Lost Memories (The Sycamore P.D. Series) - The Story Behind the Story
As I promised in my last blog, I am starting my series on how I came to write each one of my series and of course, each individual book. Also, as I mentioned in the previous blog, please feel free to ask me any questions about any of my books or series that I may not answer in this blog.
My first series was The Sycamore P. D. series. This series is about two families with a few others thrown in for good measure, the Thompson family and the Newcomb family.
The Thompson family consists of Grant, his sister Alison, his aunt Sybil and their long lost mother Sarah Thompson Newcomb.
The Newcomb family consists of Kelly, her older brother Wayne, her grandmother Elizabeth and her grandfather Harold.
Sarah Thompson married Air Force pilot Harry Newcomb and left her children, Grant and Alison with her sister, Sybil while they went on their honeymoon. Harry told her family that she had been killed in a car wreck in Europe while on their honeymoon.
Lost Memories
Now, twenty years later Sarah Thompson Newcomb is very much alive and suffering from amnesia for all that time. Her husband, Harry, is killed in Afghanistan and she comes back to Sycamore, AZ, to be with his family not knowing that she had any family of her own there. All of these people are thrown together by the mystery surrounding Harry’s death. How do they each deal with their own memories and with each other?
Grant’s mother, Sarah, supposedly died when he was nine but now she is back to bury her husband. She has suffered from amnesia for the last twenty years. How can he accept her back into his life?
Kelly never knew her father, now Harry is dead and she never will get the chance to know him. She searches for meaning in her life. Being partly crippled in a car collision at the age of twelve, she struggles to be a fully functioning executive. Then Grant comes into her life.
Grant, a police detective, has problems with his sergeant and while trying to solve two murders. If that wasn’t enough, he now has to deal with his mother suddenly reappearing and his growing attraction for Kelly.
Grant and Kelly each try to deal with all they have lost individually and then together.
Okay, that’s the story. Now let’s start looking at the story behind the story.
Several years before I began writing this series, I read a newspaper article about a woman who had been reunited with her family after suffering from permanent amnesia for more than twenty years. Well, I took that idea and built on it. Having been a medic in the Army during the Vietnam War, I had worked with soldiers who had lost their memory too.
I had several false starts with this book and the series before I decided to build it around a small city police department and a family who owned a new car dealership. My ten years as a police chaplain gave me all the background I needed for that. I also worked for a new car dealership for a while after I got out of the Army.
Why a small city in Arizona? At the time I was writing this series, I was living in a small Arizona city and was the chaplain for their police department. I simply wrote about what I knew very well.
As I was writing this blog, I started to write about how I write but then I decided to make that the subject of a special blog separate from this series of blogs about my series and books. Look for that special blog soon.
I will say one thing about how I write. It was something that simply developed while I was writing The Sycamore P. D. Series. My plot nor my characters are ever fully developed on paper or even in my mind when I start a novel. They learn about themselves and God, change and grow as the book progresses. I like that and I hope you do too.
Now, I hope you enjoyed this blog as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you have any questions or even comments, please feel free to contact me through any of the below methods. Also, I would love it if you would give me ideas on what you would like to know about my books and how I write them.
Thank you for loving to read as much as I do,
T. E. Killian
P.S. Ways to contact me:
Through Goodreads
My email: tekillianbooks@hotmail.com
My webpage (anonymous): www.tekillian.com
My first series was The Sycamore P. D. series. This series is about two families with a few others thrown in for good measure, the Thompson family and the Newcomb family.
The Thompson family consists of Grant, his sister Alison, his aunt Sybil and their long lost mother Sarah Thompson Newcomb.
The Newcomb family consists of Kelly, her older brother Wayne, her grandmother Elizabeth and her grandfather Harold.
Sarah Thompson married Air Force pilot Harry Newcomb and left her children, Grant and Alison with her sister, Sybil while they went on their honeymoon. Harry told her family that she had been killed in a car wreck in Europe while on their honeymoon.
Lost Memories
Now, twenty years later Sarah Thompson Newcomb is very much alive and suffering from amnesia for all that time. Her husband, Harry, is killed in Afghanistan and she comes back to Sycamore, AZ, to be with his family not knowing that she had any family of her own there. All of these people are thrown together by the mystery surrounding Harry’s death. How do they each deal with their own memories and with each other?
Grant’s mother, Sarah, supposedly died when he was nine but now she is back to bury her husband. She has suffered from amnesia for the last twenty years. How can he accept her back into his life?
Kelly never knew her father, now Harry is dead and she never will get the chance to know him. She searches for meaning in her life. Being partly crippled in a car collision at the age of twelve, she struggles to be a fully functioning executive. Then Grant comes into her life.
Grant, a police detective, has problems with his sergeant and while trying to solve two murders. If that wasn’t enough, he now has to deal with his mother suddenly reappearing and his growing attraction for Kelly.
Grant and Kelly each try to deal with all they have lost individually and then together.
Okay, that’s the story. Now let’s start looking at the story behind the story.
Several years before I began writing this series, I read a newspaper article about a woman who had been reunited with her family after suffering from permanent amnesia for more than twenty years. Well, I took that idea and built on it. Having been a medic in the Army during the Vietnam War, I had worked with soldiers who had lost their memory too.
I had several false starts with this book and the series before I decided to build it around a small city police department and a family who owned a new car dealership. My ten years as a police chaplain gave me all the background I needed for that. I also worked for a new car dealership for a while after I got out of the Army.
Why a small city in Arizona? At the time I was writing this series, I was living in a small Arizona city and was the chaplain for their police department. I simply wrote about what I knew very well.
As I was writing this blog, I started to write about how I write but then I decided to make that the subject of a special blog separate from this series of blogs about my series and books. Look for that special blog soon.
I will say one thing about how I write. It was something that simply developed while I was writing The Sycamore P. D. Series. My plot nor my characters are ever fully developed on paper or even in my mind when I start a novel. They learn about themselves and God, change and grow as the book progresses. I like that and I hope you do too.
Now, I hope you enjoyed this blog as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you have any questions or even comments, please feel free to contact me through any of the below methods. Also, I would love it if you would give me ideas on what you would like to know about my books and how I write them.
Thank you for loving to read as much as I do,
T. E. Killian
P.S. Ways to contact me:
Through Goodreads
My email: tekillianbooks@hotmail.com
My webpage (anonymous): www.tekillian.com
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