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Ginger G. Howard

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I started submitting poetry to national contests while in high school, with several honorable mentions and inclusions in anthologies published for libraries. During this time, I started writing short stories, and completed my first novel “Beyond the Horizon”. I attended San Diego State University with a major in Comparative Literature - my hope to make a career out of writing. A talent for singing and my penchant for poetry segued into a musical collaboration wherein I met my husband. We later formed a band called Saratoga Park and recorded a couple of CD's. During this time, I submitted that first novel to a YA Scholastic Book contest, with no glory so I set it aside and didn’t pursue it further. For fun, after we had our first son, I wrot ...more

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Ginger G. Howard Funny you should ask that, it is exactly what inspired my first novel, Under the Tracks. The mystery was not knowing how my great grand uncle died in …moreFunny you should ask that, it is exactly what inspired my first novel, Under the Tracks. The mystery was not knowing how my great grand uncle died in the late 1800s, at the tender age of 6, in the care of the NY Catholic Protectory.
When my G-Great Grandfather died at a young age, it left his wife and young children destitute. The mother had no other choice but to leave her youngest son and 2 daughters with the institution. The little boy died within a couple months of being there. The boys section housed juvenile delinquents as well as orphans and paupers. Some of those boys went on to be notorious gangsters on the streets of NY. I've never known if he died as a result of bad treatment from the institution, at the hands of an older boy, or of an illness.
In my novel I let my imagination run wild, and fictionalized an entirely different scenario based on the "Poor Farms" of the time period, and the Orphan Train Movement. I used this as the backdrop for a ghost story set in a rural Oregon town in the summer of 1982. You should check it out.(less)
Ginger G. Howard I could not remember what happened the night before. I only knew that it was the night when the murders began.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

John McCrae
“The earth grows white with harvest; all day long
The sickles gleam, until the darkness weaves
Her web of silence o'er the thankful song
Of reapers bringing home the golden sheaves.
The wave tops whiten on the sea fields drear,
And men go forth at haggard dawn to reap;
But ever 'mid the gleaners' song we hear
The half-hushed sobbing of the hearts that weep.”
John McCrae

Robert W. Service
“There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.”
Robert Service

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Lord Byron
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
Lord Byron

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