This week, for Six Sentence Sunday, I’m including something from my second Atlantic City book, The Very Next, set in 1939. This is one of the things I added in when I was transcribing it from the handwritten first draft, and reminds me why I love Quintina’s oldest brother John. He might be only a secondary character, but he’s always great comic relief.
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Eighteen-year-old John glanced over at Samantha. He liked to spy on the neighbors and sometimes take pictures of them in situations that would be great for blackmail, such as Violet trespassing in the Filliards’ vacant lot, but here was a new neighbor he sure as hell would never get much dirt on. She was so positively boring and fun-hating that it would be a total waste to spy on her. He was offended when Sam didn’t glance back at him. All the girls in town had a crush on John Holiday, but apparently his good looks hadn’t even registered on Samantha’s radar screen. Gurr.
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I started reading at three (my first book was Grimm's Fairy Tales, the uncensored adult version), started writing at four, started writing book-length things at eleven, and have been a writer ever since.
I predominantly write historical fiction family sagas/series. I primarily write about young people, since I was a young person myself when I became a serious writer and didn't know how to write about adults as main characters. I only write in a contemporary setting if the books naturally go into the modern era over the course of the decades-long stories being told over many books. I've always been drawn to books, films, music, fashions, et al, from bygone eras, and have never really been too much into modern things. If something or someone has appeal for all time, it'll still be there to be discovered after the initial to-do has died down. For example, my second-favorite writer enjoyed a huge burst of popularity in the Sixties and Seventies, but he wrote his books from 1904-43, and his books still resonate today, even after he's no longer such a fad. Quality lasts for all time.
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LOL maybe she does like him but it’s a admire-from-afar because she doesn’t want to seem like all the other girls. Nice six!
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Haha! He IS funny! 😉
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Ah, that rude awakening, lol. Thanks for sharing!
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Great Six….he sounds fun!
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Ha! Love the ego showing through in this six 😀 …will you continue next week?
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