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Virginia'dele Smith
Book 2 in my Green Hills series of wholesome and heartfelt, small-town romance. It's called "In the Trenches" and continues our journey with the Davenport family with Max, a professional football player who falls in love with the one female in his world who doesn't want to be in love with him.
Virginia'dele Smith
Although I am happy to sleep in or burrow under the covers to read in bed for hours and hours, I am actually a joyful morning person. For that reason, I love to wake up early, pour a cup of hot tea, grab my laptop, and get to writing. I have a wonderful group of full-time authors that I meet up with via Zoom from 6:45 to 9 am most every day, and they are the best encouragement and inspiration I could dream of having!
Virginia'dele Smith
When my now-twenty-one-year-old daughter was in junior high and high school, we had the opportunity to serve our community together through an organization called National Charity League. One of our favorite philanthropic activities through NCL was a weekly delivery of fresh fruit for a local youth shelter. On Monday mornings I would run to the grocery store to select ninety pieces of whatever was in-season…apples, oranges, bananas, peaches, plums, and even pears.
It was a small task, but a meaningful gift.
Interestingly, there was a fire engine parked outside the grocery store almost every Monday morning when I arrived to shop for the fruit. I figured the crew was there picking up what they needed to prepare meals at the fire house for their shift. The firefighters were always kind and polite, yet they were definitely “on a mission” and quite business-like. My imagination envisioned a sweet and kind young woman and a stoic, handsome fireman noticing one another in the produce aisle – a real meet cute scenario.
The story concept wouldn’t leave me alone. When I tossed and turned at night, I thought about those characters — Rhys and Maree — as well as their story arc, their internal and external conflicts, and of course, their happy ending. I pictured the small town where they lived, and I fell in love with their friends and family.
I had to write their romance, had to share their love story. And I based my lead character on my incredible and lovely daughter, Maci Maree.
It was a small task, but a meaningful gift.
Interestingly, there was a fire engine parked outside the grocery store almost every Monday morning when I arrived to shop for the fruit. I figured the crew was there picking up what they needed to prepare meals at the fire house for their shift. The firefighters were always kind and polite, yet they were definitely “on a mission” and quite business-like. My imagination envisioned a sweet and kind young woman and a stoic, handsome fireman noticing one another in the produce aisle – a real meet cute scenario.
The story concept wouldn’t leave me alone. When I tossed and turned at night, I thought about those characters — Rhys and Maree — as well as their story arc, their internal and external conflicts, and of course, their happy ending. I pictured the small town where they lived, and I fell in love with their friends and family.
I had to write their romance, had to share their love story. And I based my lead character on my incredible and lovely daughter, Maci Maree.
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