Ask the Author: Sandra Fox Murphy
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Sandra Fox Murphy
For Winter/Spring of 2020, I have a stack of non-fiction books on the Civil War--research for my next novel, the last one in The Fidelia McCord Trilogy. But, also on my reading list are: Today We Go Home (Kelli Estes), The Chisel Tree (W. W. Harper), The Ghostwriter (Allesandra Torre), If You Want to Make God Laugh (Bianca Marais).
Sandra Fox Murphy
I am currently about to release a prequel to The Dalhart Girls, titled The Weight of Lost Letters. A story that begins in 1893 with a killing in the Caprock Canyon and follows the lives of two young lovers whose lives were forever changed by the incident. And ... I'm currently contemplating a sequel to The Dalhart Girls set in the 1960s, a story that will tied all three books together.
For those who loved poetry, I am also working on a collection poems about the Bonehunder--conversations with the late anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley.
For those who loved poetry, I am also working on a collection poems about the Bonehunder--conversations with the late anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley.
Sandra Fox Murphy
My first novel, A Thousand Stars, was inspired by a tale in my son's family tree. But, now, I'm working on a Texas series that was inspired by a log cabin and tombstones in a small, old cemetery near where I live. In researching this family's story, the young girl's story spoke to me, and, thus, the first book in the series, Let the Little Birds Sing, deals with a young girl's journey through grief. In researching Fidelia's story, I could only imagine the hardship faced by our county's early pioneers as they faced harsh lands and weather, attacks by rogues and native tribes, and incredible loss of life. As I prepare to write the 3rd book of the series, Mourning of the Dove, I am deep in research of Texas and the Civil War.
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