Projects in Progress
All of my writing has a Faulknerian devotion to a single place along the Cumberland River in Kentucky where generations of a fictitious single family evolve over the course of a century. Isabelle’s Point represents the first such novel.
In my second manuscript, Millie’s Calling, six-year-old Millie is left to live with her grandparents and aunt on the same farm along the Cumberland River where her mother, Isabelle, grew up. She chooses to leave as soon as she is able and to live a singular existence far from her birthplace. Ultimately, the obstacles she faces expose to her a different person than the one she at first believed herself to be.
I greatly admire the body of work of Marilynne Robinson and envisage that my writing will mimic the wonderful series of novels she has published, beginning with Gilead. By choosing an "outer" version of a character that we readers are familiar with and exposing the "inner," I believe there are endless sources of stories that could unfold. Characters such as Jean-Michel Duvall and Wolfe from Isabelle's Point represent that sort of interest for me.
