Historical Setting for "SECRET"
I would like to share with you some very personal experiences I had while working on THE SECRET OF THE ABBEY. This third book was a long and interesting process because Katelyn’s story took me on some unexpected turns I didn’t expect. When I wrote Jehanne’s story in THE SWORD OF THE MAIDEN, my husband and I traveled to France in the winter and followed in her footsteps. My inspiration to tell her story came by actually being there in those places she had been. One night as we slept at a hotel not far from Domrémy, Joan of Arc’s birthplace, I awoke in the middle of the night flooded with ideas of how to tell her story. I spent two hours in the middle of that night (while my husband slept) trying to write those thoughts down as quickly as I could.
Well, writing SECRET was just as amazing in a different way. After three research trips to France in 2016, “Katelyn” let me know that I was headed in the wrong direction, a direction I had well-planned out when I first started writing the series of three books. However, after spending months and hours researching the period of the French Revolution, “she” let me know that I had it all wrong. While the Revolution is an incredibly important and turbulent period in French history, it wasn’t where the final chapter of Katelyn’s and Nicolas’s story takes place. So I had to scrap everything I had outlined, and start from scratch, setting the final book in a completely different era I had never considered earlier, which is why I wasn’t able to get the book out in December 2016. It was as if in spite of my preconceived ideas, Katelyn was telling me her story, and she certainly took me in a direction I didn’t expect. Once I listened to that prompting, everything fell into place, but I had a lot of catching up to do.
Just know that I followed Katelyn’s guidance, and her story is now concluded to her satisfaction. I also promise you that you’ll have answers to all the questions I listed in my previous blog post. And you can find photos of all the important sites in all three books by going to my website at: www.kathleencperrin.com
I'd love to have you post reviews of SECRET (and the first two books) on Goodreads and Amazon. I'm also answering questions about THE SECRET OF THE ABBEY here on Goodreads, so if you have any, fire away!
Thanks,
Kathleen
Well, writing SECRET was just as amazing in a different way. After three research trips to France in 2016, “Katelyn” let me know that I was headed in the wrong direction, a direction I had well-planned out when I first started writing the series of three books. However, after spending months and hours researching the period of the French Revolution, “she” let me know that I had it all wrong. While the Revolution is an incredibly important and turbulent period in French history, it wasn’t where the final chapter of Katelyn’s and Nicolas’s story takes place. So I had to scrap everything I had outlined, and start from scratch, setting the final book in a completely different era I had never considered earlier, which is why I wasn’t able to get the book out in December 2016. It was as if in spite of my preconceived ideas, Katelyn was telling me her story, and she certainly took me in a direction I didn’t expect. Once I listened to that prompting, everything fell into place, but I had a lot of catching up to do.
Just know that I followed Katelyn’s guidance, and her story is now concluded to her satisfaction. I also promise you that you’ll have answers to all the questions I listed in my previous blog post. And you can find photos of all the important sites in all three books by going to my website at: www.kathleencperrin.com
I'd love to have you post reviews of SECRET (and the first two books) on Goodreads and Amazon. I'm also answering questions about THE SECRET OF THE ABBEY here on Goodreads, so if you have any, fire away!
Thanks,
Kathleen
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