Ask the Author: Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
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Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Thanks, Stephen - I joined the group.
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
This is an interesting question. Most intense romances seem to end in early death! Take Romeo and Juliet and all the later versions of the story. Even Gatsby winds up dead in his own swimming pool. There's Lizzie and Darcy, I suppose, though the story wisely ends with their marriage. Same with Harry and Sally. Ulysses and Penelope have a long marriage, but Ulysses is away for most of it.
Maybe the answer is that it's hard to write an engrossing novel about a happily married couple. The stormy relationships make better copy.
Maybe the answer is that it's hard to write an engrossing novel about a happily married couple. The stormy relationships make better copy.
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Sounds good to me, Karen. I'll pick it up a Kindle.
You're welcome to read any of the Misfits and Heroes books. The first one in the series is Misfits and Heroes: West from Africa. Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/Misfits-Heroes...
You're welcome to read any of the Misfits and Heroes books. The first one in the series is Misfits and Heroes: West from Africa. Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/Misfits-Heroes...
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Mike, I bought the book and look forward to reading it after I finish the two ahead of it on the TBR list.
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Sounds great, Marian.
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Sure, Matt. I'm looking for verified purchase reviews of Misfits and Heroes: West from Africa.
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
"What's the motive?" is a curious question."To tell an important story" is the only answer that comes to mind. The business of the moral is trickier. I suppose that's a matter of taste, though I wonder if memorable literature typically carries a moral lesson. What's the moral of Gatsby? Dreamers lose and big dreamers lose everything?
Kathleen
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Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Hi Justin -
The samurai book looks interesting. It's not my usual genre, but then again, I'm not sure what is.. Right now I have two ahead of it on the TBR list.
Kathleen
The samurai book looks interesting. It's not my usual genre, but then again, I'm not sure what is.. Right now I have two ahead of it on the TBR list.
Kathleen
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
Hi Dennis - I've added your book to my wish list.
Kathleen
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Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
I'm currently working on the fourth novel in the Misfits and Heroes series. (No title yet.) In it, a group from what is now northern Spain heads across the Atlantic in order to escape their enemies. Breygan, the lead character, suffers from overlapping memories, the residual effect of having lived several lifetimes but being denied access to the world of the ancestors because of his misdeeds. He's arrogant and difficult, but he also knows a lot.
In the Antilles, they meet up with Naro, a character from the earlier books, who takes them to the Northern Village.
As in the other books in the series, spirits play an important role in this story. Even the dead play a role.
In the Antilles, they meet up with Naro, a character from the earlier books, who takes them to the Northern Village.
As in the other books in the series, spirits play an important role in this story. Even the dead play a role.
Kathleen Flanagan Rollins
The plot of the third book in the Misfits and Heroes series, A Meeting of Clans, flowed from the first two. At the end of the first book, Misfits and Heroes: West from Africa, a group from West Africa has established a village on the Gulf coast of southern Mexico, and Naaba, one of the main characters, has carved a sign into a rock face behind a waterfall in the interior as a way of recording the event.
At the end of the second book, Past the Last Island, about a group of explorers from the South Pacific, a visionary dwarf is driven to find the image that's been haunting his dreams. After a long search, he finds it - the sign Naaba carved.
The third book, A Meeting of Clans, picks up with Nulo's news of the discovery of the sign. Suddenly the explorers from the South Pacific realize they're not alone in the New World. While some welcome the news, others don't. Their world becomes considerably more complicated when they meet the strangers.
At the end of the second book, Past the Last Island, about a group of explorers from the South Pacific, a visionary dwarf is driven to find the image that's been haunting his dreams. After a long search, he finds it - the sign Naaba carved.
The third book, A Meeting of Clans, picks up with Nulo's news of the discovery of the sign. Suddenly the explorers from the South Pacific realize they're not alone in the New World. While some welcome the news, others don't. Their world becomes considerably more complicated when they meet the strangers.
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