. Five women who in different eras held the title of Lady of the House at Bellwood Manor.
My new collection of short stories is a prequel to my 2023 novel, The Bellwood Legacy.
Meet Constance, Eleanor, Alice, Edith, and Charlotte.
Their names were mentioned in the novel and in some cases in my first Bellwood story, Skeletons of Bellwood, too. Now comes the full story of how each of them came to be a Bellwood wife, and how they each left there own indelible marks on the Bell and Radcliffe families, and Bellwood itself.
You can visit the book's page on Amazon by clicking the button below. The book sample gives you almost all of Constance's story.
Currently available in paperback only.
The Gathering: a mystery
What happens in the woods doesn't stay there. It follows you, and brings you back.
A detective haunted by his past. An invitation he wasn't supposed to receive. A reclusive family's mansion, surrounded by woods. Detective Max Baldwin investigates the murders of four of his former classmates at a weekend gathering in this murder mystery short story that takes place in the early 1900's.
