Ask the Author: Lisa Kaye Presley
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Lisa Kaye Presley
If that questions applies to what is finished, which would be The Judgment, I believe it grew from stories I heard my father's family tell of growing up in Alabama on a farm. Nothing related at all to the story I wrote, but the name of this place they called home, Ford's Valley, began stirring in me and a story began to play out around it.
For The Orphans, that answer is simple. I have always wondered, since my vacation Bible school days, how in the world one small boy would be the only person in a crowd of over 5,000 people who thought to bring food with him on a day-long journey! Think about that. I wrote a story, which is fictional, about a story, non-fictional, written centuries ago. What fun!
For The Orphans, that answer is simple. I have always wondered, since my vacation Bible school days, how in the world one small boy would be the only person in a crowd of over 5,000 people who thought to bring food with him on a day-long journey! Think about that. I wrote a story, which is fictional, about a story, non-fictional, written centuries ago. What fun!
Lisa Kaye Presley
I get inspired to write simply by living and observing life around me and inside me. I do find that I can listen to the lyrics of a song and a story, totally separate from the story in the song, will sometimes begin to form. I have been inspired by a news story, or reading history. It's that moment when your brain says, "What if?" that I believe inspiration begins.
Lisa Kaye Presley
I’m working on the final edit of The Wait set in rural Tennessee in the twenties and thirties and in Nashville during World War II.
It tells the story of a precocious little girl named Bonnie McCaverty, who never gave up on anything; not on a stubborn pony or a sick calf, not on getting her way and not on Calvin Wade.
She had loved Calvin since she was five years old when he moved in with her family after his mother and father died in the influenza epidemic in 1918 but came to realize things don't always turn out as you think they will when you’re young.
Bonnie believed that her love for Calvin was just a childhood dream, one we leave behind when we are forced to grow up, or so she thought until years later when she sees him in uniform at Union Station—going off to war.
It tells the story of a precocious little girl named Bonnie McCaverty, who never gave up on anything; not on a stubborn pony or a sick calf, not on getting her way and not on Calvin Wade.
She had loved Calvin since she was five years old when he moved in with her family after his mother and father died in the influenza epidemic in 1918 but came to realize things don't always turn out as you think they will when you’re young.
Bonnie believed that her love for Calvin was just a childhood dream, one we leave behind when we are forced to grow up, or so she thought until years later when she sees him in uniform at Union Station—going off to war.
Lisa Kaye Presley
Never, ever give up!
Lisa Kaye Presley
Being able to create, from a simple thought, something that can inspire emotion.
Lisa Kaye Presley
I once wrote that you don't become a writer once you are published; you're a writer if stories flow from you like blood from a new wound. So far, knock on wood, I have stories I can't seem to get to in order to finish! I'm not going to say, "Well, I'm sure I'll experience that one day." I don't want to plant that seed. If it happens, I'll deal with it then, but I'm not going to expect it.
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