ABOUT
As an interior designer for over forty years…
My creative tank was filled interpreting client’s dreams and desires into reality. However, at sixty-five years old, I experienced an inspired dream that prompted me to write the story. Fear gripped me as I had never written anything creatively, but the dream would not let me go. The story had to be told…
With a foot in both worlds, I found the similarities striking between design and writing. Just as the focal point is the springboard of a designed space, so is the novel’s plot, as the story transports the reader off the page, out of space and time. The ambiance and vibe of that designed space, customized specifically for the client, is akin to the novel’s setting and tone, visually and mentally drawing the reader into that world. The interplay of fabrics, textures and furnishings that are chosen to create interest and depth in the designed space, so too, decorate the novel with its characters’ personalities, quirks and actions, stimulating an energy that lives in the reader’s mind. All the design elements must work together to form a cohesive space where one may dwell in calm and quiet reflection or thrive in the emotion that propels one to adventure and imagination. And so it is with a novel.
Now, as I dare call myself a writer, crafting my debut novel since 2018, I reflect on the countless hours spent revising, rewriting and rethinking. As thousands and thousands of words have been added to the story, only to be deleted, I have come to recognize this is a choice I make every time I sit down with my computer.
I invite you to follow along on this “writer’s life” journey filled with potholes and detours.Wherever that journey takes me, I am ready. Are you?
Let’s enjoy the ride together.
EMILY’S DEBUT: FOUND
A contemporary and book club fiction, Found presents age-old questions with a modern twist—a must-read in light of today’s culture.
The abused abandoned small child of a Middle Eastern jihad refugee is found at the foot of the Duomo in Florence, Italy, rescued and subsequently fostered by an aging couple in the Deep South in Alabama, but when he enters public high school in a culture where bias is prevalent, a high school racist thug attempts to brutally rape his true love and propels him to avenge the hateful actions before further terror on his found family and those he has come to love is wreaked.
A second book is being developed wherein the story delves deeper into the young adults journey to reconcile his actions and find redemption. A third is also planned to tell of his pursuit to find contentment in himself, forgive his past, and learn to trust in love again.
“Each life, every life, worthy… Skin is a mere cloak of beauty to be proudly worn. It is the soul of man that is the singular mantle of life to behold.”
— FOUND
FOUND POSES FIVE COMPELLING QUESTIONS FOR TODAYS READER
